skardas

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The term shoegaze refers to a certain short lived trend in indie music from approximately 1989 to 1992. The term was coined by the British music press as a derogatory reference to the performance style of many of these bands, i.e. these young inexperienced bands tended to stand there with guitars in hand, swaying at most, while looking at their feet with hair covering their faces. A stereotype, to be sure, but a funny one nonetheless. The music of these bands was primarily inspired by the 1988 album "Isn't Anything" by My Bloody Valentine, and also the followup album "Loveless", thus MBV are considered the prototypical shoegaze band, and "Loveless" is considered a classic of the genre. The music itself is characterized by effects laden guitar, thick with reverb, fuzz, distortion, echo, and just about as many effects as can be piled up. I frequently describe this music as "swirly". It is generally introspective, soothing, and frequently the vocals are buried so that the lyrics are very difficult to make out. Other terms I've heard used in place of Shoegaze are "dreampop", "etherpop", and "blissrock".

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Various - The Essential Vibes Of Drum'n'Bass - 12-Apr-09 09:49 AM
Very poor made compilation. Four tracks (Dominion - London Nights, Ballistic Brother - Ill Fly Away, Foul Play - Total Control and Cool Breeze - Cant Deal With This) are grabbed from Artcore 2 - The Art Of Drum & Bass compilation CD which was mixed by Doc Scott.
In result those tracks are without lead-in and lead-out because different order. Tracks not even have fade-in or fade-out. I believe others tracks are from other compilations too.

Ugh, absolute nonsense and dissapointment. Cheap product.

Chapterhouse - Whirlpool - 27-Sep-07 09:31 AM
Disappointment...

Actually first 9 tracks has made from low quality mp3s.
After informing Chapterhouse about this fact, band has informed label and now Cherry Red is going to repress the CD and will exchange the lo-fi version for the new hi-fi version.

Whirpool CD re-issue, аs advertises Cherry Red, should have 18 tracks. Anyway, contrary to expectation, Whirpool dont have track "Rain" from Sunburst EP, which can expect Chapterhouse fan. Bonus track from Whirpool 7" - "Die, Die, Die" also was gone away...

Overall i can recommend to avoid such release.

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless - 28-Jul-06 08:00 AM
It can be said that MBV were the founding fathers of Shoegazing but also killed the whole thing off. When they released "Loveless" in 1991, it made the albums by all the other bands unnecesserary, cos it compromised everything Shoegazing was meant to be and took it a lot further. Music like this hadnt been heard before and has never been produced again.

The thing that strikes you first is the sound, layer upon layer, vocals and rythms drowned in a huge wave of feedback and sounds youve never heard before. Shields achieved this by using guitars in ways that had never been thought of before and sampling them, to the effect that you sometimes think to hear a whole orchestra or flutes, but its always just guitars really. It was an absolutely amazing piece of work and seemed to make all the other bands realise that theyd been foolish to think they could ever come up with anything as good as this, so they all shot off in different directions (Moose went country, Chapterhouse went dance, Lush and Boo Radleys went britpop and Catherine Wheel went shit).

Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia - Exit 23 - 30-Nov-05 03:00 AM
A deep pounding tranced out track that slowly builds and creeps up on you. Pretty simple in its dark rhythm, a sample of Timothy Leary saying, "return, to the source", an eastern sounding wailing, and very pronounced hi-hats.

Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia - Exit 23 (The Drum Club Remixes) - 30-Nov-05 03:00 AM
A great song refuses to die. This new version has been greatly enhanced and complicated. Gone is the eastern sounding wailing that grave it a real other world and timely feel to it. Excellent dark trance trip!

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