The Studio - West Coast

you can hear the a-side of the first release by Fontan on Studio's Information label at their myspace.

http://www.myspace.com/fntn

i found their early stuff on the internets (2001 - 2002) and damn, they got really good over that 4 year span. origin (shake u down by the river) is the only thing that lasted from that period.

i bought this CD and lost it before i even played it.

-- jed_, Friday, March 21, 2008 11:04 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

how jaded is that

genuine LOL

There's a tremendous mix by them here - couple of really clunky transitions but their track selection is pretty much faultless.

I would REALLY LIKE a tracklisting for this, especially need to know what that Kate Bush-esque track is about 25mins in.

I am very excited indeed about tomorrow's Studio/Ame/Chromatics/Simonetti mentalism.

Sally Oldfield - Hide & Seek

And yes it's pretty astonishing. Sally is Mike Oldfield's sister! Can anyone report back on her albums? Judging from the covers the early ones (from late 70s/early 80s) look like lost balearic prog-Britfolk-pop classics, like a proto-Enya maybe.

I'd love to make a mixtape of just stuff like this - Happy Rhodes in particular could totally be repositioned as a hipster curio if you chose the right tracks.

A friend of mine who's really into minimal, dub-techno, dubstep etc. as well as a fair swathe of indie grabbed me recently and handed me his iPod and said "you gotta listen to this, it's amazing!!!" -it was the Ashley Beedle remix of "Running Up That Hill" in the middle of a DJ set, he had no idea what it was.

I am very excited indeed about tomorrow's Studio/Ame/Chromatics/Simonetti mentalism.

who's going? i might be up for this

The site says:

LASERMAGNETIC/WARM LATE-NIGHT SPECIAL
Room 1/2 Chromatics (Live), Mike Simonetti, Ame, Studio, Skull Juice + Lasermagnetic & warm Residents. This party goes from MIDNIGHT til MIDDAY!!!!!

Does anyone know what time Chromatics play? I have to work Sunday and I'm not sure what to do :(

Room 1
Warm / Lasermagnetic Residents - 09:00pm - 11:00pm
Mike Simonetti - 11:00pm - 12.30am
Chromatics - LIVE - 12:30am - 1: 30am
Mike Simonetti - 01:30am - 02:30am
Ame - 2.30am - 07.30am
Special Secret Guests - 07.30am - 09.30am
Horse Meat Disco (Jim/James/Severino) v Warm v Lasermagnetic - 09.30am - Midday

Room 2
Warm / Lasermagnetic Residents - 9:00pm - 11:30pm
Skull Juice - 11:30pm - 12:30am
Studio - 12:30am - 03:00am
Skull Juice - 03:00am - 05:00am
Warm / Lasermagnetic Residents - 05:00am - 07:00am

from http://www.residentadvisor.net/forum-read.aspx?id=39732

I quite fancy it, but I'm not very good at staying up late or going 'clubbing' rather than 'indie-discoing' and I'm going to see Low anyway. RA says it might be sold out too.

I bought a ticket months ago because I've been dying to see Chromatics, but I'm old and fat and non-clubby and bummed about having to get to West London post-Chromatics and then get up and work and... fuck!

I wonder who the "special secret guests" are... probably not a band, I guess, with a 2 hour slot like that.

I guess I should just go for it. I know I'll have at least 5 people coming up to me through the night thinking I'm the bouncer. Depressing.

The music on that Sally Oldfield sounds like it could be Goblin! The initial riff sounds like something off the Deep Red soundtrack. (No great surprise I guess since they copped a good bit've their act from her bro in the first place).

Steve - it's sold out, as far as I can tell. There might be a very limited number of tickets available on the door and someone else who's going with us might have one spare but otherwise looks a bit late.

I'm not sure how special or secret those Special Secret Guests would have to be to get me staying past 7.30, mind.

I guess I hoped it might be Glass Candy, but apparently there were some issues getting them to come on this tour (which was supposed to be the plan originally, I heard).

The special guests are someone DJing somewhere else in London on that night, or so I read.

Looks like Yearbook 2 will be a collection of their 'Versions'.

i will buy it

i bought yearbook 1 for like $60 when it cames out, fucking kroners

Looks like Yearbook 2 will be a collection of their 'Versions'.

-- arghkaybee, Thursday, May 1, 2008 7:35 PM (Yesterday)

godammit

Cool! When?

i love studio.

via myspace

COMING UP
The Little Ones - Morning Tide (Version by Studio)
Fontän - Early Morning (Version by Studio)
INFCD3 CD Yearbook 2 (Versions by Studio)

also

MOTION
(No dj/live activity at all for now)

^^^^ :( they need to tour

2nd of June is the UK release for Yearbook 2.

Just got this from Bengans:

http://www.bengans.se/popup/STUDIO_2/mall_konvolut.jpg

129:- (EXKL. FRAKT 29:-) RELEASE 28/5

Med sin debut "Yearbook 1" 2007 satte Dan Lissvik och Rasmus Hägg aka. Studio sitt namn ordentligt på världskartan. Hyllningar över hela världen och utsålda konserter följde denna minst sagt stil och banbrytande duo från Göteborg. Inte minst var bandet ett hett namn på remixmarknaden och "Yearbook 2" väver samman dessa mixar som tidigare ej funnits tillängliga på CD. Och det är inga smånamn som Studio kan lägga på sin remix-merit lista.
Shout Out Louds, A Mountain Of One, Tangerine Dream och till och med självaste Kylie Minogue.

In english

The new album from swedish remix-masters Dan Lissvik and Rasmus Hägg aka Studio is soon to be released. If you liked Yearbook 1, you will not be disappointed with this!

Tracklist:
A Mountain Of One - Brown piano (remake by Studio)
Shout Out Louds - Impossible (possible remake by Studio)
Love Is All - Turn the radio off (remake by Studio)
Rubies - Room without a key (version by Studio)
Brennan Green - Escape from chinatown (version by Studio)
Kylie Minogue - 2 hearts (version by Studio)
Williams/Tangerine Dream - Love on a real train (version by Studio)

Ohmigod the very idea of that last track is amazing.

you havent heard it, matt?

whenever i think about forthcoming eurodyssey this band start playing in my head

which is constantly

This just made the queue.

excited about this if it gets a vinyl release.

Shame there's nothing i haven't heard already on this. I'll probably still pick it up anyway.

It'll work as a good album.

nice cover

I have already made this album, although with a different track order. It's great though!

from factmagazine:

Gothenburg-based duo Studio will release Yearbook 2, a compilation of their remixes, on June 16 through independent label Information.

The follow-up to 2007's glorious West Coast (one of both FACT and Rough Trade's top 10 albums of the year) consists of 7 reversions (they're more like epic Balearic dubs) that Rasmus Hagg and Dan Lissvik previously created for the likes of Kylie, Love Is All, A Mountain of One and all-girl trio Rubies.

Described by us, among others, as the missing link betweeen The Cure, Manuel Gottsching and LCD Soundsystem, produced by Martin Hannett, Studio had planned to release their second artist album this summer. However, the pair have scrapped tracks they were working on and are now planning to take a live band into the studio with them this autumn. The resulting LP is expected in early 2009.

For now, at least, there's Yearbook 2...

west coast >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> yearbook 2

live band!! goodbye drum machines at the very least, then

btw would anyone mind upping the chinatown version? any good?

not sure what to expect with a live band, tho -- don't want to be reactionary hater, but i'd rather not see them try to break into the indie scene, & they're hardly shying away from it judging from their choice in bands to remix

there's some videos on youtube of the studio palooza tour from last year. maybe this is a taste of things to come. light show~!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2k5nwddr7s

I would much rather see them with a live band than behind laptops to be honest. The thing that's so great about West Coast is how they've made something so carefully constructed, so precisely sculpted, feel so organic and loose. But I'm not sure that approach would translate to the stage - full band all the way for me.

how much of the stuff on the last album was live?

Ah right, you're talking about the second record. Not sure it would make a huge difference to the end product, except maybe the beats, presumably they can afford to hire session musicians this time around.

"not sure what to expect with a live band, tho -- don't want to be reactionary hater, but i'd rather not see them try to break into the indie scene, & they're hardly shying away from it judging from their choice in bands to remix"

Although interestingly their remixes are by and large less indie sounding than the album - or at least more obviously enamoured with disco and sans wailing vocals.

Otherwise I get where you're coming from. I guess it depends on how they do it. I'm hoping that live band doesn't = live studio performance, because what's clear from both the first album and the remixes is how much of the magic of their work comes from the editing and overdubbing process.

But I suspect what "live band" means is: a lot of recording of session musicians and then editing/overdubbing everything into one piece.

"their choice in bands to remix" = the bands that are offering them cash. It's not like they're phoning up Love is All and begging to remix them. That's not how it goes.

it's not a criticism, patrick! but they're pretty hot right now - yearbook 1 / west coast got into plenty year end lists, they're remixing kylie minogue, and they're balearic's ambassador to the ilx-crit world - so yeah, i think they do get some choice so far as who they want to remix

i'm interviewing studio this week. any ideas?

(this is for real and, yes, i've never done an interview before. eek!)

(actually i did interview my girlfriend for my blog haha)

ask them why the u.s. release is missing 2 cuts~~ >:(

yeah and why did they edit "self service"

Ask them why I didn't cross reference West Coast with Yearbook 1 before I bought both only to discover the latter's got all of the former.