Holger Czukay was a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can.

Drums, Harmonium, Trumpet, Piano, Organ – Jaki Liebezeit
Management – Hildegard Schmidt
Mixed By [Mixed And Processed By] – Holger*
Painting [Front Cover] – Harald Hoffmann (3)
Performer [Dictaphone], Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Organ – Holger Czukay
Performer [Telephone, News] – Gandhi (2)
Photography By [Inner Sleeve] – Frank Gewehr, Holger Czukay, Peter Schmidt (13)
Recorded By – Holger Czukay, René Tinner
Synthesizer [Emu] – Conny Plank
Vocals, Organ – Michy (2)
Written-By – Czukay*, Jaki Liebezeit (tracks: A4, A5), Traditional (tracks: B2)
Recorded at the Can Studio.
Mixed and processed by Holger in his laboratory.
© 1984 Virgin Records Limited ℗ 1984 Virgin Records Limited
Printed in Western Germany by Mohndruck Graphische Betriebe GmbH, Gütersloh
Includes a printed inner sleeve
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Virgin Records Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Virgin Records Ltd.
Printed By – Mohndruck Graphische Betriebe GmbH
Recorded At – Can Studio

Holger Czukay was a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can.

Holger Czukay was a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can.

Holger Czukay was a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can.

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007.

Holger Czukay was a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can.

Originally Released in 2001, Linear City is a relentlessly experimental, inventively rhythmic, darkly ambient and amazingly cohesive work, considering its origins. It is the right stuff for fans of Can.

The BBC originally sent Czukay a recording from Sudan for him to remix. Rather than working on it by himself, he uploaded the recording to his web site and asked anyone out there in digiland who was interested, to work with it, enhance it and basically do whatever they wanted to do with it before downloading him the results. 23 enthusiastic contributors participated in the experiment, with Holger Czukay editing the results (as well as contributions of his own and from U-She) into 4 lengthy tracks. That the results are as coherent and interesting as they are is just as much a testament to the fresh, unbridled creativity of the collaborators as it is to Czukay's music editing and studio skills. Each of the pieces shift and change as they race across a dark sonic savannah. But rather than just stringing the collaborative bits together in a random fashion, Czukay cleverly edits them in recurring modes, so he ends up developing a thematic consistency to each piece. Here and there, the original Sudanese recording shines through and there is a marked tribal feel to much of the percussion.

This definitive version of Linear City marks the first `official' public release (previously available only through Czukay's internet shop), digitally remastered from the original studio tapes and comes housed in deluxe digipak format with new liner notations by Holger Czukay.

Holger Czukay was a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can.

Holger Czukay was a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can.

Holger Czukay studied under Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1963-1966 and co-founded the influential rock group Can in 1968.
Jaki Liebezeit the legendary drummer of Can.
Jah Wobble eventually got his start with John Lydon's post-Sex Pistols group Public Image Ltd (PiL). He left PiL in 1980 and has since collaborated with a wide variety of musicians.
These three geniuses got together in Can's studio "Inner Space" and pumped out this dubby, No Wave, electronic masterpiece.
This music will make you imagine a million places, mystery films, markets, chance encounters, half open doors and exotic worlds. But most importantly your hips and your feet will move to primal beats of Jaki and Wobbles outer space fat dub bass!

Holger Czukay was a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can.

Originally released in 1988, Radio Wave Surfer was considered to be a back-to-basics album for Czukay, seeing the composer hone in on a more team-based concept as opposed to the elaborate individual experiments he had been conducting in prior years. Drawing heavily from his work in Can, Czukay's performance is easily one of his most focused works and includes contributions from Michel Karoli and Sheldon Ancel. An experimental, yet cohesive body of work, Radio Wave Surfer is an overlooked gem, one that found Czukay at the height of his creativity.

This definitive Revisited reissue contains the original recording digitally remastered from the original tapes, including bonus track, new liner notes by Holger and is housed in deluxe digipak format with the original artwork.