spoke to magnus from the studio and am trying to get him to NYC.
― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 27 January 2007 15:44 (6 years ago) Permalink
And not just the Disco Inferno of the EPs but also those early percussive efforts on In Debt. "No Comply" though is all weird overlapping keyboard and piano melodies, kinda Reichian sample-pop.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 8 February 2007 13:35 (6 years ago) Permalink
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:59 (6 years ago) Permalink
Slowly slowly starting to see more talk about this. Still perhaps my favourite album of the year, interchanging with Panda Bear. Not surprisingly, the remixes floating around are great - I love how Todd Terje's remix of "Life's a Beach" starts out funky and very very slowly gets all moody like the original, and it's got such a wet aqueous groove too. And the Brennan Green remix of "West Side" is like a really sensitive dub version, moving around some parts, cutting out the vocals and adding some morose bleepy keyboards but otherwise preserving everything loveable about the original.
Also really really liking Studio's remix/remake of The Shout Out Loud's "Impossible", which is bright shiny pop by their standards - The Cure's "In Between Days" meets Disco Inferno's "The Athiest's Burden" meets... I'm not sure.
― Tim F, Monday, 9 July 2007 14:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
i've fallen in love with this band, but have only heard 2 songs (Origin & Life's a Beach). would love to hear a full length. i bought the remix 12" of Life's a Beach and was terribly dissapointed. i didn't realize it was only remixes and not the original version. and the remixes just sounded like mellow house tracks to me. lost most of the live instruments that i liked about it to begin with and returned it the next day.
― jaxon, Monday, 9 July 2007 18:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
also, how come the mp3s i've gotten are listed as "A Studio"? not The Studio or just Studio?
― jaxon, Monday, 9 July 2007 18:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
i can't believe you returned that 12"
― cutty, Monday, 9 July 2007 18:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
also one of my favorites this year, yearbook 1
also, uh, jaxon, there's a link to their west coast 12" in a thread linked to in this thread
― cutty, Monday, 9 July 2007 18:31 (5 years ago) Permalink
i highly recommend strategy's "future rock" for anyone who is feeling studio
― cutty, Monday, 9 July 2007 18:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/krank108.html
― cutty, Monday, 9 July 2007 18:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
i agree about the vocal songs.. pretty shit.. but lifes a beach? jesus.. really nice.. this is one of the best produced records (yearbook 1) ive heard in a long time.
the vocals on the strategy album are a total bummer. whats going on here?
― nikbozic, Monday, 9 July 2007 18:46 (5 years ago) Permalink
maybe you just don't like vocals
― cutty, Monday, 9 July 2007 18:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
I'm waiting for my yearbook CD after really enjoying the remixes 12", the Todd Terje is fantastic, pitched on the edge of being, like the record shop label said, 'chilled out bar groove', I'm amazed they get something so great out of these rainforest and hippy signifiers. Certain points in that track, a bit more colour is gradually added and it feels like a huge psychedelic build, but still fairly restrained and smooth overall.
― Alex xy, Monday, 9 July 2007 19:26 (5 years ago) Permalink
'west coast' is amazing
― lex pretend, Monday, 9 July 2007 20:36 (5 years ago) Permalink
hang on, no, i mean 'out there'
― lex pretend, Monday, 9 July 2007 20:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
i think the terje remix is anything but chilled out, but that's a minor quibble as it's one of my favorite remixes in a year that has been jammed with them. i haven't heard the album yet. can't believe i missed this thread the first time around.
― tricky, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 02:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, it's a great disc. Those upthread who drew comparisons between this and The Cure are OTM.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 10 July 2007 03:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
maybe i should try to download the 2 Life's a Beach remixes and actually, you know, like listen to them. i just figured it wasn't something i'd ever play out (like that happens so often), so i didn't need to own the vinyl
― jaxon, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 03:11 (5 years ago) Permalink
i was really surprised to read your comment upthread! the bassline in the terje is just too boogie to be house. it reminds me of the mary jane girls. so there's the rick james thing and on top of it there is cure (meets basic channel) san francisco summer beach atmospherics. and then fat techno claps and cowbells and a sense of humor. i am so smitten by this song.
― tricky, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 03:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
What the where the who. This all sounds potentially interesting.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 03:40 (5 years ago) Permalink
i love how enigmatic the band name and album title are. cover art is great too.
― tricky, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 03:47 (5 years ago) Permalink
jaxon - for some reason when i ripped the promo CD i got, iTunes listed the artist as "A Studio" so I would guess your rip came from that as well...
― BATTAGS, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 07:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
you know, you fellas are right! this is great! agree w/ all the aforementioned reference points, but would add in the mood of all those great Associates 12"s w/ the cool b-sides. and special commendation for the exquisite guitar. thank you ilx!
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 03:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
Ned I sincerely believe you will love them.
It's kinda of odd how similar the Prins Thomas and Todd Terje remixes of "Life's a Beach" are - both have the funky bassline, the endless layering of effects, the faithful redeployment of the guitar. The Terje remix is slightly more brisk and uptempo, and I slightly prefer it, but they're both great.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 12:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
Cutty those Strategy samples are excellent. Will have to track that album down.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 12:13 (5 years ago) Permalink
fwiw, Out There is my least favorite track.
now to track down the remixes...
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 13:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.myspace.com/aeroplanemusiclove
^ sooo good.
― jaxon, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 21:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
i downloaded Life's a Beach remixes. eh. prins thomas remix is cool. kinda spaced out, but i still stand by what i said. it lost the balearic rock edge that i liked and just became sorta "dance music". no need to keep 12"
― jaxon, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 21:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
"West Side" does = the Balearic Cure. Out've the forest and onto the beach.
― Raw Patrick, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 22:37 (5 years ago) Permalink
this has been repressed. hooray!
― haitch, Thursday, 12 July 2007 16:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
That Yearbook cover art is fantastic.
― admrl, Thursday, 12 July 2007 16:57 (5 years ago) Permalink
Has Spencer seen it or heard this, I wonder?
― admrl, Thursday, 12 July 2007 16:59 (5 years ago) Permalink
Cutty! That Strategy album is like... Luomo making a post-rock record? Or a post-rock group making a Luomo record? Whatever, if I had a Microsoft Wizard program that made albums for me at least one of them would probably turn out like this. Not sure if I love love love it yet but will def. keep listening.
2007 is so the year I became a corny balearic fuxx.
― Tim F, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
i think balearic is one of those words like minimal. it has meaning that is more like residue. i like a lot of recent music like this because it is musical as opposed to most of the contemporary dance music i immerse myself in which is music that for most of the 00s has been design-obsessed (similar to a lot of contemporary pop and hip hop and even alterna-rock). it's just tiring after awhile.
― tricky, Friday, 13 July 2007 04:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
tim have you heard kuniyuki takahashi?
― tricky, Friday, 13 July 2007 04:09 (5 years ago) Permalink
i'm glad you like it tim--i've been listening to it quite a lot, maybe it needs its own thread
― cutty, Friday, 13 July 2007 04:41 (5 years ago) Permalink
I want this and the Strategy record. I want them now.
― Scik Mouthy, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 08:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
Was 'West Coast' just an EP then? Does 'Yearbook 1' have different versions of these songs?
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 10:05 (5 years ago) Permalink
yearbook 1 has longer versions of two songs, a shorter version of one, and two extra songs from this 12". those aren't on the west coast reissue that's just come out, but it has the full versions of everything else (and is a double 12" if you have it on vinyl).
this is really fantastic. up there with the LCD record, for me.
― haitch, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 16:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
yes please!
― admrl, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 16:32 (5 years ago) Permalink
Has it even gotten a legit release yet?
― I eat cannibals, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 23:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
am i on everyone's killfile or something? yes, it has been reissued.
― haitch, Thursday, 26 July 2007 00:17 (5 years ago) Permalink
i thought they were talking about the Strategy record, lil man
― jaxon, Thursday, 26 July 2007 01:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
Strategy record has definitely been released - saw it in the shops the other day.
― Tim F, Thursday, 26 July 2007 01:42 (5 years ago) Permalink
I have a real copy of it in my office now and am listening to it - released mid-July in the UK, got it from Amazon.
Very good indeed, btw.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 30 July 2007 14:33 (5 years ago) Permalink
HAS L0u1s J@gger HEARD STRATEGY?
Taking L0u1s J@gger (By Strategy)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 July 2007 14:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
Hahaha I like how L0u1s J@gger is auto-encrypted.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, 30 July 2007 14:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
Also, Ned would like this.
EXTRA EXTRA: Dan Lissvik producerar The Mary Onettes
http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2011/09/23/extra-extra-dan-lissvik-producerar-the-mary-onettes/
Put on google translate and find out about Lissvik producing for The Mary Onettes... I agree that time would be much more wellspend to release a new album with studio instead.
― Daniel, Sunday, 25 September 2011 20:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2012/01/the-end-of-fame-studio-announce-split-after-10-years/
:(
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 14:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
booooo :(
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 14:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
:( no surprise there. hopefully lissvik's got something goin on.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 3 January 2012 16:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, not really a surprise at this point, but I was always hoping things might change.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 16:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
i want another lissvik solo album, that was probably my favourite studio-related project
― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 18:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sad news. I'm hoping for another Crepes album sometime in the future.
― van smack, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 03:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
Loved the El Perro Del Mar album. Hope the next one is good too.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 04:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
― willem, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 08:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
the new El Perro Del Mar track is really good, but to my ears it doesn't really sound much like anything from the last album or anything Hagg has had a hand in so far
http://soundcloud.com/el-perro-del-mar/what-did-you-expect
― "only girl in the kitchen" (boxedjoy), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 13:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wasn't that just an ad hoc thing recorded cos the riots were going on at the time?
― Number None, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 13:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
i like the sound of this
http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2011/12/love-forever-the-mary-onettes-work-with-dan-lissvik-on-new-material-released-in-february/
― judith, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 14:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
Shame the Information label is closed too.
Did Fontan release anything after Neanderthaler? One of the best albums on INF imo.
― plazzTT, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 14:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
went to a record shop to finally buy Yearbook 2 after this news yesterday, left bcz it was $26.99 thinking "I'll see if it's cheaper to buy online from the UK." #2012
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Thursday, 5 January 2012 00:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
On a similar note, what's a fair price for West Coast on 2xLP, second issue?
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 5 January 2012 03:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Based on previous discogs sales
This last sold on Oct 23, 2011.
Highest: €30.18 Lowest: €17.41 Average: €25.29Median: €25.35
http://www.discogs.com/sell/post/1024384
― du mein bestie (micarl), Thursday, 5 January 2012 11:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thanks! I guess I could have found that info too. I just overpaid for a copy. I suspect they'll continue to increase in price with very little chance of another reissue.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 5 January 2012 15:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not surprising but still sad news
― groovypanda, Friday, 6 January 2012 09:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is a band who I would never have heard of if it wasn't for this board. Ended up being one of my favourite albums.
― I am using your worlds, Saturday, 7 January 2012 21:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^this. its surprising how little exposure that album got outside of this board. being as its so awesome
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Saturday, 7 January 2012 23:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
idk why but this album (and band) brings me no pleasure anymore :((((
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Saturday, 7 January 2012 23:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
RIP dayo
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Sunday, 8 January 2012 01:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
this band/album only makes sense on those days when summer is around the corner.I never followed up any of the side projetcs, remixes, etc - what is this Lissvik solo album you guys mention?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 10 January 2012 16:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's called 7 trx + intermission, but has 9 tracks of instrumental guitar jams,some with a vague eastern tinge. track 3 is the longest and best one on there.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 16:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think the most recent thing lissvik did is the new mary onettes ep, only heard it once but it sorta reminded me of that el perro del mar album, but don't hold me to that
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 10 January 2012 16:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
my own playlist for Yearbook 3:
Fontän - Early Morning (Studio Remix)The Little Ones - Morning Tide (Studio Remix)Windsurf - Bird of Paradise (Studio Remix)Bear in Heaven - You Do You (Studio Remix)Steve Mason - Just A Man (Studio Remix)Arp - Pastoral Symphony (Studio Remix)
― mizzell, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 16:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh man, you do you
― judith, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 19:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
There were two other Lissvik demos going around in 2010 (as well as "Practice"). They were called 23 and 72.
― plazzTT, Thursday, 16 February 2012 00:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
where is this review? i keep thinking that studio is kind of like a post-rock jane's addiction.
― tricky, Saturday, August 18, 2007 1:02 PM (4 years ago)
Those guitar bursts in "Life's A Beach" are very similar to "Up The Beach". I don't think they are post rock janes addiction but this could have been intentional.
― gman59, Saturday, 24 March 2012 17:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Lissvik remix of Architecture In Helsinki. P terrible imo, but there it is.
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Friday, 30 March 2012 06:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Some Studio sounding stuff on this new Swedish EP:
Tommy Awards: http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/shop/product.php?pid=83479
― plazzTT, Thursday, 5 July 2012 13:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
i like that. the group has a bunch of tracks on their soundcloud page too, very chill with nice sounding guitars
― mizzell, Thursday, 5 July 2012 15:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
New Young Galaxy (made at Lissvik's studio) is awesome.
Song snippet:
― sean gramophone, Friday, 11 January 2013 15:39 (4 months ago) Permalink
i wish he's stop working with those guys and do his own stuff
― Number None, Friday, 11 January 2013 18:26 (4 months ago) Permalink
yep
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 11 January 2013 20:06 (4 months ago) Permalink
Still love this.
http://sickmouthy.com/2013/02/15/studio-west-coast-2007/
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 15 February 2013 11:56 (3 months ago) Permalink