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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nFurther, Stereolab announced a reunion tour of Europe, the UK, and the United States throughout this year. Their September show in El Paso, Texas will mark their first US concert in 11 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here’s a few snippets of what Tim Gane said about the mastering process for the reissues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs we started the project it became obvious that most of the tapes were showing signs of deterioration and some of the earliest ones were already at an advanced stage of decay and were actively shredding. They needed to be baked. Great care was taken during the baking of the tapes and no loss of sound quality is audible to me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The earliest tapes would not have withstood the stress put on them by a normal tape machine set up, with its high-tension mechanism and multi-head configuration. Plus, our \u00bd\u201d tapes needed to run at 30 inches per second. This increased tension would have most likely snapped the tape. As a solution, Bo commissioned a bespoke tape block which consists of a single playback head and a simple, no-tension tape guide. This allowed the tape to be simply held in place as it passed over the single head.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Stereolab\u2019s music can often be quite impenetrably dense in the midrange; there is lots of detail everywhere. We were both very keen to preserve this aspect of the sound and, at the same time, try to improve a little on resolution, spatiality, and depth.\u201d<\/em>
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