The Studio - West Coast

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

so then what's the deal with 'the crepes', who are putting an album out on information??

intricate guitar parts and driving percussion dubbed out to beach-friendly perfection, sez here

neanderthaler... what a bassline

i just read somewhere that dan lissvik is in the crepes.

here
http://testpressing.org/category/labels/

How do these guys manage to produce such evocative, beach-friendly music despite evidently living in their studios and never ever going outside?

i just posted a full/non-excerpted version of "neanderthaler" here- http://discohorror.com/

and as much as i love west coast, if studio became full time producers that would be a-ok with me after hearing this

― lucas pine, Friday, July 10, 2009 3:37 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

according to this, fontan produced the album themselves with rasmus supervising
http://testpressing.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/fontnan.jpg

you can pre-order the crepes (apparently = D Lissvik and Fredrik Lindson from the Embassy) album on the information website now.
This website mentions China Crisis, Sniff n the Tears, and Traveling Willburys (it's in Swedish, though)

Found Neanderthaler a bit dull on first listen really - is it representative of the album?

there's only going to be 300 copies of that crepes album??

i think there will be a cd pressing later.

You can get an MP3 of the Crêpes there :
http://iguessimfloating.blogspot.com/2009/07/mp3-crepes-what-else.html

Found Neanderthaler a bit dull on first listen really - is it representative of the album?

― Desmond Decca Aitkenhead (Matt DC), Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:45 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I've listened to the album a couple times through, and "a bit dull" may be a fair description. I was expecting more pop rock songs in the vein of Early Morning, but the album is more low-key and primarily instrumental. I like their vocals. Also, I don't know if I would say that Fontan has more guitars than Studio, and I def think Studio's guitar plaing is better.

neanderthaler is crazy imho

"Cassette" by The Crepes sounds great.

There's a CD and download out in August.

tracklist for US release of 'Love Is Not Pop'

'Gotta Get Smart'
'Change Of Heart'
'L Is For Love'
'Let Me In'
'Heavenly Arms'
'It Is Something (To Have Wept)'
'A Better Love'
'L Is For Love' (Low Motion Disco's additional love remix)
'Change Of Heart' (J Rintamäki remix)
'Let Me In' (Nhessingtons remix)

has anyone heard the new taken by trees album that's produced by dan lissvik?

^it sounds great in that national geographic bit, can't wait

seriously yall i am so stoked for this... http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/article/content.article/taken_by_trees/en

the track that comes on about halfway through is beautifulllll

I don't drink or use drugs so I imagine the tracks from Yearbook 1 especially "Origin" would sound more awesome when you're high. Anyone can confirm this?

everything is better when you're drunk or high. your life sux

yeah, i know.

i don't like driving while high unless there is not much traffic. listening to studio while high, oth, is grebt.