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Stereolab

Instant Holograms On Metal Film

    'Instant Holograms On Metal Film' is the first Stereolab album in 15 years, featuring 13 new studio recordings. Played by Laetitia Sadier, Tim Gane, Andy Ramsay, Joe Watson and Xavi Muñoz, with contributions from Cooper Crain and Rob Frye of Bitchin Bajas, Ben LaMar Gay (composer/jazz multi instrumentalist), Holger Zapf (Cavern of Anti Matter), Marie Merlet (Monade) and Molly Read among others.

    STAFF COMMENTS

    Barry says: I'm obviously used to seeing Stereolab crop up on the reissue lists, but it's been FIFTEEN YEARS since a new album has hit, leaving 'Instant Holograms On Metal Film' a much needed new entry to their canon. Soaring 50's tropicalia, snappy jazz-adjacent electronics and woozy ghostlike vocals meet snappy disco grooves and rolling basslines. Further evidence, if any were needed that they're still one of the greatest acts to have dabbled in an oscillator.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Mystical Plosives
    2. Aerial Troubles
    3. Melodie Is A Wound
    4. Immortal Hands
    5. Vermona F Transistor
    6. Le Coeur Et La Force
    7. Electrified Teenybop!
    8. Transmuted Matter
    9. Esemplastic Creeping Eruption
    10. If You Remember I Forgot How To Dream Pt.1
    11. Flashes From Everywhere
    12. Colour Television
    13. If You Remember I Forgot How To Dream Pt. 2

    Stereolab

    Emperor Tomato Ketchup - 2025 Reissue

      Stereolab’s fourth full-length, Emperor Tomato Ketchup marked the point where the band evolved from a purely underground phenomenon to an important pop group capable of selling albums while keeping their hipness and integrity intact. At the time of its release, it was simultaneously their most experimental and most accessible release, with the deliberate raw textures of earlier works replaced by a more polished vibe. The album was also their greatest success to date both commercially and critically, and remains a consensus favorite even now.

      Continuing to mine the music of the ’60s and early ’70s, Stereolab employs Farfisas and Moogs, melodies from Bacharach and Hardy, soft-rock, bubblegum, dub and hip-hop sounds to augment their core influences of krautrock, punk, jazz and space rock. Odd time-signatures and deft layering techniques are more crucial to the arrangements, and the grooves on tracks like “Metronomic Underground” and “Les Yper-Sound” add a level of funk to the mix, while the album also includes clear and catchy pop songs like “Cybele’s Reverie” and “The Noise of Carpet.” Emperor Tomato Ketchup brings many elements to the table, but Stereolab puts them all together into a coherent vision. It’s hard to say if the album’s greatest accomplishment is making pop music palatable to experimental listeners or introducing pop listeners to the group’s experimental influences.

      Either way, it’s one of the most enjoyable and important albums of the ’90s. “Stereolab released countless singles, EPs, and full-lengths during the 1990s, but Emperor Tomato Ketchup remains their most definitive and recommended statement. For a group that reveled in resurrecting Continental obscurity, from Neu! to Krzysztof Komeda, Emperor Tomato Ketchup sounded wholly futuristic and alien.” —Pitchfork

      This new edition utilises the same remasters as the 2019 expanded album edition, cut from the original 1/2" tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and overseen by Tim Gane, but without any of the bonus material from the 3LP version.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Metronomic Underground
      2. Cybele’s Reverie
      3. Percolator
      4. Les Yper Sound
      5. Spark Plug
      6. OLV 26
      7. The Noise Of Carpet
      8. Tomorrow Is Already Here
      9. Emperor Tomato Ketchup
      10. Monstre Sacre
      11. Motoroller Scalatron
      12. Slow Fast Hazel
      13. Anonymous Collective

      Stereolab

      Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night - 2025 Reissue

        On February 28, 2025, Stereolab are making seven of their studio albums available again as 2LP editions. These utilise the same remasters as the 2019 expanded album editions, cut from the original 1/2" tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and overseen by Tim Gane, but without any of the bonus material from the 3LP versions (which have now been discontinued), the idea being to make more cost-effective versions of these sought-after titles available to fans and shops. Each record comes housed in a single 5mm printed sleeve with printed inner sleeves, and a protective PVC outer bag.



        TRACK LISTING

        1. Fuses
        2. People Do It All The Time
        3. The Free Design
        4. Blips Drips And Strips
        5. Italian Shoes Continuum
        6. Infinity Girl
        7. The Spiracles
        8. Op Hop Detonation
        9. Puncture In The Radax Permutation
        10. Velvet Water
        11. Blue Milk
        12. Caleidoscopic Gaze
        13. Strobo Acceleration
        14. The Emergency Kisses
        15. Come And Play In The Milky Night

        Stereolab

        Sound-Dust - 2025 Reissue

          Recorded in Chicago with John Mcentire and Jim O'Rourke on production duties."Sound-Dust" has it's darker and more impressionistic side but this is a more approachable and upbeat sound that shifts back towards the warmer tones and melodic textures of "Dots And Loops", and "Emperor Tomato Ketchup".

          This new edition utilises the same remasters as the 2019 expanded album edition, cut from the original 1/2" tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and overseen by Tim Gane, but without any of the bonus material from the 3LP version.

          TRACK LISTING

          1. Black Ants In Sound-Dust
          2. Space Moth
          3. Captain Easychord
          4. Baby Lulu
          5. The Black Arts
          6. Hallucinex
          7. Double Rocker
          8. Gus The Mynah Bird
          9. Naught More Terrific Than Man
          10. Nothing To Do With Me
          11. Suggestion Diabolique
          12. Les Bons Bons Des Raisons

          Stereolab

          Margerine Eclipse - 2025 Reissue

            Stereolab's music is so consistent, and so consistently pretty, that it has become nearly criticism-proof; the band do what they do so completely that it's almost a matter of accepting or rejecting their music whole instead of analyzing it. But while Stereolab's mix of '50s and '60s lounge, vintage electronic music, and Krautrock may have crossed over into easy listening indie pop a few albums ago, they still can't be dismissed easily. Margerine Eclipse, the band's tenth full-length, can sound a bit like a collage of pieces from their nine other albums, but the overall effect is more retrospective than repetitive. It's arguably the most direct work Stereolab have done since Emperor Tomato Ketchup (and at just under 54 minutes, it's one of the shortest of their later albums) and it continues Sound-Dust's trend of gathering the sounds the band explored on their previous work and tweaking them slightly.

            This new edition utilises the same remasters as the 2019 expanded album edition, cut from the original 1/2" tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and overseen by Tim Gane, but without any of the bonus material from the 3LP version.

            TRACK LISTING

            1. Vonal Declosion
            2. Need To Be
            3. Sudden Stars
            4. Cosmic Country Noir
            5. La Demeure
            6. Margerine Rock
            7. The Man With 100 Cells
            8. Margerine Melodie
            9. Hillbilly Motobike
            10. Feel And Triple
            11. Bop Scotch
            12. Dear Marge

            Stereolab

            Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements - 2025 Reissue

              Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements is Stereolab’s breakthrough album, their major label debut, and one of the most innovative releases of the 1990s, a musical decade signified by breaking down artistic barriers. Originally released in August 1993, Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements builds on the promise of the band’s early releases Switched On and Peng! by expanding the scope of their highly distinctive mix of one-chord Krautrock grooves, distorted vintage keyboard noise and Euro-pop. Adding touches of ’50s and ’60s easy listening, exotica and space-age sounds as well as samba and French pop, Stereolab did more than any group in the modern rock era to expand the language of art music by incorporating styles left for dead by the serious rock community.

              Among the highlights is the fluid and lush opener “Tone Burst” with its layers of whirring analog synths, trance-inducing rhythm guitar and balanced motorik beat. The closing track, “Lock-Groove Lullaby” inverts those same elements to bring the album full-circle. Songs like “Analogue Rock,” “Our Trinitone Blast” and “Pack Yr Romantic Mind” experiment with more complex and adventurous structures. However, “Jenny Ondioline” is still the head-turner: a hypnotic, 18-minute-long tower of a song that checks all of the boxes for what the band had done up to then and points at everything they would do moving forward. Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements remains

              Stereolab’s most eclectic and experimental early release and also hints at the evolution that lead them to indie-rock stardom.

              This new edition utilises the same remasters as the 2019 expanded album edition, cut from the original 1/2" tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and overseen by Tim Gane, but without any of the bonus material from the 3LP version.

              TRACK LISTING

              1. Tone Burst
              2. Our Trinitone Blast
              3. Pack Yr Romantic Mind
              4. I’m Going Out Of My Way
              5. Golden Ball
              6. Pause
              7. Jenny Ondioline
              8. Analogue Rock
              9. Crest
              10. Lock-Groove Lullaby

              Stereolab

              Mars Audiac Quintet - 2025 Reissue

                Mars Audiac Quintet saw Stereolab beginning to shed their experimental tendencies in favor of a post-modern space-age pop. The album exudes a sophisticated cool and catchiness that helped them gain new fans while straddling the line between their experimental-rock brethren and the ascending class of premillennial British pop. It’s also the album that put them on the A-list of underground rock bands. Arguably the band’s most accessible album, Mars Audiac

                Quintet not only features gentler textures than any of its predecessors, but also more upbeat and hooky songs such as “Ping Pong” (the first Stereolab song to receive widespread video and alt radio airplay) and “L’Enfer Des Formes,” not to mention groove-dominated tracks like “Outer Accelerator” and “Transona Five.” The album is layered with a sensual and beguiling vibe, bringing the allure of lead vocalist Laetitia Sadier to the forefront. The hints of exotica and lounge music on Transient Random-Noise Burst With Announcements are now fully explored on the mellow, marimba-driven album closer “Fiery Yellow” (featuring major contributions from The High Llamas’ Sean O’Hagan). The bubblegum pop of “Wow and Flutter” exhibits the earliest example of the band’s Krautrock stylings being overpowered by an ingratiating melody. Mars Audiac Quintet is one of Stereolab’s most complete attempts at bridging experimental rock and retro-pop. Future releases were at times more cerebral or more poppy, but rarely again were the two simultaneously so perfectly realized.

                This new edition utilises the same remasters as the 2019 expanded album edition, cut from the original 1/2" tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and overseen by Tim Gane, but without any of the bonus material from the 3LP version.



                TRACK LISTING

                1. Three-Dee Melodie
                2. Wow And Flutter
                3. Transona Five
                4. Des Etoiles Electroniques
                5. Ping Pong
                6. Anamorphose
                7. Three Longers Later
                8. Nihilist Assault Group
                9. International Colouring Contest
                10. The Stars Our Destination
                11. Transporte Sans Bouger
                12. L’Enfer Des Formes
                13. Outer Accelerator
                14. New Orthophony
                15. Fiery Yellow

                Stereolab

                Dots And Loops - 2025 Reissue

                  Dots and Loops is Stereolab’s fifth studio album and the first to completely ditch the motorik drone that had been a trademark since their inception; predominated by lush lounge and jazz textures, it showcases the band’s most complex set of rhythms yet. Stereolab is aided by members of The High Llamas (like-minded travelers in the production of whimsical ’60s sounds), Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma of Mouse on Mars, and John McEntire of post-rock pioneers Tortoise.

                  The album was recorded in Chicago and Düsseldorf and bridges a unique American-Euro influence. The new rhythmic approach separates Dots and Loops from the band’s previous output, as does a Beach Boys influence which adds to the band’s standard brand. Bossa Nova and ’60s Euro pop are still major touchstones and give the album a deceptively light vibe; however, further listens reveal an elaborate work, with almost every track featuring odd time-signatures and more complicated and layered arrangements.

                  “Parsec” is space-rock meets drum and bass; “Brakhage” marries a minor key bass line to clinking vibes and a shuffling beat; the segmented, 20-minute “Refractions in the Plastic Pulse” is sunny and appealing, yet intricately constructed.

                  The dividing line between the band’s first phase and what would be its more experimental latter period, Dots and Loops is the type of album that reveals its charms over many listens and is the one Stereolab aficionados point to as the band’s best work.

                  This new edition utilises the same remasters as the 2019 expanded album edition, cut from the original 1/2" tapes by Bo Kondren at Calyx Mastering and overseen by Tim Gane, but without any of the bonus material from the 3LP version.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  1. Brakhage
                  2. Miss Modular
                  3. The Flower Called Nowhere
                  4. Diagonals
                  5. Prisoner Of Mars
                  6. Rainbo Conversation
                  7. Refractions In The Plastic Pulse
                  8. Parsec
                  9. Ticker-tape Of The Unconscious
                  10. Contronatura 

                  Stereolab

                  Aluminum Tunes [Switched On Volume 3] - 2023 Reissue

                    Black vinyl version of the remastered compilation of Stereolab singles and rarities first issued in 1998.

                    Screen printed gatefold sleeve.

                    TRACK LISTING

                    1. Pop Quiz
                    2. The Extension Trip
                    3. How To Play Your Internal Organs Overnight
                    4. The Brush Descends The Length
                    5. Melochord Seventy-Five
                    6. Space Moment
                    7. Iron Man
                    8. The Long Hair Of Death
                    9. You Used To Call Me Sadness
                    10. New Orthophony
                    11. Speedy Car
                    12. Golden Atoms
                    13. Ulan Bator
                    14. One Small Step
                    15. One Note Samba / Surfboard
                    16. Cadriopo
                    17. Klang Tone
                    18. Get Carter
                    19. 1000 Miles An Hour
                    20. Percolations
                    21. Seeperbold
                    22. Check And Double Check
                    23. Munich Madness
                    24. Metronomic Underground (Wagon Christ Mix)
                    25. The Incredible He Woman

                    Stereolab

                    Pulse Of The Early Brain (Switched On Volume 5)

                      Stereolab announce the fifth in their ‘Switched On’ series of compilation albums, ‘Pulse Of The Early Brain [Switched On Volume 5]’ with the track ‘Robot Riot’.

                      ‘Robot Riot was originally written for a sculpture made by Charles Long - an artist that Stereolab had previously collaborated with on 1995s ‘Music For The Amorphous Body Study Center’ project.

                      Track info:
                      Simple Headphone Mind’ b/w ‘Trippin’ With The Birds’ was the second collaboration between Nurse With Wound and Stereolab.
                      A 12” disk released on yellow vinyl [1000 copies] and black vinyl [4996 copies] The sleeve was made from a 'Mylar style’, aluminium coloured, material that was glued and sealed – each purchaser had to open the sleeve to discover which colour vinyl they had bought.
                      The CDs were also released in a sealed sleeve.
                      Originally released 28th April 1997 via Duophonic Super 45s. Catalogue numbers DS33-11 / DS45CD-11.

                      The ‘Low Fi’ EP - ‘Low Fi’, ‘[Varoom!]’, ‘Laisser-Faire’ and ‘Elektro [he held the world in his iron grip]’ was originally released as a limited edition clear vinyl 10” [approx 500 copies], black vinyl 10” and CD.
                      Released 28th September 1992 by Too Pure. Catalogue numbers Pure 14 / Pure CD14.

                      ‘Robot Riot’ and ‘Unity Purity Occasional’ were both written for sculptures made by Charles Long - an artist that we had previously collaborated with on the ‘Music For The Amorphous Body Study Center’ project. ‘Unity Purity Occasional’ was used in 2000 for Charles' sculpture of the same name -
                      "Unity Purity Occasional is a sculpture with six hand-blown, tear-shaped glass cups filled with antibacterial hand gel that the visitor can pump out and disinfect their hands with. The song is channeled through three tubes that simultaneously blow the visitors’ hands dry with warm jets of air." [Text by Niki Kralli Anell].
                      ‘Robot Riot’ is previously unreleased.

                      ‘Spool of Collusion’ and ‘Forensic Itch’ were originally released on August 18th 2008 as a black vinyl 7” that was given away with the initial pressing [5000 copies] of the ‘Chemical Chords’ LP. Released via Duophonic UHF Disks / 4AD. Catalogue number AD2820.
                      ‘Spool of Collusion’ was also added, as a bonus track, to the Japanese CD release of ‘Chemical Chords’.

                      ‘Symbolic Logic Of Now!’ was one side of a split 7” with Soi-Disant. 100 copies on blue vinyl and 2000 copies on black vinyl.
                      Originally released in 1998 by Luke Warm Music. Catalogue number LWM001.

                      ‘Ronco Symphony’ [Demo] – a demo version of the track from 1993’s 'The Groop Played "Space Age Batchelor Pad Music"’ album. Previously unreleased.

                      A cover of the track ‘ABC’ by The Multitude from The Godz album ‘The Third Testament’. The track was originally recorded for a Godz tribute album called ‘Godz Is Not A Put On’ and released in an edition of 500 copies by Lissy’s Records in 1996.
                      The track was later released as one side of a yellow glitter 7” that was part of an exclusive Japanese box set edition of ‘Aluminum Tunes [Switched On Volume 3]’.
                      Yellow glitter 7” – approximately 3000 copies. Catalogue number D-UHF-D21.

                      ‘Magne-Music’ and ‘The Nth Degrees’ were added as bonus tracks to the UK limited edition CD of ‘Chemical Chords’ released 18th August 2008 via Duophonic UHF Disks / 4AD. Catalogue number CADD2815CD.
                      Both tracks also appear on the Japanese edition of ‘Chemical Chords’.

                      ‘Blaue Milch’ was recorded for a Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra compilation album – each artist on the album was sent a Peter Thomas audio track and was asked to build it into a new track.
                      Originally released in 1998 by the Bungalow record label. Catalogue number Bung 048.2.

                      The original recording of ‘Plastic Mile’. The re-recording was released as a 7” b/w ‘I Was A Sunny Rainphase’ and subsequently compiled onto Stereolab’s ‘Fab Four Suture’ album.
                      Previously unreleased.

                      ‘Yes Sir! I Can Moogie’ was originally released in 1995 as part of a single sided 3 track 7” flexi-disk via Wurlitzer Jukebox. Catalogue number WJ03 - 1000 copies were pressed.

                      ‘Refractions In The Plastic Pulse’, a track from the ‘Dots And Loops’ album remixed by Autechre.
                      A 12” disk released on 20th April 1998 via Duophonic UHF Disks. Catalogue number D-UHF-D19. 500 copies pressed on translucent yellow vinyl and 2972 copies on black vinyl.

                      ‘XXXOOO’ was originally released in 1992 as part of a single sided 3 track 7” flexi-disk via the Encore! label. The flexi-disk was given away with edition #6 of the 'Tea Time' fanzine. Catalogue number Encore 001.

                      A live version of the ‘Emperor Tomato Ketchup’ album track ‘Cybele's Reverie’. Recorded 26th September 2004 when Stereolab supported Air at The Hollywood Bowl, CA. USA.
                      Previously unreleased.

                      TRACK LISTING

                      Vinyl Tracklisting:
                      A1. Stereolab / Nurse With Wound - Simple Headphone Mind
                      B1. Stereolab / Nurse With Wound - Trippin' With The Birds
                      C1. Low Fi
                      C2. [Varoom!]
                      C3. Laisser-Faire
                      D1 - Elektro [he Held The World In His Iron Grip]
                      D2 - Robot Riot
                      D3 - Spool Of Collusion
                      D4 - Symbolic Logic Of Now!
                      D5 - Forensic Itch
                      D6 - Ronco Symphony [Demo]
                      E1. ABC
                      E2. Magne-Music
                      E3. Blaue Milch
                      E4. Yes Sir! I Can Moogie
                      E5. Plastic Mile [Original Version]
                      F1. Refractions In The Plastic Pulse [Feebate Mix] - Autechre Remix
                      F2. Unity Purity Occasional
                      F3. The Nth Degrees
                      F4. XXXOOO
                      F5. Cybele’s Reverie [Live At The Hollywood Bowl]

                      CD Tracklisting:
                      Disc 1
                      01. Stereolab / Nurse With Wound - Simple Headphone Mind
                      02. Stereolab / Nurse With Wound - Trippin' With The Birds
                      03. Low Fi
                      04. [Varoom!]
                      05. Laisser-Faire
                      06. Elektro [he Held The World In His Iron Grip]
                      Disc 2
                      01. Robot Riot
                      02. Spool Of Collusion
                      03. Symbolic Logic Of Now!
                      04. Forensic Itch
                      05. Ronco Symphony [Demo]
                      06. ABC
                      07. Magne-Music
                      08. Blaue Milch
                      09. Yes Sir! I Can Moogie
                      10. Plastic Mile [Original Version]
                      11. Refractions In The Plastic Pulse [Feebate Mix] - Autechre Remix
                      12. Unity Purity Occasional
                      13. The Nth Degrees
                      14. XXXOOO
                      15. Cybele’s Reverie [Live At The Hollywood Bowl]

                      Stereolab

                      Electrically Possessed (Switched On Volume 4)

                        The fourth in the Switched On series that compiles non-album tracks and sought after deep cuts by the groop. Following on from the first volume released in 1992, 1995's Refried Ectoplasm, and 1998's Aluminum Tunes, the long-awaited fourth installment spans 1999 - 2008 in the Stereolab story and collates 3 LPs worth of material, all remastered from the original tapes and overseen by the band. It features all the tracks from out-of-print and sought after mini-album The First Of The Microbe Hunters, one-off and impossible to find tour 7"s, compilation tracks, art installation work and a couple of unreleased outtakes from the Mars Audiac Quintet and Dots and Loops recording sessions

                        STAFF COMMENTS

                        Barry says: There are few bands more revered in electronic circles than Stereolab and this collection of brilliantly eccentric but unmistakeably deep 'rarities' compilations (I hate that term, but you know the sort), the FOURTH collection in fact being every bit as amazing as the first makes me wonder how many more there are, and when I can buy them.

                        TRACK LISTING

                        Vinyl Tracklist
                        A1 - Outer Bongolia*
                        A2 - Intervals*
                        B1 - Barock-Plastic*
                        B2 - Nomus Et Phusis*
                        B3 - I Feel The Air {Of Another Planet}*
                        C1 - Household Names*
                        C2 - Retrograde Mirror Form*
                        C3 - Solar Throw-Away [Original Version] +
                        C4 - Pandora's Box Of Worms =
                        C5 - L'exotisme Interieur ^
                        D1 - The Super-It @
                        D2 - Jump Drive Shut-Out +
                        D3 - Explosante Fixe ^
                        D4 - Fried Monkey Eggs [Instrumental Version]@
                        D5 - Monkey Jelly @
                        D6 - B.U.A **
                        E1 - Free Witch And No Bra Queen ^^
                        E2 - Heavy Denim Loop Pt 2 =
                        E3 - Variation One %
                        E4 - Monkey Jelly [Beats]@
                        E5 - Dimension M2 ***
                        F1 - Solar Throw-Away +
                        F2 - Calimero ++
                        F3 - Fried Monkey Eggs [Vocal] @
                        F4 - Speck Voice ^

                        CD Tracklist
                        DISK 1
                        01 - Outer Bongolia*
                        02 - Intervals*
                        03 - Barock-Plastic*
                        04 - Nomus Et Phusis*
                        05 - I Feel The Air {Of Another Planet}*
                        06 - Household Names*
                        07 - Retrograde Mirror Form*
                        08 - Solar Throw-Away [Original Version] +
                        09 - Pandora's Box Of Worms =
                        10 - L'exotisme Interieur ^
                        DISK 2
                        01 - The Super-It @
                        02 - Jump Drive Shut-Out +
                        03 - Explosante Fixe ^
                        04 - Fried Monkey Eggs [Instrumental Version]@
                        05 - Monkey Jelly @
                        06 - B.U.A **
                        07 - Free Witch And No Bra Queen ^^
                        08 - Heavy Denim Loop Pt 2 =
                        09 - Variation One %
                        10 - Monkey Jelly [Beats]@
                        11 - Dimension M2 ***
                        12 - Solar Throw-Away +
                        13 - Calimero ++
                        14 - Fried Monkey Eggs [Vocal] @
                        15 - Speck Voice ^^

                        Track Source Guide:
                        * Tracks
                        Originally Released As The First Of The Microbe Hunters 29th May 2000 On Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks, Catalogue
                        Number D-UHF-D25 As Double Vinyl [6500 Copies Pressed] And CD [12,000 Copies Pressed] Editions.
                        + Tracks
                        Jump Drive Shut-Out And Solar Throwaway Were Originally Released 10th April 2006 As A 7" Tour Single Via Duophonic Super 45s.
                        Catalogue Number DS-4538. 3600 Copies Were Pressed.
                        Solar Throw-Away (Original Version) Was Unreleased At The Time.
                        ^ Tracks
                        Explosante Fixe And L'exotisme Interieur Were Originally Released September 2008 As A 7" Tour Single Via Duophonic Super 45s.
                        Catalogue Number DS45-43. 2000 Copies Were Pressed.
                        @ Tracks
                        The Underground Is Coming 7" EP Included The Super -It, Fried Monkey Eggs [Instrumental], Fried Monkey Eggs [Vocal] And
                        Monkey Jelly, It Was Originally Released As A 7" Tour Single Via Duophonic UHF Disks And Cut At 33rpm. Catalogue Number
                        D-UHF-D24.
                        Monkey Jelly [Beats] Was Unreleased At The Time.
                        ** Track
                        B.U.A Was Written For A Further Collaboration With Charles Long [Stereolab Had Previously Worked With Him On Music For The
                        Amorphous Body Study Center In 1995].
                        The Artwork Is Called B.U.A [Burnt Umber Assembly] : An Entanglement Of Wholes [1998].
                        B.U.A Is Previously Unreleased.
                        ^^ Tracks
                        Free Witch And No-Bra Queen And Speck-Voice Were Originally Released 31st August 2001 As A 7" Tour Single Via Duophonic Super
                        45s. Catalogue Number DS45-30. 2000 Copies Were Pressed.
                        % Track
                        Variation One Was Written For A Film Soundtrack And Compilation CD For "Moog", A Documentary About Robert Moog. Originally
                        Released 14th September 2004 Via Hollywood Records.
                        *** Track
                        Dimension M2 Was Written For The Disko Cabine CD Compilation, Released In June 2005.
                        ++ Track
                        Calimero Was Originally Released July 1999 Via Duophonic Super 45s. Catalogue Number DS45-25. A Collaborative 7" Release
                        Between Brigitte Fontaine And Stereolab. The B Side Was Cache Cache By Monade.
                        A Total Of 4100 Vinyl Copies Were Pressed [1800 On White Vinyl And 2300 On Black Vinyl], There Was Also A CD Edition Of 7076 Copies.
                        = Track
                        Pandora's Box Of Worms - An Unreleased Outtake From The Dots And Loops Album Sessions.
                        Heavy Denim Loop Pt. 2 - Any Unreleased Outtake From The Mars Audiac Quintet Album Sessions.

                        Stereolab

                        Sound Dust (Expanded Edition)

                          While the two years between Dots and Loops and Cobra resulted in stagnation, the two years separating Cobra and Sound-Dust find Stereolab deliberately recharging their creative juices, delving deeper into avant-garde composition and '60s swing pop in equal measures. As the album opens with the minimal "Black Ants in Sound-Dust," it's evident that the group has restructured and pushed forward, even if it means that they're adhering to their time-honored tradition of expanding their trademark sound with new arrangements and influences.

                          Remastered from original tapes with bonus disc of out-of-print tracks from the album sessions. Co-released by band’s own label Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records.

                          TRACK LISTING

                          Vinyl
                          A1. Black Ants In Sound-Dust
                          A2. Space Moth
                          A3. Captain Easychord
                          B1. Baby Lulu
                          B2. The Black Arts
                          B3. Hallucinex
                          C1. Double Rocker
                          C2. Gus The Mynah Bird
                          C3. Naught More Terrific Than Man
                          D1. Nothing To Do With Me
                          D2. Suggestion Diabolique
                          D3. Les Bons Bons Des Raisons
                          E1. Black Ants Demo
                          E2. Spacemoth Intro Demo
                          E3. Spacemoth Demo
                          E4. Baby Lulu Demo
                          E5. Hallucinex Pt 1 Demo
                          E6. Hallucinex Pt 2 Demo
                          E7. Long Live Love Demo
                          E8. Les Bon Bons Des Raisons Demo

                          Side F Has Is Etched With The Album Artwork And Contains No Audio

                          CD
                          Disc 1
                          01. Black Ants In Sound-Dust
                          02. Space Moth
                          03. Captain Easychord
                          04. Baby Lulu
                          05. The Black Arts
                          06. Hallucinex
                          07. Double Rocker
                          08. Gus The Mynah Bird
                          09. Naught More Terrific Than Man
                          10. Nothing To Do With Me
                          11. Suggestion Diabolique
                          12. Les Bons Bons Des Raisons

                          Disc 2
                          01. Black Ants Demo
                          02. Spacemoth Intro Demo
                          03. Spacemoth Demo
                          04. Baby Lulu Demo
                          05. Hallucinex Pt 1 Demo
                          06. Hallucinex Pt 2 Demo
                          07. Long Live Love Demo
                          08. Les Bon Bons Des Raisons Demo

                          Stereolab

                          Margerine Eclipse (Expanded Edition)

                            Stereolab's music is so consistent, and so consistently pretty, that it has become nearly criticism-proof; the band do what they do so completely that it's almost a matter of accepting or rejecting their music whole instead of analyzing it. But while Stereolab's mix of '50s and '60s lounge, vintage electronic music, and Krautrock may have crossed over into easy listening indie pop a few albums ago, they still can't be dismissed easily. Margerine Eclipse, the band's tenth full-length, can sound a bit like a collage of pieces from their nine other albums, but the overall effect is more retrospective than repetitive. It's arguably the most direct work Stereolab have done since Emperor Tomato Ketchup (and at just under 54 minutes, it's one of the shortest of their later albums) and it continues Sound-Dust's trend of gathering the sounds the band explored on their previous work and tweaking them slightly.

                            Remastered from original tapes with bonus disc of out-of-print tracks from the album sessions. Co-released by band’s own label Duophonic UHF Disks and Warp Records.


                            TRACK LISTING

                            Vinyl
                            A1. Vonal Declosion
                            A2. Need To Be
                            A3. Sudden Stars
                            B1. Cosmic Country Noir
                            B2. La Demeure
                            B3. Margerine Rock
                            C1. The Man With 100 Cells
                            C2. Margerine Melodie
                            C3. Hillbilly Motorbike
                            D1. Feel And Triple
                            D2. Bop Scotch
                            D3. Dear Marge
                            E1. Mass Riff
                            E2. Good Is Me
                            E3. Microclimate
                            E4. Mass Riff Instrumental
                            F1. Jaunty Monty And The Bubbles Of Silence
                            F2. Banana Monster Ne Répond Plus
                            F3. University Microfilms International
                            F4. Rose, My Rocket-Brain! (Rose, Le Cerveau Electronique De Ma Fusée!)

                            CD 
                            Disc 1
                            01. Vonal Declosion
                            02. Need To Be
                            03. Sudden Stars
                            04. Cosmic Country Noir
                            05. La Demeure
                            06. Margerine Rock
                            07. The Man With 100 Cells
                            08. Margerine Melodie
                            09. Hillbilly Motorbike
                            10. Feel And Triple
                            11. Bop Scotch
                            12. Dear Marge

                            Disc 2
                            01. Mass Riff
                            02. Good Is Me
                            03. Microclimate
                            04. Mass Riff Instrumental
                            05. Jaunty Monty And The Bubbles Of Silence
                            06. Banana Monster Ne Répond Plus
                            07. University Microfilms International
                            08. Rose, My Rocket-Brain! (Rose, Le Cerveau Electronique De Ma Fusée!)

                            Stereolab

                            The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music

                               ‘The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music’ is an 8-track mini album, released in 1993.

                              Often noted as being one of the most influential and original bands of the 90s, Stereolab were formed by Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier in London in 1990 and released 13 studio albums, 15 EPs and numerous singles. Simon Reynolds commented in Rolling Stone that the group’s early records form “an endlessly seductive body of work that sounds always the same, always different.”

                              Theirs is a rich, overflowing palette, readily able to blur the gulf between Os Mutantes and the BBC Radiophonic Orchestra; merge Krzysztof Komeda with the Velvet Underground, Francoise Hardy with Neu! and Burt Bacharach with Esquivel. A deluxe blend, in other words, with ingredients plucked assiduously from pop’s coolest outposts: 50’s lounge, Rive Gauche chanson, Brazilian tropicalia, North American art rock, East European film music, Krautrock. hi-fi test recordings, mood music and more. Somehow they distil these apparently incongruent components into an ageless exotica that is all their own.

                              TRACK LISTING

                              Avant Garde M.O.R.
                              Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Mellow)
                              The Groop Play Chord X
                              Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Foamy)
                              Ronco Symphony
                              We're Not Adult Orientated
                              U.H.F. - MFP
                              We're Not Adult Orientated (Neu Wave Live)

                              Stereolab

                              Fab Four Suture

                                This album compiles tracks from their recent series of limited 7" releases. "Fab Four Suture" handily compiles each track from the 7" releases together on to one album and shows that they've lost none of their magic. It is yet another must-own record from one of the UK's most influential bands of the last decade.


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