Studio - West Coast - CASSETTES

Some called Studio, the project of Swedish musicians Dan Lissvik and Rasmus Hägg, Inchthe missing link between The Cure and Lindstrøm,Inch Pitchfork heard Durutti Column and Can, as the duo's story became swept up in a loosely developing scene - adjacent first to the tag Service (Jens Lekman, The Whitest Boy Alive) and later Sincerely Yours (The Tough Alliance, jj) - and a precursor to the 2010s boom at the axis of electronic and psychedelic music guided by indie greats like Caribou, Four Tet, and Darkside. West Coast, their seminal 2006 debut, captured a faraway romanticism of Balearic brushed up against Krautrock, disco, dub, and afro-beat, with pop lyricism lifted from new wave, all made modern by two art school grads in Gothenburg. First pressed in a small vinyl-only run via their own Information tag, the album has been notably absent from most streaming services, and the internet's record of it's initial impact is all but fossilized from a bygone blog era, while it's sound is simply untraceable to any one moment in music. Outside of three 7Inch releases, they'd keep the music to themselves for several more years. In 2005, Hägg remembers, InchWe got our degrees and were kicked out of our studio spaces so all these recordings were just piled up. A year later we dusted them off and started to deconstruct and assemble them in a more drawn-out fashion.Inch In the same breadth, they cite DJ Screw, J Dilla, and Joy Division, along with early '80s European live DJ sets from the likes of Beppe Loda, DJ Mozart, and Baldelli as reference points. InchThe anything-goes mentality was very encouraging and was a big cornerstone to the Studio sound,Inch says Hägg. InchBut there's so much more to the picture, we were not that young then and had lots of musical baggage in our suitcases, the new thing was that we finally let it all come through, not bound by any borders that was oft