The Studio - West Coast

The vocals are perfect faux-Cure mopery.

I hope that myspace photo is actually him.

yeah, it's him, that's his arm tattoo.

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.

this is exciting! sounds goodd. anyone know where in nyc i can buy the fontan 12"?

its funny how much this sounds like exactly 1/2 of studio

i hope the other half releases an album thats all spanish-y guitar and synth fills

perfect faux-Cure mopery

"perfect" is not an adjective which should ever be near a phrase like "faux-cure mopery"!

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.

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.

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

i think his voice fits perfectly, nice n languid. don't think he sounds that much like robert smith.

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".

ooops that should be "it's not so much the singer's voice itself"

he's got a nice voice overall but he's kind of like the waterboys guy in that he slips back and forth through blatant imitation of other vocalists (smith, shaun ryder, bernard sumner..)

but in general that kind of behavior doesn't really bother me if the music's really good.

i think he's actually better than sumner

Not hard.

i know but the point is it doesn't stop loads of New Order songs being awesome.

infinitely preferable to whichever dude does the vocals for the Tough Alliance, with those plaintive qualities taken about ten notches up.

;_; I wuv TTA's vocals.

aw. well, different opinions and so on...

TTA's music is pretty and lots of fun, I just keep picturing the vocalist as a Swedish Tom DeLonge.

I like to think it's actually both of them singing and they just have identical voices. They seem to alternate miming duties in their video clips at any rate.

i think Tough Alliance featuring Dr Alban is my fantasy pop of the week

Ha ha I am fantasizing about that now too Steve. That sort of idea is what facebook groups are for.

I would take Prydz ft. Alban at this point to be honest

don't think it's the vocals with studio as much as maybe lines like "is it because we have tropical needs", which feels too close to pastiche to me. Not enough to ruin the songs or anything, I still love the whole thing. I can see arguments against, though.

I've always been to O_o at those lyrics to consider whether they might be pastiche: "Is it because we are a likable breed? Is it because we've got tropical needs?"

too

dude posted on ilx

Hello!
Does anybody know the Lyrics to "Fairy Tales" with Stockholm Monsters???
Its very important to me.
So if you do, Please send it to me!
✧✧✧@srv✧✧✧.c✧✧

― Dan Lissvik, Monday, January 3, 2005 4:54 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Haha, I was about to revive this with a link:

Stockholm Monsters!!!!!!

beat you to it

awesome

i dan we all have a boner for you!!!!!!!

i mean "hi" or "hej" dan.

grady otm

I would take Prydz ft. Alban at this point to be honest

Read this as Prydz ft Allbarn... christ alive

^ i have those slippers

hot damn!

i know. they're really comfortable

Known for their Balearic rock edits on their own imprint, Parlour are now set to do a mix for Information that consists only of rare and unreleased tracks from their long-time friends Frak.

Frak were present on the Swedish experimental synth scene throughout the late '80s and early '90s, and released a swathe of material. Most of this only saw the light of day on cassette, with the group bridging out to vinyl in the later stages of their career. Parlour have had a long-term connection to Börft, who released Frak's work originally, and are set to compile some of the rarer cassette-only material as a mix on Studio's Information label.

Parlour have spent hours going through all of the old Frak tapes, and have compiled the highlights into a continuous 57 minute mix that spans new beat, acid house and more minimal synth workouts. Spotters might be unhappy that no tracklisting will be contained, but with Frak anonymity was certainly part of the point and the compilation serves as a great introduction to their cassette-only material from 1988-1992.

Tracklist
01. 57.30

Information release Frak - 88-92 Extended Tempo Mix by Parlour on 17th November.
http://inf000.com/images/infcd4_artwork_web.jpg

^this sounds like an elaborate prank, but i guess it's real.

also the d lissvik album snippets sound so good, can't wait to get it.

o wow, that video wouldn't play for me before. awesome!

wow i didn't know parlour was connected to information/studio in any way. the "amor/capriccio" 7" was prettty awesome, can't wait to see what they do with synth wave tracks!

have parlour done anything other than that one 7"?

if anyone uses last.fm, the "the studio" channel is pretty good ^_^

i can't even find them on discogs

the D. Lissvik album is great, been really groovin on it the past couple days. obviously from the clip there's lots of 'eastern' influences and a few tracks that sound remarkably like Studio but most of it is a bit more exploratory/spacious than the Studio material.

do you have it at Amoeba Mike?