Emperor Tomato Ketchup

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Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Emperor Tomato Ketchup cover
Studio album by Stereolab
Released April 1996
Recorded  ???
Genre Post-rock
Length 57:15
Label Duophonic Records UK
Elektra US
Producer(s) Stereolab, Paul Tipler
Professional reviews
Stereolab chronology

Refried Ectoplasm
(1995)

Emperor Tomato Ketchup
(1996)

Dots and Loops
(1997)


Emperor Tomato Ketchup is a 1996 album by the band Stereolab. It is named after a 1972 underground art movie by Shuji Terayama of the same name.

The line-up at the time was Tim Gane, Laetitia Sadier, Mary Hansen, Morgan Lhote, Andrew Ramsay and Duncan Brown. Shortly after the band recorded the album, Brown left Stereolab's fold (his exemplary bass work can be found on track three of the album) and was replaced by Richard Harrison (who, in turn, was replaced by the current bass player Simon Johns).

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier, except where noted.

  1. "Metronomic Underground" – 7:55
  2. "Cybele's Reverie" – 4:42
  3. "Percolator" (Gane, Sean O'Hagan, Sadier) – 3:47
  4. "Les Yper-Sound" – 4:05
  5. "Spark Plug" – 2:29
  6. "OLV 26" – 5:42
  7. "The Noise of Carpet" – 3:05
  8. "Tomorrow is Already Here" – 4:56
  9. "Emperor Tomato Ketchup" – 4:37
  10. "Monstre Sacre" – 3:44
  11. "Motoroller Scalatron" – 3:48
  12. "Slow Fast Hazel" – 3:53
  13. "Anonymous Collective" – 4:32
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
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