What sort of shoegazer are you?

ShoeGazer64

ShoeGazer64

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I always see people mainly mention My Bloody Valentine when talking about shoegaze, but that's just one end of the spectrum. On the other end are bands like Slowdive and Levitation. While MBV hammers your brain with sheer volume and distortion, Slowdive drowns you in a warm ocean of reverbs, delays and modulation. Levitation is pure 60s psychedelia, updated for the late 20th century. All of it is good, but none of it sounds the same, in the way that, say, metal or Doom does.
 
I haven't listened to Fripp in quite awhile...although I enjoyed a lot of what King Crimson did, I found his playing just too discordant. I haven't really heard much of his ambient stuff. I do enjoy Eno though.
 
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I haven't listened to Fripp in quite awhile...although I enjoyed a lot of what King Crimson did, I found his playing just too discordant. I haven't really heard much of his ambient stuff. I do enjoy Eno though.
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Some of his ambient stuff doesn't really sound like it was guitar-generated. But he was a pioneer when it comes to playing with long delays (in those days, 5 seconds?) done with 2 reel-to-reel recorders.
 
Back in the early 80s I was taking an electronic music course in high school. We discussed frippertronics. Having 2 Teac A3440s reel-to-reel recorders in the classroom, we experimented quite a bit with loops.
 
I do not know what the term means....

Edit: looked it up. Ok.
Not my thing, but can appreciate the building of a soundscape to do your thing.
 
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Back in the day, I actually played in a band making those kind of sounds and music like that (though we did some other stuff too), but I never actually heard the term "shoegaze" until about 15-20 years after that movement was largely over. It seems to have resurged in certain circles in the recent decade or so, but it's not quite the same as the first time around for me.
 
This is the kind of thing I like to do- all guitar generated, done with simultaneous un-synced long loops, pitch transposers, etc. All guitar generated.

 
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