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Thursday 28 April 2011

Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements



My favourite album by Stereolab, one of my favourite bands. It brings together the band's love of krautrock, 60s garage and easy listening, whilst striking the perfect balance between experimentation, repetition, melody and marxism (probably) - managing to be both derivative and innovative.

It's also housed in one of my favourite record covers, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that the band like to wear their influences on their record sleeves too - I picked this up from King Bee Records today, "Hi Fi Sound Stereo Test Record" from 1974.


Even the track names (or "tests" as the album calls them) could be Stereolab titles. my favourite being side one, test 2: "Lateral modulation for determination of tracking pressure in conjunction with bias correction".


Lovely.


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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous29 April 2011 at 07:32

    Nice sleeves

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  2. Anonymous29 April 2011 at 10:56

    Well spotted

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  3. Anonymous28 May 2019 at 14:31

    There were a few in this series of test records, this being their one from 1974, but the test record Hi-Fi Sound put out in 1969 has a first track title of "Test 1 (Channel Recognition, Phasing And Balance. Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements.)" which is probably where the album title inspiration came.

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    1. Nag Nag Nag28 May 2019 at 15:05

      Thanks for the info. I'll have to get hold of a copy.

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