The future of Stereolab

Anyone clock the stage invasion at Chanel's Paris Fashion Week show yesterday?? The song playing seemed apt somehow!
I hope they got a kick out of it..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-49897299

Numerous xposts: There's no point when Stereolab started sounding like a completely different band. With the possible exception of maybe 2 songs, they are always unmistakable throughout their whole career. Listen to Oscillations from the Anti-Sun, which has tracks from day to the Sound-Dust era all mixed up. It's cohesive work. The early and later tracks integrate perfectly.

Stereolab are eclectic in a similar way than some of their peers at the time like St Etienne or Blur. ie. they are moving through different styles and influences but specifics like certain instrumental techniques, lyrics, vocals, moods etc are always there.

ended up having severe FOMO and got tix off Craigslist for the Minneapolis show on Saturday, so stoked

i keep waffling about going next week — kinda blew my live music budget in recent weeks ... but yeah stereolab FOMO is real

@ everything, I extremely disagree with you! “Sounds like the same band” maybe, but like “the same band playing ska” vs. “the same band playing Beach Boys covers”

my boyf got tickets for slc but i'm djing that night :|

Drove 5 hrs to the Detroit show last night - only complaint would be the wankers talking loudly up-front during an otherwise sublime Bajas set.

Thought Stereolab sounded great, looked to be having a good time, and would see again (this was my first time) – Andy (?) on drums was particularly fantastic to watch propel the whole live sound. "Anamorphose" and "Percolator" and opener "Brakhage" were highlights, but I could've watched another ten songs.

Great story I'd never heard of here that I found on FB tonight:

Fun Devo/Stereolab story here I’d never heard about before. pic.twitter.com/rv7O9yzagt

— Ned Raggett (@NedRaggett) October 5, 2019

Steredevolab!

Tim Gane was a (prerecorded) guest on WFMU last night on Daniel Blumin's show -- archive at http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/88723
I only caught a few minutes but it mainly seemed like Blumin's a bad interviewer and Gane's not too hot an interviewee either.

It's more of a natter than an interview. It's very long, so you have to wait for the nuggets of interest but there are a few. The records Tim brought along are the real gold though.

i would rather hear tim gane play some records for an hour than see a stereolab set in 2019 tbh

Seeing them tonight! It's my first time seeing them and I already feel emotional.

don't expect too much...

Great show last night! Sounded amazing, in great spirits, super crowd pleasing setlist. Glad I could see Bitchin Bajas again. When they came out and jammed with SL at the end was so good....

Yeah, that was wonderful. The setlist was even better than I'd even hoped. Throwing in Vonal Declosion was a nice surprise.

Was glad to see how into the show and happy Laetitia was. Even hinted at touring again.

Yeah the vibes were very good, nice to see

blue milk with BBs was really special to watch. not gonna get mad they didn't do jenny ondioline because it looks like they do a truncated portion of it. fun show, was surprised at how well the dots and loops and later stuff worked live

Does anybody know why the reissue of Cobra splits the original LP, putting tracks 12-15 on the bonus disk? Maybe it's explained in the liner notes, but that font is just too hard to read!

Is it too long to fit on one disk with the full version of Blue Milk?

Doesn't seem like it. The first disk clocks in at 59 min., which seems like it leaves enough time for the remaining tracks. (The original LP is 79 min. long.)

LP?? do you mean CD?

Yeah, CD.

anything longer than around 79:10 on a CD is risky... some players will have problems playing beyond that. I've got a couple CDs that run to 81 minutes, but it makes sense that Stereolab would split the reissue to be safe... the total duration with the longer versions of some tracks on the reissue is up around 82 minutes.

makes sense...leave it to the 'Lab to think about stuff like that...

leave it to the 'Lab

Would watch this sitcom

Come and Play in the Milky Night Court

Hmmm they were not doing a collab with Bitchin' Bajas when I saw them, that must have developed after I caught them (or they just decided to skip it). I would have loved to have seen that.

They didn't at my show either

I'm bummed that the opener for the show I have tickets to is someone called Bronze...? esp cuz the opener the night before is Wand, who I would love to see :( Would have also loved to see Bitchin Bajas.

I really like Bronze fwiw, cool sound. check out the "Live In San Francisco" release on Castle Face

thx will do, I know nothing about them

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