Stereolab – Electrically Possessed
Stereolab has announced another installment of their “Switched On” series. This will be the fourth volume of the series and is titled ‘Electrically Possessed”. The new installment will feature 25 songs from 1999-2008. The tracks include songs from their EP ‘The First of the Microbe Hunters’, a remastered version of “Dimension M2”, and more. The remastered version of “Dimension M2” was released along with the announcement of the compilation.
Stereolab’s Tim Gane described the making of the remastered version of “Dimension M2” in a press release below:
“After the making of Dots and Loops in which we really loved recording with the computer we wanted to build up our own small home recording studio. We bought an Apple desktop computer, a MOTU sound card and Logic 2 software and started to record very simple tracks mainly using samples as inspiration and overlaying them with some guitar, keyboards, and more often than not, Laetitia and Mary would add often wordless vocals. Personally it was the cutting and chopping up of sounds and rhythms that I liked, trying to make little pulse-y songs that were much smaller and simpler than the main Stereolab recordings. Most of these tracks ended up either on tour singles or compilations. Dimension M2 went onto a compilation LP from our friends Paul & Hervé who had their own design company called Cabine. I wanted to do something upbeat and party-ish for them and this was as close as i could get to that kind of thing – still a bit cool and detached though.”
Electrically Possessed Tracklisting
1. Outer Bongolia
2. Intervals
3. Barock-Plastic
4. Nomus Et Phusis
5. I Feel The Air {Of Another Planet}
6. Household Names
7. Retrograde Mirror Form
8. Solar Throw-Away [Original version]
9. Pandora’s Box Of Worms
10. L’exotisme Interieur
11. The Super It
12. Jump Drive Shut-Out
13. Explosante Fixe
14. Fried Monkey Eggs [Instrumental version]
15. Monkey Jelly
16. B.U.A
17. Free Witch and No Bra Queen
18. Heavy Denim Loop Pt 2
19. Variation One
20. Monkey Jelly [Beats]
21. Dimension M2
22. Solar Throw-Away
23. Calimero
24. Fried Monkey Eggs [Vocal]
25. Speck Voice