The Studio - West Coast

i went to their studio in göteborg today. i don't know what the published interview is going to look like, but before i forget everything they said when i wasn't recording...

-that Fact magazine info about scrapping tracks for a live studio album in 2009 was either never true or no longer true. they're working on one new remix, overseeing fontän's debut album (who play live instruments; i got the feeling that studio were going to tour vicariously through them).. they don't have any definite album release plans, although they have three albums worth of material 'in the can.' they're unsure when or if they'll release any of it. (west side was culled from material that dates back to 2003)´
-vahid: they had to edit self-servce to fit it on cd.
-'balearic music' is any music played while wearing a sailor hat.

for the record, these are some of the coolest, nicest, humblest dudes i've ever met. i even got some t-shirts haha

(i met air france, too, if anyone's has q's)

-'balearic music' is any music played while wearing a sailor hat.

poortheatre, where do you write for??

nowhere, really. a friend of mine is starting a small culture magazine (Futureclaw) and asked me if i wanted to write something for it, and it turned out to be an interview with studio. i was going to sweden anyway to visit some friends, so i did the interview in person. and i just e-mailed air france because i was in town.. g-burg is really cool. great time of the year to visit.

I hope it went something like this:
Studio: Ja, ve have tre albums already, how you say, in the can.
poorteater: ysi?

finally getting around to listening these dudes, playing yearbook 2 right now and it's.....kind of boring?

Start with their original stuff at least!

yearbook 2 = major disappointment, good tracks but i already heard it all! :(

none of the Y2 tracks reach the heights of 'out there' or 'west coast' but this is still one of the best releases of the year.

-- poortheatre, Monday, June 23, 2008 5:33 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

Ha ha poortheatre that's like a capsule summary of my review!

-- Tim F, Monday, June 23, 2008 5:44 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

you heard it here first, folks

-- poortheatre, Monday, June 23, 2008 5:57 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

it's a remix compilation

-- cutty, Monday, June 23, 2008 7:40 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

I'm way more impressed by their original material than I am by their remixes.

Impossible kills everything else on here, despite me thinking nothing could bowl over Kylie. I was wrong.

Many thanks to Tim F. & Co. for your references to Disco Inferno - a discovery nearly as great as West Coast itself.

Fwiw (and impressively, to me, anyway), iTunes (US) sells the otherwise out-of-print "In Debt" in the "iTunes Plus" mode.

upcoming projects in order:

-remix windsurf ('the last remix')
-finish supervising ('curating') fontan album
-supervise album of Oslo band called Century

I'm glad I didn't shell out $30 for this. its okay I guess but my favorite song was the shortest one, the rest just kinda went on and on aimlessly.

hate it when songs last more than 4 minutes

then what are you doing on The Studio - West Coast thread?

real talk, right there.

The idea that Way Out could be 'aimless' had me briefly reassessing my definition of 'aim', and then I realised it was bollocks.

srsly question ppl who don't like this band

So, has anyone heard the Fontän single? Got it from iTunes.
It's a gorgeous song, hazy Pink Floyd like vocals, solid driving drums and terrific double-barreled guitars (what a rush when they come in for the first time so early in the song). Remixes by A Mountain of One (with a bassline reminiscent of Air, Twilight Zone synths and "Love Like Blood" lite guitars) and Studio who reconstruct the song in their typical fashion.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=260258754743&Category=306&_trksid=p3907.m29

want^

another typically awesome studio mix, on pink vinyl!

So, has anyone heard the Fontän single?

yes and it's awesome, Mo1 AND Studio, and the original is a great track too.

It's this, right? The :30 samples do have a Pink Floyd quality to them.

italians do it better have their own version of studio now, tiedye

loving the little ones mix. i hope the next full length sounds more like that and "no comply" than the AM01 and kylie remakes. not hating just like one sound a little better than the other.

i ordered west coast from the information site and they sent me yearbook 2 for free

lol ----> http://www.zshare.net/audio/183918348b0d986a/

yikes. that is a terrible remix. it's not worth the 13mb folks!

i still play West Coast in full once a week or so.

Like the Little Ones mix, prefer the Fontan remix.

the Little Ones mix is a good summer jam (kinda wish they woulda rolled out that short vamp they tag on the end) but the Fontan version is typically amazing studio

needs more elements from the original tune, imo. at least some more of the vocal.

the little ones remix needs 100% less vocal.

Dan Lissvik (one half of) will release a solo album at the end of next month, through Information. No vocs on this one :)
http://www.myspace.com/danlissvik (loving B1)

i like his voice

ha i was just listening to this and i had to skip fwd every time his terrible voice comes in...really spoils the album, i only ever really play 'out there' now.

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me too, f the hataz

Don't like the vocals. Love the music.

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.