Label: Warp Records / Duophonic UHF Disks
Release date: 29.03.2024
Format Info: 8xCD Boxset
8 disks in individual card wallets, 12 page booklet, and 5 x 120x120 mm stickers of the Switched On album covers, housed in a sturdy clamshell outer box with foil block. An anthology boxset that compiles all five volumes of the Stereolab Switched On series: 94 non-album tracks and sought after deep cuts by the groop. Includes the original Switched On compilation LP released in 1992, 1995's Refried Ectoplasm [Switched On Volume 2], 1998’s Aluminum Tunes [Switched On Volume 3], 2021’s Electrically Possessed [Switched On Volume 4], and 2022’s Pulse Of The Early Brain [Switched On Volume 5]. All the tracks have been remastered from the original tapes in recent years, personally overseen by Tim Gane of the band at Calyx in Berlin.
DISK1
SWITCHED ON
Super Electric / Doubt / Au Grand Jour’ / The Way Will Be Opening / Brittle / Contact / Au Grand Jour / High Expectation / The Light That Will Cease To Fail / Changer
DISK2
REFRIED ECTOPLASM [SWITCHED ON VOLUME 2]
Harmonium / Lo Boob Oscillator / Mountain / Revox / French Disko / Exploding Head Movie / Eloge D’eros / Tone Burst [Country] / "Animal Or Vegetable [A Wonderful Wooden Reason...]"* / John Cage Bubblegum / Sadistic / Farfisa / Tempter
DISK3
ALUMINUM TUNES [SWITCHED ON VOLUME 3] - PART 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 / Speedy Car / Golden Atoms / Ulan Bator / One Small Step
DISK4
ALUMINUM TUNES [SWITCHED ON VOLUME 3] - PART TWO
One Note Samba - Surfboard / Cadriopo / Klang Tone / Get Carter / 1000 Miles An Hour / Percolations [John Mcentire Remix] / Seeperbold / Check And Double Check / Munich Madness / Metronomic Underground [Wagon Christ Mix] / The Incredible He Woman
DISK5
ELECTRICALLY POSSESSED [SWITCHED ON VOLUME 4] - PART ONE Outer Bongolia / Intervals / Barock-Plastic / Nomus Et Phusis / I Feel The Air {Of Another Planet} / Household Names / Retrograde Mirror Form / Solar Throw-Away [Original version] / Pandora's Box Of Worms / L'exotisme Interieur
DISK6
ELECTRICALLY POSSESSED [SWITCHED ON VOLUME 4] - PART TWO The Super-It / Jump Drive Shut-Out / Explosante Fixe / Fried Monkey Eggs [Instrumental version] / Monkey Jelly / B.U.A / Free Witch and No Bra Queen / Heavy Denim Loop Pt 2 / Variation One / Monkey Jelly [Beats] / Dimension M2 / Solar Throw-Away / Calimero / Fried Monkey Eggs [Vocal] / Speck Voice
DISK7
PULSE OF THE EARLY BRAIN [SWITCHED ON VOLUME 5] - PART ONE Simple Headphone Mind* / Trippin' With The Birds* / Low Fi /
[Varoom!] / Laisser-Faire / Elektro [he held the world in his iron grip]
DISK8
PULSE OF THE EARLY BRAIN [SWITCHED ON VOLUME 5] - PART TWO Robot Riot / Spool Of Collusion / Symbolic Logic Of Now! / Forensic Itch / Ronco Symphony [Demo] / ABC / Magne-Music / Blaue Milch / Yes Sir! I Can Moogie / Plastic Mile [Original Version] / Refractions In The Plastic Pulse [Feebate Mix] - Autechre Remix / Unity Purity Occasional / The Nth Degrees / XXXOOO / Cybele’s Reverie [Live at the Hollywood Bowl]