StereolabAluminum Tunes

Label:

Drag City – DC159CD

Series:

Switched On (2) – 3

Format:

2 x CD , Compilation

Country:

US

Released:

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Downtempo

Tracklist

1-01 Pop Quiz 4:22
1-02 The Extension Trip 3:43
1-03 How To Play Your Internal Organs Overnight 3:58
1-04 The Brush Descends The Length 3:08
1-05 Melochord Seventy-Five 3:38
1-06 Space Moment 4:19
1-07 Iron Man 3:27
1-08 The Long Hair Of Death 4:48
1-09 You Used To Call Me Sadness 4:00
1-10 New Orthophony 6:25
1-11 Speedy Car 5:00
1-12 Golden Atoms 5:18
1-13 Ulan Bator 3:14
1-14 One Small Step 4:16
2-01 One Note Samba / Surfboard 9:09
2-02 Cadriopo 3:09
2-03 Klang Tone 5:36
2-04 Get Carter 3:23
2-05 1000 Miles An Hour 4:31
2-06 Percolations
Remix, Mixed ByJohn McEntire
3:21
2-07 Seeperbold 5:07
2-08 Check And Double Check 4:03
2-09 Munich Madness 3:48
2-10 Metronomic Underground (Wagon Christ Mix)
RemixLuke Vibert
7:50
2-11 The Incredible He Woman
Mixed ByThe Groop (2)
3:30

Companies, etc.

  • Designed AtIntro (11)
  • Produced AtBlackwing Studios
  • Produced AtSpatio-Dynamic Studios
  • Produced AtSouthern Studios
  • Produced AtIdful Music
  • Remixed AtIdful Music
  • Mixed AtSpatio-Dynamic Studios
  • Mastered AtAbbey Road Studios
  • Copyright ©Antonio Carlos Jobim
  • Copyright ©Mrs. Mendonça
  • Phonographic Copyright ℗Elektra Entertainment Group
  • Record CompanyWarner Communications Inc.
  • Phonographic Copyright ℗Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks
  • Licensed FromElektra Entertainment Group
  • Licensed FromDuophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks
  • Published ByIsland
  • Published ByComplete (3)
  • Published ByDuchess Music Corp.
  • Record CompanyMCA
  • Published ByCorcovado Music
  • Published ByJobim Music Ltda
  • Glass Mastered AtDisque Americ
  • Pressed ByDisque Americ

Credits

  • Management, Other [Sandpaper]Pikey*
  • Mastered BySteve Rooke
  • ProducerThe Groop (2) (tracks: 1-01 to 1-08, 1-10 to 1-14, 2-01 to 2-05, 2-07 to 2-09)
  • SleeveHouse*
  • Written-ByGane* (tracks: 1-01 to 1-14, 2-02, 2-03, 2-05 to 2-11)
  • Written-By [One Note Samba]Newton Mendonca* (tracks: 2-01)
  • Written-By [Surfboard]Antonio Carlos Jobim (tracks: 2-01)

Notes

Comes in an oversize heavy duty card fold out sleeve. Track durations are not printed on the release.

Tracks 1-01 to 1-06, 1-08, 1-10 to 1-14, 2-01 to 2-05 & 2-07 to 2-09 produced at Blackwing.

Tracks 1-01 to 1-06 Recorded January 1995, Originally Released as 'Amorphous Body Study Centre'
Track 1-07 Recorded August 1997. produced at Spatio Dynamic.
Track 1-08 Recorded October 1994
Track 1-09 Recorded July 1996. produced at Southern Studios.
Track 1-10 Recorded April 1994
Tracks 1-11 & 1-12 Recorded June 1995
Track 1-13 Recorded April 1994
Track 1-14 Recorded June 1995
Track 2-01 Recorded December 1995
Track 2-02 Recorded June 1995
Track 2-03 Recorded April 1994
Tracks 2-04 & 2-05 Recorded February 1995
Track 2-06 Recorded August 1995. remixed at Idful. Mixed October 1996.
Track 2-07 Recorded January 1995
Track 2-08 Recorded June 1995
Track 2-09 Recorded February 1995
Track 2-10 Recorded May 1995. Remixed October 1996.
Track 2-11 Recorded March 1997. produced at Idful, mixed at Spatio Dynamique, August 1997.

Mastered at Abbey Road.

Under License From Elektra Entertainment Group and Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks

Tracks 1-01 to 1-06, 1-10, 1-13, 2-03 published by Complete.

Tracks 1-07 to 1-09, 1-11, 1-12, 1-14, 2-02, 2-05 to 2-11 published by Island.

Track 2-01 [One Note Samba] published by Duchess Music Corp. © 1961, 1962 Antonio Carlos Jobim and Mrs Mendonca. istered by Duchess Music Corp., and MCA Company

Track 2-01 [Surfboard] © renewed 1993. istered in the U.S. by Corcovado Music and in Brazil by Jobim Music Ltda.

Track 2-04 published by EMI United Partnership Ltd.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode (Text): 0 36172 91592 7
  • Barcode (String): 036172915927
  • Matrix / Runout (Disc 1, variant 1): DADR 1CL93<0241>DC159PROMOCD1
  • Mastering SID Code (Disc 1, variant 1): IFPI L483
  • Mould SID Code (Disc 1, variant 1): IFPI810A
  • Matrix / Runout (Disc 2, variant 1): DADR 1C9H1<0241>DC159PROMOCD2
  • Mastering SID Code (Disc 2, variant 1): IFPI L481
  • Mould SID Code (Disc 2, variant 1): IFPI8123
  • Matrix / Runout (Disc 1, variant 2): DADR 1CL93<0241>DC159PROMOCD1
  • Mastering SID Code (Disc 1, variant 2): IFPI L483
  • Mould SID Code (Disc 1, variant 2): IFPI8121
  • Matrix / Runout (Disc 2, variant 2): DADR 1C9H1<0241>DC159PROMOCD2
  • Mastering SID Code (Disc 2, variant 2): IFPI L481
  • Mould SID Code (Disc 2, variant 2): IFPI8108

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Aluminum Tunes (3×LP, Compilation) Warp Records WARPLP59 Europe 1998
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Aluminum Tunes (2×CD, Compilation) Warp Records WARPCD59, 07243846 729 2 8 Europe 1998
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Aluminum Tunes (2×CD, Compilation) EastWest Japan AMCY-2871~2 Japan 1998
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Aluminum Tunes (3×LP, Compilation) Drag City DC159 US 1998
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Aluminum Tunes (3×LP, Compilation) Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks D-UHF-D20 UK 1998

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Reviews

  • spiderfriend's avatar
    spiderfriend
    In reference to variant 2, purchased release day A & B Sound Fish Creek Calgary Alberta Canada. Regarding the awful packaging, yet another attempt to reinvent the wheel mentality, like the dreaded jewel case, a three gatefold sleeve design is brilliant, for vinyl and CD, who asked for anything else!? Just endless payouts to friends, relatives, and sycophants. A superb sounding and fully loaded compilation, though, and that is ultimately what matters.
    • GoodRecordsOakland's avatar
      hands down, the worst packaging of any CD I've ever encountered. good music makes up for it.
      • anechoictransmission's avatar
        My package is annoying cardboard sleeve that never held the CDs properly.

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