The Studio - West Coast

apparently it's a limited vinyl release from last year, with an expanded CD now available. Shame I've blown my credit card limit!

sounds of SANTANA vol. LVCMXXXXXIVIII

spoke to magnus from the studio and am trying to get him to NYC.

And not just the Disco Inferno of the EPs but also those early percussive efforts on In Debt. "No Comply" though is all weird overlapping keyboard and piano melodies, kinda Reichian sample-pop.

Slowly slowly starting to see more talk about this. Still perhaps my favourite album of the year, interchanging with Panda Bear. Not surprisingly, the remixes floating around are great - I love how Todd Terje's remix of "Life's a Beach" starts out funky and very very slowly gets all moody like the original, and it's got such a wet aqueous groove too. And the Brennan Green remix of "West Side" is like a really sensitive dub version, moving around some parts, cutting out the vocals and adding some morose bleepy keyboards but otherwise preserving everything loveable about the original.

Also really really liking Studio's remix/remake of The Shout Out Loud's "Impossible", which is bright shiny pop by their standards - The Cure's "In Between Days" meets Disco Inferno's "The Athiest's Burden" meets... I'm not sure.

i've fallen in love with this band, but have only heard 2 songs (Origin & Life's a Beach). would love to hear a full length. i bought the remix 12" of Life's a Beach and was terribly dissapointed. i didn't realize it was only remixes and not the original version. and the remixes just sounded like mellow house tracks to me. lost most of the live instruments that i liked about it to begin with and returned it the next day.

also, how come the mp3s i've gotten are listed as "A Studio"? not The Studio or just Studio?

i can't believe you returned that 12"

also one of my favorites this year, yearbook 1

also, uh, jaxon, there's a link to their west coast 12" in a thread linked to in this thread

i highly recommend strategy's "future rock" for anyone who is feeling studio

http://brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/krank108.html

i agree about the vocal songs.. pretty shit.. but lifes a beach? jesus.. really nice.. this is one of the best produced records (yearbook 1) ive heard in a long time.

the vocals on the strategy album are a total bummer. whats going on here?

maybe you just don't like vocals

I'm waiting for my yearbook CD after really enjoying the remixes 12", the Todd Terje is fantastic, pitched on the edge of being, like the record shop label said, 'chilled out bar groove', I'm amazed they get something so great out of these rainforest and hippy signifiers. Certain points in that track, a bit more colour is gradually added and it feels like a huge psychedelic build, but still fairly restrained and smooth overall.

'west coast' is amazing

hang on, no, i mean 'out there'

i think the terje remix is anything but chilled out, but that's a minor quibble as it's one of my favorite remixes in a year that has been jammed with them. i haven't heard the album yet. can't believe i missed this thread the first time around.

Yeah, it's a great disc. Those upthread who drew comparisons between this and The Cure are OTM.

maybe i should try to download the 2 Life's a Beach remixes and actually, you know, like listen to them. i just figured it wasn't something i'd ever play out (like that happens so often), so i didn't need to own the vinyl

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?

can we get a west coast repress or what

― the late great, Monday, October 10, 2022 2:58 PM (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Fresh confirmations from the horses mouth on insta today, claims by 2024

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

Not always a big fan of his singing or lyrics but this new song is lovely
https://atelje.bandcamp.com/track/manual

his vocal+lyrics style can be very ~good vibes only~, but it usually sits well in the glimmering camcorder video effect home movies production haze. this one def leans harder on his singing but the haze is still there thankfully. it's not bad, it's humble, the kinda thing that makes you wanna call it a little ditty

https://www.instagram.com/stories/atelje_/3450275925948353242?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=cXB0Zmtua212cnI2
I just love his guitar playing/sound

this is not a drill

https://ghostly.com/products/west-coast

i just slammed my clicking finger on that buy button so fast

finally on mini disc!

yesssssss

tracklist on bandcamp (assuming just for the digital)

1.Out There
2.West Side
3.Origin 05:31
4.Life's A Beach!
5.Self Service
6.Indo
7.West Side Lullaby (CDR Version)
8.Life's A Beach! (CDR Version)
9.Indo (CDR Version)
10.Self Service (Yearbook Edit)
11.West Side Part 1
12.West Side Part 2

woohoo! CD for me

Norman Records have copies for anyone UK-based looking to avoid £25 shipping fees: https://www.normanrecords.com/records/206576-studio-west-coast

Thanks for the heads-up about Norman Records, Neil - I've pre-ordered this right away.

is this going to be the first issue to have the full-length versions of all tracks on it? i don't actually know what "west side lullaby" is

FINALLY

Do we know if the CD version gets the bonus tracks? Iirc the album itself is like 55-56 minutes, are the bonus tracks short enough for it all to fit on one disc?

if you check the ghostly page, there's a picture of the CD...

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0023/2122/files/GI-437cd_1200x.jpg

so my guess is no. vinyl is just a single lp too

Makes sense, that's what I figured. Still get 'em with the digital download, was just curious.

it's not like they need to include extra stuff to get people to buy the physical

Sorry stupid question but does this CD edition have anything more than the original one?

oh "self service" is listed as being 6:48 so it's a new edit (i think? i haven't seen this 7-minute version before) and not quite the full-length 8-minute version?

Sorry stupid question but does this CD edition have anything more than the original one?

appears to be a different track order from the original cd to match the original lp, and "self-service" is 7 minutes, not 4 minutes (like the original cd) or 8 minutes (like the original lp)

oh the new "self service" edit is surely so they could fit it onto a single lp, but a bit weird to not include the original as a digital bonus track or on the cd?

minidisc is wild. when is someone going to make a new portable MD player

Dan made a playlist for Test Pressing
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/48jMyxUrVrf2PIpl9pVVuz?si=2WShpzkHTJKYjB9JCNNMpQ&pi=vjwNXBFaQcaxY

just noticed that Studio has its own IG page now: https://www.instagram.com/officialstudioinformation

most likely it’s just to promote this repress but here’s to hoping other activity could be in the works

followed, thank you!

vinyl copy just arrived!

The “cdr” versions of West Side, Life’s a Beach, and Indo are very cool to have. Early versions of the recordings which give a little insight in to how the songs came together.

The version of "Self Service" on the vinyl is, I think, a different edit? And the sequencing of the tracks has changed too as compare to my old CD version!

now do Yearbook 1!

Now available on the streaming service of your choice!

Not really feeling the new version of 'Self Service' as I always loved how the original kicks off with the beat.