Sacrilege: The Remixes

• Artist: Can
• Rating:
• Release Date: 1997
• Total Time: 49:38
• Type: Compilation (best of)
• Genre: Rock

Review

Anticipating their detractors with an ironic indictment against purity, Can (yes, the band were consulted) stepped aside while a somewhat ponderous collection of remixers mucked about in their back catalog, Sacrilege being the result. Although the album might have been more appropriate a few years earlier (Can sound about as experimental today as your average auto advert) and with a more bizarre slate of remixers (Westbam? Kris Needs?), the album is nevertheless an interesting collection of occasionally inspired reinterpretations of classic Can material, with high points hit by Carl Craig's dystopian fog, "Future Days," and Air Liquide's rousing groover "Flow Motion." Of course, Can's own tendency toward self-indulgence means you can hardly fault the worst of these tracks (the Orb's oddly subpar "Halleluwah," U.N.K.L.E.'s forgettable-before-you've-even-finished-with-it stutterer "Vitamin C") for doing the same thing, but that doesn't make them any easier to listen to. ~ Sean Cooper, All Music Guide

Tracks

CD 1

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Pnoom [Moon Up Mix]	Can	Can	(:56)
Spoon [Sonic Youth Mix]	Can	Can	(6:08)
Blue Bag (Inside Paper) [Toroid Mix]	Can	Can	(6:54)
Tango Whiskeyman [A Guy Called Gerald Mix]	Can	Can	(5:12)
TV Spot [Bruce Gilbert Mix]	Can	Can	(3:52)
Vitamin C [U.N.K.L.E. Mix]	Can	Can	(8:20)
Halleluhwah [Halleluwa Orbus 2]	Can	Can	(9:20)
Oh Yeah [Sunroof Mix]	Can	Can	(8:56)

CD 2

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Unfinished [Hiller/Kaiser/Leda Mix]	Can	Can	(6:01)
Future Days [Blade Runner Mix]	Can	Can	(6:08)
...And More [Westbam Mix]	Can	Can	(6:41)
Father Cannot Yell [Pete Shelley/Black Radio Mix]	Can	Can	(8:28)
Dizzy Spoon [System 7 Mix]	Can	Can	(6:45)
Yoo Doo Right [3P Mix]	Can	Can	(4:13)
Flow Motion [Air Liquide Mix]	Can	Can	(6:15)
Oh Yeah [Secret Knowledge Mix]	Can	Can	(9:01)

Credits

Can (Main Performer), Steve Hillage (Producer), Steve Hillage (Remixing), The Orb (Remixing), Lee Ranaldo (Remixing), Sonic Youth (Remixing), A Guy Called Gerald (Remixing), WestBam (Remixing), Pete Shelley (Remixing), System 7 (Producer), System 7 (Remixing), Brian Eno (Remixing), Miquette Giraudy (Producer), Miquette Giraudy (Remixing), Kim Gordon (Remixing), Jah Wobble (Bass), Kenji Jammer (Violin), Gareth Jones (Remixing), François Kevorkian (Producer), François Kevorkian (Remixing), Daniel Miller (Producer), Daniel Miller (Executive Producer), Daniel Miller (Remixing), Thurston Moore (Remixing), PK (Engineer), Richardson (Remixing), Steve Shelley (Remixing), Paul Statham (Remixing), Wharton Tiers (Remixing), Pascal Gabriel (Remixing), Carl Craig (Remixing), UNKLE (Remixing), Kris Needs (Remixing), Rob Rives (Producer), Rob Rives (Remixing), Russell Haswell (Engineer), Russell Haswell (Digital Engineer), Klaus Jankuhn (Remixing), Dr. Walker (Remixing), Henry Cullen (Engineer), Frank Heiss (Remixing), Ramjack (Programming), Kudo (Engineer), Hiller (Remixing)