Space Age Batchelor Pad Music (also known as The Groop Played "Space Age Batchelor Pad Music") is an EP (or "mini-LP") by the alternative music band Stereolab, originally released in March 1993. The release became an underground hit, and led to the band securing its first major-label record deal.

Space Age Batchelor Pad Music
EP by Stereolab
Released	22 March 1993
Genre	Space age pop indie pop post-rock
Length	27:38
Label	Too Pure (UK) American (US)
Producer	Stereolab and Andy Wilkinson
Stereolab chronology
Switched On (1992) Space Age Batchelor Pad Music (1993) Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements (1993)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Pitchfork Media	(8.7/10)[2]

The title is spelled Space Age Batchelor Pad Music on the front cover, though not on the back cover or spine; The sleeve and label designs use artwork and text from Vanguard Records' "Stereolab" hi-fi test record after which the group was named, including the "flagbearer on horseback" logo of Vanguard Records itself. The EP title was later used by Bar/None Records for a 1994 compilation of tracks by Mexican lounge music legend Juan García Esquivel.

Track listing

• All songs published by Complete Music.

Personnel

Played by

• Duncan Brown – Bass (Tracks 6 and 8)
• Tim Gane – Guitars, Bass (Tracks 3, 5 and 7), Farfisa (Track 7), Moog, Samples, Radio
• Mary Hansen – Second Vocals, Moog (Tracks 6 and 8)
• Sean O'Hagan – Farfisa, Chord Organ Moog, Bass (Track 1), Marimbas, Air Freshener Lid, Drum (Track 5)
• Andy Ramsay – Persuasive Percussion
• Lætitia Sadier – Vocals, Tamboorine

Technical credits

• Andy Wilkinson - Engineering
• Giles – Engineering Assistant
• The Groop and Andy – Producer, Mixing
• Magic Glue – Design

References

• "Biography". Stereolab. All Media Guide/All Music. Retrieved 2007-05-04.
• ".. stereolab: discography ." Stereolab Official Site. Stereolab. Retrieved 2012-11-18.

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