Django Django- Hail Bop
Can’s lunar rock explored galaxies of sound with its extended monolithic grooves, droning improvisations babbling with chirruping electronics, chopping, threshing percussion workouts mantra-like vocal tics. But far from the sprawling mess that might suggest, Czukay’s superlative editing techniques - which anticipated today’s digital samplers - ensured the music was arranged as precisely as a Brian Wilson production. “Editing was our way to survive,” he explains, “because the playing could be so bad. Cutting out the beginning and end, and giving it a name, saved the music.”
