If Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements flirted with the gleaming optimism of the space age, Mars Audiac Quintet fell in love. The feel got lighter, the sound clearer, the French thicker, the structures more oriented towards pop songs than open-ended grooves (“Ping Pong”, “L’Enfer Des Formes”). Even the politics seemed more direct: “Look at the symbols, they are alive/They move, evolve, and then they die,” Laetitia Sadier sings on “Wow and Flutter”. That she’s paraphrasing the endless clash of Marxist dialectics doesn’t matter as much as how unbothered she sounds while doing it; all that’s missing is her cocktail. Then there’s stuff like “The Stars Our Destination”, which balances kitsch with earnestness and high-minded ideas with an almost naive optimism—a blend the band turned into their signature.

Tracklisting

1. Mars Audiac Quintet
2. Three-Dee Melodie
3. Wow And Flutter
4. Transona Five
5. Des Etoiles Electroniques
6. Ping Pong
7. Anamorphose
8. Three Longers Later
9. Nihilist Assault Group
10. International Colouring Contest
11. The Stars Our Destination
12. Transporte Sans Bouger
13. L’Enfer Des Formes
14. Outer Accelerator
15. New Orthophony
16. Fiery Yellow
17. Demos And Alternate Versions
18. Ulan Bator
19. Klang Tone
20. Melochord Seventy-Five (Original Pulse Version)
21. Outer Accelerator - (Original Mix)
22. Nihilist Assault Group - Part 6
23. Wow And Flutter (7"/EP Version - Alternative Mix)
24. Des Etoile Electroniques - Demo
25. Ping Pong - Demo
26. The Stars Our Destination - Demo
27. Three Longers Later - Demo
28. Transona Five - Demo
29. Transporté Sans Bouger - Demo

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Des Etoiles Electroniques

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• Three-Dee Melodie
• Wow and Flutter
• Transona Five
• Stereolab - L’Enfer Des Formes
• L’Enfer Des Formes
• Ping Pong- Demo
• Outer Accelerator - (Original Mix)
• Stereolab - Anamorphose

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