Label: Warp
Released 2/26/21
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.
Track Listing:
- Outer Bongolia
- Intervals
- Barock-Plastic
- Nomus Et Phusis
- I Feel The Air {Of Another Planet}
- Household Names
- Retrograde Mirror Form
- Solar Throw-Away [Original version] +
- Pandora's Box Of Worms =
- L'exotisme Interieur ^
- The Super-It @
- Jump Drive Shut-Out +
- Explosante Fixe ^
- Fried Monkey Eggs [Instrumental version]@
- Monkey Jelly @
- B.U.A **
- Free Witch and No Bra Queen ^^
- Heavy Denim Loop Pt 2 =
- Variation One %
- Monkey Jelly [Beats]@
- Dimension M2 ***
- Solar Throw-Away +
- Calimero ++
- Fried Monkey Eggs [Vocal] @
- Speck Voice ^
* 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
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