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75-664: Augustin was born in Hagen , Germany on 7 September 1941. Augustin's love for music began at 15 years old when he heard Elvis Presley 's song " Don't be Cruel " on the AFN Bremerhaven in 1956. In the early 1960s, he received a green card to live in New York City for two years. He adapted easily to the new country due to his knowledge of popular American music. When he arrived in New York City, he first lived in

150-1166: 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). They have been hailed as pioneers of the German krautrock scene. The founding members of Can came from backgrounds in avant-garde music and jazz . They blended elements of psychedelic rock , funk , and musique concrète on influential albums such as Tago Mago (1971), Ege Bamyasi (1972) and Future Days (1973). Can also had commercial success with singles such as " Spoon " (1971) and " I Want More " (1976) reaching national singles charts. Their work has influenced rock, post-punk , and ambient acts. Can

225-543: A German flagship label for United Artists/ Liberty Records , to aim both at the domestic market and abroad. After two years as assistant managing director of United Artists' German office, Augustin joined the A&;R department in 1971. He signed the bands Amon Düül II , Popol Vuh , and Can to the label. Augustin produced various Ike & Tina Turner songs and albums, including Feel Good (1972), Blues Roots (1972), and Sweet Rhode Island Red (1974) which were made at

300-452: A Silent Way and Bitches Brew ): Can and Davis both would record long groove-intensive improvisations, then edit the best bits together for their albums. Czukay and Teo Macero (Davis's producer and editor) both had roots in the musique concrète of the 1940s and '50s. Irmin Schmidt stated in a discussion with Michael Karoli in 1996 concerning the various citations of influences upon their music: "You know, it's funny that in spite of all

375-568: A cache of Nazi artifacts from a house was announced. A history teacher revealed a painted portrait of Adolf Hitler and medals decorated with eagles and swastikas , a newspaper from 1945, a pistol, gas masks , brass knuckles , and stacks of documents. It is also found out that the house once served as the headquarters of the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt . In April 1945, the US Army liberated

450-416: A cover of " The Third Man Theme " for Grönland Records ' compilation album Pop 2000 . In 1999, the four core members of Can (Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt and Czukay) performed live at the same show, although playing separately with their current solo projects (Sofortkontakt, Club Off Chaos, Kumo and U-She respectively). Can have since been the subject of numerous compilations, live albums and samples. In 2004,

525-660: A drum ensemble called Drums off Chaos and in 2005 with Datenverarbeiter on the online album Givt . In 1986, they briefly reformed, with original vocalist Mooney, to record Rite Time (released in 1989). There was a further reunion in 1991 by Karoli, Liebezeit, Mooney and Schmidt to record a track for the Wim Wenders film Until the End of the World and in August 1999 by Karoli, Liebezeit and Schmidt with Jono Podmore to record

600-439: A fluid improvisational style. The double album Tago Mago (1971) is often seen as groundbreaking, influential and deeply unconventional, based on intensely rhythmic jazz-inspired drumming, improvised guitar and keyboard soloing (frequently intertwining), tape edits as composition, and Suzuki's idiosyncratic vocalisms. Czukay said it "was an attempt in achieving a mystery musical world from light to darkness and return". In 1971,

675-738: A former trumpet player in a theatre band in Hamburg , came to work for Radio Bremen TV . Augustin became friends with Leckebusch and they created the television show Beat-Club , which is considered Germany's first rock music program. The series was inspired by Augustin's travels where he had seen the American music program Shindig! and the British music program Top of the Pops . The Beat-Club premiered in September 1965, broadcast from Bremen and

750-575: A length of 52.2 km: Ruhr 11.5 km, Lenne 13.1 km, Volme 21.3 km and Ennepe 6.3 km. The difference in altitude from the lowest point on the Ruhr near Vorhalle (86 metres above sea level) to the highest point east of Bölling ♁51° 18′ N, 7° 34′ E (438 metres above sea level) is 352 metres. Since the early 19th century, the Hagen area has been regarded as a classic discovery region for palaeontology and archaeology There are various rocks and deposits from

825-641: A mental breakdown, shouting "upstairs, downstairs" for three hours, even after Can had stopped playing. On his psychiatrist's advice, he left Can and returned to the US at the end of 1969. Mooney made his last recordings with Can that December. He was replaced in 1970 by a young Japanese traveller, Damo Suzuki , whom Czukay and Liebezeit found busking outside a Munich café and invited to join their performance that night. The next few years saw Can release their most acclaimed works. While their earlier recordings were loosely based on traditional song structures, Can developed

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900-540: A mother tongue other than German. At 12.1% (8.4% for Germans and 28.1% for foreigners), the unemployment rate in October 2022 was above the north rhine-westphalian average of 7.7%. The following table shows the largest foreign resident groups in the city of Hagen. Part of the Hagen – Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis I constituency for elections to the Bundestag Can (band) Can (stylized in all caps ) were

975-512: A new vocalist after the departure of Damo Suzuki, although no one quite fit the position. In 1975, folk singer Tim Hardin took the lead vocal spot and played guitar with Can for one song, at two gigs, performing his own " The Lady Came From Baltimore ". Malaysian vocalist Thaiga Raj Raja Ratnam played six dates with the band between January and March 1976. Another temporary vocalist, Englishman Michael Cousins, a.k.a. "Magic Michael", toured with Can from March (France) to April (West Germany) 1976. In

1050-400: A recording company to release it. They appeared briefly in the 1969 film Kamasutra: Vollendung der Liebe backing the singer Margarete Juvan. At Mooney's suggestion, the band changed their name to Can. Mooney suggested the name for its positive meanings in various languages. Liebezeit later suggested the backronym "communism, anarchism, nihilism", after an English magazine claimed this

1125-440: A repetitive, rhythmic style with influences of North African music , Stockhausen , and American minimalists such as Steve Reich and Terry Riley . Czukay and Schmidt were both pupils of Stockhausen, and Can inherited a grounding in his musical theory. Schmidt was trained as a classical pianist, while Karoli brought the influence of gypsy music through his esoteric studies. Liebezeit had strong jazz leanings. The band's sound

1200-533: A so-called Großstadt in 1928, when the population exceeded the 100,000 mark. In 1964, the population passed the 200,000 mark. The city had its highest population after the municipal reorganisation in 1975 with 231,840 inhabitants. Since December 2005, the city has been permanently below the 200,000 population mark (according to the city administration), while the North Rhine-Westphalia State Office for Data Processing and Statistics

1275-481: A state of being an electric symphony group performing a peaceful though sometimes dramatic landscape painting." Suzuki left soon after the recording of Future Days to marry his German girlfriend, and become a Jehovah's Witness . Vocals were taken over by Karoli and Schmidt, but after Suzuki's departure, fewer of Can's tracks featured vocals, as the band experimented with the ambient music it had begun with Future Days . Soon Over Babaluma from 1974 continued in

1350-615: Is 17.1 km in a north-south direction and 15.5 km in a west-east direction. The city boundary of 89.7 km is made up of 3.3 km to Dortmund, 9 km to the district of Unna , 56.6 km to the Ennepe-Ruhr district and 20.8 km to the Märkisch district . The area of the city (160.36 km²) is roughly the size of the Principality of Liechtenstein . 42 per cent of Hagen's municipal area consists of forest. The four rivers in Hagen stretch over

1425-600: Is a city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany , on the southeastern edge of the Ruhr area , 15 km south of Dortmund , where the rivers Lenne and Volme meet the Ruhr . In 2023, the population was 197,677. The city is home to the FernUniversität Hagen (University of Hagen), the only state-funded distance education university in Germany. The largest extension of Hagen's municipal area

1500-570: Is considered a geotope of global importance for palaeontological research. Finds from the quarry and from the entire region can be seen in the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Werdringen moated castle. In a side valley of the Lenne near Holthausen, the remains of Stone Age people were discovered in the ‘Blätterhöhle’ cave. With a C14 age of up to 11,300 years, they date from the beginning of

1575-437: Is heavily indebted and in the process of cutting city services in order to balance its budget. The city has capitalized on the export of a wide variety of breads, most notably Hagenschmagenbrot , a traditional dark bread. One of the five branches of South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences is located in the city (also: Fachhochschule Südwestfalen (FH SWF)), which offers various engineering programmes. This institution

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1650-439: Is in 41st place behind Kassel and ahead of Hamm . The proportion of under 20-year-olds in Hagen in 2023 was 20.3%, while the proportion of people aged 60 and over was 28.8%. The proportion of the foreign population in Hagen in 2023 was 23.9%. In 2021, 34.1% of the Hagen population had a migration background. In March 2021, 41.7% of children in daycare centres had a migrant background and 43.2% of children in daycare centres had

1725-695: The Devonian to the Carboniferous in the municipal area. Marine and terrestrial deposits from the Cretaceous , Tertiary and Holocene periods have been preserved in karst caves in the mass limestone . Other fossil sites with animal and plant remains from the Palaeozoic to the Mesozoic have also made important contributions to geoscientific research. In the area around Hagen, for example,

1800-621: The Kapp Putsch in March 1920, when rightists tried to overthrow the elected government and set up an authoritarian regime, tens of thousands of leftist workers in the Ruhr Valley, Germany's most important industrial area, used the opportunity for a revolutionary uprising from the Left. In the Ruhr uprising of 13 March – 2 April 1920, the 50,000-man Ruhr Red Army took control of

1875-542: The city museum and Werdringen castle. In the Blätterhöhle cave in Hagen, the oldest fossils of modern people in Westphalia and the Ruhr were found. Some date to the early Mesolithic , 10,700 years B.C.E. It seems that the descendants of Mesolithic people in this area maintained a foraging lifestyle for more than 2000 years after the arrival of farming societies. Quarters/localities of Hagen: Hagen became

1950-557: The 17th and 18th centuries, textile and steel industries, as well as paper production were developed here. In the early 21st century, Hagen is the home of the Suedwestfaelische Industrie- und Handelskammer, as well as Sparkasse Hagen , the local public savings bank . The bank's former headquarters, the Sparkasse Hagen Tower , was a regional landmark until its demolition in 2004. The city

2025-422: The 40th Anniversary Edition of Tago Mago in 2011 and 17 LP collection box Can in 2014. The Lost Tapes , released in 2012, was overseen by Irmin Schmidt and Daniel Miller , compiled by Schmidt and Jono Podmore , and edited by Podmore. A series of releases of live recordings began in 2021 and had reached 6 releases as of November 2024, with the recording dates ranging from 1973 to 1977. Can developed

2100-535: The Bronx , then Greenwich Village . There he met Richie Havens and Bob Dylan in 1962. He shared an apartment with the musicians Charlie Chin of Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys , Steve Turnage and Charles Kimbrough . He worked at Stechert-Hafner bookstore, attended concerts of Nina Simone and Thelonious Monk , who created his music in front of the audience on stage by involving the audience in

2175-672: The Family Stone , and Ike & Tina Turner . While in San Francisco, he worked at KQED TV . He was awarded a scholarship to attend Stanford University where he received a diploma in Mass Communications . After graduation, he worked in Los Angeles with United Artists Records . In 1969, United Artists sent Augustin to work for the company in Germany. Siegfried Loch , head of Star-Club record label, started

2250-522: The Mall of Fame in Bremen with Uschi Nerke who hosted Beat-Club and Musikladen . On 17 March 2021 Augustin died at the age of 79 in Bremen, where he had lived for about 15 years. A year and a half prior, Augustin had suffered a stroke from which he never fully recovered. *indicates albums credited as Executive Producer Hagen Hagen ( German pronunciation: [ˈhaːɡn̩] )

2325-657: The Mesolithic period. This makes them the oldest evidence to date of anatomically modern humans in the post-glacial period on the European continent. The Hagen region first appears in historical records in the Lorsch Annals ( Latin : Annales Laureshamenses ): In 775, Charlemagne 's troops conquered the Saxon Hohensyburg (then called Sigiburg ) castle located near the city limits of Dortmund above

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2400-895: The Mooney Suzuki for Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki; the indie rock band Spoon after the hit " Spoon "; the electronic band Egebamyasi, formed by Scottish musician Mr Egg in 1984, after Can's album Ege Bamyasi ; Hunters & Collectors after a song on the Landed album; and Moonshake , named for a track on Future Days , and formed by ex-Wolfhounds frontman David Callahan. The Scottish writer Alan Warner has written two novels in tribute to two different Can members ( Morvern Callar to Holger Czukay and The Man Who Walks to Michael Karoli respectively).  The Sacrilege remix album features remixes of Can tracks by artists who were influenced by Can, including Sonic Youth and U.N.K.L.E. Their ethnomusicological tendencies pre-date

2475-733: The Ruhr-Lenne estuary. Hagen itself was first mentioned around the year 1200, and is presumed to have been the name of a farm at the confluence of the Volme and the Ennepe rivers. After the conquest of Burg Volmarstein  [ de ] in 1324, Hagen passed to the County of Mark . After the Treaty of Xanten in 1614, it was granted to the Margraviate of Brandenburg , which became part of

2550-538: The Turners' Bolic Sound studio. In 1975, he left his position as head of A&R for United Artists Records in Munich to become their manager until their split in 1976. In 1976, Augustin formed the company Gammarock Musik in Los Angeles with Patrick Gammon. In 1979, United Artists took over the administration of Gammarock Musik. He later hosted a public radio show in Bremen. In 2015, Augustin's handprints were added to

2625-455: The UK charts in October 1976, which prompted an appearance on Top of the Pops , where Czukay performed with a double bass. In 1977 Can was joined by former Traffic bassist Rosko Gee and percussionist Rebop Kwaku Baah , both of whom provided vocals, appearing on the albums Saw Delight (1977), Out of Reach (1978) and Can (1979). During this period, Czukay was pushed to the fringes of

2700-410: The album is based on "long improvisations built around hypnotic rhythm patterns"; another writes that " Halleluhwah " finds them "pounding out a monster trance/funk beat". Much of Can's music was based on free improvisation and then edited for the studio albums. For example, when preparing a soundtrack, only Irmin Schmidt would view the film and then give the rest of the band a general description of

2775-403: The albums Out of Reach or Can , although he was involved with production work for the latter album. After the split, all the former members were involved in musical projects, often as session musicians for other artists. Czukay recorded several ambient albums and collaborated with David Sylvian among others. Jaki Liebezeit played extensively with bassists Jah Wobble and Bill Laswell , with

2850-515: The ambient style of Future Days , but with some of the abrasive edge of Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi . In 1975, Can signed with Virgin Records in the UK and EMI/Harvest in West Germany, appearing the same year on BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test in a memorable performance of Vernal Equinox in which Schmidt played one keyboard section with a series of rapid karate chops . Shortly after

2925-422: The appearance Schmidt suffered a broken leg which led to cancellation of the band's UK tour. The later albums, Landed (1975) and Flow Motion (1976), saw Can moving towards a somewhat more conventional style as its recording technology improved. The disco single " I Want More " from Flow Motion became its only hit record outside West Germany. Co-written by live sound mixer Peter Gilmour, it reached No 26 in

3000-492: The band began a series of Super Audio CD remasters of its back catalog, which were finished in 2006. Karoli died of cancer on 17 November 2001. Liebezeit died of pneumonia on 22 January 2017. Czukay died of natural causes on 5 September 2017. Suzuki died of cancer on 9 February 2024. Can released a compilation album Limited Edition in 1974, and expanded it to a double album Unlimited Edition in 1976 from their unreleased studio recordings. Delay 1968 , released in 1981,

3075-399: The band composed the music for the three-part German-language television crime miniseries Das Messer ("The Knife"), directed by Rolf von Sydow . The track " Spoon " was used as the theme song and, released as a single, reached number 6 in the German singles chart. Tago Mago was followed in 1972 by Ege Bamyasi , a more accessible but still avant-garde record which featured "Spoon" and

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3150-594: The band's ability to successfully recreate ethnic-sounding music. They constructed their music largely through collective spontaneous composition, sampling themselves in the studio and editing down the results. Czukay referred to Can's live and studio performances as "instant compositions". The band's early rock influences include the Beatles and the Velvet Underground as well as Jimi Hendrix , Sly Stone and Frank Zappa . The band have admitted that

3225-423: The beginning of Can's "Father Cannot Yell" was inspired by the Velvet Underground's " European Son ". Malcolm Mooney 's voice has been compared to that of James Brown (an acknowledged hero of the band members) and their early style, rooted in psychedelic music, drew comparisons with Pink Floyd . Czukay's extensive editing has occasionally been compared to the late-'60s music of trumpeter Miles Davis (such as In

3300-590: The bones of land dinosaurs and early mammals as well as plant remains from the Lower Cretaceous period were found. The former Hagen-Vorhalle brickworks quarry is considered an important site for the discovery of fossilised insects and other fossils, including early large dragonflies with wingspans of 40 cm, extinct primordial web-footed butterflies and giant centipedes and millipedes from the Upper Carboniferous period. The Hagen-Vorhalle quarry

3375-409: The catchy " Vitamin C ". Czukay said, "We could achieve an excellent dry and ambient sound... [ Ege Bamyasi ] reflects the group being in a lighter mood." It was followed by Future Days in 1973, an early example of ambient music that also includes the pop song " Moonshake ". Czukay said, "'Bel Air' [the 20-minute track that takes up all of side two on the original Future Days LP] showed Can in

3450-458: The city centre was opened in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, Hagen made a name for itself as the ‘Liverpool of New German Wave (Neue Deutsche Welle) ’. Many well-known musicians and bands of this musical genre (including Nena , Extrabreit and the sisters Annette and Inga Humpe ) have their roots in Hagen. Economically, Hagen came under renewed pressure in the 1990s due to increasing globalisation. A further wave of deindustrialisation began in

3525-526: The city, which was later part of the British occupation zone . In August 1948, Hagen was included in the new state of North Rhine-Westphalia and soon became part of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, also known as West Germany ), founded in 1949. In the 1950s and 1960s, Hagen experienced another stormy growth and mainly elted into the flatter, northern plain. At the beginning of the 1970s,

3600-641: The composition process. Augustin often visited the Village Gate and Village Vanguard clubs, where he met Miriam Makeba , Harry Belafonte , Miles Davis , and Bill Cosby . In 1963, Augustin became first German disc jockey in Bremen . He created a discothèque named the Twen Club in the basement of a restaurant, The Gypsy Cellar. He became well-known in Bremen and northern Germany . In 1965, Augustin met Michael Leckebusch at his Twen Club. Leckebusch,

3675-410: The construction of the new town hall on the riverside. In mid-July 2021, Hagen was affected by a flood disaster caused by heavy rainfall. In particular, damage was caused in the Volme valley and Hohenlimburg. Owing to the extensive use of water power along the rivers Ruhr, Lenne, Volme and Ennepe, metal processing played an important role in the region of Hagen in and even before the 15th century. In

3750-413: The craze for world music in the 1980s. While not nearly as influential on electronic music as Kraftwerk , they were important early pioneers of ambient music , along with Tangerine Dream and the aforementioned band. Many groups working in the post-rock genre can look to Can as an influence as part of the larger krautrock scene, as can New Prog bands such as The Mars Volta . Rolling Stone called

3825-458: The decline of heavy industry in Hagen began in the wake of the steel crisis . Hasper Hütte was completely shut down between 1972 and 1982, Gussstahlwerke Wittmann went bankrupt and two of the three plants of Stahlwerke Südwestfalen were closed. Further job losses affected the food industry with the breweries Bettermann and Andreas, the confectionery manufacturers Villosa and Grothe and the production plant of Zwieback Brandt . The pedestrian zone in

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3900-441: The group a "pioneering space rock band". Kanye West has sampled "Sing Swan Song" on his song "Drunk & Hot Girls" from his 2007 album Graduation . The UK band Loop was deeply influenced by Can for their repetitive polyrhythmic style, covering Can's "Mother Sky" on their Black Sun EP. The Yugoslav progressive/psychedelic rock band Igra Staklenih Perli , heavily influenced by Can, on their self-titled debut album released

3975-466: The group's activity due to disagreements about the band's creative direction and his failure as a bass guitarist to keep up with the growth of the other musicians. Bass guitar was something Czukay had "taken up almost by default" and he readily admitted his limitations on the instrument. After Gee joined Can, Czukay made sounds using shortwave radios , Morse code keys , tape recorders and other sundry objects. He left Can in late 1977 and did not appear on

4050-567: The industrial district. Government and paramilitary forces were ordered against the workers, suppressing the uprising, and killing an estimated 1,000 workers. A memorial to the uprising was installed in Hagen. By 1928, Hagen had developed into a city of more than 100,000 inhabitants. During World War II , Hagen was bombed repeatedly, by both the Royal Air Force and the United States Eighth Air Force . On

4125-638: The late 1970s, Can influenced major artists working in the post-punk genre such as Siouxsie and the Banshees , the Fall , Public Image Ltd and Joy Division . In the 1980s, Can were referenced by British new wave acts such as Pete Shelley , Gary Numan , Ultravox , the Jesus and Mary Chain and Primal Scream . The Lumerians and Happy Mondays have cited Can as an influence. Critic Simon Reynolds wrote that "Can's pan-global avant-funk anticipated many of

4200-580: The leading town in South Westphalia in terms of population and economic power. During the German Empire from 1871 to 1914, Hagen experienced a period of prosperity. Through urbanisation and industrialisation of the 19th century, the city developed into the main centre for the entire region south of the river Ruhr . In 1887, Hagen was administratively separated from the district of Hagen and became an independent city ( urban district ). In

4275-637: The moves made by sampladelic dance genres like trip hop , ethnotechno and ambient jungle ." Brian Eno made a short film in tribute to Can, while John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers appeared at the Echo Awards ceremony, at which Can were awarded the most prestigious music award in Germany. Radiohead cited Can as an influence on their albums Kid A (2000) and Amnesiac (2001). Inspired by Can, they constructed their own studio and worked by recording jams and then editing

4350-663: The new Prussian province of Westphalia after the Congress of Vienna in 1815. From 1817, Hagen was the seat of an office and a district within the administrative district of Arnsberg. In 1837, the revised town regulations and a magistrate were introduced. In the course of industrialisation, Hagen was connected to the network of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahngesellschaft in 1848 and developed into an important railway junction. By 1865, Hagen had overtaken Iserlohn, which had previously been

4425-620: The newly founded Kingdom of Prussia in 1701. A major fire destroyed a significant part of Hagen's buildings in 1724. With the help of the Prussian state administration, Hagen was rebuilt within a short time. Hagen was granted town privileges on 3 September 1746. After the defeat of Prussia in the Fourth Coalition , Hagen was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Berg founded by France from 1807 to 1813. It became part of

4500-509: The night of 1 October 1943, 243 Lancasters and 8 Mosquitoes from the Royal Air Force 's Bomber Command attacked the city. According to the Bomber Command Campaign Diary, "This raid was a complete success achieved on a completely cloud-covered target of small size, with only a moderate bomber effort and at trifling cost." Hagen sustained severe damage from that raid, and hundreds of civilians were killed . After

4575-513: The recordings. Radiohead covered "The Thief" in live performances in the early 2000s. Mark E. Smith of the Fall paid tribute to Suzuki with the track " I Am Damo Suzuki " on the 1985 album This Nation's Saving Grace . The Jesus and Mary Chain covered "Mushroom" live in the mid-1980s. Mark Hollis of Talk Talk had mentioned Can several times as an influence for their later albums, Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock . At least five notable bands have named themselves in tribute to Can:

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4650-549: The scenes they would be scoring. This assisted in the improvised soundtrack being successful both inside and outside the film's context. Can's live shows often melded spontaneous improvisation of this kind with songs appearing on their albums. The track "Colchester Finale", appearing on the Can Live album, incorporates portions of " Halleluhwah " into a composition lasting over half an hour. Early concerts found Mooney and Suzuki often able to shock audiences. The actor David Niven

4725-463: The steel sector, while Hagen's population declined at the same time. Hagen's debt level was €1.383 billion on 31 December 2012. Since the 2000s, major new construction and renovation projects have been realised that have significantly shaped Hagen's cityscape today. Examples include the Volme- and Rathaus-Galerie, the redesign of Friedrich-Ebert-Platz and the station forecourt (Berliner Platz) as well as

4800-482: The supposed influences on us that have been written about, the one overriding influence has never been mentioned: Michael von Biel ." Suzuki was a very different singer from Mooney, with a multilingual (he claimed to sing in "the language of the Stone Age") and often inscrutable vocal style. With Suzuki, the band made their most critically and commercially successful albums. The rhythm section's work on Tago Mago has been especially praised: one critic writes that much of

4875-561: The war, the city centre was almost completely destroyed, so that only the surrounding districts still partially reflect the city's Wilhelminian architectural character . The victims of the Second World War and National Socialism in Hagen: more than 2,200 people died in Allied bombing raids between 1940 and 1945. Over 10,000 Hagen citizens died on the various fronts of the Second World War. Dozens of Hagen citizens were murdered in concentration camps and prisons for racial, religious, ideological and political reasons. In August 2021, discovery of

4950-480: The years following the turn of the century, the banker and patron Karl Ernst Osthaus brought many later important architects to the city, including Henry van de Velde , Peter Behrens and Walter Gropius . They established Hagen's reputation as a link between Art Nouveau and Modernism ( Hagener Impul ). The centrepiece of this initiative was the Folkwang Museum and the (only partially built) garden city of Hohenhagen ( Gartenstadt Hohenhagen ). In reaction to

5025-545: Was a compilation of unreleased 1968–1969 recordings. Cannibalism 2 , a compilation album of album and single material, also included one unreleased song, "Melting Away", from the 1960s. In 1995, The Peel Sessions was released, a compilation of Can recordings at the BBC. In 1999, Can Box was released, with a Can video documentary, a concert recording from 1972 and a double live CD compiled by Michael Karoli and later released separately as Can Live Music (Live 1971–1977) . Unreleased live music of Can have been also released on

5100-430: Was already assuming a population of just 196,934 at that time. The population reached a low point in 2012 with 187,810 people, since then it has been increasing again. In 2021, the balance of inflows and outflows was +592 (-1,112 for Germans and +1,704 for foreigners). On 31 December 2023, the population was 197,677, including 150,505 Germans and 47,172 foreigners. In the ranking of cities in Germany by population, Hagen

5175-448: Was asked by Czukay what he had thought of a concert, Niven replied: "It was great, but I didn't know it was music." After the departure of Suzuki, the music grew in intensity without a vocal centre. The band maintained their ability to collectively improvise with or without central themes for hours at a time (their longest performance, in Berlin, lasted over six hours), resulting in a large archive of performances. Can made attempts to find

5250-509: Was formed in Cologne , Germany, in 1968 by Holger Czukay (bass), Irmin Schmidt (keyboard), Jaki Liebezeit (drums) and Michael Karoli (guitar). Czukay and Schmidt were from academic backgrounds, students of the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen , and were fascinated by the possibilities of rock and roll. The band initially used the name Inner Space. In late 1968, the band enlisted the American vocalist Malcolm Mooney . They recorded an album, Prepare to Meet Thy Pnoom, but could not find

5325-466: Was founded in the city in 1824. Hagen is home to the LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen , or Hagen Westphalian Open-Air Museum , a collection of historic industrial facilities. Trades such as printing, brewing, smithing, milling, and many others are represented, not only with static displays, but as living, working operations that visitors may in some cases participate in. It is located near the Hagen community of Eilpe . The Historisches Centrum Hagen includes

5400-568: Was originally intended to be based on the sound of ethnic music, so when the band decided to pick up the garage rock sound, original member David Johnson left. This world music trend was later exemplified on albums such as Ege Bamyasi (the name meaning " Aegean okra " in Turkish ), Future Days and Saw Delight , and by incorporating new band members with different nationalities . A series of tracks on Can albums, known as "Ethnological Forgery Series", abbreviated to "E.F.S", demonstrated

5475-414: Was produced by the regional TV network Radio Bremen . Augustin was a co-host of the first seven shows. The show became an immediate sensation. "People from the older generation (old Nazis ) hated it, young kids loved it and said things like 'keep it going' and so on. It caused a real reaction between the generations," Augustin said. Eventually, his relationship with Leckebusch deteriorated because Leckebusch

5550-540: Was taking credit for the success of the show, and Augustin got phased out of the show. In December 1972, the Beat-Club was replaced by another music program, Musikladen , which was on air until 1984. After Augustin left the Beat-Club in 1967, he moved to San Francisco in 1968. There he met and befriended promoter Bill Graham who introduced him to bands such as the Grateful Dead , Quicksilver , Sly &

5625-436: Was the intended meaning. Can accepted an invitation from a friend to move into his castle, Schloss Nörvenich , and use it as a recording studio. There, they recorded their debut album, Monster Movie (1969). It contained new versions of two songs previously recorded for Prepared to Meet Thy Pnoom , "Father Cannot Yell" and "Outside My Door". Monster Movie received acclaim. During one live performance, Mooney suffered

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