Standard black vinyl
The fourth in the 'Switched On' series that compiles
non-album tracks and sought after deep cuts by the
group. 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.
Vinyl Tracklist:
A1 - Outer Bongolia* A2 - Intervals*
B1 - Barock-Plastic*
B2 - Nomus Et Phusis*
B3 - I Feel The Air {Of Another Planet}*
C1 - Household Names*
C2 - Retrograde Mirror Form*
C3 - Solar Throw-Away [Original version] + C4 - Pandora's Box Of Worms =
C5 - L'exotisme Interieur ^
D1 - The Super-It @
D2 - Jump Drive Shut-Out +
D3 - Explosante Fixe ^
D4 - Fried Monkey Eggs [Instrumental version] @ D5 - Monkey Jelly @
D6 - B.U.A **
E1 - Free Witch and No Bra Queen ^^ E2 - Heavy Denim Loop Pt 2 =
E3 - Variation One %
E4 - Monkey Jelly [Beats] @
E5 - Dimension M2 ***
F1 - Solar Throw-Away +
F2 - Calimero ++
F3 - Fried Monkey Eggs [Vocal] @ F4 - Speck Voice ^
Track source guide:
* 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.
