Can

condition (record/cover): EX / VG+ (light general wear)

Version with writing credits under the titles on labels.

Can announced themselves in 1969 with a debut that still plays like a thesis. Monster Movie welds the avant-garde schooling of Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay, both alumni of Stockhausen's orbit, to the raw howl of their first singer, Malcolm Mooney, a New York artist who had wandered into Cologne and stayed. The working method is already fixed: long takes assembled from repetition and tape edits, Jaki Liebezeit holding a pulse of almost inhuman steadiness while Michael Karoli's guitar frays at the edges.

All of side two belongs to Yoo Doo Right, twenty minutes whittled from a jam said to have run for hours, Mooney chanting himself toward collapse. The Liberty issue carried it well beyond the tiny original pressing. A first move the band would spend a decade refining rather than disowning.