Re: (idm) New Stereolab

From nick
Sent Fri, Oct 16th 1998, 17:49

> Heard the new Stereolab in my local store today.
> Sounded really good, didn't have enough money to buy it though, can anybody
> tell me how many copies were pressed as "limited" double-CDs?

The limited aspect is not the fact that it's a double cd. It's the 
crappy card packaging (which doesn't hold the cd's in at all well) 
that's limited. 

> I'm not a big fan of their other material (to be honest I haven't heard
> much but the Ketchup album), but this I liked. Shouldn't say too much since

a large amount of the stuff on this release is from before 'Emporer 
Tomato Ketchup'. If you like Aluminum Tunes I would expect that you'd 
enjoy other 'Lab stuff.

> I only browsed it once.
> Noone can say anything else but that Warp is playing it pretty safe these
> days though. No rabbit-in-a-hat-tricks anymore, no.

I know this was brought up before but what the hell does Warp have to
do with this release?
        "At last a Stereolab release on Warp! Duophonic are of course 
        handling the release in the UK and Elektra in Japan and USA."
        (from warp-net.com)

Does this mean that Warp are releasing it everywhere except Japan, 
UK, & USA? I wouldn't call that a Warp release.

> Oh, and it's not got any DR design either. 
> Looks pretty fantastic if I may say so.

It wouldn't be a DR design since it's a Duophonic release and they 
never have DR designs.

Nick