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| Our latest FREE compilation, "THE FUZZY BALL" completes
the series of three releases that accompanied each of our
annual events we christened The Shoegazer Ball. The
CDs are still available from our webstore now for FREE (shipping
only). The extravagent outtings were held yearly between
2002 and 2005 in both Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. The
events and the accompanying compilations were assembled to
not only celebrate and honor the predominantly UK-based Shoegazer
movement of the late 80's and early 90?s, but also to showcase
the growing resurgence of this movement in today's independent
music scene. And we were lucky enough to have had some
of the very best come out of the woodwork
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The yearly events
featured some of the most adventurous NW bands playing
cover versions of the legendary bands that allegedly
created the "Shoegazer" sound; My Bloody Valentine,
Ride, Slowdive, Spiritualized, Spaceman 3, Chapterhouse,
Lush and Catherine Wheel among many others. As
the story goes, the term "shoegaze" was coined
by a British rock journalist who, after seeing a band
perform live, wrote that the performers were constantly
gazing at their shoes. In fact, it was the constant
use of pedals and effects to achieve a certain sound
that resulted in the band members spending most of the
performance looking down at their equipment. In
a recent treatise on the shoegazer evolution and its'
current renaissance in Magnet magazine, Portland-based
rock writer Corey Dubrowa wrote: "No
matter what handle best described it, the sound of the
British indie scene in the late 80's was most accurately
expressed in liquid derivatives: waves of distortion,
cascading guitar feedback, oceanic swirls of keyboard
and percussion, rainswept sonic vistas, washes of sound
where no one voice (human or instrumental) was distinguishable
from another." (*Magnet, Issue 53).
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Each compilation
featured one song from each of the bands that participated
in both the Seattle and Portland events and a few others
that couldn't make the shows, but wanted to be involved. Below
is a list of the amazing artists that participated.
Thanks to the following who made it all possible: Under
the Radar Magazine, KEXP, Cravedog CD & DVD Manufacturing,
CD Forge, Jim Beam, The Willamette Week, CDBaby and the
great venues, Chop Suey, The Crocodile Cafe, The Bossanova
and The Fez.
FINE PRINT
The CDs are free, but you will need to pay the small cost of packaging and
stamps. When you place your order, your shopping cart will reflect a charge
of $1.00. This is due to our credit card partner's minimum charge of $1.00
for all items. So what we've done is actually lowered the shipping costs for
this release to reflect this. The net effect will be that the shipping charges
for this CD are as low as it gets for any of the Reverb Webstore products.
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