Switched On
Switched On | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | ||||
Compilation album by Stereolab | ||||
Released | October 1992 | |||
Genre |
| |||
Length | 43:55 | |||
Label | Too Pure (UK) Slumberland (US) | |||
Stereolab chronology | ||||
| ||||
Stereolab Switched On chronology | ||||
| ||||
Review scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
Allmusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Pitchfork | 7.7/10[2] |
Switched On (also known as Switched On Stereolab or Switched On Volume 1) is a compilation of Stereolab's first three releases, and was originally released in 1992. The album's name is in tribute to Switched-On Bach and other similar titles from the late 1960s to 1970s that feature Moog synthesizers as the primary instrument.[3] Switched On was later licensed to Slumberland Records for a US release, and Rough Trade Germany, for that country, both in 1992.
Compiled of tracks from Super 45 and Super-Electric EPs plus the Stunning Debut Album 7" single, the album forms the first part of a pentalogy of Stereolab rarities collections along with Refried Ectoplasm (1995), Aluminum Tunes (1998), Electrically Possessed (2021), and Pulse of the Early Brain (2022).
Track listing
No. | Title | Length |
---|---|---|
1. | "Super-Electric" | 5:22 |
2. | "Doubt" | 3:26 |
3. | "Au grand jour'" | 3:27 |
4. | "The Way Will Be Opening" | 4:07 |
5. | "Brittle" | 3:47 |
6. | "Contact" | 8:17 |
7. | "Au grand jour" | 3:40 |
8. | "High Expectation" | 3:32 |
9. | "The Light That Will Cease to Fail" | 3:23 |
10. | "Changer" | 4:54 |
- Tracks 1, 4, 6, and 8 taken from Super-Electric EP
- Tracks 3, 5, 7, and 9 taken from Super 45 EP
- Tracks 2 and 10 taken from Stunning Debut Album 7" single
Personnel
- Laetitia Sadier - vocals
- Gina Morris - vocals
- Tim Gane - guitar, Moog synthesizer, Farfisa organ
- Martin Kean - bass
- Joe Dilworth - drums
References
- "Biography". Stereolab. All Media Guide/All Music. Retrieved 4 May 2007.
- "Switched On". Stereolab. All Media Guide/All Music. Retrieved 5 May 2007.
- "switched on stereolab". Stereolab Official Site. Stereolab. Retrieved 5 May 2007.
- ^ Phares, Heather. ""Switched On" review". Reviews. All Media Guide, LLC. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
- ^ Sherburne, Philip (6 October 2018). "Stereolab: Switched On". Pitchfork. Retrieved 18 July 2019.
- ^ Taylor, Timothy Dean (2001). Strange Sounds: Music, Technology & Culture. Routledge. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-415-93683-5.
- v
- t
- e
- Tim Gane
- Lætitia Sadier
- Andy Ramsay
- Joe Watson
- Xavier Muñoz Guimera
- Duncan Brown
- Mary Hansen
- Sean O'Hagan
- Morgane Lhote
- Simon Johns
- Switched On
- Refried Ectoplasm: Switched On, Vol. 2
- Aluminum Tunes: Switched On, Vol. 3
- ABC Music: The Radio 1 Sessions
- Oscillons from the Anti-Sun
- Fab Four Suture
- Serene Velocity (A Stereolab Anthology)
- Electrically Possessed: Switched On, Vol. 4
- Pulse of the Early Brain: Switched On, Vol. 5
- Super 45
- Super-Electric
- Low Fi
- Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
- Crumb Duck
- Jenny Ondioline
- Ping Pong
- Wow and Flutter
- Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center
- Cybele's Reverie
- Fluorescences
- Miss Modular
- Simple Headphone Mind
- The Free Design
- The First of the Microbe Hunters
- Captain Easychord
- Instant 0 in the Universe
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Symbol_category_class.svg/16px-Symbol_category_class.svg.png)