Homage to M. Gainsbourg: Stereolab- Bonnie & Clyde (1990)

Stereolab- ABC Music- Radio 1 Sessions (2003)

part 1
    Super-Electric
    Changer
    Doubt
    Difficult Fourth Title (John John Peel,30.7.91)
    Laissez Faire
    Revox
    Peng 33
    John Cage Bubblegum (John Peel, 28.6.92)
    Wow and Flutter
    Anemie
    Moogie Wonderland
    Heavy Denim  (John Peel, 28.9.93)
    French Disko
    Wow and Flutter
    Golden Ball
    Lo Boob Oscillator (Mark Radcliffe, 13.12.93)
    Check and Double Check 
    Working Title (The Pram Song) (Mark Radcliffe, 22.11.94)
http://d01.megashares.com/dl/IhDu3fx/Stereolab- ABC Music 1.rar

part 2
    International Colouring Contest
    Anamorphose  (Mark Radcliffe, 22.11.94)
    Metronomic Underground 
    Brigitte
    Spinal Column
    Tomorrow Is Already Here (John Peel, 15.2.96)
    Les Yper-Sound
    Heavenly Van Halen
    Cybele's Reverie
    Slow Fast Hazel (Evening Session, 26.2.96)
    Nothing to Do With Me 
    Double Rocker
    Baby Lulu
    Naught More Terrific Than Man (John Peel, 9.19.01)
 http://d01.megashares.com/dl/tT4FZzf/Stereolab- ABC Music 2.rar

 The SI taught us détournement...
Here's a label for you- Postmodern Retro- Futurism.
That was the nineties, halcyon days for postmodernists, when we could live in a faux sixties, Cool Britannia and Britpop, watching The Champions on teatime television and talking about maverick  footballers. Squeaky clean history. This music is everything . Qualities absent from the Yeh Yeh stuff, whatever pop music was played in May 68, or even from the experimental euro music it purports to mimic (that's a real old Moog, you know), abound here. Trippy.  
Highly highly recommended.


Though this world's essentially an absurd place to be
 Living in it doesn't call for total withdrawal
I've been told it's a fact of life
Men have to kill one another
Well I say there are still things worth fighting for
La Resistance!
Though this world's essentially an absurd place to be
 Living in it doesn't call for bubble withdrawal
It's said human existence is pointless
  Acts of rebellious solidarity
Can bring sense in this world   La Resistance!

Stereolab- Peel Session, September 8th 1991

Tim Gane & Lætitia Sadier

Stereolab's first session for John Peel, transmitted September 1991.

Joe Dilworth - drums
Martin Kean - bass
Tim Gane - guitar
Lætitia Sadier -lead vocals
Gina Morris -vocals

Super Electric
Changer
Doubt
The Difficult Fourth title

Stereolab- Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On Vol 2)- (1995)

It's time to welcome a new term to your modern music vocabulary: post rock. The expression (it's been knocking around for a few years in scenester circles, natch) is used to describe music that travels beyond the three-minute song boundaries of guitar rock and ventures into a virtual Alice in Wonderland world of experimental sounds. Post rockers aren't afraid of samples, 20-minute dub-jazz excursions, heavily ironic easy listening produced on vintage keyboards (hello Stereolab)...
Angela Lewis, The Independent (19-04-1996)

When I was doing the homework for this post (I don’t carry all this shit around in my head, only most of it…) I came across this great cartoon strip:



Fell in love with Stereolab’s sound after seeing them in a drunken haze on The Word (was I initially seduced by Lætitia Sadier’s gorgeous accent? probably).

There are some lovely numbers here; some race along against a frenzy of harsh keyboards, some bubble with hazy ambience whilst others meander melodically- like a dreampop take on Franciose Hardy.
(their records) sound more like arid experiments than music born of emotional need.
Barney Hoskyns- Mojo (1996)
With their borrowings from early, obscure Kraftwerk and hip obtuse sources, [Stereolab] sound like a band of rock critics rather than musicians.
Dave Simpson -The Guardian.
I think they were just a bit too clever and aloof for the journos- laddish rock music, faux mod 'britpop' and grunge being the order of the day.