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Delay 1968 is a compilation album by the German experimental rock band Can released in 1981. It comprises previously unreleased work recorded for Can's rejected debut album, Prepared to Meet Thy Pnoom, recorded with the singer Malcolm Mooney.
Delay 1968 compiled some of the first seven tracks that Can had ever recorded. Can had originally intended to have this release be their first but issued the project in 1981. The album featured vocalist Malcolm Mooney, with Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitar, Jaki Liebezeit on drums and saxophone, and Irmin Schmidt on the keyboard.
Can were a German experimental rock band formed in Cologne in 1968 by Holger Czukay (bass, tape editing), Irmin Schmidt (keyboards), Michael Karoli (guitar), and Jaki Liebezeit (drums). They featured several vocalists, including the American Malcolm Mooney (1968–70) and the Japanese Damo Suzuki (1970–73). [8]
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An album recorded in 1968, before their début album Monster Movie, when Malcom Mooney was still the lead singer and Damo Suzuki hadn’t yet joined the band. It should have been released under ...
Listening to Can's Delay from 1968 is a strange experience. As soon as the opening Butterfly sets off you're quite sure there must be a mistake. First of all, this anarchistic and uncompromising stuff can never be from 1968, secondly, this is obviously a lost song from Sonic Youth around 1986.
Delay 1968 shows the foundations of what came later for CAN, but it’s also markedly different that what came later.
