Can was an
experimental rock group founded in Cologne, Germany in 1968. Describing themselves as an "anarchist community", they constructed their music largely through improvisation and editing, in a way similar to several
avant-garde composers of the time. They had only occasional commercial success, but exerted a huge influence on subsequent
rock and
electronic music. They are generally held to be one of the finest of the original
Krautrock bands, and are among the most important
experimental artists in recent music history. A lot of their initial popularity came from p…
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