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CZUKAY

Specialty Definition: Holger Czukay

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Holger Czukay (born March 24, 1938) is a German musician.

He was born in the Free City of Danzig (now in Poland). He studied under Karlheinz Stockhausen from 1963 to 1966 and co-founded the influential rock group Can in 1968. Czukay played bass guitar and performed most of the recording and engineering for the group.

Czukay recorded some important early ambient albums, and is important for his utilization of shortwave radio sounds and sampling.

External links

• Official Site
• An interview with Czukay

  Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Holger Czukay."

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