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Landed
Landed
Studio album by Can
Released	12 September 1975
Recorded	February–April 1975
Studio	Inner Space Studio, Weilerswist, near Cologne, Germany
Genre	Krautrock
Length	40:18
Label	Hörzu, Virgin
Producer	Can
Can chronology
Audio sample
	Hunters and Collectors file; help;

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[2]
Pitchfork	6.1/10^[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[4]
Tom Hull – on the Web	B+ ()^[5]

Landed is the sixth studio album by the German krautrock band Can.

Recording and production

Landed was recorded in 1975 at Inner Space Studios in Weilerswist, near Cologne. Holger Czukay engineered the recording and mixed side B at Inner Space. He teamed with Toby Robinson to mix side A at Studio Dierks in Stommeln. René Tinner assisted with the mix for both sides. The album was produced by the band themselves and included the single "Hunters and Collectors" (backed by "Vernal Equinox"), which was issued in Germany on the Harvest label that same year.^[6]^[7]

Landed became the first Can album recorded with "MCI JH-16" multitrack tape recorder, replacing their previous two-track tape recorder. The new tape recorder doubled the productivity of their recording studio and allowed the production of composition layered with more overlapping sounds.^[8]

The track "Red Hot Indians" features Olaf Kübler from Amon Düül guesting on dual sax solos.^[9]

"Unfinished" is a thirteen-minute edit of sounds Can recorded in one prolonged session referred by the band as "the magic day" with no post-processing, where they tried to create the conditions in the studio to let their instruments practically play themselves. Michael called it "one of those pieces where we let the atmosphere of the studio impress itself on the tape, it's really a piece composed by the studio". Somewhere we had found a very old Selmer organ. "Unfinished" was recorded with Selmer organ, which was broken and didn't make ordinary sounds. During the recording of "Unfinished" the organ produced a continuous noise al by itself. Irmin liked the noise that served as the basis of the track."^[10]

The title "Landed" is simply denotes a touchdown after Soon Over Babaluma. Landed album cover was created by Christine, Jaki Liebezeit's girlfriend at the time. Christine, head of Can fan-club, sent out promotional postcards and portraits of the band, printed on the backside cover of Soon Over Babaluma and autographed by Can. Christine piled up a number of these portraits and doodled on them, drawing beards, moustaches, rouged cheeks and lipstick, eyepatches and elaborate bouffantes. Christine assembled thirty six drawings into a collage.^[11]

Reception and legacy

Irmin Schmidt, member of Can, described Toby Robinson's work on mixing the album as "listening so loud and mixing so loud and insisting that it's rock that we couldn't really judge what the fuck he was doing. So after that was mixed we came back to our studio, listened to the mixed tape properly in a civilised loudness, and were extremely disappointed. Of course, we had to use it, but it sounds like a satirical version of rock music, which we didn't mean at all. And still I think "Full Moon on the Highway" is one of our worst pieces. Not because of the piece, but because of the sound."^[7]

Rob Young, author of Can's biography, described the album as "both more detailed and more dry, claustrophobic in places, as if the group members have drawn themselves into a huddle in the middle of the studio." Young added that the new "MCI JH-16" multitrack tape recorder brought fresh, unpaved difficulties. The technology of the new tape recorder allowed the band to record in isolation and exponentially add sound layers, which produced a more "fragmented and solitary" album.^[12]

Dominique Leone reviewed the album for Pitchfork in 2005 and said:

1975's Landed was the first Can record to get what Czukay describes as a "professional mix", as the band upgraded to 16 tracks and had the opportunity to bring out many more layers of sound. However, what might have sounded like a godsend to fans craving as much Can magic as they could get didn't quite turn out as we expected. Gone were the epic, funky ambient songs or minimalist rock experiments in favor of some pretty straightforward jam-band tunes.^[9]

Musician Barry Adamson included the album in a list of his 13 favorite albums.^[13]

Australian rock band Hunters & Collectors took their name from the song of the same title.^[14]

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Full Moon on the Highway"	Czukay, Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Peter Gilmour	Czukay, Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt	3:32
2.	"Half Past One"	Czukay, Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt, Peter Gilmour	Czukay, Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt	4:39
3.	"Hunters and Collectors"	Czukay, Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt	Czukay, Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt	4:19
4.	"Vernal Equinox"	none	Czukay, Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt	8:48

Side two
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
5.	"Red Hot Indians"	Czukay, Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt	Czukay, Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt	5:38
6.	"Unfinished"	none	Czukay, Karoli, Liebezeit, Schmidt	13:21
Total length:				40:18

Notes

Recorded at Inner Space Studio (Weilerswist, near Cologne) by Holger Czukay 1975, assisted by Bob Hickmott
Tracks 1 to 4 mixed by Toby Robinson and Holger Czukay at Studio Dierks, Stommeln, Germany
Tracks 5 and 6 mixed by Holger Czukay at Inner Space Studio, Weilerswist, Germany
Composed, written and produced by Can.