tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42848459535521148372024-02-19T07:15:58.769-08:00TOUCHED - A Compendium of Shoegaze/Dreampop SoundsA Blog dedicated to the fantastic sounds, old and new, of the genres best from the past and upcoming artists as well. Maintained and edited by Ugly Things Contributor Jason Tryp. Despite being a huge fan of 60's garage rock and psychedelia, Mr. Tryp has decided to explore and give recognition to sounds that captured his attention while he was in high school in the early to mid-90's.JasonTryphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18035074112972483726noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284845953552114837.post-14188096775762246012015-12-06T15:00:00.003-08:002015-12-06T15:00:56.284-08:00RIDE - "NOTHING LASTS FOREVER" B-Side Greatness from the TARANTULA Era<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It was 1996, I was a big Ride fan barely into my 20's. I had immensely enjoyed their previous effort, the 60's psychedelia influenced, CARNIVAL OF LIGHT from 1994. A lot fans slagged that album because they pretty much shed their shoegaze sound which they were known for throughout their 5 year or so career up to that point. But I thought that was silly, band grow, they develop, they lack to challenge themselves. The STONES ROSES took a similar course and in 1993 released the pretty underrated SECOND COMING which itself was influenced by the guitar heroics of the late 60's and early 70's and had a general 'classic rock' influence in the mix.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Come 1996, I walk into NYC's Tower Records one day and out of nowhere (no pun intended, Ride fans) I see the new RIDE album entitled TARANTULA. I'm pretty sure I purchased it right away. I was pretty surprised to see it because it was released to little fanfare. Little did I know that the band had apparently broken up by it's release. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was an interesting album, but when I first heard it, I suppose I was slightly disappointed with it and did not enjoy it as much as CARNIVAL OF LIGHT. A few years later, I came across a Japanese or German version of the CD with the 3 bonus tracks that were included on the albums only singe "Black Night Crash". These bonus tracks were excellent, and I'm including my favorite one here "Nothing Lasts Forever" which should please the fans of their earlier shoegaze heavy sound. This is a wonderful track that would have nicely fit into their previous effort, GOING BLANK AGAIN. A great song that seems to lament their final days going into 1996 with a wonderful guitar sound that predominates throughout. A Youtube poster commented quite rightly on the magnificent guitar sound heard on the song:</span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">"<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The upside is the guitar work is absolutely stunning on here esp the break from </span><a class="yt-uix-sessionlink " data-sessionlink="ei=9bJkVrbkMcTB-wOksZzoDw" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds_6SrJB-hQ&t=2m15s" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #167ac6; cursor: pointer; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">2:15</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - </span><a class="yt-uix-sessionlink " data-sessionlink="ei=9bJkVrbkMcTB-wOksZzoDw" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds_6SrJB-hQ&t=2m58s" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #167ac6; cursor: pointer; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">2:58</a></span></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> it blows me away every single time. For me - one of Ride's finest & most addictive songs. A complete and utter gem. Thank you, Ride!!"</span></i><span style="font-size: 13px;">. </span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Another great song, the swanky, retro-rock of "The DAWN PATROL"</span></b></div>
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JasonTryphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18035074112972483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284845953552114837.post-16354296908814376892012-11-13T09:37:00.000-08:002012-11-13T09:37:36.134-08:00SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING OLD - THE ASTEROID NO. 4 - Honey Bee (1998) + THE BILINDA BUTCHERS - Seafoam Green (2011)<div align="left" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was a 21 year old living in Brooklyn, New York and the year was 1997. I had been going to shows mostly at NYC's IRVING PLAZA venue seeing a number of cool bands such as Stereolab, Ash, The Charlatans UK, Kula Shaker, Wilco (whom I walked out on), etc. I had heard of the Brian Jonestown Massacre and their My Bloody Valentine-like sound and read they were playing at a little bar called Brownies. So off I went to a night that changed my life. Asteroid No. 4 were the first band up and they played a short set that nevertheless blew me away. Been a fan ever since...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's a lovely instrumental by a band named after My Bloody Valentine lead vocalist (you guessed it) Bilinda Butcher. A new favorite band. They hail from San Francisco.</span></div>
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JasonTryphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18035074112972483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284845953552114837.post-1691328876853118432012-11-12T09:13:00.001-08:002012-11-12T21:04:27.242-08:00SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW - MY BLOODY VALENTINE - Map Ref. 41N 93W (1996) + SHANA FALANA - IN THE LIGHT (2012)<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With the good news that Kevin Shields is releasing a 'new' MY BLOODY VALENTINE record in the upcoming year, after eons of waiting amongst their hunger starved fans, here is one of the last 'new' tracks they released, a cover of a WIRE song on a compilation known as 'Whore' which was released in 1996. Which is simply stratospheric in terms of sound. Let's hope we can soon add My Bloody Valentine to the 'New' Category :-p</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">From more recent pastures we have Rosendale, New York resident (via San Francisco) SHANA FALANA with her dreamy-esque type of modern (at times chant-driven) dreampop that ebbs under your skin and lifts up the wings you didn't know you had. One example being this song, which is one of the most uplifting beautiful songs that I've heard in my young life. A positive vortex of dreampop sound. Pretty cool video shot in upstate NY as well.</span></div>
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JasonTryphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18035074112972483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284845953552114837.post-13669366662231668742011-12-19T07:34:00.000-08:002011-12-19T07:34:53.754-08:00Something Old, Something New - THE TELESCOPES - PERFECT NEEDLE (1989) + SPOTLIGHT KID - "PLAN COMES APART" (2011)<span style="font-size: x-large;">This right here is the missing link between the JESUS AND MARY CHAIN and THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Picked this one up recently at a local Salvation Army. The name seemed strangely familiar so I took a chance with it as it had a dreampop/shoegaze type of presentation. 4 songs with titles such as "2 SUNNY", "LET ME BE AROUND", "CLOSER", &...(wait for it)..."UNTITLED".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">The band hailed from Ireland and as I heard the 4 tracks with it's clear (un-shoegazy like) female lead vocals and nice sounding slightly distorted guitars I could swear the light through my blinds started to intensify and the November sun became more robust as if seeking to pull back it's August strength.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">This is everything you wanted the Cranbrerries to be (if you ever cared for them, that is). Or what would of happened if the Cranberries vocalist joined up with My Bloody Valentine and they decided to head in a poppier direction. Beauty, sweetness...and light. </span>JasonTryphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18035074112972483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284845953552114837.post-73240999281114316322011-11-10T08:40:00.000-08:002011-11-10T08:40:12.747-08:00Something Old, Something New - PALE SAINTS - SIGHT OF YOU (1990) + THE NEW TIGERS - NEVER SAY GOODBYE (MBV COVER, 2008)<span style="font-size: x-large;">Pale Saints, sometimes overlooked UK shoegaze, noisepop makers. This from 1990 on the legendary 4AD Label,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">From Philly here is a new track from Stellarscope who have been at it for the past few years recreating that dancy, trippy shoegaze vibe from the early 90's and they do a good job of putting out a sound reminiscent of 1993 or so. This is off their new album due out November 25th on Patetico Records. Have a look/listen: </span></div>
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JasonTryphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18035074112972483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284845953552114837.post-17714052501689391392011-10-31T18:08:00.000-07:002012-11-11T22:44:17.517-08:00Something Old, Something New - SWERVEDRIVER - FEEL SO REAL (1991) + THE SKY DROPS - GREEN TO RED (2006/2007)<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 1991 there was nothing happening in the US remotely as cool as SWERVEDRIVER. Nirvana were just in their training shorts, their low-fi debut possesing none of the devastating qualities of Swervedriver's powerful debut RAISE. Nothing else in the US at least came close. Like what did you have? Grunge? Please...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">From more recent pastures we have Deleware's THE SKY DROPS. Back when MySpace was at it's peak this duo was making a splash in the cyber waters touring throughout the US. Need your MY BLOODY VALENTINE FIX? Step right up, put on your headphones (optional), turn up the volume, sit back relax and PLAY BLOODY LOUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span><br />
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JasonTryphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18035074112972483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284845953552114837.post-14995016072013748692011-10-24T21:06:00.000-07:002012-11-11T22:46:03.784-08:00Something Old, Something New - DEUX FILLES - "THE LETTER" (1982) + ELECTRIC ASSEMBLY - "CAN CARE BE WRONG" (2006/2007)<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Here is an beautiful, haunting, early instrumental example of what can be termed 'dreampop'. <em>Deux Filles were Simon Fisher Turner, former child star/teen idol and future soundtrack composer, and his mate Colin Lloyd Tucker. Turner and Tucker left an early incarnation of The The in 1981 to pursue another musical direction. Turner claims that the idea of Deux Filles came to him in a dream, and he and Tucker strictly maintained the fiction throughout the duo's career. Not only did they pose in drag for the album covers, the duo once even played live without the audience realizing that the tragic French girls on-stage were actually a pair of blokes from south London having a giggle. Deux Filles released two albums through Turner and Tucker's Papier Mache label, 1982's Silence & Wisdom and 1983's Double Happiness. After that, the duo scrapped the Deux Filles concept and released two ambient pop albums as Jeremy's Secret.</em>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">...and from just a few years back we have Londoners THE ELECTRIC ASSEMBLY with a lovely shoegaze inflected tune "CAN CARE BE WRONG". These guys were led by my friend David McHugh.</span><br />
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JasonTryphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18035074112972483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284845953552114837.post-16545415870885514862011-10-16T23:43:00.000-07:002012-11-11T22:48:57.988-08:00Something Old, Something New - HOUSE OF LOVE - "CHRISTINE" (1988) + JASON TRYP & THE PRYSM LEAVES - "DECEIVE (2011)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>HOUSE OF LOVE - "CHRISTINE" from 1988. Formed by Guy Chadwick after having seen and been inspired by the Jesus And Mary Chain and their sound.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>JASON TRYP & THE PRYSM LEAVES - "DECEIVE" a new band from Southern California </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>(my band actually...check it out:</strong></span></div>
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JasonTryphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18035074112972483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284845953552114837.post-38000363007155784872011-10-12T07:54:00.000-07:002011-10-12T07:57:21.794-07:00SOMETHING OLD SOMETHING NEW - THE COCTEAU TWINS "Love's Easy Tears" (1986) & SHANA FALANA - "Light The Fire" (2011)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><object class="BLOGGER-youtube-video" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" data-thumbnail-src="http://0.gvt0.com/vi/tMZosa_QayQ/0.jpg" height="266" width="320"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tMZosa_QayQ&fs=1&source=uds" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><embed width="320" height="266" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tMZosa_QayQ&fs=1&source=uds" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div>It's 1986, the year of the New York Mets Vs. the Boston Red Sox in the World Series. I was probably listenting to early old school rap, Michael Jackson and perhaps some Beatles at best. Good thing though because my young mind would of been blown by something like this, I wouldn't have been ready for it. Liz Fraser and company had been around for a few years melding atmospheric 'gothic' rock sounds with a dreamy type post-punk/new wave style that would become their signature and hence 'Dreampop' was born!<br />
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Flash forward to our year of 2011 A.D. and what do we have but one of Liz Fraser's spiritual descendants chanting out her own modern dreampop mantras for a new generation. Shana Falana, formerly of San Francisco has been out in New York (Brooklyn, now Rosendale) trying to make it happen now for the past few years and without a doubt she has finally attained it. Sonically she and her band has all the tools. This beautiful track, part Benedectine monks, part (yes) Cocteau Twins, can be found on her just released IN THE LIGHT EP. She is out and about playing all over New York, catch her before she is gone! Here are more details on her ReverbNation page: <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/shanafalanaschannel">http://www.reverbnation.com/shanafalanaschannel</a><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/UFmaxhbwdiQ?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>JasonTryphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18035074112972483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4284845953552114837.post-58288713888143037632011-10-11T09:25:00.000-07:002011-10-11T18:54:11.919-07:00Tuesday, October 11th 2011 WE HAVE LIFTOFF!!!...<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This is a blog that I have begun, dedicated to those sounds that such pioneering bands as the JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, THE COCTEAU TWINS, LOOP, A.R. KANE, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, and the like, had a hand in developing and creating. I am talking about what has come to be termed SHOEGAZE and DREAMPOP and you can also lump in it's descendants, 'NEWGAZE' 'DREAMFOLK' and the like etc., etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">These sounds first caught my attention around the time I was 15 or 16 and I read about My Bloody Valentine in Rolling Stone Magazine in the early 90's and their group photo fascinated me and shortly after I purchased their monumental and groundbreaking LOVELESS shortly after that and haven't been the same since! Soon to follow were other groups </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I heard of and got know about such as RIDE, SLOWDIVE, SWERVEDRIVER and other on a similar wavelength.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">There is a certain otherworldliness and etherealness (spiritualness?...too much 'ness' going on here!) that can be attached to many sounds of the genre and that you can say is what makes it unique. I will review every week (as many days of that week) sounds of the genre, old and new. Submissions are always accepted and all will be reviewed. So...let the fun begin!</span>JasonTryphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18035074112972483726noreply@blogger.com0