Landed

Landed was the first Can album to get what Czukay called a professional mix, made possible by an MCI 16-track recorder that replaced the two-track. Czukay engineered it and mixed side B at Inner Space, while Toby Robinson mixed side A at Studio Dierks in Stommeln with René Tinner assisting. Olaf Kubler of Amon Duul played saxophone on Red Hot Indians, and the 13-minute Unfinished grew from a session the band called the magic day, built on the constant noise of a broken Selmer organ. The cover collage is by Christine Scholl, who ran the fan club.

Schmidt said the side A mix sounded like a satirical version of rock music and named Full Moon on the Highway as one of their worst pieces because of the sound. Pitchfork's Dominique Leone found the album a mixed one, with the new songs giving up funky ambient pieces for straightforward jams, though he liked Red Hot Indians. Hunters and Collectors, backed with a shorter Vernal Equinox, was issued as a German single, and the Australian band Hunters and Collectors took their name from it.