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I've just bought myself a copy of Soon Over Babaluma, and the first track, Dizzy Dizzy is really doing it for me. Any other spacey dubby rock recommendations gratefully received...

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:48 (twenty years ago)

But the Can dvd, it's got loads of great stuff including a very groovy 'in the studio' vid of Dizzy Dizzy.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 10:55 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, Dr, I'll look out for it.

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:24 (twenty years ago)

I haven't heard a ton of stuff that sounds like "Dizzy Dizzy", but you might look out for a CD compilation by the French band Video Aventures called Musiques Pour Garçons et Filles. The early stuff (with members of Etron Fou and Lard Free) has the kind of off-kilter, trans-ethnic, buoyant quality that "Dizzy Dizzy" does, though is maybe a bit lighter in tone.

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't think I've ever heard anything that sounds like "Dizzy Dizzy"! Apart from some other Can stuff.

― Dadaismus sinks his soul in Mother Nature's bower (Dada), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 12:36 (twenty years ago)

video adventures sounds great. Cheers Dominique. And yes, dadaismus, I need to get to know more Can.

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:33 (twenty years ago)

I hate to be obscure (not horribly obscure) but the track "Are You A Fish?" on David Cunningham & Peter Gordon's "The Yellow Box" is kind of in this territory, though it's got no drums. Also only a minute or so long...

Put it this way: The Yellow Box is nothing like Can, and features mostly short soundscapes, but a few of them have a similar feel to what's going on in Dizzy Dizzy. See also "Provenance" from the same album.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:39 (twenty years ago)

i'd also seek out Holger Czukay's 'On the Way to the Peak of Normal'.

― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

The 3CD Irmin Schmidt "Soundtracks" boxed set has some amazing stuff on it - "You Make Me Nervous" etc. And I'd recommend "Movies" by Holger Czukay over "On The Way..." (which is also a great album). As "Dizzy Dizzy" is sung by the late Michael Karoli, you might try his "Deluge" album from '82.

― So Ho La (So Ho La), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:05 (twenty years ago)

Don't like "Deluge" and you have to wade through an awful lot of not-so-amazing-stuff on the Irmin Schmidt soundtracks to get to the good stuff. But "You Make Me Nervous" is a good recommendation!

― Dadaismus sinks his soul in Mother Nature's bower (Dada), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:07 (twenty years ago)

This is great, people, thanks. Keep 'em coming if anything else occurs. I really like that sound that's both dubby/spacey AND has loads going on at the same time.

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:08 (twenty years ago)

i'd also seek out Holger Czukay's 'On the Way to the Peak of Normal'.

OTM, also Czukay's "Der Osten ist Rot"

― Houdini Gordonii (ex machina), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Some material on the Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 early-90s records has a very "Dizzy Dizzy" feel.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:07 (twenty years ago)

just wanted to point out the under-recognized brilliance of 'Quantum Physics' on that same lp...

― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 03:12 (twenty years ago)

"Ibis" from Unlimited Edition is pretty similar. I think of that as the song which links together my imaginary Future Days/Soon Over Babaluma double album.

― Jimmy M (Jimmy M), Thursday, 30 March 2006 02:48 (twenty years ago)

"Dizzy Dizzy" is such an awesome track.

― Joe (Joe), Thursday, 30 March 2006 02:55 (twenty years ago)

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