''Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements'' is the second

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by English-French

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band Stereolab, released on 24 August 1993 and was issued by

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and

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. it was recorded with an expanded line-up, and is generally considered to the band's noisiest release due to its' emphasis on distorted guitars and keyboard sounds.

Composition

Shortly before the release of ''Transient Random-Noise Bursts'', Stereolab re-recorded the song "Pack Yr Romantic Mind" to remove a

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from

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's '' Wonderwall Music'' that they were denied clearance to use. On the LP edition of the album, the end of the last track, "Lock-Groove Lullaby", extends into a locked groove repeating a phrase sampled from

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's "The Savers", from their 1967 album '' Kaleidoscopic Vibrations: Electronic Pop Music from Way Out''.

Release

''Transient Random-Noise Bursts'' was released on 24 August 1993 in the United States by

, and on 6 September 1993 in the United Kingdom by

. The album's sleeve design was adapted from that of a hi-fi test record issued by ''Hi-Fi Sound'' magazine in 1969; the record itself is sampled on the song "

Jenny Ondioline ''Jenny Ondioline'' is a 1993 EP by the Anglo-French band Stereolab, which served as the lead single from the album '' Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements''. It was released on CD and 10" vinyl. Its tracks were later re-released on ...

". The majority of the first 1,500 LP copies of ''Transient Random-Noise Bursts'' were destroyed due to bad pressing quality. On its release, ''Transient Random-Noise Bursts'' peaked at number 62 on the UK Albums Chart. In advance of the album, "Jenny Ondioline" was released on 22 August 1993. A

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ed and expanded edition of ''Transient Random-Noise Bursts'' was released by Duophonic and

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on 3 May 2019.

Track listing

Sample credits * "Pack Yr Romantic Mind" embodies portions of " Strangers in the Night", written by Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton, and Eddie Snyder. * "I'm Going Out of My Way" embodies portions of " One Note Samba", written by Antônio Jobim, Jon Hendricks, and Newton Mendonça. * "Jenny Ondioline" contains samples from "Channel Recognition Phasing & Balance", used courtesy of

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. * "Lock-Groove Lullaby" embodies portions of "The Savers", written by Jean Marcel Leroy and

Gershon Kingsley Gershon Kingsley (born Götz Gustav Ksinski; October 28, 1922 – December 10, 2019) was a German-American composer, a pioneer of electronic music and the Moog synthesizer, a partner in the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, founde ...

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. Stereolab * Tim Gane – guitar, Vox organ, Moog synthesizer, bongo drum, tambourine *

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– vocals, Vox organ, guitar, tambourine, Moog synthesizer * Duncan Brown – bass, guitar

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, vocals * Mary Hansen – vocals, tambourine, guitar * Sean O'Hagan – Farfisa and Vox organs, guitar * Andy Ramsay – percussion, Vox organ, bouzouki Production * Stereolab (credited as "The Groop") – mixing * Phil Wright – production, engineering, mixing

Charts

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References

External links

''Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements''
at official Stereolab website * * {{Authority control 1993 albums Stereolab albums Elektra Records albums