SAW DELIGHT

This was Holger Czukay's way of saying - "See what happens when I'm not at the wheel!"

By this time CAN's technology was beginning to overtake them, and Holger would often talk abou tlimitations defining output, by which he meant that the more options you have the less creative you have to be to trancend the boundaries of the medium you work in.

With the mastery of the multitrack recording environment now part of their armoury CAN lost the driving force that had made them unique. No-one else had ever worked like them, but now they were working like everyone else, and it sounded like it.

Czukay would later return to the old overdubbing techniques he had perfected with CAN, and his lack of interest in a process he has lost control of is what defines SAW DELIGHT. On the early albums the sound was entirely Holger's responsibility. But a multitrack mixing desk is a democratic engine. Everyone can have their own sliders for the mix down!

Not always a good idea.

Multitracking worked against CAN because they no longer had to play everything live and rely on HOLGER to edit the good bits into the classic tracks we all know and love. On SAW DELIGHT CAN sounds like a band that is struggling.

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