| Movies | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Holger Czukay |
| Cover: | Holger Czukay - Movies.jpg |
| Released: | 1979 |
| Studio: | Inner Space Studio, Cologne, Germany |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 39:40 (vinyl edition) 44:41 (CD edition) |
| Label: | Electrola |
| Producer: | Holger Czukay |
| Prev Title: | Canaxis 5 |
| Prev Year: | 1969 |
| Next Title: | On the Way to the Peak of Normal |
| Next Year: | 1981 |
Movies is the second album by Holger Czukay, released in 1979 through Electrola.
Czukay's first solo album since leaving Can, the album combines electronic textures and tape loops influenced by the musique concrète work of avant-garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, and is an early experiment in sampling, "utilizing media samples accumulated over months of channel surfing and random radio listening" (the Iranian singer on "Persian Love", for instance, was found by chance on radio).[2] Otherwise, the album combines bass and whispered vocal parts with layered synths and lilting African rhythms, the latter courtesy of percussionist Kwaku Baah, and the overall flow of the record is achieved by different segments being pieced into a unified whole.
The Independent labeled the album a "cult classic," writing that "Czukay paved the way for later projects, such as David Byrne and Brian Eno's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts."[3]
| Year | Publication | Country | Accolade | Rank | class=unsortable | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | NME | United Kingdom | "Albums of the Year" | 5 | [4] | |
| 1985 | Sounds | United Kingdom | "All Time Top 100 Albums" | 98 | [5] | |
| 2005 | Robert Dimery | United States | "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" | |||
| "*" denotes an unordered list. |