Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements

To get a sense of where Stereolab were coming from early on, take a minute—18, actually—with “Jenny Ondioline”. Where The Velvet Underground’s “Sister Ray” used drone to mimic the warm surge of a heroin high, Stereolab’s drone on Transient Random-Noise Bursts was healthier, cleaner, progress-oriented, but with just the slightest twist of retro—the sound of monorail demonstrations and microwave ovens, of a bright new plastic future.
That the band’s lyrics tilted towards socialist readings (“Jenny Ondioline”), solidarity chants (“Analogue Rock”) and statements of political self-determination (“Our Trinitone Blast”) only supports the thesis that their propensity to play three chords for 10 minutes at a time was less an expression of being stoned than of being almost militantly unified: These were young, well-read bohemians prepared to change the world.
And while they dove considerably deeper into kitsch as their career went on, you can hear the seeds of the fascination here—if not in Laetitia Sadier’s charmingly blasé delivery, then in the breezy French-ish folk-pop of “Pack Yr Romantic Mind” or “I’m Going Out of My Way”, which samples Perrey and Kingsley’s ’60s-era rework of Antônio Carlos Jobim’s “One Note Samba”—the Rosetta Stone of easy listening for robots.

Tracklisting

Tone Burst (5:33)
Our Trinitone Blast (3:46)
Pack Yr Romantic Mind (5:04)
I’m Going Out Of My Way (3:25)
Golden Ball (6:50)
Pause (5:19)
Jenny Ondioline (18:06)
Analogue Rock (4:38)
Crest (6:03)
Lock-Groove Lullaby (3:36)
Fragments
Jenny Ondioline (7"/EP Version - Alternative Mix)
Drum - Backwards Bass - Organ [Jenny Ondioline Breakdown Full Version]
Analogue Rock [Original Mix]
Pause [Original Mix]
French Disco [Early Version Mix]
Jenny Ondioline Part 2 [Breakdown Mix]
Fruition - Demo
I’m Going Out Of My Way - Demo
French Disco - Demo
Lock Groove Lullaby - Demo
Jenny Ondioline - Demo
Pause - Demo

Apple Music

Videos

Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline (Official Video)

Release Images

Release Information

Key	Value
Wikipedia URL	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_Random-Noise_Bursts_with_Announcements
Format	Vinyl 2× LP Album Reissue Remastered, Vinyl LP, All Media (Expanded Edition)
Label	Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks
Catalog Number	D-UHF-D02R
Notes	Comes with fold-out poster & DL card. Track D3 ends in a locked groove. Gatefold sleeve. Tracks are continuously numbered across sides on the labels. 40 copies were made with a 3 - 4" piece of mastertape by Martin Pike and sold through Rough Trade UK. 18 copies were made with a piece of master tape numbered and stamped by Martin Pike and offered to customers whose orders for the clear vinyl edition could not be fulfilled through Rough Trade NYC. Recorded at Blackwing Studios, London, May ‘93. Remastered […] at Calyx, Berlin. Front cover reproduced by kind permission of Haymarket Publishing Group. Sampling credits: Pack Yr Romantic Mind. Embodies portions of “Strangers In The Night”, written by Burt Kæmptfert, Charles Singleton, and Eddie Snyder, and published by Champion Music Corp. (BMI) / Screen - Gems (BMI) / GEMA. Used courtesy of Vanguard Records, a Welk Group Company. I’m Going Out Of My Way. “One Note Samba” Embodies portions of “One Note Samba”, written by A. Jobim, J. Hendricks and N. Mendoca, and published by Duchess Music Corp. (BMI). Used courtesy of Vanguard Records, a Welk Group Company. Jenny Ondioline. “Channel Recognition Phasing & Balance” used courtesy of Haymarket Publishing Ltd. “Lock Groove Lullaby” This song embodies portions of “The Savers”, written by Jean Marcel LeRoy and Gershon Kingsley, and published by Valentine Music Corp. (ASCAP). Used courtesy of Vanguard Records, a Welk Group Company. On labels: ℗ 2019 Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks © 2019 Warp Records
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