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Mojave 3 has people from Slowdive. Chilled out country shoegazing style... CheerioAndrewC. From: Michael Upton <jet.jaguar@eudoramail.com>

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>Trying to find a subject line that makes this seem on topic. :-) > >Shoegazer Creation band from the early 90s Slowdive did some instrumental

stuff with programmed rhythms that is rather damn nice, in its own way. One of the tracks is even a little Seefeel.

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> >I was wondering, as I'd never heard anything from them since their album

'Souvlaki', which is from 94, and wondered whether possibly the main songwriter ended up doing a solo electronic(ish) effort or what.

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quoted 3 lines Trying to find a subject line that makes this seem on topic. :-)

>Trying to find a subject line that makes this seem on topic. :-) > >Shoegazer Creation band from the early 90s Slowdive did some instrumental

stuff

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> with programmed rhythms that is rather damn nice, in its own way. One of

the

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> tracks is even a little Seefeel. > >I was wondering, as I'd never heard anything from them since their album > 'Souvlaki', which is from 94, and wondered whether possibly the main

songwriter

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> ended up doing a solo electronic(ish) effort or what.

Slowdive's swansong was a beautifully barren albumful of looped soundscapes called 'Pygmalion,' which, from what I understand, was largely a home-recorded solo effort from Neil Halstead, the main songwriter of the band. Pretty much their ticket straight out of their Creation Records contract. Anyway, somewhere slightly before that was a couple of singles ('5EP' and its remix companion, the latter featuring the Global Communication folks, if I'm not mistaken) which were quite ambient. Fast forward a few years, and you'll find Neil, Rachel, John & Co. making much more acoustic tunes under the Mojave 3 banner. I liked their first album, but the second one's sounding a tad too rootsy or something for my palate. On a sonically related note, I've been listening to the full-length from Detroit, MI's Monaural, who kinda started out in that Slowdive-ish "wash of guitar" mode, but ended up sounding much less structured, quite ambient, perhaps even dub-ish... or something. Highly recommended. It's called 'Monitor Interference,' out on the Ba-Da-Bing label. Back to lurking, hk np: Child's View 'Funfair'

jet.jaguar@eudoramail.com (Michael Upton) wrote: > I was wondering, as I'd never heard anything from them since their album > 'Souvlaki', which is from 94, and wondered whether possibly the main > songwriter ended up doing a solo electronic(ish) effort or what. Neil Halstead and Tony Wilson recorded (as Zurich) "A Harsh Truth (Parts I & II)", a very beautiful piece of beatless Pygmaleon-y ambience, for Leaf's first Invisible Soundtrack 12". it's also found on the Invisible Soundtracks: Macro 1 CD. mr. e. np: sand: the dynamic curve (creation) (...speaking of lost shoegaze/electronic(ish) classics)

quoted 4 lines Shoegazer Creation band from the early 90s Slowdive did some instrumental stuff with progr

> Shoegazer Creation band from the early 90s Slowdive did some instrumental stuff with programmed rhythms that is rather damn nice, in its own way. One of the tracks is even a little Seefeel. > > I was wondering, as I'd never heard anything from them since their album 'Souvlaki', which is from 94, and wondered whether possibly the main songwriter ended up doing a solo electronic(ish) effort or what. >

The only thing I remember that came after slowdive was the singer doing country/folky stuff under the name Mojave 3. Never heard them myself, but they were supposed to sound a bit like Mazzy Star (i.e not really ambient). Hope this helps. Dan Shoebridge.