Product DescriptionWhen you're a prolific band that also happens to be mighty friendly to your obsessive compulsive collector fan base, you wind up releasing a lot of singles and EPs with material that's otherwise unavailable on your albums. And here, for the price of a Japanese pressing of the Fluorescences EP on an auction site alone, you get Stereolab's eight Elektra EPs, from 1993's Jenny Ondioline to 2001's Captain Easychord. The "groop"'s collaborative EPs ( Crumb Duck, Uilab) are not included, but there is a DVD with rarely-seen videos and television performances. This box set serves far more than a plug-the-gaps exercise for trainspotters; as with the singles collections Switched-On volumes one, two and three (did we not mention this band is prolific?), it's an intriguing retrospective of the band in their mature years. And unlike those comps, this set often highlights the band's more lengthy, experimental songs. "Les Yper Yper Sound," for instance, John McEntire's distorted, delightfully repetitious reworking of "Yper Sound" from Emperor Tomato Ketchup, is spine-tinglingly awesome. --Mike McGonigal - Format: Box set
- Track Listings : Disc 1
- Fluorescences
- Allures
- Fruition
- Wow and Flutter
- With Friends Like These
- Pinball
- Spinal Column
- Ping Pong - unreleased LP version
- Golden Ball
- Cybele's Reverie
- Nihilist Assault Group [parts 1,2,3]
- Off On
- Track Listings : Disc 2
- Jenny Ondioline
- Young Lungs
- Escape Pod [From the World of Medical Observations]
- Moodles
- You Used to Call Me Sadness
- Captain Easychord
- Les Aimies
- French Disco
- Transona Five [live]
- Moogie Wonderland
- Canned Candies
- Narco Martenot
- Track Listings : Disc 3
- The Noise of Carpet
- The Free Design
- Les Yper Yper Sound
- Pain Et Spectacles
- Ping Pong
- Long Life Love
- Jenny Ondioline - Alternate version
- Heavy Denim
- Brigitte
- Miss Modular
- Soop Groove #1
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