Switched On Explained

Switched On
Type:compilation
Artist:Stereolab
Cover:Switchedon.png
Released:October 1992
Length:43:55
Label:Too Pure (UK)
Slumberland (US)
Prev Title:Low Fi
Prev Year:1992
Next Title:Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
Next Year:1993

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.[1] Switched On was later licensed to Slumberland Records for a US release, and Rough Trade Germany, for that country, both in 1992.

Compiled of tracks from Super 45 and Super-Electric EPs plus the Stunning Debut Album 7" single, the album forms the first part of a pentalogy of Stereolab rarities collections along with Refried Ectoplasm (1995), Aluminum Tunes (1998), Electrically Possessed (2021), and Pulse of the Early Brain (2022).

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  1. Book: Taylor, Timothy Dean . Strange Sounds: Music, Technology & Culture . 2001 . Routledge . 978-0-415-93683-5 . 278 . registration .