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).