Stereolab / Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements
Artist Stereolab
Album Title: Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Indie
Format CD
Released 08/24/1993
Label Elektra Entertainment/Warner Communications Inc.
Catalog No 9 61536-2
Bar Code No 0 7559-61536-2 1
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. Tone Burst (5:35)
2. Our Trinitone Blast (3:47)
3. Pack Yr Romantic Mind (5:06)
4. I'm Going Out Of My Way (3:25)
5. Golden Ball (6:52)
6. Pause (5:23)
7. Jenny Ondioline (18:08)
8. Analogue Rock (4:13)
9. Crest (6:04)
10. Lock-Groove Lullaby (3:38)
Date Acquired 10/10/1993
Personal Rating
Acquired from Roadrunner Records
Purchase Price 16.00

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Notes

Notes:
℗ © 1993 Elektra Entertainment.
Made in the USA by WEA Manufacturing Inc.
All songs published by Incomplete Music Inc. (BMI).
Front cover reproduced by kind permission of Haymarket Publishing Group.
Recorded at Blackwing Studios, London, May 1993.
'Pack yr Romantic Mind' embodies portions of 'Strangers in the Night', written by Burt Kaempfort, Charles Singleton, and Eddie Snyder.
'I'm Going Out Of My Way' embodies portions of 'One Note Samba', written by A. Jobim, J. Hendricks and N. Mendoca.
'Jenny Ondioline' contains samples from 'Channel Recognition Phasing & Balance'.
'Lock-Groove Lullaby' embodies portions of 'The Savers', written by Jean Marcel LeRoy and Gershon Kingley.
[printed on spine]: 9 61536-2
[printed in booklet & on CD]: 61536-2

Credits:
Bass, Guitar [Twang], Voice [Speaking] – Duncan Brown
Guitar, Organ [Vox], Synthesizer [Moog], Bongos, Tambourine – Tim Gane
Management [Lovingly Managed By] – Martin Pike, Sheri Hood
Mixed By – Phil Wright, The Groop
Organ [Vox, Farfisa], Guitar [Filmy] – Sean O'Hagan
Percussion, Organ [Vox], Bouzouki – Andy Ramsay
Producer, Engineer – Phil Wright
Vocals [Second], Tambourine, Guitar – Mary Hansen
Vocals, Organ [Vox], Guitar, Tambourine, Synthesizer [Moog] – Laetitia Sadier
Written-By – Sadier, Gane

Companies, etc.:
Glass Mastered At – Specialty Records Corporation
Pressed By – Allied Record Company
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Elektra Entertainment
Copyright © – Elektra Entertainment
Made By – WEA Manufacturing Inc.
Published By – Incomplete Music Inc.
Recorded At – Blackwing Studios

Barcode and other Identifiers:
Barcode (Text): 0 7559-61536-2 1
Barcode (String): 075596153621
Matrix / Runout: ARC 2 61536-2 SRC##03 ∗M4 S6
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Analyzed Folder: Stereolab - Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements_dr.txt
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DR          Peak          RMS      Filename                      
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DR10    -1.47 dB   -13.51 dB  01 - Tone Burst.aif          
DR10    -0.72 dB   -13.64 dB  02 - Our Trinitone Blast.aif  
DR11    -1.09 dB   -15.64 dB  03 - Pack Yr Romantic Mind.aif
DR11    -0.81 dB   -14.29 dB  04 - I'm Going Out Of My Way.aif
DR10    -1.36 dB   -13.18 dB  05 - Golden Ball.aif          
DR10    -3.92 dB   -17.50 dB  06 - Pause.aif                
DR12    -0.48 dB   -14.64 dB  07 - Jenny Ondioline.aif      
DR11   +0.00 dB   -14.92 dB  08 - Analogue Rock.aif        
DR10    -1.18 dB   -14.13 dB  09 - Crest.aif                
DR10    -3.12 dB   -15.22 dB  10 - Lock‐Groove Lullaby.aif
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Number of Files: 10
Official DR Value: DR11
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review by Heather Phares:

Though it was the group's major-label debut, Stereolab's Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements showed no signs of selling out. If anything, it's one of the most eclectic and experimental releases in Stereolab's early career, emphasizing the group's elongated Krautrock jams, instrumentals, and harsh, noisy moments. The album begins and ends with smooth, sensual washes of sound like "Tone Burst" and "Lock-Groove Lullaby" and smoothly bouncy pop songs like "I'm Going Out of My Way." These softer, more accessible moments surround complex and varied compositions such as "Analogue Rock," "Our Trinitone Blast," and "Golden Ball," which, with its distorted vocals and shifting tempos, serves as an appetizer for "Jenny Ondioline." A hypnotic, 18-minute epic encompassing dreamy yet driving pop, a Krautrock groove, forceful, churning guitars, and a furious climax, it's the most ambitious -- and definitive -- moment of Stereolab's early years. But Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements also features quietly experimental pieces such as "Pause," a slightly spooky song that uses distorted whispers as a rhythm track and places fluttery keyboards and Laetitia Sadier and Mary Hansen's sweet, slightly alien harmonies atop it. Likewise, the very sexy, very French "Pack Yr Romantic Mind" reveals the growing influence of '50s and '60s easy listening on the group's musical direction. If Switched On and Peng! defined the band's essential sound, Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements expanded it, reaffirming Stereolab's place as one of the most innovative and evolving groups of the '90s.
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