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Delay 1968
Compilation album by Can
Released	1981
Recorded	1968–1969
Genre	Krautrock psychedelic rock
Length	35:48
Label	Spoon Records
Producer	Can
Can chronology
Can (1979) Delay 1968 (1981) Rite Time (1989)

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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.

Can offered Prepared to Meet Thy Phoon to several record company, but the album wasn't picked up. Parts of Delay 1968 circulated in bootleg form for several years under the title Unopened, and included other tracks recorded during the same sessions that would later surface in various forms on other albums.

"Little Star of Bethlehem" is one of the first recordings with inserted overdub parts of the entire band. When German producer Conny Planck listened to the recordings in the early 80s, he got excited saying: "As long as Can playes 'Soul' they are unbeatable".

Track listing

All tracks are written by Czukay, Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Mooney

Personnel

Original recording

• Holger Czukay – bass
• Michael Karoli – guitar
• Jaki Liebezeit – drums, percussion, saxophone
• Irmin Schmidt – keyboards, Cristal Baschet
• Malcolm Mooney – vocals

Delay 1968

• Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay - Mastering

References

1. Delay 1968 at AllMusic
2. Larkin, Colin (2011). "Can". Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0857125958.
3. Nathan Brackett; Christian David Hoard (2004). The new Rolling Stone album guide. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-7432-0169-8.
4. Rob Young; Irmin Schmidt (2018). All Gates Open: The Story of Can. London: Faber & Faber. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-571-31151-4.
5. Semprebon, Rolf. "Unopened Can". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 January 2011.
6. ^ "Holger Czukay's Short History of the Can". Archived from the original on 2008-04-20. Retrieved 2013-08-28.
7. Young, Rob; Schmidt, Irmin (2018). All Gates Open: The Story of Can (e-book ed.). London: Faber and Faber. p. 58. ISBN 978-0-571-31151-4.

• Can (band) albums
• 1981 compilation albums