** condition: EX/EX ** "Unlimited Edition is the expanded version of the Limited Edition LP, featuring various unreleased tracks from 1968 to 1974, all recorded in Can's private Inner Space studios. Given the nature of the collection, a general lack of cohesion is to be expected, but for my money, Unlimited Edition is one of the most underrated items in the band's catalog. From the heavenly climates of "Gomorrha" and "Ibis", to the more cutting, rock-edged tracks with Malcolm Mooney ("The Empress and the Ukraine King", "Mother Upduff", "Connection", "Fall of Another Year"-- all of which could have comprised a classic EP) to the sometimes bizarre, sometimes funny "Ethnological Forgery Series", wherein Can raid the world's various indigenous music and make stuff that would make both Steve Reich and Boredoms proud. And of course there's "Cutaway": an epic, spliced-together piece that might sound more at home on a Faust record than here."
Released on Virgin - Caroline UK -grey label No FOC as the release on Harvest "Unlimited Edition" is a selection from eight years of unreleased CAN tapes. The first LP was originally released in 1974 as in a limited pressing of 15.000 copies. However the 2nd release of the album was retitled Unlimited Edition and released as a double LP including 6 extra songs which appear on the extra disc. LP features Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki as singer. E.F.S. stands for Ethnological Forgery Series Tracks on A: 1970 - 1973 Tracks on B: 1968 - 1974 Tracks on C: March 1969 Tracks on D: 1968 - 1975
