Dots and Loops
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| Studio album by Stereolab | ||
| Released | September 23, 1997 | |
| Recorded | March-June 1997 | |
| Genre | Post-rock | |
| Length | 65:52 | |
| Label | Duophonic UK Elektra US |
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| Producer(s) | ??? | |
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| Stereolab chronology | ||
 Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996) |
 Dots and Loops (1997) |
 Aluminum Tunes (1998) |
Dots and Loops is an album by the band Stereolab, released on September 23, 1997. It was produced in Chicago by John McEntire and with Sean O'Hagan helping out on keyboards and brass and string arrangements, except tracks 3, 5 and 10, which were recorded in Düsseldorf with Mouse on Mars.
The Japanese pressing features an extra track, "Off-On", which is taken from the Miss Modular CD single.
[edit] Track listing
- "Brakhage" – 5:30
- "Miss Modular" – 4:29
- "The Flower Called Nowhere" – 4:55
- "Diagonals" – 5:15
- "Prisoner of Mars" – 4:03
- "Rainbo Conversation" – 4:46
- "Refractions in the Plastic Pulse" – 17:32
- "Parsec" – 5:34
- "Ticker-tape of the Unconscious" – 4:45
- "Contronatura" – 9:03
[edit] Trivia
The track "Parsec" was featured in a series of ads featuring the return of the Volkswagen Bug.
Nevertheless, Stereolab claim to be inspired by some of the anti-capitalist ideas of Deleuze and Guattari.
| Stereolab |
| Tim Gane | Lætitia Sadier | Simon Johns | Andy Ramsay | Dominic Jeffrey | Joseph Watson | Joseph Walters |
| Martin Kean | Joe Dilworth | Russel Yates | Mick Conroy | Mary Hansen | Sean O'Hagan | Duncan Brown | David Pajo | Richard Harrison | Simon Johns | Gina Morris | Katharine Gifford | Morgane Lhote |
| Discography |
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| Albums:
Peng! | Space Age Batchelor Pad Music | Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements | Mars Audiac Quintet | Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center | Emperor Tomato Ketchup | Dots and Loops | Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night | The First of the Microbe Hunters | Sound-Dust | Margerine Eclipse |
| Compilations:
Switched On | Refried Ectoplasm | Aluminum Tunes | ABC Music | Oscillons from the Anti-Sun | Fab Four Suture | Serene Velocity (A Stereolab Anthology) |
| EPs:
Super 45 | Super-Electric | Low Fi | Crumb Duck | Simple Headphone Mind | Captain Easychord | Instant 0 in the Universe |
