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The music of Stereolab is equal parts Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine and Jean Jacques Perry, mixed with a touch of Krautrock, French pop and space age bachelor pad music. This heady mix has made for an impressive flow of albums over the years, but with a band as prolific as Stereolab, some tracks are likely to get lost in the shuffle. ALUMINUM TUNES addresses that problem with aplomb, housing rare non-album tracks from several sources under one roof. While perhaps not the definitive Stereolab recording (look to EMPEROR TOMATO KETCHUP for that honor), ALUMINUM TUNES serves double duty as primer for the uninitiated and fodder for the Stereolab completist. The frothy electronic pop of ALUMINUM TUNES belies the myth that rarites collections consist largely of cast-offs better left forgotten.
Compilation;Prev.Rel.In LTD.& Hard To Find 7",12",CD Singles
Producers: Paul Tipler, Stereolab, John McEntire, Harvey Birrel.
Stereolab: Laetitia Sadier (vocals, tambourine); Mary Hansen (vocals, Moog synthesizer); Tim Gane (guitar, bass, Moog synthesizer, samples); Sean O'Hagan (organ, Moog synthesizer, bass, marimba, drums); Duncan Brown (bass); Andy Ramsay (percussion).
Additional personnel: Herbie Mann (flute).
Entertainment Weekly (10/23/98, p.81) - "...[Stereolab] concoct[s] buzzing, bouncy drones that hum with an appealing analog undertow. At its most self-indulgent, Stereolab can squeeze the life out of a melodic idea until it curdles and dies. This two-CD set of outtakes and B sides splits the difference between both extremes..." - Rating: B+ Aluminum Tunes: Switched On, Vol. 3 Music | List Price | $35.98 (You save $4.59) | | Category | Rock Albums, Vinyl LP Record CDs, Rock/Pop, Post Rock | | Label | Drag City | | Orig Year | 1998 | | All Time Sales Rank |  28571  | | CD Universe Part number | 1050114 | | Catalog number | 159 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Oct 20, 1998 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Personnel | Tim Gane - guitar, bass, Moog synthesizer, samples
Laetitia Sadier - vocals, tambourine
Mary Hansen - vocals, Moog synthesizer
Sean O'Hagan - organ, Moog synthesizer, bass, marimba, drums
Andy Ramsay - percussion
Duncan Brown - bass
Also: Herbie Mann | | Shipping Units | 6 |
Stereolab Aluminum Tunes: Switched On, Vol. 3 Songs | | Aluminum Tunes: Switched On, Vol. 3 CD DISC 1: |
| 1. | One Note Samba / Surfboard - (featuring Herbie Mann) | |
| 2. | Cadriopo | |
| 3. | Klang Tone | |
| 4. | Get Carter | |
| 5. | 1000 Miles an Hour | |
| 6. | Percolations | |
| 7. | Seeperbold | |
| 8. | Check and Double Check  | |
| 9. | Munich Madness | |
| 10. | Metronomic Underground - (Wagon Christ mix) | |
| 11. | Incredible He Woman, The | |
| | Aluminum Tunes: Switched On, Vol. 3 Songs DISC 2: |
| 1. | Pop Quiz | |
| 2. | Extension Trip, The | |
| 3. | How to Play Your Internal Organs Overnight | |
| 4. | Brush Descends the Length, The | |
| 5. | Melochord Seventy-Five | |
| 6. | Space Moment | |
| 7. | Speedy Car | |
| 8. | Golden Atoms | |
| 9. | Ulan Bator | |
| 10. | One Small Step | |
| 11. | Iron Man | |
| 12. | Long Hair of Death, The | |
| 13. | You Used to Call Me Sadness | |
| 14. | New Orthophony | $0.99 | |
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