Album
Dots And Loops
1997 · Electronic, Rock
27 collectors on Gatefold own this
Dots And Loops is an Alt/Indie album by Stereolab, originally released in 1997. On Gatefold: 34 pressings tracked, owned by 27 collectors.
About
Part of Stereolab’s legacy was to expose the orthodoxy of indie rock by embracing stuff indie rockers would have found desperately uncool: space-age pop, cocktail jazz, elevator music. Where 1996’s <i>Emperor Tomato Ketchup</i> retained a punk edge (if you squinted, at least), <i>Dots and Loops</i>, released only a year later, was the full fruitcake. Compare the band’s 1993 epic “Jenny Ondioline,” a three-chord, 18-minute trance of noisy guitars and socialist incantations (“I don’t care, democracy’s being fucked”), with “Refractions in the Plastic Pulse,” which shifts from lounge waltz to variety-show jazz to synthesizer étude to funk-lite—a complex, almost pointedly corny descent into music that sounds less like the work of bonded mammals than some faceless corporation. .
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Tracklist
- 1Brakhage5:30
- 2Miss Modular4:29
- 3The Flower Called Nowhere4:55
- 4Diagonals5:15
- 5Prisoner of Mars4:03
- 6Rainbo Conversation4:46
- 7Refractions in the Plastic Pulse17:32
- 8Parsec5:34
- 9Ticker-tape of the Unconscious4:45
- 10Contronatura9:03
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Post-Rock
- layered
- playful
- art school
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Andi TomaELECTRONICS, PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS , ELECTRONICS, PERCUSSION
- Andy RamsayPERFORMER, BAND
- Andy RobinsonARRANGED BY
- Dave Max CrawfordBRASS
- Jeb BishopBRASS
- John McEntireSYNTHESIZER , ELECTRONICS, PERCUSSION, VIBRAPHONE, MARIMBA INSTRUMENTS , SYNTHESIZER , ELECTRONICS, PERCUSSION, VIBRAPHONE, MARIMBA SYNTHESIZER , ELECTRONICS , PERCUSSION, VIBRAPHONE , MARIMBA
- Laetitia SadierPERFORMER, BAND VOCALS
- Marcus HoldawayARRANGED BY
- Mary HansenPERFORMER, BAND VOCALS
- Maureen LoughnaneSTRINGS
- Morgane LhotePERFORMER, BAND
- Paul MertensBRASS
- Poppy BrandersSTRINGS
- Rebecca McFaulSTRINGS
- Richard HarrisonPERFORMER, BAND
- Ross ReedBRASS
- Sean O'HaganARRANGED BY PIANO, ELECTRIC PIANO , ELECTRIC ORGAN INSTRUMENTS , PIANO, ELECTRIC PIANO , ORGAN
- Shelley WeissSTRINGS
27 collectors on Gatefold own this · 34 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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