Holger Czukay, Linear City - 1h 2m 5s

Tracks & Durations

1. Africana Smooth 01	11:21
2. Echogirl 02	11:48
3. Ten steps to heaven 03	22:40
4. Africana Suselita 04	16:12

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Review

Originally Released in 2001, Linear City is a relentlessly experimental, inventively rhythmic, darkly ambient and amazingly cohesive work, considering its origins. It is the right stuff for fans of Can.

The BBC originally sent Czukay a recording from Sudan for him to remix. Rather than working on it by himself, he uploaded the recording to his web site and asked anyone out there in digiland who was interested, to work with it, enhance it and basically do whatever they wanted to do with it before downloading him the results. 23 enthusiastic contributors participated in the experiment, with Holger Czukay editing the results (as well as contributions of his own and from U-She) into 4 lengthy tracks. That the results are as coherent and interesting as they are is just as much a testament to the fresh, unbridled creativity of the collaborators as it is to Czukay's music editing and studio skills. Each of the pieces shift and change as they race across a dark sonic savannah. But rather than just stringing the collaborative bits together in a random fashion, Czukay cleverly edits them in recurring modes, so he ends up developing a thematic consistency to each piece. Here and there, the original Sudanese recording shines through and there is a marked tribal feel to much of the percussion.

This definitive version of Linear City marks the first `official' public release (previously available only through Czukay's internet shop), digitally remastered from the original studio tapes and comes housed in deluxe digipak format with new liner notations by Holger Czukay.

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