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There’s an AC radio station here in Detroit that, sometime around Halloween it seems, switches over to an all-Christmas format. If you tune in to it even occasionally, you realized they pretty much just play a few songs over and over again. (and how is that unusual for commercial radio anywhere? but, I digress…)

In the interest of pointing to something a little outside the AC Christmas canon, here’s something a Moodmat audience might find a little more interesting. Sometime during the last century, Spoon Records posted a genuine rarity — an old 7″ recording of Can performing “Silent Night”. It’s a truly wonderful performance — it glows.

I’d downloaded it way back when, but at some point I lost track of my copy. For purely selfish reasons, I contacted Spoon Records and pleaded for them to repost it this year.

I’d like to publicly thank Sandra Podmore at Spoon Records for getting this posted over at the Mute site.

Enjoy!