The future of Stereolab

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.

xp

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.

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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.

hi, and welcome to Stereolab

Clear vinyl doesn’t have inferior sound quality

I already have these on CD

Also on Bandcamp where you can get coloured FLACs guaranteed to sound the same as black FLACs.

black FLACs

This feels like a racial slur, even though I know it isn't.

Actually I think clear vinyl has *better* sound quality than black vinyl. All vinyl is clear until they put the color in it. or something. I don't know. heard that once

The additive that makes it black (graphite?) supposedly gives the vinyl a smoother texture or finer grain or something. So it's claimed, anyway.

Not graphite exactly, this stuff - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_black

Seems like it might add to durability if nothing else.

All vinyl is clear until they put the color in it

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Durability of any record is much more dependent how you (and your record player) treat the record than what colour it is.

Well there's damage from ill treatment and then there's wear which is unavoidable over time unless you use a laser stylus. Just because one might be potentially more pronounced doesn't mean the other isn't a factor and one that can be minimised.

Anecdotally coloured or clear vinyl often seems to have more surface noise but there can be other reasons for this.

I replaced / got rid of a glitter Emperor Tomato Ketchup and a gold Transient Random Nose Bursts because they weren't too good fwiw.

On a more practical level, finding where the tracks are on a clear vinyl Aluminum Tunes will be fun.

lol

So these are going to sell out in less than a week right? Can't afford any of them right now

My observation is that the Stereolab vinyl reissues at my local record stores never shift, while secondhand copies of CDs disappear in days.

Used copies of the Switched On CDs are usually priced at $5.99 round here btw, though Aluminium Tunes rarely shows up.