The future of Stereolab

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

Switched On Volume 5 to be announced later this week.

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 compilation
2. High Expectations (demo)
3. The Seeming And The Meaning (demo) - these 2 from the Spacewatch flexi
4. I'm Going Out Of My Way (WHFS session) - from "Inside Dave's Garage" split single
5. The Extension Trip (radio session)
6. The Eclipse
7. Jenny Ondioline (live) - Upsapalooza comp
8. Cadriopo (full version)- from Fugu split single
9. Persolator (live) - Phoenix: The Album comp
10. Endless Summer (as Microlab) - from "Microstonia - Reprovisers" compilation
11. St. Elmo's Fire (radio)
12. Less Time
13. 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 Ui
17. Miss Modular (Automator mix)
18. Contranatura (Prelude To The Autumn Of A Faun mix by Kid Loco) - these 3 from "Miss Modular Remixes" EP
19. Rainbo Conversation (Russel Simins mix) - from the "Miss Modular" US promo
20. Chinese Whispers (Stereolab mix) - from "Chinese Whispers" compilation
21. Untitled / 008 - from Thurston Moore's "Root" compilation
22. Cache Cache (Monade) - from collaboration with Brigitte Fontaine
23. Ticker Tape Of The Unconscious (Thievery Corporation remix) - from Thievery Corporation's "Abductions & Reconstructions" compilation
24. Brain Drain - from "Collaborations 2: Constant Friction" compilation
25. Négatités - from "Yeti 1" compilation
26. 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 comp
31. Neon Beanbag (Atlas Sound Southern Baptist remix) - Not Music JP bonus track

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.

“Robot riot” released for the first time today but not seeing it on the upcoming comp tracklist upthread?

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/

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.

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.

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!

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.

DC show sold out quick. I didn't act soon enough. Saw em years ago

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!

So are ABC Music and Oscillons From the Anti-Sun the last things of note that haven’t been rounded up with this series?

^^^ both great!

Kinda weird Oscillons wasn’t a Switched On.

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.

ABC and Oscillons are already compilations, so anthologising them would be ... weird? meta? redundant?

Yeah I was going to say, they don’t need to be compiled?

They haven't had fancy vinyl editions as part of this new reissue campaign is all I was saying.

Right, and why is it that Oscillons is not considered part of the Switched On series?

They haven't had fancy vinyl editions as part of this new reissue campaign is all I was saying.

I guess Oscillons isn’t a Switched On because they’re singles from albums. The Switched Ons compile non album EPs and rarities.

or at least because it includes album tracks - since Fluorescences is a non album EP and contradicts what I said.

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?

Touring pays more than new music maybe?

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?

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.

yeah they are great

Seeing Stereolab next week. Excited.

omg whyyyy are the download cards for Vol 5 MP3-only?

it's been so incredibly confusing, some reissues are lossless and some are MP3, with seemingly no rhyme or reason as to which releases are which

(just picked it up at my local store, it's a real treat to hear SHM in full sound quality)

heh, I've had it since release

I couldn't find it at the time, which was very annoying to me as a huge NWW fan! Then every time I saw it after that I balked at the price rise, now of course it goes for way more

this remastered Low Fi sounds absolutely fabulous btw

oh great, I bought the digital version of vol 5 because shipping insanity, which doesn't include the Low Fi tracks for some rights-related issue (also omits the Ronco Symphony demo)

There's not a single music shop in my city that stocks new CDs anymore, so had to buy the CD via Bandcamp, then felt ethically OK with dowbloading someone's CD rip while I wait, in order to get all the tracks.

lol I own like four copies of Low-Fi now, I am having trouble feeling bad about downloading FLACs from slsk of it

same, and the remaster is frankly incredible

almost as if the original was ... never mind

Lol

There's not a single music shop in my city that stocks new CDs anymore, so had to buy the CD via Bandcamp, then felt ethically OK with dowbloading someone's CD rip while I wait, in order to get all the tracks.

you do, but sometimes the download doesn't match what's on the CD... in this case, Low-Fi tracks aren't available for download for licensing reasons. sometimes you get more though!

Yeah I niticed thatthre LoFi tracks aren't on streaming either.

But they are - available for streaming and download, that is (in UK at least). You just have to look for them separately, as Too Pure owns the rights. And obv you have to pay extra if you want to download these. I grabbed the Low Fi 2022 remaster from iTunes.

Spotify:
Low Fi - https://open.spotify.com/album/1lbjk75NdneaLDToYhwNT1?si=zhXy3WTbR4-XRX82uvK7kw

Ronco Symphony (demo) - https://open.spotify.com/track/6hj4txJ2xpzw7mtolzq2yx?si=939bebecf03d478b

the Godz cover on here ("ABC") absolutely slays, never heard it before

Yeah that was a cool tribute comp.

Lovely set here in SF tonight; a good complement to the 2019 reunion show. When your set ends with “Pack Yr Romantic Mind” and “Super Electric”…

'Mountain' was a highlight, too. wow!

so many songs I thought I'd never hear them play

2019 felt like a greatest hits tour, I'm very glad this was something different. All those oldies like Lo-Fi, Mountain, and Harmonium were just incredible.