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CAN - Remastered!!! Spoon Records, in collaboration with Warner Music (for Germany/ Austria/ Switzerland) and Mute/ EMI Records London (for the rest of the world, excluding Japan), is releasing remastered versions of the classic CAN albums. Included are exclusive unseen photos from the time and new sleeve notes. The albums were all remastered from the original master tapes and were overseen and attended by Holger Czukay, Irmin Schmidt and Jono Podmore, so that they finally sound on CD how they were always intended to sound. These releases follow the recent success of the DVD release, CAN DVD, which marked the 35th anniversary of the founding of the group. Spoon Records has signed an agreement with P-Vine Records for a domestic release in Japan. P-Vine will release all the remastered albums with a faithful reproduction of the original vinyl cover as paper sleeve. The first 8 albums were released in july 2005, the rest will follow in blocs. Spoon Records will try to make this very special Japanese edition available for fans via mail order on the Spoon site. Release phases: 1.Phase October 2004 "Monster Movie" "Soundtracks" "Tago Mago" "Ege Bamyasi" 2. Phase July 2005 "Future Days" "Soon Over Babaluma" "Landed" "Unlimited Edition" 3. Phase winter 2005 "Flow Motion" "Saw Delight" "Can" "Delay 1968" 4. Phase spring 2006 "Rite Time" “CAN Live“ double CD Compilation double CD All 14 remastered albums will play on CD players, SACD players and SACD compatible DVD players (except Japanese release: CD only!)