Photograph: Courtesy of Forced Exposure

Much of the most inspiring dance music hitting the racks these days works an analog-era, sun-kissed groove until one is practically stung by the sea spray hitting the rocks—it’s a humanistic reaction to the ultrasynthetic, generic image of dance music that developed in the ’90s. It makes us want to wear linen, hide out in a white-on-white estate on Capri and focus on meditation—but it also builds on a long tradition in club music that includes DJ Harvey, the Hacienda and David Mancuso’s Loft.

These days, that boogie rarely emerges from a month of blazing spliffs in Nassau as it did during the heyday of disco laboratory Compass Point. This month, at least, it comes from Sweden. Studio—Dan Lissvik and Rasmus Hägg—have some of the coolest hands in the resurgent Balearic-dub-disco scene.

Yearbook 1 collected tracks from the outfit’s first album, West Coast, and EP—it mined an ’80s pop vein with every track subtly done over like a Madchester remix—and ended up being one of the most buzzed-about import records of the year. Yearbook 2 is technically a collection of remakes and remixes—but the tunes are so epically transformed with gentle funk, synthesizer starlight and Spanish guitar as to make for a seamless album. The band covers the Talk Talk–like Mountain of One and the cuddle punk of Love Is All—and somehow gets both surfing the laid-back waves at the same sonic resort.

Studio turns the sparse jangle of “Impossible” by fellow Swedes the Shout Out Louds into a lush Ibizan anthem. It takes Brooklyn space-disco-ace Brennan Green into a different galaxy. Kylie’s “Two Hearts” sounds like smooth Latin sci-fi pop. The whole thing flows like a lazy afternoon in Antibes. All that’s missing is an SPF rating.