The Studio - West Coast

i was really surprised to read your comment upthread! the bassline in the terje is just too boogie to be house. it reminds me of the mary jane girls. so there's the rick james thing and on top of it there is cure (meets basic channel) san francisco summer beach atmospherics. and then fat techno claps and cowbells and a sense of humor. i am so smitten by this song.

What the where the who. This all sounds potentially interesting.

i love how enigmatic the band name and album title are. cover art is great too.

jaxon - for some reason when i ripped the promo CD i got, iTunes listed the artist as "A Studio" so I would guess your rip came from that as well...

you know, you fellas are right! this is great! agree w/ all the aforementioned reference points, but would add in the mood of all those great Associates 12"s w/ the cool b-sides. and special commendation for the exquisite guitar. thank you ilx!

Ned I sincerely believe you will love them.

It's kinda of odd how similar the Prins Thomas and Todd Terje remixes of "Life's a Beach" are - both have the funky bassline, the endless layering of effects, the faithful redeployment of the guitar. The Terje remix is slightly more brisk and uptempo, and I slightly prefer it, but they're both great.

Cutty those Strategy samples are excellent. Will have to track that album down.

fwiw, Out There is my least favorite track.

now to track down the remixes...

http://www.myspace.com/aeroplanemusiclove

^ sooo good.

i downloaded Life's a Beach remixes. eh. prins thomas remix is cool. kinda spaced out, but i still stand by what i said. it lost the balearic rock edge that i liked and just became sorta "dance music". no need to keep 12"

"West Side" does = the Balearic Cure. Out've the forest and onto the beach.

this has been repressed. hooray!

That Yearbook cover art is fantastic.

Has Spencer seen it or heard this, I wonder?

Cutty! That Strategy album is like... Luomo making a post-rock record? Or a post-rock group making a Luomo record? Whatever, if I had a Microsoft Wizard program that made albums for me at least one of them would probably turn out like this. Not sure if I love love love it yet but will def. keep listening.

2007 is so the year I became a corny balearic fuxx.

i think balearic is one of those words like minimal. it has meaning that is more like residue. i like a lot of recent music like this because it is musical as opposed to most of the contemporary dance music i immerse myself in which is music that for most of the 00s has been design-obsessed (similar to a lot of contemporary pop and hip hop and even alterna-rock). it's just tiring after awhile.

tim have you heard kuniyuki takahashi?

i'm glad you like it tim--i've been listening to it quite a lot, maybe it needs its own thread

I want this and the Strategy record. I want them now.

Was 'West Coast' just an EP then? Does 'Yearbook 1' have different versions of these songs?

yearbook 1 has longer versions of two songs, a shorter version of one, and two extra songs from this 12". those aren't on the west coast reissue that's just come out, but it has the full versions of everything else (and is a double 12" if you have it on vinyl).

this is really fantastic. up there with the LCD record, for me.

i'm glad you like it tim--i've been listening to it quite a lot, maybe it needs its own thread

yes please!

Has it even gotten a legit release yet?

am i on everyone's killfile or something? yes, it has been reissued.

i thought they were talking about the Strategy record, lil man

Strategy record has definitely been released - saw it in the shops the other day.

I have a real copy of it in my office now and am listening to it - released mid-July in the UK, got it from Amazon.

Very good indeed, btw.

HAS L0u1s J@gger HEARD STRATEGY?

Taking L0u1s J@gger (By Strategy)

Hahaha I like how L0u1s J@gger is auto-encrypted.

Also, Ned would like this.

You would, Ned.

please don't spoil a good thread

Have I not recommended this to Ned before? It's like a birthday cake for Ned with sparklers that explode when you light them forming fireworks in the shape of "NED RAGGETT!!!"

You totally recommended it to me upthread! And quite happily I am getting a promo copy this week.

I thought that was The Studio? Which should be waiting at home for me. Is there a separate Strategy thread now?

apparently there is an epic studio remix of the new a mountain of one single!

leo?

no, LEO!

that strategy album is just ok. first 2 songs and "Stop Spinning" are nice balearic disco dub (not dubby disco), but the rest of it is kinda mellow shoegazy m83 stuff which didn't do anything for me.

same here

xpost - we should probably just have a nü-balearic thread to differentiate it from the beardo disco thread.

The piano in track 3 of the Studio album is totally AR Kane.

whatevr jaxon

also have a new remix of "west side" by brennan green

I'm liking Strategy WAY more than Studio.

new remix of "west side" by brennan green

Meantime, the Studio album is here in the mail, and I will listen in a bit.

Okay, the Disco Inferno connection I don't sense either, though I can see what Tim is driving at. But the comment in the first post from him -- "superbly glistening eighties art-rock sheen" -- is appropriate for the album as a whole, no question. I'm not feeling immediate overwhelming "Whoa, LUV" yet, but I am v. impressed.

I'm with Ned, but I can see grower potential. The glistening bit is spot on. What it reminds me most of, I guess, is early Cure. There's a similar sense of space and that overall mood of chilly summer dawns, that I get from 'Japanese Whispers' or '17 Seconds'.

can we get a west coast repress or what

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holy shit that would be amazing - a white whale in my library

I wonder which version will be repressed, double or single

ahhhh i hope so. one of my biggest music-related regrets is losing my copy of this record, got misplaced during a move

nice, i saw lissvik post some tape reels and "west side" lyrics recently that made me wonder if he was doing something with the old studio stuff

im 75% sure I lost my copy of this in a move too. what is it about west coast that makes it socks in the drier

*checks record collection nervously*

Just checked and phew, still have my CD version. (Mint copy of the LP currently going for £190 on Discogs.)

I def had a copy of the LP in great condition. Its now in a storage pod or it was lost

the cd is still widely available

true, but that damn long version of Self Service remains lost on the first single-LP pressing for some insane reason

I think the short version is probably better than the long version, but it would be great to have the long version for sure.

The short version might be better overall perhaps but the long version has higher highs, I think.

https://www.phonicarecords.com/product/under-allt-3-lp-pre-order-under-allt/192075

listening to the previews and wishing this had came out six months sooner for summer

Lissvik has 9 copies of the 4 LP Archive up on bandcamp. $50.

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/0035495181_10.jpg

And now there are 9 copies remaining of "7 Trx + Intermission" on bandcamp