Holger Czukay

rock

He means more to modern music than merely founding Can. After studying with composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, multi-instrumentalist Holger Czukay created the hypnotically repetitious rhythms and rancorous tape-loop samples (opera, Radio Free Europe broadcasts, lost world music) that became Can. But it didn't stop there. That led to the post-psychedelic, metronomic thwack-attack of Krautrock as well as the sampladelic overtures that would guide everything from Eno-Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts to John Oswald's Plunderphonics. Czukay's musique-concrete collages and dub rhythms are in evidence throughout his solo catalog -- from Movies to his most recent CDs, Good Morning Story and La Luna (both Tone). They can also be heard within a poppier context, namely the Eurythmics' debut In the Garden and on light-bright David Sylvian efforts like Plight and Premonition. To miss Czukay spinning, sampling and playing bass would be a crime.

Wed., May 5, 8 p.m., $25, with Need New Body, The TLA, 334 South St., 215-336-2000.

—A.D. Amorosi

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