The Studio - West Coast

i wish he's stop working with those guys and do his own stuff

yep

Still love this.

http://sickmouthy.com/2013/02/15/studio-west-coast-2007/

sometimes i just gotta go back to room without a key... heartbreakingly beautiful

Dan Lissvik is uploading some unreleased music on soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/lissvik. Most of the tracks sound sort of like sketches but fans of Studio and especially Lissvik's solo album and remixes might find at least a few keepers.

It also looks like he is working on a new solo project called Atelje but so far its soundcloud page is empty: http://soundcloud.com/atelje

Thanks for the heads up

man, i love his guitar playing so much. interesting that a lot of these are sketches for ads, i wonder if he ended up getting much commercial work.

The solo album is great. I like it better than West Coast.

I listen to it more these days it's great for reading and riding the subway.

He also has a hand in the new ceo album, aka one half of The Tough Alliance.

this week i picked up the lake heartbeat album purely based upon his production credit.

it is very good sunshine layered pop music with the production quality you'd expect from dan.

That Lissvik Soundcloud is so nice...Lots of throwaways but the gems are there.

I was on ILX when TIMF recommended that Studio record and its an itch that has never been scratched by another artist.

I like all the offshoot stuff in a similar genre, but let's face it nothing rivals Studio proper.

All the stuff produced for other artists I find it way too twee, airy, overproduced in a way that does not personally appeal or I am not a fan of the vocals.

I didnt even know that Lissvik had a solo album. Will check that out.

Pretty Durutti Column-ish, that solo album. At least that's the pleasure I get out of it. One of my favorite "instrumental" guitar records.

interesting that a lot of these are sketches for ads, i wonder if he ended up getting much commercial work.

I didn't know that, hopefully he does get commercial work. I'm only aware of this Volvo ad where he's credited. It also features singing by Fredrik Lindson from The Embassy and sounds like they might have done it around the time they recorded The Crepes album (which btw was a bit of a letdown imo).

Crepes album is my 2nd favourite Lissvik project!

I don't know, I do like the songs on it but I'm not very satisfied with the production on that album. It sounds like it was done very quickly and just for fun. Maybe I was just expecting something no less than ~totally amazing~ from one half of Studio + one half of The Embassy.

Speaking of one half of Studio, I wonder if Rasmus Hägg is still making making music or producing other artists.

I guess I find the looseness and, yeah, fun of the Crepes album makes for an endearing change.

"Speaking of one half of Studio, I wonder if Rasmus Hägg is still making making music or producing other artists."

^ came across this blog post re: rasmus hagg .... here's the text (auto-translated from swedish to english!!)

Wednesday 2/10 2013 , 14:47

Rasmus Hägg's music is stolen! Give it back right away!
Today we hear the anguished news of the burglary in Rasmus Hägg 's studio.

The former studio -member (no pun intended) was the weekend robbed of its entire archive of recordings and materials to several upcoming solo albums. The burglary took place in Stigenberg studio in Gothenburg and a lot of the material was not backupat.

Damn, Rasmus. How are you?

- It is strange that in a few minutes be robbed of their entire archive and 4-5 forthcoming solo albums, two of which were almost done. I have in the last year alone worked with private, so "lucky" in the "misfortune" has no other artist has been damaged except possibly one remix, among other things, The XX . That feeling that after all the years of other disasters and breakup: Studio defection , crashed producer jobs, computer crashes, natural anxiety and you name it, and then suddenly find themselves in euphoric blissful state with a wonderful girlfriend and a young son and an almost complete plate that is something extraordinary. To finally be on an even keel at all levels and suddenly snatches someone the rug from under one's feet.

It took police several hours to close the investigation on the ground: "There was no blood at the crime scene." It is symptomatic of our times. At this writing, I go around in Goteborg in a BMW with the babysitter and aimlessly "looking", it feels unreal. But they have not fucking touched my head, my thoughts or my son, so I ride over it. I ride over it.
exactly how it feels.

Do you know more about Rasmus-lost recordings?
Immediately leave hints here or here .

/ Editor

http://blogg.svt.se/psl/tag/rasmus-hagg/

ugh, that's horrible

I go around in Goteborg in a BMW with the babysitter

weird details. sad story.

its obv way different but the Darkside album is the closest i've felt to West Coast in a long time.

yeah that makes sense

there are definitely similarities--mixing guitar with electronic elements, spacious production, loping tempo--but unfortunately Darkside doesn't work for me at all, whereas West Coast is one of my favorite albums ever.

love the sketches on lissvik's soundcloud btw, i'd be happy with another little solo album full of those polished up.

i'm quite happy with the sketches as is, really.
i had completely ignored the darkside album, but checked out after being mentioned here, and i love it. thank you grady.

Totally agree. Loving these sketches, I suppose there are some throwaways but even they are pretty great.

But when you've been waiting a long time for some new Studio-ish stuff to surface and then suddenly there is an hour and half of new (perhaps unpolished) material, it's hard not to be really excited.

Lissvik's Archive now up to 50 tracks, over 2 hours of music. A couple of the ones posted yesterday (Gone, Thrill, 89T) are really good.

And it looks like Archive will get a physical release too. At least it's now listed on his website under discography section: "Lp Lissvik - Archive (Writer/Producer/Mix)"

on 'esc', the part where he plays his guitar so that the improvised melody resembles cartoonish speech, that's pretty cool.

as much as i love his production, not so sure i will buy a cd of sketches ..

but they're so good!

Physical copies of Studio CDs are going for a decent amount of money these days.

have been on lookout for yearbook #1 forever ..

used to be able to get yearbook #2 for bobbins, and lissvik solo album if anyone is interested should i get the chance again ..

Had a promo of Yearbook 1 I believe, pretty sure it was a Re-Press that Forced Exposure promo'd after the initial burst of interest, but it is long gone.

I bought West Coast for £1.99 from Amazon a few years ago. It's £22 now. Also got Yearbooks 1 & 2.

Yearbook 2 only £3 over on discogs.

have been on lookout for yearbook #1 forever ..

― mark e, Saturday, January 4, 2014 5:28 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Me too!

the No Comply 12" is the real holy grail

Have: 48
Want: 107
Last Sold: 2 months ago
Lowest: $38.00
Median: $49.58
Highest: $68.86

West Coast 2LP is $60 as well, glad I have one

Would love that as well...

Slightly relevant: I DO happen to have a copy of Air France - No Way Down / On Trade Winds 10"

http://i.imgur.com/wrfDumP.jpg

The Darkside tour t-shirt is even more of a rip.

Lissvik remix:
http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2014/05/last-summer-lissvik-remix

damn i haven't listened to "no comply" in a minute-- it's a friday in june and this song feels like the best song ever written right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-JDRB4Ec-s

I hvae come to the conclusion that West Coast is one of the best records of the 00's

agreed

it's maybe thee best

also that video is pretty rad for a slapped-together-stock-footage thing, i enjoyed

yep, still go back to it, still great

west coast is def my favorite album of the 00's