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Switched On

Switched On
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Compilation album by Stereolab
Released October 1992
Genre Post-rock, shoegaze
Length 43:55
Label Too Pure (UK)
Slumberland (US)
Stereolab chronology
Low Fi
(1992)Low Fi1992
Switched On
(1992)
Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
(1993)Space Age Bachelor Pad Music1993
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Switched On (also known as Switched On Stereolab or Switched On Volume 1) is a compilation of Stereolab's first three releases, and was originally released in 1992. The album's name is in tribute to Switched-On Bach and other similar titles from the late 1960s to 1970s that feature Moog synthesizers as the primary instrument.Switched On was later licensed to Slumberland Records for a US release, and Rough Trade Germany, for that country, both in 1992.

It forms the first part of a trilogy of Stereolab rarities collections along with Refried Ectoplasm and Aluminum Tunes.

The three first releases that form Switched On include:

1. "Super 45", 10" EP, May 1991, on Duophonic (the band's own label)

2. "Super-Electric", 10" EP, September 1991, on Too Pure

3. "Stunning Debut Album", 7" single, November 1991, on Duophonic


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