The Get Down & Can

I recently watched the Netflix series ‘The Get Down’ which is based in the South Bronx, New York in 1977 around the birth of Hip-Hop, Rap and DJ-ing. I was immediately and repeatedly struck by the inclusion of the track ‘Vitamin C’ by Can from the album Ege Bamyasi, which I think was released around 1972.

I didn’t have a copy on vinyl, although I’d heard it a lot, so last week I got one. Maybe I’ll talk about it more another time but for now I just wanted to share the track.

You’ll be blown away buy what happens when this guy cleans a record.

You’ll be blown away buy what happens when this guy cleans a record.

Well, probably not, but that seems to be how the internet works nowadays, minds are blown, jaws are dropped and so on, over some rather ordinary things. Truth is, whilst my mind wasn’t blown, the results really were unexpected.