nowhere, really. a friend of mine is starting a small culture magazine (Futureclaw) and asked me if i wanted to write something for it, and it turned out to be an interview with studio. i was going to sweden anyway to visit some friends, so i did the interview in person. and i just e-mailed air france because i was in town.. g-burg is really cool. great time of the year to visit.
― poortheatre, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 11:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
I hope it went something like this: Studio: Ja, ve have tre albums already, how you say, in the can. poorteater: ysi?
― mizzell, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 13:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
finally getting around to listening these dudes, playing yearbook 2 right now and it's.....kind of boring?
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 July 2008 05:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
Start with their original stuff at least!
― Savannah Smiles, Monday, 21 July 2008 07:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
yearbook 2 = major disappointment, good tracks but i already heard it all! :(
― san frandisco, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 04:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
none of the Y2 tracks reach the heights of 'out there' or 'west coast' but this is still one of the best releases of the year.
-- poortheatre, Monday, June 23, 2008 5:33 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Link
Ha ha poortheatre that's like a capsule summary of my review!
-- Tim F, Monday, June 23, 2008 5:44 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Link
you heard it here first, folks
-- poortheatre, Monday, June 23, 2008 5:57 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Link
it's a remix compilation
-- cutty, Monday, June 23, 2008 7:40 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Link
― sleeve, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 06:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm way more impressed by their original material than I am by their remixes.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 09:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
Impossible kills everything else on here, despite me thinking nothing could bowl over Kylie. I was wrong.
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 09:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
Many thanks to Tim F. & Co. for your references to Disco Inferno - a discovery nearly as great as West Coast itself.
Fwiw (and impressively, to me, anyway), iTunes (US) sells the otherwise out-of-print "In Debt" in the "iTunes Plus" mode.
― dblcheeksneek, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 14:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
upcoming projects in order:
-remix windsurf ('the last remix') -finish supervising ('curating') fontan album -supervise album of Oslo band called Century
― poortheatre, Friday, 25 July 2008 23:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm glad I didn't shell out $30 for this. its okay I guess but my favorite song was the shortest one, the rest just kinda went on and on aimlessly.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 25 July 2008 23:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
hate it when songs last more than 4 minutes
― max, Friday, 25 July 2008 23:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
then what are you doing on The Studio - West Coast thread?
― energy flash gordon, Saturday, 26 July 2008 11:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
real talk, right there.
― kenan, Saturday, 26 July 2008 11:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
The idea that Way Out could be 'aimless' had me briefly reassessing my definition of 'aim', and then I realised it was bollocks.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 26 July 2008 11:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
srsly question ppl who don't like this band
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 26 July 2008 12:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
So, has anyone heard the Fontän single? Got it from iTunes. It's a gorgeous song, hazy Pink Floyd like vocals, solid driving drums and terrific double-barreled guitars (what a rush when they come in for the first time so early in the song). Remixes by A Mountain of One (with a bassline reminiscent of Air, Twilight Zone synths and "Love Like Blood" lite guitars) and Studio who reconstruct the song in their typical fashion.
― willem, Friday, 8 August 2008 05:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=260258754743&Category=306&_trksid=p3907.m29
― gr8080, Saturday, 16 August 2008 21:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
want^
another typically awesome studio mix, on pink vinyl!
― san frandisco, Saturday, 16 August 2008 22:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
So, has anyone heard the Fontän single?
yes and it's awesome, Mo1 AND Studio, and the original is a great track too.
― san frandisco, Sunday, 17 August 2008 02:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
It's this, right? The :30 samples do have a Pink Floyd quality to them.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 17 August 2008 02:44 (4 years ago) Permalink
italians do it better have their own version of studio now, tiedye
― san frandisco, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 18:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
loving the little ones mix. i hope the next full length sounds more like that and "no comply" than the AM01 and kylie remakes. not hating just like one sound a little better than the other.
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Thursday, 25 September 2008 21:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
i ordered west coast from the information site and they sent me yearbook 2 for free
― ilx: a miracle i helped create (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 25 September 2008 21:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
lol ----> http://www.zshare.net/audio/183918348b0d986a/
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Thursday, 25 September 2008 22:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
yikes. that is a terrible remix. it's not worth the 13mb folks!
i still play West Coast in full once a week or so.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 25 September 2008 22:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
Like the Little Ones mix, prefer the Fontan remix.
― Treblekicker, Thursday, 25 September 2008 22:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
the Little Ones mix is a good summer jam (kinda wish they woulda rolled out that short vamp they tag on the end) but the Fontan version is typically amazing studio
― funderwear (san frandisco), Thursday, 25 September 2008 23:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
needs more elements from the original tune, imo. at least some more of the vocal.
― skinny jeans + tight plaid shirt (internet person), Thursday, 25 September 2008 23:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
the little ones remix needs 100% less vocal.
― jed_, Friday, 26 September 2008 00:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
Dan Lissvik (one half of) will release a solo album at the end of next month, through Information. No vocs on this one :)http://www.myspace.com/danlissvik (loving B1)
― willem, Sunday, 19 October 2008 12:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
i like his voice
― Annoying Display Name (blueski), Sunday, 19 October 2008 14:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
ha i was just listening to this and i had to skip fwd every time his terrible voice comes in...really spoils the album, i only ever really play 'out there' now.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 19 October 2008 14:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
xpost
me too, f the hataz
― stone cold all time hall of fame classics (internet person), Sunday, 19 October 2008 16:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
Don't like the vocals. Love the music.
― what U cry 4 (jim), Sunday, 19 October 2008 16:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
The vocals are perfect faux-Cure mopery.
I hope that myspace photo is actually him.
― Tim F, Sunday, 19 October 2008 20:30 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah, it's him, that's his arm tattoo.
― stone cold all time hall of fame classics (internet person), Sunday, 19 October 2008 20:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
or "sleeve", if you like.
The samples sound great - very intricate and delicate. Some of the rhythm tracks are mindboggling. Together the music sort of traces this careful constellation between Durutti Column and Oner Ozur.
― Tim F, Sunday, 19 October 2008 20:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
this is exciting! sounds goodd. anyone know where in nyc i can buy the fontan 12"?
― mizzell, Sunday, 19 October 2008 20:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
its funny how much this sounds like exactly 1/2 of studio
― max, Sunday, 19 October 2008 20:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
i hope the other half releases an album thats all spanish-y guitar and synth fills
― max, Sunday, 19 October 2008 20:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
perfect faux-Cure mopery
"perfect" is not an adjective which should ever be near a phrase like "faux-cure mopery"!
― lex pretend, Sunday, 19 October 2008 22:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
Lex I love you but you're hardly going to have a nuanced judgement regarding this issue!
I mean I'm confidently guessing our disagreement here goes well past Studio to include The Tough Alliance, Shy Child, Animal Collective/Panda Bear, JLC remixes of The Killers etc. - basically any mixture of (or, from your perspective, contamination of) dancey or electronic arrangements with white male vocals.
― Tim F, Sunday, 19 October 2008 23:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm not trying to parody your position BTW - I have also held with it at certain times. But one of the things that (specifically) the "Mr. Brightside" remix made me realize was that my long-standing disinterest with what we might call the indie impulse wasn't tied to the properties of indie music (guitars, stodgy "grooves", slightly whiny or plaintive sounding male vocals, a fear of sex or physicality etc.) but rather the way all of these things were inevitably articulated together, such that you couldn't have one without the others. Call it the "hegemonic predictability" of these traits.
What i realized was: break the hegemony, and I can enjoy these traits again. So, like, I can see for you that "The Cure goes to the beach" becomes a detractor because it involves "The Cure", whereas for me any band whose reference point was "The Cure" alone would probably not interest me, but the "...goes to the beach" both interests me and actually makes "The Cure" (as a signifier) interesting again.
― Tim F, Sunday, 19 October 2008 23:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
i like a whole load of electronic music w/white male vox! including the jlc killers rmx (though i look askance at this tipping over into actual original killers appreciation). junior boys, kelley polar, franck garcia, even booka shade's newer vocal tracks. the studio singer's voice is so ridiculously strained and inadequate though, i find it works against what the music's doing too much...the music is so focused on blissfulness, and the strained clumsiness of the voice is too disruptive. it's like he wants to be like the black devil disco club singer but falls woefully short.
i've never heard the tough alliance or shy child, but i think you know about my very real, very visceral dislike of animal collective
― lex pretend, Sunday, 19 October 2008 23:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
i think his voice fits perfectly, nice n languid. don't think he sounds that much like robert smith.
― stone cold all time hall of fame classics (internet person), Monday, 20 October 2008 00:00 (4 years ago) Permalink
i definitely prefer studio's instrumental tracks to their tracks with vocals. but for me it's so much the singer's voice itself, it's just that the presence of vocals make the tracks feel more ordinary somehow... i think i agree with lex when he says it works against the music. i definitely can't experience the same level of escapism with "west side" and "self service" as i can with "out there" and "life's a beach".
― aaron d.g., Monday, 20 October 2008 00:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
ooops that should be "it's not so much the singer's voice itself"
― aaron d.g., Monday, 20 October 2008 00:20 (4 years ago) Permalink