THE SHOEGAZE GENERATION

By Tim Sliwinski

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Mojave 3 in Austin, TX, 1996.

Simon Rowe, lan McCutcheon, Neil Halstead, Rachel Goswell

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ICEPUNK PARTY, 21.02

Tiaam Basho, KMB Force, T0sk4, Locky23

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My Bloody Valentine

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ICEPUNK (arctic internet) mixtape, 2011/2026

◮◮◮❅ ❄ A Lonely Ice Lab in a Boreal Forest: Frigid Research ❄ ❅◮◮◮

unofficial mixtape v.1.2 by Tim Sliwinski

icepunk is an obscure “frozen” microgenre, born and quietly erased during the post–witch house moment of 2011. Emerging around the era of a Balam Acab album, it later partially dissolved into seapunk, while remaining tied to a distinct visual aesthetic (@c0ld1995). In the 2020s, related terms surfaced - frutiger glacier, cyber glacier, digital winter - all circling the same icepunk idea.

Sonically, icepunk feels like extraterrestrials landing in the Arctic/tundra: mystical, unfamiliar, and quietly futuristic. Ambient, watery, minimal tracks shaped its core, infused with fragments of tundra tribal rhythms and elements of witch house, glitch hop, leftfield, epic collage, progressive electronic, and dub. The approach was loose and unsystematic, yet nearly every fragment carries a sense of cold, Arctic emptiness, and the atmosphere of its time.

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Visit Original Link

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shoegaze/dream pop from chile, 1995

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Elizabeth Fraser - Cocteau Twins in 1983 (Will Heggie on the right)

Photo by Sarah Van Rij

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Elizabeth Fraser - Cocteau Twins in 1983 (Will Heggie on the right)

Photo by Sarah Van Rij

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rachel goswell of slowdive in 1993

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Drop Nineteens during Drop Nineteens in Concert at CBGB'S - 1992 at CBGB'S in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Steve Eichner/WireImage)

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Gregg Araki and Rose McGowan on the set of The Doom Generation (1995)

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Mike Dytri, Gregg Araki and Craig Gilmore - behind the scenes of The Living End (1992)

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James Duval after shooting wrapped for Gregg Araki's Nowhere (1997)

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Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson performing at the Campus Club, Providence, Rhode Island, 1991 ♡ Photographed by Christopher Patriarca

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Stereolab / Tortoise / Broadcast - The Forum, London, England, March 14, 1996

Not sure if you could dream up a better mid-1990s triple bill than this — Stereolab, Tortoise and Broadcast?! Holy moses. These decent audience tapes take us back to those heady days. Broadcast, of course, was just getting started at this point. I'm not even sure if their debut single had been released! But they must've had some buzz to get this choice opening slot. Anyhoo, their brief set suggests they already were a more-than-solid live act, with Trish Keenan's crystalline vocals wafting out over the crowd. Stereolab obviously liked what they heard; they'd put out the "Living Room" / "Phantom" seven-inch on their Duophonic label shortly thereafter.

And speaking of Duophonic, Tortoise open up their portion of the evening with an absolutely soaring rendition of "Gamera," which had been released as a 12-inch on the label in '95. The Groop and Tortoise would be closely knit for a few years there, with John McEntire working extensively on several Stereolab albums. In London, they were promoting their then-brand-new masterwork Millions Now Living Will Never Die; they sound fucking killer.

And finally, Stereolab! Emperor Tomato Ketchup was just about to come out and they take the opportunity to play a bunch from that great record, in addition to some welcome dips into their already swelling back catalog. It's amazing how much the 'Lab got done in such a short time back then; they really had a serious work ethic! "We've got 10 more minutes," Laetitia Sadier announces at the end of the show. So, Stereolab embark on an absolutely wild "Super Electric" that lasts about 16 minutes. Things get loose, things get psychedelic, things get LOUD.

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Rachel Goswell (Slowdive), 1991-1992

Not my photo

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Illustrations by Roy Carruthers, 1973.