The Lab Report - 14-01-2021

Here's the track listing:

Side 1
1 - Outer Bongolia
2 - Intervals

Side 2
1 - Barock-Plastic
2 - Nomus Et Phusis
3 - I Feel The Air {Of Another Planet}

Side 3
1 - Household Names
2 - Retrograde Mirror Form
3 - Solar Throw-Away [Original version]
4 - Pandora's Box Of Worms
5 - L'exotisme Interieur

Side 4
1 - The Super-It
2 - Jump Drive Shut-Out
3 - Explosante Fixe
4 - Fried Monkey Eggs [Instrumental version]
5 - Monkey Jelly
6 - B.U.A

Side 5
1 - Free Witch and No Bra Queen
2 - Heavy Denim Loop Pt 2
3 - Variation One
4 - Monkey Jelly [Beats]
5 - Dimension M2

Side 6
1 - Solar Throw-Away
2 - Calimero
3 - Fried Monkey Eggs [Vocal]
4 - Speck Voice

Here are the track details:

Outer Bongolia, Intervals, Barock-Plastic, Nomus Et Phusis, I Feel The Air (Of Another Planet), Household Name and Retrograde Mirro Form originally released as The First Of The Microbe Hunters 29th May 2000 on Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks, catalogue number D-UHF-D25 as double vinyl [6500 copies pressed] and CD [12,000 copies pressed] editions.

Jump Drive Shut-Out and Solar Throwaway were originally released 10th April 2006 as a 7" tour single via Duophonic Super 45s. Catalogue number DS-4538. 3600 copies were pressed.
Solar Throw-Away (Original Version) was unreleased at the time.

Explosante Fixe and L'exotisme Interieur were originally released September 2008 as a 7" tour single via Duophonic Super 45s. Catalogue number DS45-43. 2000 copies were pressed.

The Super-It, Fried Monkey Eggs [Instrumental], Fried Monkey Eggs [Vocal] and Monkey Jelly originally released as The Underground Is Coming 7" tour EP via Duophonic UHF Disks and cut at 33rpm. Catalogue number D-UHF-D24.
Monkey Jelly [Beats] was unreleased at the time.

B.U.A was written for a further collaboration with Charles Long [Stereolab had previously worked with him on Music For The Amorphous Body Study Center in 1995] and is previously unreleased.
The artwork is called B.U.A [Burnt Umber Assembly] : An Entanglement of Wholes [1998].

Free Witch And No-Bra Queen and Speck-Voice were originally released 31st August 2001 as a 7" tour single via Duophonic Super 45s. Catalogue number DS45-30. 2000 copies were pressed.

Variation One was written for a film soundtrack and compilation CD for "Moog", a documentary about Robert Moog. Originally released 14th September 2004 via Hollywood Records.

Dimension M2 was written for the Disko Cabine CD compilation, released in June 2005.

Calimero was originally released July 1999 via Duophonic Super 45s. Catalogue number DS45-25. A collaborative 7" release between Brigitte Fontaine and Stereolab. The B side was Cache Cache by Monade.
A total of 4100 vinyl copies were pressed [1800 on white vinyl and 2300 on black vinyl], there was also a CD edition of 7076 copies.

Pandora's Box of Worms - an unreleased outtake from the Dots and Loops album sessions.

Heavy Denim Loop Pt. 2 - an unreleased outtake from the Mars Audiac Quintet album sessions.

In addition to the new album we have added two new items to the Stereolab Homewares range...

A set of 8 high quality Melamine cork backed coasters - approx. 10cm x 10cm.

Switched On / Transient Random Noise-Bursts With Announcements / Mars Audiac Quintet / Emperor Tomato Ketchup / Dots and Loops / Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night / Sound-Dust and Margerine Eclipse artwork in a drinks coaster format. Supplied as 2 x 4 coasters in a small cardboard box. Not sold individually.

[These are super expensive to produce and it's unlikely that we will be able to make these again, unless touring resumes]