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Holger Czukay
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Holger Czukay (born March 24, 1938) is a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can.
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He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk).
Czukay studied under Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1963 to 1966[1] and became a music teacher. Previously little interested in rock music, Czukay's opinion was changed when a student played him The Beatles' 1967 song "I Am The Walrus,"[2] which led Czukay to music by rock experimentalists like the Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa.
Czukay co-founded krautrock group Can in 1968. Czukay played bass guitar and performed most of the recording and engineering for the group, although he left in 1977 a few years before the group's official breakup.
Afterwards, Czukay recorded some notable early ambient albums, and is important for his utilization of shortwave radio sounds and sampling. He would tape record interesting sounds from shortwave and incorporate them into his compositions, but he could also use shortwave as a live, interactive musical instrument (such as on 1991's Radio Wave Surfer), a practice he termed "radio painting."
He has collaborated with a considerable number of musicians, notably a series of albums with Jah Wobble and David Sylvian.[1], two younger British musicians who shared his interest in blending pop music and the experimental
Solo:
- Canaxis (1969)
- Movies (1980)
- Biomutanten / Menetekel (as Les Vampyrettes with Conny Plank) (1981)
- On the Way to the Peak of Normal (1982)
- Der Osten Ist Rot (1984)
- Full Circle (1984) with Jah Wobble and Jaki Liebezeit
- Rome Remains Rome (1987)
- Plight and Premonition (1988) with David Sylvian
- Flux and Mutability (1989) with David Sylvian
- Radio Wave Surfer (1991)
- Moving Pictures (1993)
- Clash (1998) with Dr. Walker
- Good Morning Story (1999)
- La Luna (2000)
- Linear City (2001) audio collaborations with Susanne Drescher, Per Odderskove, Ray Darr, Darren B. Dunn, Marc Uzan, Ola Norlander, Haki, U-She, Drew Kalapach, Michael Letourneau, Alan Evil from IFPR, Luca Kormentini, Andrew Paine (Boomboy), The Weeds of Eden, Michael Banabila, Dreamfluid, Beatsystem, Noiseman433, Dane Johnson, James Webb, Panoptic, 1605 Munro, Tom Hamlyn
- The New Millennium (2003) with U-She
With Can:
- See Can discography (does not appear on Can's Out of Reach)
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| Can |
| Holger Czukay | Michael Karoli | Jaki Liebezeit | Irmin Schmidt |
| Malcolm Mooney | Damo Suzuki | Rosko Gee | Rebop Kwaku Baah |
| Discography |
| Albums: Monster Movie | Soundtracks | Tago Mago | Ege Bamyasi | Future Days | Soon Over Babaluma | Landed | Flow Motion | Saw Delight | Out of Reach | Can | Rite Time |
| Compilation albums: Limited Edition | Unlimited Edition | Opener | Cannibalism | Delay 1968 | Incandescence | Cannibalism 2 | Anthology | Cannibalism 3 | Peel Sessions | Radio Waves | Can Live | Sacrilege |
| Famous songs: "Yoo Doo Right" | "Mushroom" | "Halleluhwah" | "Vitamin C" | "Spoon" | "Moonshake" | "I Want More" |
| Related articles: Krautrock | Spoon Records | Traffic | Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Quintet |