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i think that echoes is singlehandedly responsible for turning all of new age america on to dead can dance. but i could be wrong. they at least used to play some krautrock on the show. or at least newageofearth type of krautrock.
― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah I'm finding some decent selections here in these playlists, scattered around... Soft Machine, Terry Riley? Why don't I ever hear this shit when I turn on Echoes? It always sounds like some Stars of the Lid knockoff : \
― Chris Bee (Cee Bee), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Shellyan Orphan were also similar. That 4AD Swallow release was pretty good. So was Sub Pop's Swallow, an entirely different thing.
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link
two years pass...
It's funny how time changes our appreciation of things. I remember in the 90s knowing that Bel Canto supposedly made amazing, beautiful kinda music ... and I listened to it and thought to myself, "this is lame and cheesy."
Now that the late 80s / early 90s kinda thing has started to crop again, this stuff ain't so bad. I thought to myself, "is this another one o thems Swedish electro-pop revival things popular with the kids these days?"
― burt_stanton, Friday, 5 December 2008 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Cocteausy dream pop is a specialty of mine. I suggest (for starters):
aisth - mp3 tracks from their old website (10 of which are occasionally available on slsk)
Anymore - Thistlestar ep and Umani (guitar based, they discovered electronics and became Halou)
Autumn's Grey Solace - Within the Depths of a Darkened Forest, Over the Ocean, Riverine (suffers from the Projekt curse of anemic melody, but to a lesser extent than other Projekt dream pop)
Breath of Life - Sweet Party, Silver Drops (Belgian band overlooked by mainstream due to goth background. Their vocalist is extraordinary.)
Collection d'Arnell-Andrea - Les Marronniers and Villers-Aux-Vents (Février 1916). (French, with strings, and the later album is the only great album about The Great War.)
Elysium - Glisten (one off on Brant of the old 4ad-list's label. Autumnal.)
Orange - Orange (the other great Brant label release. A rare vocalist that matches Liz Frazier's jazzy fluidity.)
Perfume Tree - The Sun's Running Out, A Lifetime Away (Vancouver dubby dreampop, a bit like Seefeel with a melodic sense. "Virgin" off A Lifetime Away is one of my very favorite tracks, ever.)
Where I've omitted album by artists above its because they were incompletely formed, or subsequent to a drift out of the dream pop genre.
― derelict, Friday, 5 December 2008 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
six years pass...
Anneli Drecker's new album is just lovely, even if it makes me feel like I'm listening to a soundtrack for the Lord of the Rings at times.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 15 July 2015 21:24 (eight years ago) link
eight years pass...