• Stereolab Aluminum Tunes 2018 Dates

Stereolab’s 1998 singles and rarities collection, ‘Aluminum Tunes’, remastered and available again for first time since the original release. In 2018, Stereolab were announced as part of the lineup for 2019’s Primavera Sound festival, taking part on the weekend of May 30 in Barcelona, Spain and in the following weekend in Porto, Portugal. It will be the group's first live performance since 2009. 2018 Vinyl 12' Duophonic / D-UHF-D20C. To any unconvinced of the consistency of Stereolab's output, Aluminum Tunes a compilation of EPs and rarities, and not one.

Stereolab Aluminum Tunes 2018 Dates

Aluminum Tunes is a double album collection of EPs and rarities from Stereolab, released in 1998. It is the third, and to date last, in a series of rarities collections following Switched On and Refried Ectoplasm, and was stickered with the subtitle 'Switched On, Volume 3'.

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Track listing[edit]

CD 1[edit]

1. 'Pop Quiz' - 4:22 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP)
2. 'Extension Trip' - 3:43 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP)
3. 'How to Play Your Internal Organs Overnight' 3:58 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP)
4. 'The Brush Descends the Length' - 3:08 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP)
5. 'Melochord Seventy-Five' - 3:39 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP)
6. 'Space Moment' - 4:20 (from the 1995 Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center EP) (also includes the unlisted track - an instrumental reprise of 'The Extension Trip' - that followed 'Space Moment' on the original EP)
7. 'Iron Man' - 3:27 (from the 1997 Iron Man single)
8. 'The Long Hair of Death' - 4:48 (from the 1995 split single with Yo La Tengo)
9. 'You Used to Call Me Sadness' - 4:00 (from the 1996 split single with Füxa, on Lissy's Records)
10. 'New Orthophony' [full version] - 6:26 (the version on Mars Audiac Quintet is 4:34)
11. 'Speedy Car' - 5:00 (from the 1996 split single with Tortoise)
12. 'Golden Atoms' - 5:18 (recorded June 1995)
13. 'Ulan Bator' - 3:14 (from the 1994 Mars Audiac Quintet bonus disc)
14. 'One Small Step' - 4:16 (from the 1996 Laminations EP)

CD 2[edit]

1. 'One Note Samba / Surfboard' [full version] - Stereolab + Herbie Mann - 9:10 (the version on Red Hot + Rio is 7:18)
2. 'Cadriopo' - 3:09 (from the 1996 Laminations EP)
3. 'Klang Tone' - 5:36 (from the 1994 Mars Audiac Quintet bonus disc)
4. 'Get Carter' - 3:23
5. '1000 Miles an Hour' - 4:32
6. 'Percolations' - 3:22 (from the 1996 split single with Faust and Foetus)
7. 'Seeperbold' - 5:08
8. 'Check and Double Check' - 4:03 (from the 1996 Laminations EP)
9. 'Munich Madness' - 3:48
10. 'Metronomic Underground' [Wagon Christ Mix] - 7:51 (from the 1996 Laminations EP)
11. 'The Incredible He Woman' - 3:31 (from the 1997 Iron Man single)

References[edit]

• 'Aluminum Tunes: Switched On, Vol. 3'. Stereolab. All Media Guide/All Music. Retrieved 2007-05-04.
• 'aluminum tunes'. Stereolab Official Site. Stereolab. Archived from the original on 17 May 2007. Retrieved 4 May 2007.
• 'discography'. ultra-high frequency - unofficial stereolab web site. koly. Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2010-10-31.
• 'Stereolab - Drag City'. Stereolab discography. Drag City. Retrieved 2010-10-31.