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Stereolab

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To me, Stereolab are the perfect balance between pop and experimental. This is totally addictive music yet not always easy listening. Stereolab's roots go way back to the german krautrock scene of the late sixties and seventies; elements from groups like Faust and Neu! are obvious (some tracks border practically on plagiarism!), but are transposed to a pop environment.

It took me quite some time to actually start listening to this group. I knew of them, but back then I was listening mostly to Sebadoh, Sonic Youth or even Rachel's; Stereolab "sounded" way too pop for me... and I just hated the band's name. Realize however that I had not actually heard them at this point, this was just what I perceived them to be. All it took was a short car drive with a friend to change my mind however. I believe I was to be dropped off at work and he had Emperor Tomato Ketchup on the car stereo, I can actually pinpoint to you which song it was: Metronomic Underground. I was immediately hooked to the repetitive beats and pleasant female vocals and the build up in intensity is absolutely breath-taking. It wasn't long before I started purchasing everything I could get my hands on (including singles, which I rarely do!).

My obsession with Stereolab is strongly associated with my first times in Sweden to meet-up with my present wife. They weren't easy times, wasn't allowed to get a job for those six months there, couldn't speak the language, didn't know anyone and some hostility from particular persons in my wife's circle of friends, but Stereolab became an upbeat soundtrack to my life, pulling me out of the blues and helped me through it all. To this day they represent this part of my life and even though I did get rid of all of them (twenty odd CDs) when I moved to Sweden for good (for the second time) and that I don't necessarily listen to them as much as I used to, they will still hold a very special place in my life. I have recently purchased two Stereolab CD lots from eBay at a good price and this helped me refurbish that empty spot once again. More on the way.

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Album Cover Switched On Stereolab
Label: Slumberland Records/Too Pure
Release: 1992
Format: CD
Cat. no: SLUMBERLAND 22

Song list:

  1. Super-Electric (5:21)
  2. Doubt (3:25)
  3. Au Grand Jour' (3:28)
  4. The Way Will Be Opening (4:07)
  5. Brittle (3:47)
  6. Contact (8:17)
  7. Au Grand Jour (3:40)
  8. High Expectation (3:32)
  9. The Light That Will Cease To Fail (3:23)
  10. Changer (4:54)


Album Cover Peng!
Label: Too Pure
Release: 1992
Format: CD
Cat. no: PURE CD 11

Song list:

  1. Super Falling Star (3:16)
  2. Orgiastic (4:44)
  3. Peng! 33 (3:03)
  4. K-Stars (4:04)
  5. Perversion (5:01)
  6. You Little Shits (3:25)
  7. The Seeming And The Meaning (3:48)
  8. Mellotron (2:47)
  9. Enivrez-vous (3:51)
  10. Stomach Worm (6:35)
  11. Surrealchemist (7:13)


Album Cover The Groop Played Space Age Batchelor Pad Music
Label: Too Pure
Release: 1992
Format: CD
Cat. no: PURE CD 19

Song list:

  1. Avant Garde M.O.R. (4:09)
  2. Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Mellow) (1:44)
  3. The Groop Play Chord X (2:01)
  4. Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Foamy) (2:13)
  5. Ronco Symphony (3:35)
  6. We're Not Adult Oriented (6:07)
  7. U.H.F. - MFP (4:53)
  8. We're Not Adult Oriented (Neu Wave Live) (3:34)


Album Cover Low Fi
Label: Too Pure
Release: 1993
Format: CD
Cat. no: BTPCD014

Song list:

  1. Low Fi (5:23)
  2. (Varoom!) (9:02)
  3. Laisser-Faire (4:31)
  4. Elektro (5:45)


Album Cover Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements
Label: Elektra Records
Release: 1993
Format: CD
Cat. no: 9 61536-2

Song list:

  1. Tone Burst (5:35)
  2. Our Trinitone Blast (3:47)
  3. Pack Yr Romantic Mind (5:06)
  4. I'm Going Out Of My Way (3:25)
  5. Golden Ball (6:52)
  6. Pause (5:23)
  7. Jenny Ondioline (18:08)
  8. Analogue Rock (4:13)
  9. Crest (6:04)
  10. Lock-Groove Lullaby (3:38)


Album Cover Mars Audiac Quintet
Label: Elektra Records
Release: 1994
Format: CD
Cat. no: 61669-2

Song list:

  1. Three-Dee Melodie (5:02)
  2. Wow And Flutter (3:08)
  3. Transona Five (5:32)
  4. Des Étoiles Électroniques (3:19)
  5. Ping Pong (3:02)
  6. Anamorphose (7:33)
  7. Three Longers Later (3:28)
  8. Nihilist Assault Group (6:55)
  9. International Colouring Contest (3:47)
  10. The Stars Our Destination (2:58)
  11. Transporté Sans Bouger (4:20)
  12. L'Enfer Des Formes (3:53)
  13. Outer Accelerator (5:21)
  14. New Orthophony (4:34)
  15. Fiery Yellow (4:04)


Album Cover Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On Volume 2)
Label: Drag City
Release: 1995
Format: CD
Cat. no: DC82CD

Song list:

  1. Harmonium (5:55)
  2. Lo Boob Oscillator (6:36)
  3. Mountain (4:05)
  4. Revox (4:13)
  5. French Disko (3:35)
  6. Exploding Head Movie (4:48)
  7. Eloge D'Eros (3:52)
  8. Tone Burst [Country] (2:12)
  9. "Animal Or Vegetable [A Wonderful Wooden Reason...]" (13:32)
  10. John Cage Bubblegum (3:18)
  11. Sadistic (2:36)
  12. Farfisa (2:23)
  13. Tempter (5:52)


Album Cover Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Label: Elektra Records
Release: 1996
Format: CD
Cat. no: 61840-2

Song list:

  1. Metronomic Underground (7:54)
  2. Cybele's Reverie (4:42)
  3. Percolator (3:47)
  4. Les Yper-Sound (4:05)
  5. Spark Plug(2:29)
  6. OLV 26 (5:42)
  7. The Noise Of Carpet (3:05)
  8. Tomorrow Is Already Here (4:56)
  9. Emperor Tomato Ketchup (4:37)
  10. Monstre Sacre (3:44)
  11. Motoroller Scalatron (3:48)
  12. Slow Fast Hazel (3:53)
  13. Anonymous Collective (4:32)


Album Cover Dots And Loops
Label: Elektra Records
Release: 1997
Format: CD
Cat. no: 62065-2

Song list:

  1. Brakhage (5:30)
  2. Miss Modular (4:29)
  3. The Flower Called Nowhere (4:55)
  4. Diagonals (5:15)
  5. Prisoner Of Mars (4:03)
  6. Rainbo Conversation (4:46)
  7. Refractions In The Plastic Pulse (17:32)
  8. Parsec (5:34)
  9. Ticker-Tape Of The Unconscious (4:45)
  10. Contronatura (9:03)


Album Cover Miss Modular (Japanese Single)
Label: Elektra Records
Release: 1997
Format: CD-Single
Cat. no: AMCY-2501

Song list:

  1. Miss Modular (Single Version) (4:15)
  2. Miss Modular (Automator Mix) (4:14)
  3. Refractions In The Plastic Pulse (Feebate Mix) (7:58)
  4. Contronatura (prelude To The Autumn Of A Faun Mix) (5:26)


Album Cover Aluminum Tunes (Switched On Volume 3)
Label: Drag City
Release: 1998
Format: 2CD
Cat. no: DC159CD

Song list:

CD 1:
  1. Pop Quiz (4:22)
  2. The Extension Trip (3:43)
  3. How To Play Your Internal Organs Overnight (3:58)
  4. The Brush Descends The Length (3:08)
  5. Melochord Seventy-Five (3:39)
  6. Space Moment (4:20)
  7. Iron Man (3:27)
  8. The Long Hair Of Death (4:48)
  9. You Used To Call Me Sadness (4:00)
  10. New Orthophony (6:26)
  11. Speedy Car (5:00)
  12. Golden Atoms (5:18)
  13. Ulan Bator (3:14)
  14. One Small Step (5:00)
CD 2:
  1. One Note Samba/Surfboard (9:10)
  2. Cadriopo (3:09)
  3. Klang Tone (5:36)
  4. Get Carter (3:23)
  5. 1000 Miles An Hour (4:32)
  6. Percolations (3:22)
  7. Seeperbold (5:08)
  8. Check And Double Check (4:03)
  9. Munich Madness (3:48)
  10. Metronomic Underground (Wagon Christ Mix) (7:51)
  11. The Incredible He Woman (3:31)


Album Cover Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Twilight
Label: Elektra Records
Release: 1999
Format: CD
Cat. no: 62409-2

Song list:

  1. Fuses (3:40)
  2. People Do It All The Time (3:42)
  3. The Free Design (3:47)
  4. Blips Drips And Strips (4:28)
  5. Italian Shoes Continuum (4:36)
  6. Infinity Girl (3:56)
  7. The Spiracles (3:40)
  8. Op Hop Detonation (3:32)
  9. Puncture In The Radax Permutation (5:48)
  10. Velvet Water (4:24)
  11. Blue Milk (11:29)
  12. Caleidoscopic Gaze (8:09)
  13. Strobo Acceleration (3:55)
  14. The Emergency Kisses (5:53)
  15. Come And Play In The Milky Night (4:38)


Album Cover The First Of The Microbe Hunters
Label: Elektra Records
Release: 2000
Format: CD
Cat. no: 0062537

Song list:

  1. Outer Bongolia (9:28)
  2. Intervals (4:38)
  3. Barock - Plastik (3:00)
  4. Nomus Et Phusis (4:23)
  5. I Feel The Air (Of Another Planet) (8:13)
  6. Household Names (3:42)
  7. Retrograde Mirror Form (6:21)


Album Cover Sound-Dust
Label: Elektra Records
Release: 2001
Format: CD
Cat. no: 62676-2

Song list:

  1. Black Ants In Sound Dust (1:59)
  2. Space Moth (7:33)
  3. Captain Easychord (5:23)
  4. Baby Lulu (5:12)
  5. The Black Arts (5:11)
  6. Hallucinex (3:48)
  7. Double Rocker (5:31)
  8. Gus The Mynah Bird (6:07)
  9. Naught More Terrific Than Man (4:02)
  10. Nothing To Do With Me (3:35)
  11. Suggestion Diabolique (7:52)
  12. Les Bons Bons Des Raisons (6:43)


Album Cover ABC Music
Label: BBC/Strange Fruit
Release: 2002
Format: 2CD
Cat. no: SFRSCD111

Song list:

CD 1:
  1. Super Electric (4:50)
  2. Changer (4:13)
  3. Doubt (2:41)
  4. Difficult Fourth Title (Contact) (4:46)
  5. Laissez Faire (3:59)
  6. Revox (3:12)
  7. Peng 33 (2:57)
  8. John Cage Bubble Gum (2:56)
  9. Wow And Flutter (2:56)
  10. Anemie (4:42)
  11. Moogie Wonderland (2:32)
  12. Heavy Denim (3:12)
  13. French Disko (3:13)
  14. Wow And Flutter (2:58)
  15. Golden Ball (5:49)
  16. Lo Boob Oscillator (4:36)
  17. Untitled (Check And Double Check) (2:54)
  18. Working Title (The Pram Song) (Seeperbold) (4:16)
CD 2:
  1. International Colouring Contest (3:45)
  2. Anamorphose (7:31)
  3. Metronomic Underground (10:16)
  4. Brigitte (5:51)
  5. Spinal Column (3:32)
  6. Tomorrow Is Already Here (4:42)
  7. Les Yper Sound (6:02)
  8. Heavenly Van Halen (Pinball) (3:09)
  9. Cybele's Reverie (4:01)
  10. Slow Fast Hazel (4:09)
  11. Nothing To Do With Me (4:03)
  12. Double Rocker (5:34)
  13. Baby Lulu (5:04)
  14. Naught More Terrific Than Man (3:57)


Album Cover Margerine Eclipse
Label: Elektra Records
Release: 2004
Format: CD
Cat. no: 62926

Song list:

  1. Vonal Declosion (3:33)
  2. Need To Be (4:50)
  3. "...Sudden Stars" (4:41)
  4. Cosmic Country Noir (4:47)
  5. La Demeure (4:36)
  6. Margerine Rock (2:55)
  7. The Man With 100 Cells (3:47)
  8. Margerine Melodie (6:18)
  9. Hillbilly Motobike (2:23)
  10. Feel And Triple (4:53)
  11. Bop Scotch (3:59)
  12. Dear Marge (6:54)


Album Cover Oscillons From The Anti-Sun
Label: Too Pure
Release: 2005
Format: 3CD + DVD
Cat. no: PURE 160CD

Song list:

CD 1:
  1. Fluorescences (3:23)
  2. Allures (3:29)
  3. Fruition (3:50)
  4. Wow And Flutter (3:07)
  5. With Friends Like These (5:50)
  6. Pinball (3:12)
  7. Spinal Column (2:54)
  8. Ping Pong (Unreleased LP Version) (3:02)
  9. Golden Ball (6:26)
  10. Cybele's Reverie (2:55)
  11. Nihilist Assault Group [Parts 1,2,3] (7:12)
  12. Off On (5:26)
CD 2:
  1. Jenny Ondioline (3:53)
  2. Young Lungs (6:34)
  3. Escape Pod [From The World Of Medical Observations] (3:57)
  4. Moodles (7:23)
  5. You Used To Call Me Sadness (5:10)
  6. Captain Easychord (2:53)
  7. Les Aimies Des Mêmes (3:55)
  8. Transona Five [Live] (5:42)
  9. Moogie Wonderland (3:34)
  10. Canned Candies (4:13)
  11. Narco Martenot (4:23)
CD 3:
  1. The Noise Of Carpet (US Single) (3:07)
  2. The Free Design (3:45)
  3. Les Yper Yper Sound (5:18)
  4. Pain Et Spectacles (3:31)
  5. Ping Pong (3:03)
  6. Long Life Love (7:06)
  7. Jenny Ondioline (Alternate Version) (6:08)
  8. Heavy Denim (2:49)
  9. Brigitte (5:46)
  10. Miss Modular (4:13)
  11. Soop Groove #1 (13:06)
DVD:
  1. Jenny Ondioline (UK Promo) (3:50)
  2. Ping Pong (UK Promo) (3:01)
  3. Wow And Flutter (UK Promo) (3:05)
  4. Cybele's Reverie (UK Promo) (3:06)
  5. Fluorescences (UK Promo) (3:23)
  6. Miss Modular (UK Promo) (4:14)
  7. The Free Design (UK Promo) (3:48)
  8. The Noise Of Carpet (US Promo) (3:26)
  9. French Disko (UK TV Performance - The Word) (3:21)
  10. Cybele's Reverie (UK TV Performance - Later With Jools Holland) (3:43)
  11. Les Yper Sound (UK TV Performance - Later With Jools Holland) (4:12)


Album Cover Fab Four Suture
Label: Too Pure Records
Release: 2006
Format: CD
Cat. no: PURE 190CD

Song list:

  1. Kyberneticka Babicka Pt. 1 (4:31)
  2. Interlock (4:10)
  3. Eye Of The Volcano (4:16)
  4. Plastic Mile (5:11)
  5. "Get A Shot Of The Refrigerator" (4:23)
  6. Visionary Road Maps (3:35)
  7. Vodiak (3:19)
  8. Whisper Pitch (3:55)
  9. Excursions Into "Oh, A-Oh" (5:27)
  10. I Was A Sunny Rainphase (3:27)
  11. Widow Weirdo (4:31)
  12. Kyberneticka Babicka Pt. 2 (4:56)


Album Cover Chemical Chords
Label: 4AD
Release: 2008
Format: CD
Cat. no: CAD2815CD

Song list:

  1. Neon Beanbag (3:49)
  2. Three Women (3:46)
  3. One Finger Symphony (2:06)
  4. Chemical Chords (5:13)
  5. The Ecstatic Static (4:44)
  6. Valley Hi! (2:15)
  7. Silver Sands (3:08)
  8. Pop Molecule (2:16)
  9. Self Portrait With Electric Brain (3:17)
  10. Nous Vous Demandons Pardons (4:52)
  11. Cellulose Sunshine (2:36)
  12. Fractal Dream Of A Thing (3:37)
  13. Daisy Click Clack (3:29)
  14. Vortical Phonoteque (3:07)


Album Cover Spool Of Collusion/Forensic Itch
Label: 4AD
Release: 2008
Format: 7"
Cat. no: AD2820

Song list:

  1. Spool Of Collusion (2:11)
  2. Forensic Itch (3:03)