electronica combined with shoegaze, that's seefeel, and disjectia etc isn't it?
there is that ulrich snauss guy but his stuff is unnervingly saccharin, frightening stuff.
anticon stuff worked with it too.
but don't you find that song ' boy from school' absolutely gorgeous?
it's got a lovely folky melody combined with sweet cheesy trance stuff going on, they're not really an indie band, they don't do guitars much, they're more like 'sparks jugend.'
Well I think to achieve it you've got to do both things well. That's not easy. Ulrich Schnaus really fucked it, too sacharine, and the beats were/are no way good enough anyway. Also, what you've got to remember about shoegaze is that really it was quite a hardcore and having it scene - very serious moshpits at Ride shows, and proper sonic intensity with the Valentines, Slowdive fans off their mash-hole laying on the stage. Listening to many of the sonic documents of the time you could get quite a twee impression but that would be wrong and unfair to the spirit of the music.
Seefeel were good, large up Mark Clifford. Mostly on a dubby tip so keeping it quite simple rhythmically at that time. I remember a gig at the Marquee with Reload and Chapterhouse
. If shoegazing were truly to meet electronica I would want the best aspects of both of those styles, not the wimpiest or most obvious. So. the guitar textures and harmonic beauty of the shoegazers with the pristine structures, syncopation and processing of the MAX geeks. If George Martin was making Sgt, Pepper's now he would do a track like that.
