The future of Stereolab

they made a mention that it was the BBs last show with them, seemed a bit of a tour sendoff

my bklyn opener was Olivia Neutron John who I loved.

lol amazing name

Rob from BBs played flute for an extended jam at the Detroit show. Unfortunately, bass frequencies were a bit blown out during that part of the show, but sounded good :)

Band seemed in good spirits at that set as well, would see again!

Rob from BBs played flute for an extended jam at the Detroit show. Unfortunately, bass frequencies were a bit blown out during that part of the show, but sounded good :)

He was there at the first Brooklyn show - reminded me of that great early Kraftwerk live clip with Florian on the flute.

Sound-Dust and Margarine Eclipse coming November 29.

https://duophonic.ochre.store/release/142767-stereolab-sound-dust-expanded-edition

obi-wan

hmm they really ran out of bonus tracks on these two

Yeah, that's pretty skimpy, not sure I need Margerine

wow, cupboards must be pretty bare...maybe Stereolab is finally comp'd out

Obi strip ones gone already

lol

Keep checking back. I got Margarine Eclipse first, but Sound Dust was showing out of stock. Then I went to Bleep and got the non-Obi clear Sound Dust from there. Went back to Duophonic and refreshed a bunch of times and Sound Dust was in stock w/ Obi again.

hmm they really ran out of bonus tracks on these two

Sound-Dust extras are minimal yes (the third disc of the vinyl is one-sided with an 'etching' on the reverse, apparently).

Margerine Eclipse looks a bit more tempting though: "The bonus disk includes all the tracks from the release Instant 0 In The Universe and the tour 7”/CD Rose, My Rocket Brain!. Some of these are in unedited versions so longer than on the original release. Including the bonus disk, this reissue contains everything we recorded during the sessions for Margerine Eclipse."

As Marge is the only 'lab album I don't yet have on CD, I'll probably get the new 2CD edition.

Rose, My Rocket Brain! is awesome. Glad to see those tracks collected

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGrY85i-skk

goddamn the full length blue milk is incredible

I hated Cobra when it came out, couldn't deal with the jazzy skronk of it. This reissue was my first time hearing it since then and I love it. I was blind for so long....

the mix is much more open. I'm glad the old one exists, I love the super compressed mid-heavy sound of it... but this Blue Milk is just nuts

so happy I finally got to see em live. Friday in SF was fantastic. Crowd was super enthusiastic and the band seemed in such good spirits!

Yeah they were amazing. What a band.

Going tonight!

Saw them on Wednesday: they were good, but not as good as Sterolad in 2015

I did not realize how much I needed Fast Disko (sic) in my life.

xpost I want to know more about Sterolad

Great show tonight at the fillmore, not much to say except I felt lucky to see this band live once again. Whoever their new bassist is, he's got it d-o-w-n.

He also plays bass in Laetitia's band and in Astrobal.

ah! he was a highlight of the show imo. All of them sounded great and the material selection couldn't have pleased me more.

xpost I want to know more about Stereolad

you bet!

!!! spent a tour or three opening for themselves as an all-male Stereolab tribute act, Nic Offer swapping his shorty shorts for shorty pinafores.

Here's a distorted audience video of French Disko in Amsterdam, here's a review of the Seattle show I saw, and here's Offer's essay explaining the influence Stereolab had on him & bandmates in the '90s, that he wanted to pay back two decades later:
https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/reference-points/stereolab-stereolad-chk-chk-chk

great show last night but I wanted to hear Jenny and no Jenny on the setlist; glad they mixed it up a bit for people who were there the earlier two nights though, I guess. I think this was a more enjoyable show than the last time I saw them, which was whenever the last time they toured through here....I remember that show feeling incomplete, somewhat depressing without Mary.

we dragged our son to this (13 1/2, finally getting into music and playing guitar), he hated every second of it, probably because he likes guitar histrionics. Poo on him.

I had absolutely no expectations re: the setlist, and actually had not listened to them in quite a while, so it all sounded very welcome.

^Same! A little bit of everything. Love that MAQ got so much love on Saturday. But, I wish they wouldn’t shy away from Chemical Chords so much (hot take, lol), bc it’s been growing on me lately.

Chemical Chords is one of my favorites, happy to hear from someone else who feels the same.

Gotta say that laundry bag is one of the most useful pieces of tour merch I've ever bought.

I've made a point to revisit Chemical Chords every few years and have never been able to get into it. Something about the brevity of the tunes and the way they just come to a dead stop make it seem like it was a collections of demos or sketches or something. Anyway, my enthusiasm is renewed and I'm happy to give it another shot.

The dancy songs were the ones I connected to the most last night, and I found myself with a smile on my face during Lo Boob, though that's also because I remembered one of my least favorite jobs where a co-worker was annoyed that I had that song as my ringtone.

Also a little disappointed about a lack of Jenny, but this was my first live show in like 2 years so I'll take what I get. (Also maybe I'm getting old but I was surprised the sound wasn't that loud.)

Xp Chemical Chords was my first entry into the Groop! Still have fondness for it.

outic what did u think of Bronze?

Great show last Monday - Jenny Ondioline was probably 3 mins long so hardly worth it. No Blue Milk either but a lengthy Contranatura at the end. I guess they are only doing one opus per show.

I bought all five reissues at the show in a total splurge- very excited after reading the commentary upthread

I didn't keep track of the full set on Friday night cuz I'm not *that* much of a nerd but high points for me were:
Crest
Lo-Boob Oscillator
Metronomic Underground
Percolator

Bronze were... interesting. I dunno if I really liked it but I give them credit for being unusual both in sound and presentation. It is kinda funny that we are at a point where a guy theatrically turning a knob has taken the place of guitar theatrics. And the singer has an entertaining cowboy-in-Mulholland-Drive schtick going on. But the music itself was pretty goth-y and I got kinda bored with it.

They play Percolator so blisteringly fast I almost sprained my neck

what was the epic closing number? I lost track

I wasn't there but setlist.fm says the closer of the main set was Lo Boob Oscillator and the final encore was Contronatura

Bronze didn't play on Saturday -- Mia Doi Todd instead, but we were having dinner and missed her set. As for Stereolab's set, very nice all around -- it felt like seeing a good old friend again. My girlfriend is a Transient ride-or-die sort so she was a little bummed we only got "Crest" from it, but as that's one of their most perfect songs all around in terms of sound/aesthetic I was very happy. (I was also happy I got to replace my long departed shirt from the Transient tour itself with the new one with a slightly different design for the turntable image.)

Saw them in LA last night and they were terrific. But if a slow start but once it got going it was great. Lo Boob Oscillator and Metronomic Underground were the highlights here too. I don’t know all their song titles well but the encore was a very Steve Reich-ian thing that was mesmerizing.

Agree with the sentiments above that the bass player was a surprising secret weapon of the group.

xpost And while it was great to get "Blue Milk" I think the real highlight for me was "Metronomic Underground."

Contronatura

ah yeah that's what I was thinking of, cuz I didn't recognize it

yeah, that song is only ok to me.

" I was surprised the sound wasn't that loud" it wasn't, which was nice.

also just generally loved Laetitia's whole style throughout the show, relaxed, funny, engaged: "Let's play Ping Pong", "This song is about la resistance" etc

For me it was really good seeing Tim Gane do his head-back-and-forth thing he does when he's getting into something.