The future of Stereolab

Okay, THAT is key.

ooh, glad they are coming back to my neck of the woods — was out of town for their show out here last year.

Okay, now THAT'S the sort of reissue I can get behind. (re SO#4/#5)

What'll be on 'Switched On' 4 & 5?

A cover of When the Levee Breaks?

Don't tease me like that.

My post from 2010 itt lists what may show up on Volume 4 and the potential Volume 5 tracklist can be found in the Stereolab Albums poll.

It's all really good, too.

tickets for their show at Big Sur start at $300... that's utterly criminal.

Glad I saw them a few months ago...

$300 for two tickets, which is the minimum you can buy... looks like it's at some remote location, since the tickets include a shuttle to the venue.

yeah I misread the fine print... anyway sounds fun but over twice what I paid for the fillmore 2 months ago. The venue location is very beautiful....

yeah I misread the fine print... anyway sounds fun but over twice what I paid for the fillmore 2 months ago. The venue location is very beautiful....

whoops

Here's what I've put together. I skipped some demos, remixes, radio sessions and live versions and stopped at the end of 2001:
1. Super Falling Star (Moog mix) - from Volume 4 compilation
2. Low-Fi
3. (Varoom!)
4. Laisser-Faire
5. Elektro (He Held The World In His Iron Grip) - these 4 from "Low-Fi" EP
6. Ronco Symphony (demo)
7. The Seeming And The Meaning (demo) - these 2 from the Spacewatch flexi
8. I'm Going Out Of My Way (WHFS session) - from "Inside Dave's Garage" split single
9. The Eclipse
10. Yes Sir! I Can Moogie - these 2 from "The Cat's Miaow" split single
11. ABC (The Multitude) - from "Godz Is Not A Put On" compilation
12. Simple Headphone Mind
13. Trippin' With The Birds - from "Simple Headphone Mind" collaboration with Nurse With Wound
14. Endless Summer (as Microlab) - from "Microstonia - Reprovisers" compilation
15. St. Elmo's Fire (radio)
16. Less Time
17. St. Elmo's Fire (Red Corona)
18. St. Elmo's Fire (Spatio-Dynamic)
19. Impulse Rah!
20. St. Elmo's Fire (Snow) - these 6 as Uilab from "St. Elmo's Fire" collaboration with Ui
21. Miss Modular (Automator mix)
22. Refractions In The Plastic Pulse (Feebate mix by Autechre)
23. Contranatura (Prelude To The Autumn Of A Faun mix by Kid Loco) - these 3 from "Miss Modular Remixes" EP
24. Freestyle Dumping - from JP release of Aluminum Tunes
25. Symbolic Logic Of Now! - from "Soi-Distant" split single
26. Chinese Whispers (Stereolab mix) - from "Chinese Whispers" compilation
27. Untitled / 008 - from Thurston Moore's "Root" compilation
28. Blaue Milch - from Peter-Thomas-Sound-Orchester's "Warp Back To Earth 66/99" compilation
29. Galaxidion - from "Social (Bodies)" compilation
30. Caliméro
31. Cache Cache - from collaboration with Brigitte Fontaine
32. Ticker Tape Of The Unconscious (Thievery Corporation remix) - from Thievery Corporation's "Abductions & Reconstructions" compilation
33. The Super-It
34. Fried Monkey Eggs (vocal)
35. Monkey Jelly - these 3 from "The Underground Is Coming" EP
36. Brain Drain - from "Collaborations 2: Constant Friction" compilation
37. Négatités - from "Yeti 1" compilation
38. Free Witch And No-Bra Queen
39. Speck-Voice - these 2 from "Free Witch And No-Bra Queen" EP

here's what gerald posted in 2010 for Switched On 4 potential tracks.

Socialism or Barbarism $300

#24 already on expanded ETK reissue but yes to all of this

Got tickets to the Pappy & Harriet’s show!

Of the gerald / brotherlovesdub list, I think only 12, 13, 25, 30 and 33-39 are realistic candidates for SO4 & 5. Maybe some of the other collabs, but def not demos, session tracks or remixes. And I believe Beggars (who own Too Pure) still has the rights to Low-Fi.

29 was on the expanded Cobra reissue.

Plenty of other candidates though.

This isn't going to just be a repackaging of Oscillons, is it?

A box set of cd EPs. Plz

Hadn’t realised there was a rights issue for low-fi. That’s a pity.

I was lucky enough to get a scratch card with 5 cliffs. Has there been any word on what that will get me? I had it in my head it was going to be a record of some kind but that could be a faulty assumption on my part

Think it's a record, might be some other stuff also.

I have three failed scratchcards. Might send them in anyway

don't be a dick, they actually asked people not to do that

The latest Lab Report mentioned above said there were manufacturing delays and it'd be 5-8 weeks before the free item is shipped.

I had four failed scratch cards.... I would've appreciated some announcement of how many golden (ball) tickets were out there, as it required some effort to actually get clear vinyl (let alone the obi strip versions).

god Dots and Loops is so good.

thrilled to nab a copy of Oscillons from the Anti-Sun at the used CD shop today for 9 bucks. it even still has all the stickers! Looking forward to spending the rest of the weekend blasting it

don't be a dick, they actually asked people not to do that

― The Squalls Of Hate (sleeve), Saturday, January 25, 2020 4:23 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Fair enough, was only semi joking..

Suppose they had leftovers and did a special thing, and I'd sent them in already and they gone?

you don't need to see them at Big Sur (though I'll bet that'll be awesome), you can do the Warfield.

Ever closer pic.twitter.com/hPprwmQ521

— Stereolab (@stereolabgroop) February 17, 2020

yessss so psyched

It’s a 7”. In a card sleeve with the winner’s name on it. Six previously unreleased demos.

https://www.discogs.com/Stereolab-Fluorescences-Demo/release/15286600

A few have been mailed out and are starting to land.

nice, I had forgotten I won this!

This was a great lineup:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBBv9MoCttA/

(that whole IG account is gold if you were a music fan in the 90s)

Switched On vol 4, "Electrically Possessed," up for pre-order:

1 Outer Bongolia 9:29
2 Intervals 4:38
3 Barock-Plastic 3:17
4 Nomus Et Phusis 4:23
5 I Feel The Air {Of Another Planet} 8:12
6 Household Names 3:43
7 Retrograde Mirror Form 6:45
8 Solar Throw-Away [Original version] 3:06
9 Pandora's Box Of Worms 2:16
10 L'exotisme Interieur 3:23
11 The Super It 3:51
12 Jump Drive Shut-Out 2:43
13 Explosante Fixe 4:25
14 Fried Monkey Eggs [Instrumental version] 2:08
15 Monkey Jelly 1:54
16 B.U.A 4:51
17 Free Witch and No Bra Queen 4:44
18 Heavy Denim Loop Pt 2 2:54
19 Variation One 4:01
20 Monkey Jelly [Beats] 1:53
21 Dimension M2 4:03
22 Solar Throw-Away 3:59
23 Calimero 6:25
24 Fried Monkey Eggs [Vocal] 2:08
25 Speck Voice 5:01

Gerald McBoing-Boing predicted 6 out of 39 correctly eleven years ago :)

The entirety of ...Microbe Hunters!? Is that hopelessly out of print now or something?

i think calimero is the only thing on there that i have (having pretty much given up after dots and loops). so this feels like useful compilation.

They do list the exact quantities pressed 21 years ago tbf Nag!

So they do! :) (I didn't click through earlier.)

The whole of ...Amorphous Body Study Centre was on Vol 3, I guess, but that was properly 'rare' by design and barely half as long. Not sure I need invest in a physical copy of this volume!

Not so hot on including the entire "Microbe Hunters", unclear why they chose to do that - it's not like it's rare on the 2nd hand market unlike the "Amorphous Body Center" when they put it on "Aluminum Tunes".

My original list posted above covered their output until 2001, then I later realized the error of my judgement and expanded my personal Switched On compilation to cover their entire career.

They've been adding rarities onto their reissues, 6 tracks from my original lists are on recent bonus discs, but of that list I posted in 2010, almost all of it is still uncompiled. "Electrically Possessed" will take off another 13 rarities.

Here's what's still out there:
1. Super Falling Star (Moog mix) - from Volume 4 compilation
2. Low-Fi
3. (Varoom!)
4. Laisser-Faire
5. Elektro (He Held The World In His Iron Grip) - these 4 from "Low-Fi" EP
6. XXXOOO
7. High Expectations (demo)
8. Ronco Symphony (demo)
9. The Seeming And The Meaning (demo) - these 2 from the Spacewatch flexi
10. I'm Going Out Of My Way (WHFS session) - from "Inside Dave's Garage" split single
11. The Extension Trip (radio session) - Reading Present 1995 comp
12. The Eclipse
13. Yes Sir! I Can Moogie - these 2 from "The Cat's Miaow" split single
14. ABC (The Multitude) - from "Godz Is Not A Put On" compilation
15. Jenny Ondioline (live) - Upsapalooza comp
16. Cadriopo (full version)- from Fugu split single
17. Simple Headphone Mind
18. Trippin' With The Birds - from "Simple Headphone Mind" collaboration with Nurse With Wound
19. Persolator (live) - Phoenix: The Album comp
20. Endless Summer (as Microlab) - from "Microstonia - Reprovisers" compilation
21. St. Elmo's Fire (radio)
22. Less Time
23. St. Elmo's Fire (Red Corona)
24. St. Elmo's Fire (Spatio-Dynamic)
25. Impulse Rah!
26. St. Elmo's Fire (Snow) - these 6 as Uilab from "St. Elmo's Fire" collaboration with Ui
27. Miss Modular (Automator mix)
28. Refractions In The Plastic Pulse (Feebate mix by Autechre)
29. Contranatura (Prelude To The Autumn Of A Faun mix by Kid Loco) - these 3 from "Miss Modular Remixes" EP
30. Rainbo Conversation (Russel Simins mix) - from the "Miss Modular" US promo
31. Symbolic Logic Of Now! - from "Soi-Distant" split single
32. Chinese Whispers (Stereolab mix) - from "Chinese Whispers" compilation
33. Untitled / 008 - from Thurston Moore's "Root" compilation
34. Blaue Milch - from Peter-Thomas-Sound-Orchester's "Warp Back To Earth 66/99" compilation
35. Ticker Tape Of The Unconscious (Thievery Corporation remix) - from Thievery Corporation's "Abductions & Reconstructions" compilation
36. Brain Drain - from "Collaborations 2: Constant Friction" compilation
37. Négatités - from "Yeti 1" compilation
38. Alternative 1 (with Hairy Butter)
39. Alternative 2 (with Hairy Butter)
40. Alternative 3 (with Hairy Butter) - these 3 from "Alternative 3" soundtrack
41. Mudra (V/A - Dimension Mix)
42. Spool Of Collusion (Chemical Chords bonus single)
43. Forensic Itch (Chemical Chords bonus single)
44. The Nth Degree (Chemical Chords JP bonus track)
45. Magne-Music (Chemical Chords JP bonus track)
46. Valley Hi! (live) - FBI: The Live Feed comp
47. Neon Beanbag (Atlas Sound Southern Baptist remix) - Not Music JP bonus track

Feel like maybe it would've been better to expand Microbe Hunters into a full LP, then put out a separate Switched On 4.

Microbe Hunters was a full LP tho?
and the vinyl is expensive now, so reissuing it all on vinyl seems to make sense at least
sold mine a few years ago tho for a decent price, maybe I'll like it more this time round

Microbe Hunters was marketed as an EP/mini album but at 39 minutes is one of those weird "in '90s electronica terms EPs." The CD was priced below the premium (in the US, anyway) and it felt kind of like a stopgap.

A bit like the "bachelor pad" one back in the day?

I want everything to get scooped up in this reissue series because the CD sets are fantastic

xp GAHHH WHERE THE HELL IS THAT ONE ALSO?!?!

Forgot about that EP, "We're Not Adult Oriented" totally rules. I assume it has the same issues w/Too Pure as discussed re: Lo Fi above.

It was reissued (not remastered) a couple of years ago. Seems like Lo Fi has always been available.

the vinyl is getting pretty expensive:

https://www.discogs.com/Stereolab-Low-Fi/release/222171

It's amazing that the Cat's Miaow split and that Nurse With Wound thingy are still lost in the wilderness. Things aren't inaccessible in quite the same way as they were before '90s volumes, but I've been naively waiting more than half a lifetime for hear those via a subsequent Switched On. The decision to make 40% of Vol 4 a reissue of their weakest album (an EP mainly "in '90s electronica terms", OTM) is mildly offensive in this context lol.

yeah Simple Headphone Mind is so freakin good

lol I bought the Cat's Miaow split for the Cat's Miaow song at the time

Pretty sure that was the first time I heard of CW. They roolz innit. Their track from the 7" has been on a compilation for decades now, LOL