The future of Stereolab

There's just so much on Aluminum Tunes. It's kind of hard to fathom how much they were cranking out at their peak.

True. The whole box only covers 6 years of material. And at the same time released like 7 albums (which are all brilliant). Quite extraordinary.

The packaging on these re-issues is I guess the same as before but man is it ever good

On the CDs the artwork is all included in a foldy-out thing but at least for Refried Ectoplasm the layout and materials are quite inferior to the original issue.

Apologies if this has already come up, but was looking into Peter Strickland (Katalin Varga, Berberian Sound Studio, The Duke of Burgundy)'s new thing In Fabric yesterday, since he's pulled in such great collaborators for his previous films (respectively: a mishmash of Broadcast/Ghost Box's Roj and Nurse With Wound, Broadcast, and Cat's Eyes), and In Fabric's original score will be a Cavern of Anti-Matter release!

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nice

I only purchased Refried. It sounds ok to my ears. Packaging looks cool but is a bit weird, no vinyl folder so to speak. It will fall apart if it’s not in a sleeve. Looking at past reissues it has always been intended to look this way though.

Oscillons is my fave Stereolab comp, also kinda shows paths they could have went down but did not, great stuff with mary on there as well

y'all saw this, right? Whatever it is, it's coming in two weeks.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BowYapnDVlJ/?taken-by=duophonic_uhf_disks

Intriguing

True. The whole box only covers 6 years of material. And at the same time released like 7 albums (which are all brilliant). Quite extraordinary.

agreed, but knowing how much they were knicking from other artists kinda blunts it a bit for me

DS-44 is a promo 7" by Cavern of Anti-Matter. Two tracks from the Strickland film soundtrack. Good luck finding one of the 287 copies. (The full OST will be released idc though.)

yeah, i would not have a hope in hell for any new stereolab material ever

Did anyone get the promo poster, stickers and bag? I am so pissed at ordergin this through Bleep and missing out on all the extras. I'd like to buy / trade for the bonus material if possible. Let me know.

How are you feeling about the sound quality of RE and AT? Still on the fence about whether I should get Switched On and any of the stuff coming out in November.

I liked those 2 better than Switched On. New vinyl sometimes needs to be washed and I have not cleaned the vinyl yet, but I was not happy with the sound quality on Vol 1. I’m really curious why none of the band members have endorsed these. I haven’t seen it if they have.

Could they release them without the bands approval? Tim and Laetitia own a 68% share of the company.

I’m really curious why none of the band members have endorsed these. I haven’t seen it if they have.

It’s a Cavern of antimatter gig at fabric:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BpEm4SPDZzm/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=2nsj96linqtk

Holy shit, it's crazy to see the same people still posting there that were posting back in like 2000.

Could say the same about this place! Me = guilty on both counts :)

Hey eatandoph, that link is great, but is there a thread there in particular that includes discussion from management about the quality of the pressing and the bands opinion / approval of them? I'm just curious how your reply is a response to my question. You've just linked to a generic forum board and not a thread or post that addresses my question. If you've already read those comments, perhaps you could summarize them.

Given the initial batch of re-issues are on the bands own label and being promoted by their manager then that seems like implicit approval at the very least.

The upcoming Too Pure reissues are remastered by the same people and are also clear vinyl so if they’re cash ins they’re at least being done sympathetically. I’d expect it’s more likely that rather than license the material from Beggars for their own editions Duophonic have worked them instead.

xp there's two quotes from Pike that I see regarding the reissues:

"Yep, Calyx remastered. Beggars reissues. Couple slight artwork amendements – address and publishing from memory."

"Switched On will remain as the original as we only have the rights to 6 of the tracks. We licensed the Super Electric EP for physical only. Stunning Debut Album and the Super 45 EP will be up as EPs and they will be the remastered versions."

Ok. I read those as well, but they didn’t seem to address my question. I’ll read further on my own. Thanks though.

got the reissues finally; playing Refried Ectoplasm now and I don't have any of the noise others have reported so perhaps I'm lucky; and that means not all pressings are identical. I did wipe it with a carbon brush though before playing. that usually doesn't make that huge a difference though and I'd assume others did something similar.

I think it was Switched On that had the distortion

Hey eatandoph, that link is great, but is there a thread there in particular that includes discussion from management about the quality of the pressing and the bands opinion / approval of them? I'm just curious how your reply is a response to my question. You've just linked to a generic forum board and not a thread or post that addresses my question. If you've already read those comments, perhaps you could summarize them.

I've gotten the reissues and haven't listened to them all that analytically. There's a little noise in some passages but nothing all that intrusive. My impression was that the new Switched On was preferable to my old CD (livelier, for lack of a better word). With the other two it was more of a toss-up; the old CDs always sounded good to me. Stereolab offered new (old) product and I shelled out! Though besides a Switched On Vol. 4 I'd prefer re-pressings of the single/EPs that were collected on Oscillons (the re-sequencing of which I've complained about elsewhere here).

all three of mine sound great, no weird noises, so perhaps I got lucky.

Aluminium Tunes smells amazing! what did they do here? It's like sandelwood incense or something.

hoping they do Dots and Loops, Transient, Ketchup, and Margarine. Those are the only ones I feel like I really need (I have tne 1972 of MAD, which is alright though nothing revelatory)

dots and loops would be amazing

Cobra and Phases with the restored side-length version of "Blue Milk" please

Aluminium Tunes smells amazing! what did they do here? It's like sandelwood incense or something.
Screen printing ink – apparently the smell wears off after a while.

that's sad. i'll have to smell it up while I have the chance.

My children gave me the CD boxset for my birthday so now I have two. And I couldn't be happier!

From their FB page a little while ago.

Stereolab will undertake an extensive reissue campaign covering albums from 1993's Transient Random Noise-Bursts With Announcements through to 2004's Margerine Eclipse. All 7 albums will be reissued throughout 2019.

Keep ‘em peeled for news of the live return of Stereolab.

Exciting news. Don't know what a touring band would look like. When they went on hiatus, Laetitia commented that she get Stereolab back together with Tim at some point, but that the entire rest of the band would be replaced. I have a hard time imagining them without at least Andy Ramsay, although it would be kind of neat if they enlisted Joe Dilworth on drums and did a double bill with Caverns of Anti-Matter.

they posted a photo; I'm not hip enough to the rest of them to recognize anyone but Tim and Laetitia though. why would she say the entire rest of the band would be replaced?

I believe the original question was "Now that you and Tim have split, is that why Stereolab won't be reforming?"

and her reply was along the lines of that she was fine with Tim, it was the rest of them she couldn't stand.

Exactly

I think the pic they posted was from Chemical Chords era.

tbh I like Stereolab a lot and I can't name any other members except for the late Mary Hansen. I don't really think it matters who else is in the band, Stereolab is Tim and Laetitia.

I've seen them perform a lot of times, and some lineups were much better than others. Their drummer Andy is the only other member who played every single show I saw. It's hard to imagine them without him because he has a very recognizable style. I definitely have preferred musicians for the other instruments too, and I'd love to see them enlist a second female vocalist again.

also i wonder if these will be duophonic reissues or handled by Too Pure.

I'd imagine all the Elektra albums would be Duophonic, just as they were originally. Too Pure wasn't in the mix after TRNBWA.

get Andy Ramsay back and idk rope in Sonic Boom or something and I'm there

It'd be rad if they could get Sean O on a new tour. He played a few shows with Cavern of Anti-Matter, so you never known. I know half this board hates his influence but damn he was even on the old stuff as an OFFICIAL MEMBER, so c'mon.

never saw them so down for whatever. I always thought it was weird though that Ramsay was never included in press photos, despite the fact that he was the only consistent member besides L & T. they'd have touring members in photos but never Ramsay.

maybe he didn't want to be photographed? idk

O'Hagen in Stereolab was generally fine imo, it was all his non-Stereolab stuff that was garbage

I think he did not like being in photos.

Having Sean O'Hagan in a live band would be great. I'm totally down with a Stereolab all-stars tour.