Unlimited Edition (album)

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Unlimited Edition is a compilation album by the band Can. Released in 1976 as a double album, it was an expanded version of the 1974 LP Limited Edition on United Artists Records which, as the name suggests, was a limited release of 15,000 copies (tracks 14-19 were added). The album collects unreleased music from throughout the band's history from 1968 until 1976, and both the band's major singers (Damo Suzuki and Malcolm Mooney) are featured. The cover photos are taken in Pantheon room of The British Museum.

Track notes

The abbreviation "E.F.S.", appearing in several of the track titles, refers to Ethnological Forgery Series, a series of songs in which Can self-consciously imitated various "world music" genres. "Mother Upduff" is a retelling of an urban legend involving a family whose grandmother dies while they are on holiday together, and whose corpse – left wrapped up on the roof of the family car – is later stolen along with the car. Recording of tracks "I'm Too Leise" and "LH 702 (Nairobi/München)" is seen in the film "Can Free Concert 1972" by Peter Przygodda.

Track listing

Note: Tracks 14-19 were only on Unlimited Edition.

All songs written and composed by Can

Side one
No.	Title	Recorded	Length
1.	"Gomorrha"	December 73	5:41
2.	"Doko E"	August 73	2:26
3.	"LH 702 (Nairobi/München)"	March 72	2:11
4.	"I'm Too Leise"	March 72	5:10
5.	"Musette"	January 70	2:08
6.	"Blue Bag (Inside Paper)"	October 70	1:16

Side two
No.	Title	Recorded	Length
1.	"E.F.S. No. 27"	December 70	1:47
2.	"TV Spot"	April 71	3:02
3.	"E.F.S. No. 7"	September 68	1:05
4.	"The Empress and the Ukraine King"	January 69	4:40
5.	"E.F.S. No. 10"	January 69	2:01
6.	"Mother Upduff"	May 69	4:28
7.	"E.F.S. No. 36"	May 74	1:55

Side three
No.	Title	Recorded	Length
1.	"Cutaway"	March 69	18:49
2.	"Connection"	March 69	2:20

Side four
No.	Title	Recorded	Length
1.	"Fall of Another Year"	August 69	3:20
2.	"E.F.S. No. 8"	November 68	1:37
3.	"Transcendental Express"	July 75	4:37
4.	"Ibis"	September 74	9:19

Personnel

• Holger Czukay – bass guitar, tape effects
• Michael Karoli – guitar, violin, shehnai on track 3
• Jaki Liebezeit – drums, percussion, winds on tracks 4, 9, 11, 16
• Irmin Schmidt – keyboards, synthesizer, schizophone on track 10
• Damo Suzuki – vocals on tracks 2, 4, 6, 7, 8
• Malcolm Mooney – vocals on tracks 10, 12, 15, 16

Production credits

• Composed, written and produced by Can
• Recording by Holger Czukay and René Tinner at CAN Studio, Weilerswist, Germany
• Frontcover – Trevor Key

External links

• 'Unlimited Edition' at the ProgArchives.com. Accessed 30 April 2008.