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    Sacrilege: Remixes


    Even in the wild whorl of kraut rock – as Germany's progressive psychedelia of the late '60s and '70s was known – Can stood apart. As older academics steeped in neoclassical, free jazz and electronics, they came at rock from the outside; with a healthy disregard for convention, Can played...

    1997 RS: 2of 5 Stars

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European art-rock band Can was one of the first groups to use electronic "treatments" of instruments, and it pioneered an exploratory postpsychedelic-rock style that would later influence Amon Duul, Ash Ra Temple, and the generations of new-wave, techno, experimental postrock, and ambient artists that followed. Can's sound was based on repetitive, trance-inducing rhythms overlaid with atmospheric ...

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