Holger Czukay

𝙏𝙖𝙥𝙚 𝙨𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨, 𝙠𝙧𝙖𝙪𝙩 𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙚𝙮𝙚’𝙨 𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 — Movies is Holger Czukay’s surrealist masterpiece, a sonic collage where post-Can experimentation meets proto-sampledelia.

Released in 1979 and now reissued by Grönland Records, the album blends dub pulses, radio static, musique concrète, and sly melodies into something both playful and disorienting. Tracks like “Cool in the Pool” flirt with pop, while “Oh Lord, Give Us More Money” dives into fragmented psych-funk and media detritus.

Czukay’s work prefigures sampling culture and ambient weirdness alike — a visionary soundworld cut from tape, wit, and deep intuition. Movies still feels like a transmission from the future.