Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements

Shortly before the release of Transient Random-Noise Bursts, Stereolab re-recorded the song "Pack Yr Romantic Mind" to remove a sample from George Harrison's Wonderwall Music that they were denied clearance to use.^[15][16]

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

Transient Random-Noise Bursts was released on 10 August 1993 in the United States by Elektra Records and on 6 September 1993 in the United Kingdom by Duophonic Records.^[17] The album's sleeve design was adapted from that of a hi-fi test record issued by Hi-Fi Sound magazine in 1969;^[18] the record itself is sampled on the song "Jenny Ondioline".^[19] The majority of the first 1,500 LP copies of Transient Random-Noise Bursts were destroyed due to bad pressing quality.^[15]

On its release, Transient Random-Noise Bursts peaked at number 62 on the UK Albums Chart.^[20] In advance of the album, "Jenny Ondioline" was released on 22 August 1993.^[21]

A remastered and expanded edition of Transient Random-Noise Bursts was released by Duophonic and Warp on 3 May 2019.^[22]

Sample credits^[19]

• "Pack Yr Romantic Mind" embodies portions of "Strangers in the Night", written by Bert Kaempfert,^{[nb 1]} 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.^{[nb 2]}
• "Jenny Ondioline" contains samples from "Channel Recognition Phasing & Balance", used courtesy of Haymarket Publishing.
• "Lock-Groove Lullaby" embodies portions of "The Savers", written by Jean Marcel Leroy and Gershon Kingsley.

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.^[19]

Stereolab

• Tim Gane – guitar, Vox organ, Moog synthesizer, bongo drum, tambourine
• Lætitia Sadier – vocals, Vox organ, guitar, tambourine, Moog synthesizer
• Duncan Brown – bass, guitar twang, 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