The Microbe material might get a bit of rehabilitation from being included here. It has been undervalued.
― everything, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 04:45 (three years ago) link
got my limited colour vinyl copy today. my name is written (v. neatly!) in ink along the inner spine, didn't know they were doing that - is it a reselling countermeasure or something?
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 09:04 (three years ago) link
Still waiting on my CD copy.
― We’re Up All Night To Get Lochte (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 10:31 (three years ago) link
Got my bog-standard 2CD digipack this weekend. I've bought the other reissues on vinyl, but for those I usually just had the original CD while in this case I have several of the original 7"s. Includes a sticker with a checklist (yes, Cliff... I did my duty) and a 10% off coupon for the website. Would prefer that the track info wasn't all under the disc trays, as you need to remove both discs in order to learn the sources of either one. Would've preferred a mini-gatefold with inner sleeves, but maybe those are more expensive to produce.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
The personalization on the color vinyl versions was a reselling countermeasure, but since then they've announced a new way to deal with limited editions that is not personalization, so I'm not sure how successful it was. I'm still waiting on my personalized version to arrive.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 3 March 2021 21:18 (three years ago) link
i'm out of the loop. i didn't even know this got released. instant purchase.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link
okay, finally got this and listening, and jeez was the microbobe hunters stuff always this good??? i guess it got lost for me between cobra and sound-dust pretty quickly but man it sounds great right now. otherwise, lots of "new to me" rarities. all great.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link
god “household names” is so so great!!
― brimstead, Saturday, 3 April 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzZJKKTNAng
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 2 September 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link
Fall tour back on for US/Canada
Yes, please. pic.twitter.com/ptfW63f86l— Bruce Levenstein (@BruceLevenstein) March 1, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 March 2022 17:11 (two years ago) link
Deradoorian will be the opening band, nice
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 1 March 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
Ghost Power (Tim Gane/Jeremy Novak) have an album coming out soon.
Here's a single they put out a little while back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCg9-xmyNH8
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link
Sounds straight-up Library. I dig it.
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 23 March 2022 17:24 (two years ago) link
My copy of the Ghost Power LP arrived today (release date is Friday, so, um, in about 30 minutes). It's really good. I'd describe the music roughly as the mid-point between the 'In Fabric' OST and Chemical Chords era Stereolab. Recognisably Tim for the most part, therefore, but with some new twists - and the closer is an epic, ambient space symphony that sounds nothing like what I just described.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 28 April 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
Excited for this and Astrel K
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 28 April 2022 22:55 (one year ago) link
It *is* quite library-ish innit. On the short tracks at least.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 29 April 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
Damn, I had no idea this project even existed until now
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 29 April 2022 00:09 (one year ago) link
it's up on bandcamp now, too. Looking forward to receiving my lp!
― mizzell, Friday, 29 April 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
Ooh good to know about this.
I was both overwhelmed and underwhelmed by the last Cavern of Anti-Matter release but I still make time for anything Tim does.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 29 April 2022 15:38 (one year ago) link
Hmm, I think this is just OK.
I’m honesty I stopped about halfway through and put on Beak> instead.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 30 April 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
some good songs on the ghost power lp, even if it does sound like incidental music from lodge 49
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 9 May 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
I'd describe the music roughly as the mid-point between the 'In Fabric' OST and Chemical Chords era Stereolab.
Well have you heard Dymaxion because it also sounds a lot like Dymaxion
What I like about this is, the brickwork-groove of Dymaxion and the spaciousness of Cavern aren't the most compatible styles, and there's an interesting kind of awkwardness about fitting them together into a cohesive form.
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
this is a bummer
Due to unforeseen circumstances, @deradoorian will no longer be able to support Stereolab on their upcoming tour dates in the US and Canada in September / October 2022.Expect news of a replacement support act soon. https://t.co/zBwucEdmqK— Stereolab (@stereolabgroop) May 26, 2022
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 26 May 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
Switched On Volume 5 to be announced later this week.
― everything, Monday, 20 June 2022 21:33 (one year ago) link
https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/album/pulse-of-the-early-brain-switched-on-volume-5
Given this, there's still this out there. Most of these are alt versions of released tracks so not that crucial:1. Super Falling Star (Moog mix) - from Volume 4 compilation2. High Expectations (demo)3. The Seeming And The Meaning (demo) - these 2 from the Spacewatch flexi4. I'm Going Out Of My Way (WHFS session) - from "Inside Dave's Garage" split single5. The Extension Trip (radio session)6. The Eclipse7. Jenny Ondioline (live) - Upsapalooza comp8. Cadriopo (full version)- from Fugu split single9. Persolator (live) - Phoenix: The Album comp10. Endless Summer (as Microlab) - from "Microstonia - Reprovisers" compilation11. St. Elmo's Fire (radio)12. Less Time13. St. Elmo's Fire (Red Corona)14. St. Elmo's Fire (Spatio-Dynamic)15. Impulse Rah!16. St. Elmo's Fire (Snow) - these 6 as Uilab from "St. Elmo's Fire" collaboration with Ui17. Miss Modular (Automator mix)18. Contranatura (Prelude To The Autumn Of A Faun mix by Kid Loco) - these 3 from "Miss Modular Remixes" EP19. Rainbo Conversation (Russel Simins mix) - from the "Miss Modular" US promo20. Chinese Whispers (Stereolab mix) - from "Chinese Whispers" compilation21. Untitled / 008 - from Thurston Moore's "Root" compilation22. Cache Cache (Monade) - from collaboration with Brigitte Fontaine23. Ticker Tape Of The Unconscious (Thievery Corporation remix) - from Thievery Corporation's "Abductions & Reconstructions" compilation24. Brain Drain - from "Collaborations 2: Constant Friction" compilation25. Négatités - from "Yeti 1" compilation26. Alternative 1 (with Hairy Butter)27. Alternative 2 (with Hairy Butter)28. Alternative 3 (with Hairy Butter)29. Mudra (V/A - Dimension Mix)30. Valley Hi! (live) - FBI: The Live Feed comp31. Neon Beanbag (Atlas Sound Southern Baptist remix) - Not Music JP bonus track
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 23 June 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
OMG, Low-Fi (on physical issues anyway!?) and the NWW and Cat's Miaow thingies I ranted about being absent last time! I see an actual purchase in my future.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 24 June 2022 01:35 (one year ago) link
“Robot riot” released for the first time today but not seeing it on the upcoming comp tracklist upthread?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 24 June 2022 16:19 (one year ago) link
Some of the tracks are physical release only, hence the shorted tracklisting on Bandcamp. Here's the full list:https://www.stereogum.com/2191246/stereolab-robot-riot-switched-on-5-compilation/music/
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 24 June 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
Slightly disappointing that SHM is apparently a needle drop.
I don't think the version NWW has been selling is. It's a little shorter because it doesn't play out the locked groove.
Maybe they wanted to make a 24 bit transfer and the original digital was just 16 bit. Still pointless from vinyl if you ask me.
― Noel Emits, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
Ahh...if that's the case, maybe the point of doing that was to document the locked groove version, since the shorter version is already available from NWW. I'm actually glad they did it this way! I never shelled out the import $$ for the original, but have "Simple Headphone Mind" on NWW's "The Swinging Reflective". Def. looking forward to finally owning "Trippin' with the Birds" and the "Low Fi" EP...Does anyone remember the early MP3 blog "Discover America"? I'm pretty sure that's how I heard "Simple Headphone Mind" for the first time.
― ernestp, Friday, 5 August 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link
Maybe, but it's just the little loop repeated for 10 seconds.
I think the track on The Swinging Refelctive is the second half TWTB rather than SHM. And NWW wants $10 for the two digital tracks!
― Noel Emits, Friday, 5 August 2022 09:02 (one year ago) link
You're right, I stand corrected - the track labeled "Simple Headphone Mind" on "The Swinging Reflective" is NOT "Simple Headphone Mind"! (Listening to it - I think it's the *first* half of "Trippin' with the Birds", with a fade-out.) Yeah - kinda wish now that they included both versions of SHM on the new collection, but oh well.
― ernestp, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 01:18 (one year ago) link
DC show sold out quick. I didn't act soon enough. Saw em years ago
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link
My copy of Pulse of the Early Brain arrived today, I think it is a significant step up from Electrically possessed, more focused, stronger material. It helps that it mostly covers 90s tracks rather than late 2000s. I'm very glad to finally have a vinyl version of Lo Fi.
Best of all, I'm seeing them perform on Friday!
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 22:57 (one year ago) link
So are ABC Music and Oscillons From the Anti-Sun the last things of note that haven’t been rounded up with this series?
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 02:22 (one year ago) link
^^^ both great!
― sleeve, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 02:24 (one year ago) link
Kinda weird Oscillons wasn’t a Switched On.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 02:43 (one year ago) link
It is a little weird, I guess it's because it's a collection of CD maxi singles? I don't really know what else sets it apart.
Don't know if there was ever a 12" vinyl version of Fab Four Suture or if there is any need to do deluxe editions of Chemical Chords or Not Music.
Honestly what I really want is for them to record some new music.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 03:00 (one year ago) link
ABC and Oscillons are already compilations, so anthologising them would be ... weird? meta? redundant?
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 03:28 (one year ago) link
Yeah I was going to say, they don’t need to be compiled?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 03:32 (one year ago) link
They haven't had fancy vinyl editions as part of this new reissue campaign is all I was saying.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 03:48 (one year ago) link
Right, and why is it that Oscillons is not considered part of the Switched On series?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 03:51 (one year ago) link
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 12:07 (one year ago) link
I guess Oscillons isn’t a Switched On because they’re singles from albums. The Switched Ons compile non album EPs and rarities.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 12:12 (one year ago) link
or at least because it includes album tracks - since Fluorescences is a non album EP and contradicts what I said.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 12:14 (one year ago) link
Sorry if we’ve covered this way up thread, but … do the band members like each other enough at this point to do anything beyond tour?
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 13:11 (one year ago) link
Touring pays more than new music maybe?
― I am using your worlds, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
I guess they could have included Oscillations tracks in the deluxe reissues of Mars, Emperor, and Dots. How are those demos on the bonus discs?
― brimstead, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
I really love the inclusion of the demo tracks, it's very cool to hear their process, and many of them just sound nice as chill versions of their songs. The bulk of them are just Tim on guitar and Laetitia singing.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
yeah they are great
― sleeve, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link