The Studio - West Coast

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.

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.

also, how come the mp3s i've gotten are listed as "A Studio"? not The Studio or just Studio?

i can't believe you returned that 12"

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

i highly recommend strategy's "future rock" for anyone who is feeling studio

http://brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/krank108.html

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?

maybe you just don't like vocals

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.

'west coast' is amazing

hang on, no, i mean 'out there'

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.

Yeah, it's a great disc. Those upthread who drew comparisons between this and The Cure are OTM.

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

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.

What the where the who. This all sounds potentially interesting.

i love how enigmatic the band name and album title are. cover art is great too.

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...

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!

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.

Cutty those Strategy samples are excellent. Will have to track that album down.

fwiw, Out There is my least favorite track.

now to track down the remixes...

http://www.myspace.com/aeroplanemusiclove

^ sooo good.

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"

"West Side" does = the Balearic Cure. Out've the forest and onto the beach.

this has been repressed. hooray!

That Yearbook cover art is fantastic.

Has Spencer seen it or heard this, I wonder?

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.

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.

tim have you heard kuniyuki takahashi?

i'm glad you like it tim--i've been listening to it quite a lot, maybe it needs its own thread

I want this and the Strategy record. I want them now.

Was 'West Coast' just an EP then? Does 'Yearbook 1' have different versions of these songs?

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.

i'm glad you like it tim--i've been listening to it quite a lot, maybe it needs its own thread

yes please!

Has it even gotten a legit release yet?

am i on everyone's killfile or something? yes, it has been reissued.

i thought they were talking about the Strategy record, lil man

Strategy record has definitely been released - saw it in the shops the other day.

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.

HAS L0u1s J@gger HEARD STRATEGY?

Taking L0u1s J@gger (By Strategy)

Hahaha I like how L0u1s J@gger is auto-encrypted.

Also, Ned would like this.

You would, Ned.

please don't spoil a good thread

Have I not recommended this to Ned before? It's like a birthday cake for Ned with sparklers that explode when you light them forming fireworks in the shape of "NED RAGGETT!!!"

Thanks! Ordered. ❤️

Hmmm looks like it's going up for pre-order at a few online stores too. Along with Archive 1!

AND Atelje - Meditation

archive 1ish, meditation, and 50/50 also available here: https://www.atelje.com/shop?category=Music

Aha!

Pre-ordered it from this stateside seller; saved a few on shipping in the process.

https://www.pbvinyl.com/collections/recently-added-presale

cheers Evan... wish this dude would release stuff on CD but the Under Allt stuff sounds great so I'm in

New Lissvik production:

https://r1ch3s.bandcamp.com/track/light-of-dawn

anyone listened to his latest project
https://underallt.bandcamp.com/album/mellanrum

this is good, sounds more like "Studio" to me than the Atelje album

can we get a west coast repress or what

Yes, this album was released last year. It's great but too short. I think the Crepes album is one of the best things Lissvik has done outside Studio but unfortunately, that has been removed from streaming platforms. Kind of weird that they'd take their stuff off streaming when it is impossible to find in shops or online (unless you buy second hand). It's not like spotify is costing them sales when their shit isn't for sale. Anyway, Dan Lissvik is my favorite musician/producer of the last 15-20 years. Would like to have the money to buy one of his big artworks but unfortunately, i'm just a worker bee, not a CEO.

Same! Though I've purchased prints of his years ago. Those are very nice. However he puts stuff up for sale very rarely these days I think.

have the prices gone up? he had some handmade clothes up on his site awhile back, think a hand dip-dyed sweatshirt might have been $150? not cheap but not that expensive, like hip cool guy brand prices but not like fashion world commes des garcons or prada prices. i remember some ceramics that weren’t too bad either. but this was around early 2016 (i remember because i was considering throwing in a tshirt and vase w my preorder of 50/50 EP and meditation repress)

but shipping a big painting, yeah the cost of dhl would probably kill you. plus maybe now that he has a fancy gallery it’s more expensive. i agree though, i love his paintings, particularly the plant ones, and i love his airbrushed / spray painted (?) weird foamy / melted looking sculptures

i meant early 2017*

he really seems like the chillest, one of those “figured out how to live” guys that eats breathes and sleeps balearic vibes

can we get a west coast repress or what

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Fresh confirmations from the horses mouth on insta today, claims by 2024

holy shit that would be amazing - a white whale in my library

I wonder which version will be repressed, double or single

ahhhh i hope so. one of my biggest music-related regrets is losing my copy of this record, got misplaced during a move

nice, i saw lissvik post some tape reels and "west side" lyrics recently that made me wonder if he was doing something with the old studio stuff

im 75% sure I lost my copy of this in a move too. what is it about west coast that makes it socks in the drier

*checks record collection nervously*

Just checked and phew, still have my CD version. (Mint copy of the LP currently going for £190 on Discogs.)

I def had a copy of the LP in great condition. Its now in a storage pod or it was lost

the cd is still widely available

true, but that damn long version of Self Service remains lost on the first single-LP pressing for some insane reason

I think the short version is probably better than the long version, but it would be great to have the long version for sure.

The short version might be better overall perhaps but the long version has higher highs, I think.

https://www.phonicarecords.com/product/under-allt-3-lp-pre-order-under-allt/192075

listening to the previews and wishing this had came out six months sooner for summer

Lissvik has 9 copies of the 4 LP Archive up on bandcamp. $50.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0035495181_10.jpg

And now there are 9 copies remaining of "7 Trx + Intermission" on bandcamp