STEREOLAB Aluminum Tunes (Switched On Volume 3) Original UK 3-LP McCarthy Monade

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Aluminum Tunes (Switched On Volume 3)

Original UK 3-LP released on Duophonic Records in 1998.
Textured tri-fold sleeve.

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Stereolab's Switched On series is ingenious, one of the best services a band has performed for its fans. Since their inception, Stereolab have made it a practice to release non-LP singles, tour 7"s, split singles, special-edition EPs -- recordings that were available in small quantities for a limited time. In every case, the limited-edition recordings become very valuable very quickly, often reaching ridiculously exorbitant prices that most fans could never afford. That's where the Switched On series comes in. It's where the group gathers the best of these rarities, leaving a couple of tracks on the original single for the sake of collectibility.

Stereolab may do certain projects as a lark, but they rarely throw away tracks, as each EP and most singles have their own identity, offering a new spin on the group's trademark style. Given that Aluminum Tunes: Switched On, Vol. 3 spans three LPs, it might seem that the compilation will only be of interest to diehards, but it rivals Refried Ectoplasm: Switched On, Vol. 2 in terms of creativity and consistency.

Aluminum Tunes is distinguished by the first wide release of the entire sublime easy listening EP Music for the Amorphous Body Center, which would be enough to make the compilation essential for all fans, but it also has such minor masterpieces as their swinging duet with Herbie Mann on Antonio Carlos Jobim's "One Note Samba," Wagon Christ's remix of "Metronomic Underground," the horn-spiked "Percolations," and "You Used to Call Me Sadness."

The best moments rank among their very best work. Quite simply an essential addition to their catalogue.

Tracks Are :-

Record One

Pop Quiz
The Extension Trip
How To Play Your Internal Organs Overnight
The Brush Descends The Length
Melochord Seventy-Five
Space Moment

Iron Man
The Long Hair Of Death
You Used To Call Me Sadness
New Orthophony

Record Two

Speedy Car
Golden Atoms
Ulan Bator
One Small Step

One Note Samba / Surfboard
Cadriopo
Klang Tone

Record Three

Get Carter
1000 Miles An Hour
Percolations
Seeperbold

Check And Double Check
Munich Madness
Metronomic Underground (Wagon Christ Mix)
The Incredible He Woman

Released on 'Duophonic Records' in 1998

Catalogue No. D-UHF-D20

Discs are in EX++ condition

Sleeve is in EX condition (small tear to spine)

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