Description

Following the release of the Can Vinyl Box, the limited edition box set that consisted of 17 LPs housed in a linen wrapped box, Mute are now proud to release the Can studio albums individually on vinyl.

Released in batches, the first albums in the series to be released are Ege Bamyasi, Monster Movie, Soundtracks and Tago Mago.

The albums were mastered and cut to vinyl by Kevin Metcalfe at The Soundmasters, London. Remasters and vinyl processing was coordinated by long time collaborator Jono Podmore.

Monster Movie is the debut album from Can, recorded and released in 1969. The use of improvisation, experimentation, editing and layering of sounds set a standard for Cans subsequent albums in the early 1970s, which were seminal to the freewheeling avant-garde style dubbed Krautrock by the British music press.

The album is credited to The Can, a name suggested by vocalist Malcolm Mooney and adopted by democratic vote. Previously the band had been known as Inner Space, which later became the name of their purpose-built recording studio. Some copies of the album bore the subtitle Made in a castle with better equipment, referring to Schloss Nörvenich, the 14th Century castle in North Rhine-Westphalia where the band recorded from 1968 69.

The 20-minute jam Yoo Doo Right was pared down from 6 hours taping, while the lyrics of Mary, Mary So Contrary riff off of Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, a popular English nursery rhyme.

Monster Movie was the only Can album on which Malcolm Mooney performed all of the vocals until Rite Time, 20 years after.