Holger Czukay

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Holger Czukay (born March 24, 1938) is a German musician. He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdansk).

Czukay studied under Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1963 to 1966 and co-founded the influential rock group Can in 1968. Czukay played bass guitar and performed most of the recording and engineering for the group.

Czukay recorded some notable early ambient albums, and is important for his utilization of shortwave radio sounds and sampling, and has collaborated with a considerable number of musicians.

See the article on the brilliant “Persian Love” at http://www.granta.com/extracts/1551

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Memotas wrote:
Saturday morning

,,,monte casino,,, chela y vino,,, big time in Gdansk...

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SpeedThrashing wrote:
October 2009

SUPEEERRR Avant-Garde music!

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atomishigaqui wrote:
June 2009

cool together!

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j4nn1s wrote:
May 2009

Many many thanks for yesterday's excellent gig at the Roundhouse - what a delight that was! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P8L9pNCorQ

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Pixelmar wrote:
May 2009

welcome in the orbital großraumtaxi...

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pollepet wrote:
May 2009

Was ist das für eine doofe Frage? Das ist eben Holger, ein Bastler im Bastelkeller, ein Künstler aber mehr einer wie Jean Tinguely! Wohltuend neben dem ganzen "Schöndreck"!

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sonsch77 wrote:
April 2009

was ist das?

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IAJP wrote:
April 2009

legend

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sergpepper wrote:
March 2009

Шайтан!

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herrgau wrote:
March 2009

genial

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Nobantu wrote:
March 2009

Persian love - always - since I've heard that lovely piece, somewhere in the late 70s (?) - do I feel going back and travelling through the middle east again .....golden days, when we where young....the world was ours.....

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KZHT73 wrote:
November 2008

GreatGreatGreat

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SixelaIsumek wrote:
October 2008

Mad as fuck ! "Canaxis" is ... poyyyyyyy !

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monobrau wrote:
August 2008

We need to clone Serge Gainsbourg from his DNA and get him to produce a Holger Czukay album. Deerhoof could collaborate on the opening track. Sun Ra could play keyboards on tracks 3, 7 and 8 (if he promised to behave himself). The last track would be a meticulously arranged 45-minute long masterpiece of epic proprtions created by Holger and a cloned Isaac Hayes. ESG could provide a coda. We'd have the world's greatest album.

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Debtfromabove wrote:
July 2008

Oh, is it hot?

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thorsebastian wrote:
April 2008

on the dancing... spot?

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ursulavenus wrote:
March 2008

Ode to Perfume......indeed.

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Jerdna wrote:
March 2008

Das Massenmedium, Massenmedium, ach das Massenmedium...düdeldüüü

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Hi_Flya wrote:
November 2007

still the best!! holger is one of the most famous and best german popular musicians!!!

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satskone wrote:
September 2007

http://remitur.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/holger-czukay-canaxis-1969/

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