Seminal Swedish underground duo Studio's lost 2006 debut will hit streaming next year

The mid-2000s project of Swedish musicians and art school grads Dan Lissvik and Rasmus Hägg, Studio's seminal first album saw the pair mesh Balearic with Krautrock, disco, dub, and afro-beat. First pressed in a small vinyl-only run via their own Information label, the album has is absent from most streaming services, and has been kept alive over the last decade by a community of hardcore fans and blogs sharing zip files of the album. Copies on Discogs regularly go for around £100.

Pitchfork - along with Best Fit - were champions of the band, who became swept up in a loosely developing scene around Gothenburg — adjacent first to the label 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.

The release of the record saw The Guardian declare it "one of the finest pieces of electronic music you ́ll hear this year," and was followed by the duo receding from view behind a mountain of remix requests and label bureaucracy (here's a playlist of Lissvik and Hägg's best remix work, including a fantastic take on Kylie's "2 Hearts" and The 1975's "Settle Down").

Both artists, now well into respective careers beyond Studio, have come to peace with West Coast: Lissvik says: "It serves as a good reminder for me to keep to that decision and promise and to continue exploring and growing."

The West Coast reissue - due on 24 January, 2025 – is accompanied by a new visual for "Origin".