The Studio - West Coast

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nice. and props to baaderonixx! :)

yes--nice review.

especially "...almost as if a previous decade's sonic elements had been liberated from the songwriting context of their time and reassembled in new ways."

Thank yer all.

where is this review? i keep thinking that studio is kind of like a post-rock jane's addiction.

sorry, found the review info by reading up the thread all of four posts...still half-asleep.

jane's addiction?

yep, their early stuff for sure.

uh, nooo

there's totally the same oceanic thing going on. it's not meant as a strictly literal comparison.

Yay at my lil' analogy being picked up by Ned!

Cheers, as they say.

I am enjoying West Coast more now... Still not a big fan of the Life's A Beach thing.

Does this have US distro?

Yes, Forced Exposure.

yeah it just came out in the states. I bought the vinyl last week.

took me a while to really "get" this but I totally love it now

the vox sorta remind me of duran duran. but i like the vox, and i like duran duran.

btw the official pressing of the brennan green remix of 'west side' should be out soon. in the meantime if anyone's interested to hear it there's a clip on his myspace(.com/chinatown)

hey jaxon, could you list any tracks you can identify from the Blue Room Mix? in particular the track before the riders on the storm cover.

so i don't really know half, but whatevs.

00:00 Pan Pipes of The Andes - Incantation (at least that's what someone in the comments said)
1:21 ? synthy cosmic
8:33 Richard Wahnfried - Time Actor
14:25 ? cosmic. (really like)
20:45 Sky - Westway
24:35 heard it. i forget what it is?
27:21 ? kinda boring cosmic
34:43 doors cover
42:28 ? heavy bass arpegios. really nice

lol

oh well. the "kinda boring cosmic" track before the doors cover remains unidentified. thanks for the other tracks though, i might look into those.

oh yeah, sorry, that's the one you liked, hah :-/

lol

-- gr8080, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:22 (5 hours ago) Link

Hi Dere,

Late to the party on this one, but after much considered listening, I can conclude that West Coast is utterly classic (and that's after initially hating the vocals).

The opening and closing tracks are monumental.

I can honestly say this is the best recommendation of something that I was previously totally ignorant about that I've had since frequenting this site (narrowly pipping Maurice Fulton), so thanks a lot.

And on that basis I'm hotly anticipating A Mountain of One.

I bought this over the weekend (the reisssued West Coast LP, not Yearbook One). It's great. Sounds more Oakenfold-produced Mondays than anything else, but that is no bad thing. Lush.

I HAVE JUST THIS MINUTE FINISHED LISTENING TO THE OPENING TRACK OF THIS ALBUM AND IT IS SO GOOD

OH MY FUCKING GOD I TYPED THE WORDS 'SO GOOD' AND HE SANG THOSE WORDS LIKE 2 SECONDS LATER

THIS RECORD AND I ARE PSYCHIC BRETHREN

OK 'Origin' is something truly beautiful.

Imagine giving something sincere praise. More fool me.

Louis is sincere, I hope.

This is certainly my fave and most listened to LP this year. So good in every circumstance.

I have typed 'so good' too.

Louis is sincere, I hope.

Of that I have no doubt.

I'm totally sincere! I'd have never come remotely close to knowing about this but for ILM, but radio silence from the music presses has contrasted starkly with a 200+ post thread here!

I've also obtained Strategy's new record, and now they sit together in my iTunes, many consecutive plays awaiting them. Studio's is the more immediate, that's for sure.

The Strategy record isn't bad, but if you wanna compare, Studio trounces them.

HEY GUYS IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT GOOD MUSIC THE STUDIO REMIX OF AMO1'S "BROWN PIANO" IS A GOOD PLACE TO START

There's another Studio mix here. I haven't listened to it yet though.

I saw these guys DJ the other week and they were really good. I only know it's them now though as this is the first time I've seen a picture of them.

this only makes any sense to me when it's sunny

probably intentional

am i the only person hearing shades of Screamadelica in this?

all the brits and anglophiles on this thread make me sick

:(

don't worry, i like you

'origin' will be my obsession for the next week

who are the anglophiles?

This is one of those records I hardly ever listen to in its entirety because I can't stop playing Out There.

Aw, 'Out There' is good, but when I type its name into iTunes search, it's only the second-best long-form electronic odyssey that comes up. :-D

It is, however, one of those songs that actually keeps getting better throughout its run-time, and for that I love it.

Agreed - the key to the success of this track is that every different sonic motif seems more magical than the one that preceded it.

am i the only person hearing shades of Screamadelica in this?

Screamadelica the song, definitely; Screamdelica the album, not so sure.

who are the anglophiles?

people comparing this to primal scream, happy mondays, cure, disco inferno, ar kane. all bands (besides maybe the cure) that i would never listen to. what i'm hearing is closer to this description from the warm HQ blog

Taking its influences from the rhythmic structure of Krautrock, mixing electronic beats with beautiful looped cosmic guitar work, Ashra / Gottsching style and at other times tracks are reminiscent of early 80s work by Arthur Russell, having a similar kind of post-punk alt-disco fragility. Part Balearic, part cosmic, part new wave, part Krautrock, "West Coast is one debut not to be missed!

plus lots of roxy music (yes i know they're british)