Unlimited Edition | |
Type: | Compilation album |
Artist: | Can |
Cover: | Unlimited_Edition_(Can).jpg |
Released: | May 1976 |
Recorded: | September 1968 – July 1975 |
Genre: | Krautrock |
Length: | 77:22 |
Label: | Harvest, Caroline |
Producer: | Can |
Prev Title: | Landed |
Prev Year: | 1975 |
Next Title: | Flow Motion |
Next Year: | 1976 |
Limited Edition | |
Type: | Compilation album |
Artist: | Can |
Cover: | Limited Edition (Can).webp |
Released: | 1974 |
Recorded: | September 1968 – May 1974 |
Genre: | Krautrock |
Length: | 38:14 |
Label: | United Artists Records |
Producer: | Can |
Prev Title: | Future Days |
Prev Year: | 1973 |
Next Title: | Soon Over Babaluma |
Next Year: | 1974 |
Unlimited Edition is a compilation album by the band Can. Released in 1976 as a double album, it was an expanded version of the 1974 LP Limited Edition on United Artists Records which, as the name suggests, was a limited release of 15,000 copies (tracks 14–19 were added). The album collects unreleased music across the band's history, from 1968 to 1975, and both of the band's major singers (Damo Suzuki and Malcolm Mooney) are featured. The cover photos were taken among the Elgin Marbles in the Duveen Gallery of the British Museum.
The abbreviation "E.F.S.", appearing in several of the track titles, refers to Ethnological Forgery Series, a series of songs in which Can self-consciously imitated various "world music" genres. "Mother Upduff" is a retelling of an urban legend involving a family whose grandmother dies while they are on holiday together, and whose corpse – left wrapped up on the roof of the family car – is later stolen along with the car.[1] Recording of tracks "I'm Too Leise" and "LH 702 (Nairobi/München)" is seen in the film Can Free Concert 1972 by Peter Przygodda.
Note: Tracks 14–19 were only on Unlimited Edition.
All tracks composed by Can