are retrospectively considered one of the founding fathers of Krautrock and a significant influence on artists including David Bowie, Brian Eno, Iggy Pop, PiL, Joy Division, Gary Numan, Ultravox, Simple Minds, Negativland, Stereolab, Boredoms, Radiohead, The Horrors, Electrelane, and much of the current electronic music scene.

Talk Talk, Soft Machine, John Coltrane, Don Cherry, Aphex Twin, Stereolab, Squarepusher and Tortoise are frequently mentioned as sources of inspiration.

Stereolab have been called " one of the most influential alternative bands of the ' 90s ", and one of " the decade's most innovative British bands.

Emperor Tomato Ketchup is the fourth album by British alternative rock band Stereolab, released in April 1996.

The music journalist Pierre Perrone said that Hansen's " playful nature and mischievous sense of humour came through in the way she approached the backing vocals she contributed to Stereolab and the distinctive harmonies she created with Sadier.

Said Joshua Klein in The Washington Post, " Years before everyone else caught on, Stereolab was referencing the 1970s German bands Can and Neu !, the Mexican lounge music master Esquivel and the decidedly unhip Burt Bacharach.

Several critics have said that Stereolab lacked stage presence, arguing that Sadier's vocal delivery was too subdued and that the band tended to play instead of perform its music.

In 1995 the group teamed up with sculptor Charles Long for an interactive art show in New York City, for which Long provided the exhibits and Stereolab the music.

Electronic music was also explored from the early 1990s by indie electronic bands like Stereolab and Disco Inferno, who mixed a variety of indie and synthesizer sounds.

The work of Talk Talk and Slint helped inspire post-rock ( an experimental style influenced by jazz and electronic music, pioneered by Bark Psychosis and taken up by acts such as Tortoise, Stereolab, and Laika ), as well as leading to more dense and complex, guitar-based math rock, developed by acts like Polvo and Chavez.

Indie electronic, which had begun in the early 1990s with bands like Stereolab and Disco Inferno, took off in the new millennium as digital technology developed, with acts including Broadcast from the UK, Justice from France, Lali Puna from Germany and The Postal Service, and Ratatat and BOBBY from the US, mixing a variety of indie sounds with electronic music, largely produced on small independent labels.

Alternative band Stereolab demonstrated the influence of lounge with releases like Space Age Bachelor Pad Music and the Ultra-Lounge series of lounge music albums.

Alternative band Stereolab demonstrated the influence of lounge with releases like Space Age Bachelor Pad Music, and in 1996 Capitol Records began issuing the Ultra-Lounge series of lounge music albums.

Indie electronic, which had begun in the early 90s with bands like Stereolab and Disco Inferno, took off in the new millennium as the new digital technology developed, with acts including The Postal Service, and Ratatat from the US, mixing a variety of indie sounds with electronic music, largely produced on small independent labels.

In the 1990s, Björk, Stereolab, Towa Tei, Amon Tobin and The High Llamas were approaching the Brazilian pop music increasingly.

While Tim Gane has written the bulk of the music in Stereolab, Sadier is the main contributor of lyrics, written in both English and French.

In September 2005, the imported debut was ' Album Of The Week ' in influential London record store Rough Trade who described it as "... a fantastic album of ‘ European cool ’ with breathy vocals over music which sounds like The Concretes, Stereolab or a modern take on the Velvet Underground …" In 2006 the band released the album on their own Rushmore Recordings label headed up by ex Warner Bros A & R executive and Deaf School founder member Steve Allen.

They have released tracks by and toured with post-rock band Tortoise, while John McEntire of Tortoise has in turn worked on several Stereolab albums.

In the 1990s Stereolab and veteran industrial band Nurse With Wound released two limited-edition records together ; both contained Nurse With Wound remixes of original tracks provided by Stereolab.

Indie rock band Pavement ( who also toured with Stereolab ) acknowledged the group's sound on their song " Half A Canyon.

* French singer Brigitte Fontaine collaborated with the band Stereolab on a song of the same name

* Richard Harrison, former member of British band Stereolab

Later that year, the band was featured on a split 7-inch with Stereolab, and performed a few shows with Stereolab in the USA.

The band soon attracted the attention of Too Pure Records ( then home to Stereolab, Mouse on Mars and PJ Harvey ).

The band also toured Europe with Beck, Stereolab and Oasis.

Dominique Durand's vocal technique and Parisian pronunciation is often compared in reviews with another French pop band singer Lætitia Sadier of Stereolab.

The term was first used to describe the band Bark Psychosis and their album Hex ( 1994 ), but was soon employed for bands such as Stereolab, Laika, Disco Inferno and Pram and other acts in America and Canada.

In 2009, Fiedler commented that " we were a couple both personally and professionally for a long time-over ten years-and the personal side of that is over and sometimes it's difficult to work together ", citing the recently-defunct Stereolab as a similar example of a band driven by a central romantic partnership which suffered professionally once that relationship had ended.

Tim Gane ( born 12 July 1964, Barking, England ) is the leader of the rock band, Stereolab.

Each band had a side and they were: Stereolab with " Revox "; Huggy Bear with " Trafalgar Square ," " Godziller ," " More Music From Bells ," " Snow White Rose Red "; Colm with " Soundtrack "; Darlin with " Cindy So Loud " and " Darlin '" 800 copies of which 400 had stickers.

Lætitia Sadier ( born 6 May 1968, sometimes known as Seaya Sadier ) is a French musician best known as the singer of the post-rock band Stereolab.

The band broke up in 1990 and she and Gane immediately formed Stereolab.

The band had two keyboardists using Moog synthesizers and used droning song structures similar to Stereolab and Neu !, but with a stronger pop element.

Sound-Dust is an album by the band Stereolab, released in late 2001.

In 1990, after three albums, McCarthy broke up and Gane immediately formed Stereolab with Sadier ( who had also contributed vocals to McCarthy's final album ) and ex-Chills bassist Martin Kean.

Duophonic Ultra High Frequency Disks Limited, known as Duophonic Super 45s, is a London based independent record label formed by the British pop group Stereolab.

They have continued to play live since, re-energised when The Membranes asked them to be special guests at The Lexington in London, and in March 2012 played with Laetitia Sadier from Stereolab in support at a benefit to raise funds for proposed Frank Sidebottom memorial statue.

From there he also runs Associated London Management Ltd, a company dedicated to the management of bands such as Stereolab, Broadcast, Deerhunter, Atlas Sound and The High Llamas.

* 1966 – Mary Hansen, Australian musician ( Stereolab ) ( d. 2002 )

Stereolab often incorporates socio-political themes into their lyrics.

In 2009, Stereolab announced via their website that they were going on indefinite hiatus.

Their next album, 1993's Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements, was their first American release under Elektra, and became an underground hit in both the U. S. and the U. K. Mark Jenkins commented in The Washington Post that with this album, Stereolab " continues the glorious drones of indie work, giving celestial sweep to garage-rock organ pumping and rhythm-guitar strumming ".

On 8 January 1994, Stereolab achieved their first chart entry when 1993 EP Jenny Ondioline entered at number 75 on the UK Singles Chart.

2, Stereolab followed with an EP titled Music for the Amorphous Body Study Center.

Also in 1996, Stereolab collaborated with Herbie Mann on the song " One Note Samba / Surfboard " for the AIDS-Benefit album Red Hot + Rio produced by the Red Hot Organization.

" Stereolab added a new bassist, Simon Johns, for the Cobra and Phases Group ... tour.

Born in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, Hansen earned the most attention for her vocal work with Stereolab, although she also played the guitar and keyboards.

" For the next few months, Stereolab lay dormant as the members grieved.

In 2005 and 2006, Stereolab released six limited-edition singles which were later released as a collection in Fab Four Suture, and contained material which Mark Jenkins thought continued the brisker sound of the band's post-Hansen work.

Stereolab often utilise vintage Moog synthesizers.

Stereolab toured regularly to support their album releases.

In a 1996 The Washington Post gig review, Mark Jenkins wrote that Stereolab started out favoring an " easy-listening syncopation ", but eventually reverted to a " messier, more urgent sound " characteristic of their earlier performances.

" Stereolab were one of the first groups to be called post-rock — in a 1996 article, journalist Angela Lewis applied the " new term " to Stereolab and three other bands who have connections to the group.