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Life's A Beach!

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After the warm reception for 2025's Ghostly reissue of Studio’s classic 2006 album West Coast (Pitchfork Best New Reissue, etc.), it felt time to add to the tableau of music that accompanied it. Indeed, the mid-2000s underground stir surrounding Studio, the project of Swedish artists Dan Lissvik and Rasmus Hägg, was almost lost to time. West Coast, the project’s seminal 2006 debut, captured a faraway romanticism of choice sounds from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The album was notably absent from most streaming services, and the internet’s record of its initial impact is all but fossilized from a bygone blog era, while its sound is simply untraceable to any one moment in music.

Two 12” singles from the era now find their way back online, both crucial to understanding the original sound: No Comply (2006) and Life’s A Beach (2007).

The standout “Life’s A Beach!” started as a weird loop in the studio and would eventually find both Prins Thomas and Todd Terje reaching out and wanting to remix it. The 12" was hand-in-glove with the disco-centric vibe around 2006–2008

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released May 12, 2026

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STUDIO Sweden

Studio created an underground stir with their debut full-length,
West Coast (2006). Released regionally in Scandinavia on the independent label Information in 2006 and now, in 2025, re-issued and made public again by Ghostly International. ... more

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