#Refried Ectoplasm

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Stereolab - French Disko

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De Algemene Verwarring #101 - 13 November 2023

Episode one hundred and one of De Algemene Verwarring was broadcast on Monday, November 13, 2023, and you can listen to it by clicking on the link below that will take you directly to the Mixcloud page:

Pictured below are De Portables, the Belgian band from Bruges that played its very last show last Friday. They existed for about 27 years and have always been a part of my musical life. Unfortunately that last show was on the same day as the first day of the Sonic City festival here in Kortrijk, so I missed it, but I've seen them numerous times in the past and I've always thought that they would be around for ever. There are only a few bands like that, the ones that have been around all your life and that you assume will be there forever. Sonic Youth was one of those bands, The Ex is still one of those bands, The Cure is one of those bands, and De Portables was one of those bands. I'm quite sure that there will be more musical output from the different band members (I mean, for instance, listen to Wio's excellent Disintegration cover album), but still, this is the end of a musical era. And there are not a lot of Belgian bands with the same legacy as De Portables. I already played on of their excellent cover songs in the previous episode, and this time I'm playing the opening and title track of their album "Rosegarden". Thank you for the music!

This whole episode has a post festival vibe, there's only one very loud track, there's a lot of slow long tracks, a few drones, and a bit of krautrock. Bands in this episode include The Shifters, Sex Church, Stereolab, Lungfish, PJ Harvey, Hydroplane, Ordeal, K-Group, and a new Blod track to open the show. And beneath the photo you can find the playlist for the show. Enjoy!

Playlist:

Blod: Splittringen (LP “Ondskans Frö”, self-released, 2023)

Sex Church: Hidden Hand (12” “Somnambulist” on Psychic Handshake Recordings & Instant Pleasure Records, 2013)

The Shifters: The American Attitude To Law (LP “The Shifters” on Future Folklore Records, reissue from 2018, originally released on cassette in 2015 on Comfort 35 in 35 copies)

Stereolab: Harmonium (2LP “Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On Volume 2)” on Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks, reissue 2018, originally released in 1995)

Cloudland Canyon: Krautwerk (LP “Lie In Light” on Kranky, 2008)

Lewsberg: A Different View (LP “Out And About”, self-released, 2023)

Hydroplane: Failed Adventure (2LP “Selected Songs 1997-2003” on World Of Echo, 2023, originally released on a 7” on Elefant Records, 1997)

PJ Harvey: A Child’s Question, August (LP “I Inside The Old Year Dying” on Partisan Records, 2023)

Lungfish: Ann The Word (CD “Artificial Horizon” on Dischord, 1998)

Twinsistermoon: Black Nebulae (LP “Then Fell The Ashes…” on Blackest Rainbow, 2010)

Loopsel: I En Skog (LP “Öga För Öga : Eye For An Eye” on DFA Records & Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox, 2023)

Ordeal: Falks Grav (LP “Vätterns Pärla” on Aguirre Records, 2023)

K-Group: Remaining Light (LP “New Series 1” on Knotwilg Records, 2023)

De Portables: Rosegarden (CD “Rosegarden” on Kraak, 2001)

[10paper20heart]

10 Songs on Repeat

@iamdangerace tagged me to list 10 songs I’ve had on repeat. I’m listing these out now because if I wait, it will fall off my radar!

1. Burning- Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cool It Down (2022). Karen O is a goddess. I love that Karen, Nick & Brian are putting out new music.

2. City of Angels- Ladytron. Time’s Arrow (2023). New album out next year. I heard this song a few weeks ago and I have been humming and playing it almost every day.

3. Lo Boob Oscillator- Stereolab. Refried Ectoplasm (Switched on Volume 2) (1995). The last two minutes take me to another realm.

4. You Said Something- PJ Harvey. Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000). Polly Jean is another goddess. This album holds up 22 years later.

5. New Gold- Gorillaz, Tame Impala, Bootie Brown. Cracker Island (2023). This has been stuck in my head since I saw it performed at the end of September. Dig the chill vibe.

6. Kid- The Pretenders. Pretenders (1979). Always loved this song but it had a resurgence after I watched Pistol over the summer.

7. Violet- Hole. Live Through This (1994). Solid album. This ditty has been popping up the most on my repeat.

8. MacArthur Park- Donna Summer version (1978). WHO left the cake out in the rain?? This was my road trip song this summer and fall (along with Sister Goldenhair, but I’ll spare you!).

9. Seconds- LCD Soundsystem. Electric Lady Sessions (2019). Human League cover that takes the song from the 80s to the 2020s

10. The Long Road- Pearl Jam (1995). I favor the live versions. I listen to this song whenever I lose a loved one. It rips me apart, then soothes my broken heart. This one’s for you J- how I wish for you today xoxo

There you have it, some old ones, some new ones, and lots of ladies.

I tag @fangirlsuperhero @nospecialreason @yourgoldenview @brigidcoady @iamjaggerme @manukenakage @oldcraigfinn @stevenvenn and anyone else who wants to play!

Thank you for the tag @iamdangerace !

[iamacanal]

[total-derangement-of-the-senses]

Song of the Day

8 Nov., ‘20

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Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On Volume 2) by Stereolab Duophonic Records / Drag City / Flying Nun Records 1995 Krautrock / Indie Rock / Space Rock / Alternative Rock / Ambient Pop / Indie Pop / Post-Rock / Noise-Pop / Experimental Rock / Drone / Space Rock Revival / Dream Pop

[godofsirniki]

настроение - опаздывать на репетицию последнего звонка, вухуу

не хочется куда-то идти, а тут ещё и дождь пошёл, ммм. ну ладно, отмучаюсь и буду свободна (относительно)

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Stereolab- John Cage Bubbleguem

From the album: Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On Volume 2)

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if u follow this blog and appreciate The Vibes i am going to recommend u some albums real quick to catch u up to speed. lewis essentials if u will

- the velvet underground self titled

-remain in light by talking heads + brian eno

-refried ectoplasm/ switched on! vol 2 by stereolab

-come away with ESG by ESG

-in a sentimental mood by duke ellington & john coltrane

-odyshape by the raincoats

-reachin by digable planets

-fhe first three gorillaz albums

-the birth of the cool by miles davis

-power corruption and lies by new order

-the hounds of love and the dreaming by kate bush

[lastchancevillagegreen]

In Today’s Post Saturday 9 January 2021:

The Groop Played”Space Age Batchelor Pad Music” Stereolab (Too Pure/ American Recordings)

I find it very hard to believe Stereolab was on American Recordings in the US, but here is the proof!  This is an EP that came out in 1993.  discogs has it listed under albums, but everywhere else considers it an EP.  I’m psyched for my Stereolab study, but I’m first listening to all their compilations of EPs, singles and oddities.  I have the four disc series Switched On that I have begun playing this month, then I’ll move on to 2002′s two disc set of BBC Sessions titled ABC Music...Stereolab Radio 1 Sessions before moving on to 2005′s excellent three disc comp, Oscillons Of The Anti-Sun.  One reason I’m doing this is because I’m having a difficult time tracking down a reasonably priced CD of their 1992 debut album Peng!  I’ve found a couple on eBay but they are always from Goodwill shops and I know they’ll be in terrible condition.  The other option currently on eBay comes from Zuber and I refuse to give them any money.  They are overpriced vultures who don’t have things in stock that they claim to have (I know this because I got into a faux tête-a-tête with them over a disc I ordered that took them six weeks to deliver because they had to find it first (and it did not match their description either).  I believe firmly that one will crop up on discogs in the next six weeks or so and once it does, I’ll leap into my Stereolab studies!  As it stands, I could play the first volume of Switched On daily and never tire of it (or so it seems).

Anyhow, out of the three EPs wikipedia lists, this one can now be checked off the list as can Music For The Amorphous Body Study Center which they made with Chalres Long in 1995.  Those tracks can be found on Switched On Volume 2: Refried Ectoplasm which can be found in that four disc Switched On box which arrived in the post on 28 December.  That leaves only one more EP and naturally, it is flying to my home as I type. 

Finding it crazy to think that Stereolab was on American Recordings, I was shocked to learn that their last album, Not Music, which came out in 2010 came out in the US on Chicago’s Drag City label!  I’ll pick that up just as soon as I decide if I want to buy main Stereolab singer Laetitia Sadier’s solo work which also was put out by Drag City.

My scans are of the front and the back of the album.  In typical Stereolab fashion, they utilize contrasting colors.  My eyes definitely have fits over their graphics so I never know what anything says!

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30 June 2019: Switched On Volumes 1-3, Stereolab. (2019 Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks reissue of 1992 Too Pure release Switched On, 1995 Duophonic release Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On Volume 2), and 1998 Duophonic release Aluminum Tunes (Switched On Volume 3))

Stereolab has set about reissuing their catalog, and the program began with this box of the band’s three odds-and-ends compilations from the ’90s. The reissue series then goes straight to their 1993 album Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements, which I posted here some months back alongside its 1994 follow-up Mars Audiac Quintet. The reissues have skipped the 1992 debut full-length Peng! and 1993 mini-LP The Groop Played “Space Age Bachelor Pad Music”; I’m not sure what the logic is there, and if I were doing this fully properly I’d acquire copies of those originals, as I’ve never owned them and I intend on playing all of my recent Stereolab acquisitions in order this year. It feels strange to have their oddities collections but not their debut album.

Above are the front and back of the box, and then the CDs themselves. Aluminum Tunes has always been a double-disc set; Switched On and Refried Ectoplasm are single-disc affairs on CD (the latter is a double LP, which I’ve owned since it came out, though for whatever reason until now I never bought its predecessor or its follow-up).

Below we have the front of Switched On and Refried Ectoplasm, the back of those same discs, and then the front of the two discs covering Aluminum Tunes. The backs of those two are blank.

This is the last of five posts featuring albums I bought on a trip to Milwaukee. They were all purchased at Exclusive Company, which is my favorite of numerous record stores in that city. I like other Milwaukee shops, but Exclusive Company is especially reliable for new releases that I have trouble finding in Chicago and the other shops focus more on used items.

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Stereolab ‎– Refried Ectoplasm [Switched On Volume 2] (Drag City ‎– DC82, 1995 🇺🇸) Hooray for the new live shows and reissue campaign for Stereolab! Ever have a band that you love, yet never got around to getting into? Stereolab is that group for me: since the 90s I’ve been mildly aware of them and always loved what I’d heard, yet never really took the plunge. Sadly, this compilation from ‘95 represents the extent of my 12 inch collection (a few 7 inches might be there somewhere). Uber-super-limited vinyl releases have ALREADY sold out on their site, so watch out. Get while the getting is good, kids. Original pressings can get uber-expensivo, and I imagine the reissues will follow suit in a few years (especially the limited releases). Good luck and groove on. https://www.instagram.com/p/BuNRnA6Aa6q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1a1va9okikgl6

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"French Disko" - Stereolab

Começamos a semana com os Stereolab e uma das suas canções mais conhecidas.

Incluído em Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On Volume 2), compilação de singles e raridades dos Stereolab, “French Disko” é incrível na sua combinação de voz delicada e doce de Laetitia Sadier com a abrasividade e ritmo que corre em fundo da guitarra. Soubemos a semana passada que vêm cá em Novembro, para um concerto no Lux, pelo que importa reactivar a banda francesa nos nossos ouvidos.

[hermitofminkhollow]

Stereolab Albums Ranked, brought to you by insomnia

Emperor Tomato Ketchup (predictable, I know, but sometimes things are predictable because they feel right)

Dots and Loops (this used to be a lot lower for me, but it grew on me HARD recently)

Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements (first album of theirs I heard, so I’m always going to have a soft spot for it)

Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night (the farthest from rock they got, which is why I guess it got the whipping by the critics that it did at the time and also why it’s one of their best. bonus points if you have the original Duophonic LP with the extended version of Blue Milk [like I do, hehe])

Mars Audiac Quintet (some of their best stuff to be found here, but it is a bit overlong and a bit samey [there’s like 4 songs that are basically just Hallogallo])

Refried Ectoplasm (my favourite of the Switched On series)

Margerine Eclipse (their last great album imo)

ABC Music (just really great live versions of stuff spanning almost their entire discography)

Chemical Chords (this one’s really girl group influenced to my ear. Valley Hi! is probably my favourite song of theirs; certainly my most listened to)

Switched On (there’s great material on here, but the production on this sounds like ass. I generally prefer the live versions of these songs from ABC Music)

Aluminum Tunes (this is low mostly just because I haven’t given it much attention tbh)

Peng! (there’s definitely good stuff on here, but I don’t remember a good chunk of it and don’t find myself wanting to listen to it that much)

The Groop Played “Space Age Batchelor Music”/Sound-Dust/Fab Four Suture (these are tied because I think they’re all Just OK and there’s nothing I can really pick apart about em. maybe one day I’ll appreciate Sound-Dust as much as most Stereolab fans seem to)

The First of the Microbe Hunters (yawn)

I remember having Not Music on CD but can’t really recall it and haven’t listened to it in years, so that’s not on here

aside from that, I think that’s it aside from EPs and things