The Studio - West Coast

Just expressing how much more entertaining (good music is very rarely financially remunerative) it is playing with fellow novices who want the same thing; over attempting to fit square pegs into round holes. Tens of thousands of musical careers have died trying do do that.

my poster showed up btw. lower quality print than i was expecting but it still looks nice.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/149219-el-perro-del-mar-teams-up-with-dude-from-studio

single sounds pretty cool, i like it. percussion doesn't sound quite as blissed out and cool as on Studio albums, though.

love is not pop = A++ would listen again

A+++

(I gave an additional plus)

Hmm. I'm not feelin' this as much. Maybe after more listens.

so you are saying C+ with room for improvement?

Assbring is such a great surname

sarah! ass, bring...

I was skeptical since I was annoyed by the other Perro stuff I heard but this is pretty good.

perro can get in the way at times, but she is also the reason some of these songs work so well. i think i just like it when she isn't going through the indie-pop/twee motions, like on "change of heart" when she aims for golden-era stevie nicks and actually gets kind of close. or any of the other songs where she goes for kate bush vibes and again it works most of the time.

her vocals are clearly different than the guy from 'a mountain of one', but similar in that they can make or break this type of song-based balearic stuff. it also reminds me of the tiedye and studio remixes of that rubies song, for obvious reasons

Woah: A Mountain of One vocalist issues = such a good comparison point for this.

I'd put Coloma in that category too, though they're more tenuously related on a sonic level.

it's funny how so many balearic acts are so randomly hit-and-miss when it comes to vocalists. i do want to hear this perro del mar thing though.

eh, on one listen the perro album was just prettily nothingy, though i did like 'l is for love' or whatever the song with the fleetwood mac-esque drums was

first el perro del mar album reminded me of julee cruise a bit which was a+++

this is good

this is great.....very great

i'd never heard the brennan green remix of "west side" before. pretty great

http://www.zshare.net/audio/58573829fa63e961/

I was certain I had that mix and didn't like it, but I was wrong twice. I don't have it and it's fantastic!

That El Perro Del Mar album is gorgeous. I wasn't quite feeling the first couple of tracks and then it drew me in. Heavenly Arms and (in particular) Is It Something are lovely.

new windsurf remix on internasjonal sounds awesum... http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/352718-01.htm

mmmmmmmmmm sounds good!

we'll have that in stock by tomorrow, friday at the latest.

who is we

Amoeba?

ye, mikebee works at amoeba sf

they have mail order now i believe

yeah, amoeba SF. quite a few SF'ers in these threads!

cover art on that Windsurf is v. cool

only internasjonal release i've seen with original artwork

what about first Windsurf EP?

i stand corrected

track is fucking epic, no surprises, but beachy balearic magic

http://discohorror.blogspot.com/2009/05/studiowindsurfsolves-economic-crisis.html

finally figured out what "origin" sounds like (in a good way): "feel" by house of love

at last i succumbed :

We're writing to confirm your purchase of the following item from
XXXX:

1 of West Coast (available to ship by June 9,2009)

now to try and track down Year 1 and hope that the bands current shitty website is a stop gap situation.

"Yearbook 3" is coming along nicely
fontan- early morning (version by studio)
little ones- morning tide (studio mix)
fever ray- when i grow up (version by lissvik)
windsurf- bird of paradise (version by studio)
am i missing antthing?

I'm guessing it will include the original track by Fontan as well, not just the Studio remix. I read some interview where the lads said that future yearbook comps will focus on all of artists on their Information label, not just Studio.

so psyched for this

FONTÄN - WINTERHWILA

FORMAT CD/LP/digital
CAT NO. INFCD6/INF008
RELEASE DATE 19 August 2009 (Sweden), 24 August 2009 (UK/World)

TRACK LISTING
1. Backstugu
2. ... You Too
3. Early Morning
4. Neanderthaler
5. Land of the Dragon
6. The Bridge
7. Neon Snakes
8. Nightrider

eat your heart out: http://winterhwila.com/

it's good. more guitars than studio and maybe better vocals. nice space funk bass on "the bridge" and bliss out opening on "nightrider"

Who are Fontan anyway? I really like Early Morning but didn't know there was a connection to Studio outside the remix.

i think dan from studio produces them

Swedish duo Jesper Jarold and Jahin Melin are the guys behind the Fontan project, and whilst they're relatively fresh as far as recorded output is concerned (with only a single for Information and a remix of A Mountain Of One preceding the album), they've been working on music out of their hometown of Gothenburg for a number of years. Jesper was previously in a band with Studio's Rasmus Hagg, and comparisons can definitely be drawn with the sunkissed Balearic style of their good friends and studio mates.

if anyone could leo their remix of the AMO track, i would appreciate it.

winterhwila is so, so great! not beachy like studio, more mountainy or something. land of the dragon unwinds neanderthaler's awesome slow-build to takeoff with the sweetest spaghetti balearic jam imaginable, the hummed vocals are just too much! i'm having trouble not just listening to this album again and again, and as much as i love west coast, if studio became full time producers that would be a-ok with me after hearing this

btw that isn't true about early morning being their only release -- they have an album from 2006, aktionskammarn. haven't heard it tho

yeah, kinda weird that Resident Advisor (where that quote is from) didn't know about the early album. The songs I heard off it were not very good though.

http://quaintspace.blogspot.com/2006/10/fontn-aktionskammarn.html

Got it recently. On sale here. It's an incredibly sprawling record. At times dreamy, twee, gypsy, grooving - you name it. Something to dive into and get lost in. The first part of the final track, epic diptych "The Ship", has the atmosphere of Bowie's "All the Madmen", while the second part takes Can's "Mother Sky" as a template and rocks the album off to a wonderful finish.

it's good. more guitars than studio and maybe better vocals.

i have to say i prefer the vocals on studio's stuff so much more, even though i really really enjoy the instrumentals on winterhwila (which comprise like 85% of the album anyway). they definitely ruin "early morning" and "the bridge" for me though, which is a shame because i do love the rest of it