The future of Stereolab

haha

welp I guess I skipped over those

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lol like I am going to a) watch broadcast TV or b) watch the BBC

xp

Alba's got me tho, idk how I missed those

one time I saw the person next to me in the coffee shop watching one of his videos

the bbc is bad now, it's like stereolab all over again

I'm not expecting you to watch the BBC obv., just giving an example of how he's not an obscure figure in the slightest. (xxxp)

also many xxxxposts but this

Stereolab + JP both profitably recycling old German ideas

― Ward Fowler, Friday, August 3, 2018 6:32 AM (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAFZnvTfFAs

yeah that post justified this entire revival

i really dig WF's dour minimalist style!

I'll grant that he's not obscure, I will also argue it's p easy to avoid this guy or be ignorant of him why because the internet

like, Drake is really really famous. otoh I have never heard an entire Drake song

I think it is also very easy to avoid JP if you are in the US

I would likely not be very aware of JP if I wasn't made aware of him and therefore easily noticed his name in passing, I mean lots of people are out there and we just pass over their names when we see them because we have no context for who they actually are. Also this tweet was from February, which could arguable be in the period before JP became a bit more notorious (on the other hand i've lost all sense for the passing of time, cf Trump was elected almost two years ago now i guess???)

Yeah, exactly as Omar sense - my capacity to gloss over names until I learn about them is vast.

True, and I'll also add that if a person's primary claim to fame is being a colossal shitbag, I don't generally put a lot of effort into learning more about them.

If only Laetitia had said that.

It's hard not to take the political very personally in this era. When you see skint young single parents bringing their skinny kids to the local park for a pauper's picnic, and old friends en route to the church foodbank with that hauntingly defeated look. You need to throw some pelters at some of these cosseted idiots, playing silly bugger roleplay games that will have no bearing on their own comfortable lifestyles.

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Or many people ITT, for that matter.

that apology is really depressing. she doesn't owe anyone anything.

I didn’t make that public. I should have done and I am sorry for that.

good lord that is scary

So... she apologized. You all happy now? Can we go back to the lab now?

she built a career off being a left-wing political artist. she might not owe anyone anything, but her career is tied to her politics in a way that wouldn't be true for most artists.

Calzino's thing, AIUI:

https://img.cdandlp.com/2013/12/imgL/116409235.jpg

Her apology is a bit weird though? She rarely tweets and she cosigned him without knowing anything about him? It takes one click and a minute. Also she apologized like 6 months after the incident?

Amazing that people think that Stereolab are like Billy Bragg with keyboards.

I thought you wanted to back to the lab? (xp)

... go back, that is.

i still can't get over the idea of "libertarian marxists"

guess i'm relieved laetitia was only tangentially involved w/ mccarthy

Her apology is a bit weird though? She rarely tweets and she cosigned him without knowing anything about him? It takes one click and a minute. Also she apologized like 6 months after the incident?

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, August 7, 2018 2:24 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

to be fair people only complained 6 months after the incident

because it's a reply tweet, for anyone not on twitter any tweet that begins with an "@" does not show up in peoples' timelines, you have to look in a person's replies. that's why I don't understand how she would have gone about making her "changing views" public. no one was upset, no one knew about the tweet, then she comes out and says "hey, this peterson guy, oh boy, definitely dig him, not this stuff though" - no one would ever do that, and people would still be pissed off.

I'd be more inclined just to use it on myself these days, Tim!

it's also easy to forget how bad a lot of (often otherwise intelligent) people are at the internet. especially social media. and especially if they weren't raised on it.

https://d2ymzkn1ailq93.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/old-lady-using-computer-snapmunk.jpg

is this "I've never even heard of this bloody Oscar Peterson/Goebbels/Antonescu/Petain limey before " feint, more annoying than "I don't even own a TV" ? y/n.

I do not, in fact, own Jordan Peterson's TV

I've never even heard of a TV.

i'm Mark Perry the founder of Alternative TV

Man I forgot how great Peng! is

do Stereolab have any good album's

hang on, we're reformatting the canon

She rarely tweets and she cosigned him without knowing anything about him? It takes one click and a minute.

tbf the mainstream media has been selling him in a way that if you don't pay attention he just seems like another self-help dipshit

"some credit for outing herself as a hapless boob"

am I too late to say "hapless boob outscillator"

outer hapless décolletage

etc etc

if you don't pay attention he just seems like another self-help dipshit

this is true to some extent (I followed a link to a lecture video which was kind of persuasive up until he said something annoying but not all that outrageous or political and I went "huh wait, isn't this that guy ILX are mad at?"), but, the article she was complaining about - if it was the D0rian Lynsk3y one - has a pretty thorough list of reasons he annoys people, and the first few paragraphs before it gets onto that are fairly neutral-to-positive, so...

still, glad she's backpedalled a bit, and of course it's none of my business

(and yes, I was disappointed by the Spiked retweets too)

Also Spiked/LM types are hardwired to disagree with anything published by the Guardian - and also to support any attack on political correctness from whatever quarter.

So, she couldn't really help herself tbh.

Duophonic reissues of the Switched On series incoming:

https://bleep.com/stereolab?utm_source=Bleep&utm_campaign=666133f9f6-Stereolab&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_db8ca97389-666133f9f6-346575

I know what I want for Christmas

drooling atm

why must bleep always find new reasons to separate me from my money

The dilemma with these new remasters / colored vinyl bothers me so much. Will the remaster be good? Will there be pressing issues? Will the black vinyl sound noticeably better than the color variation. Will the color variation sell out quickly then be worth 2-3x the black vinyl.

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