new music: dreamsludge and video gamers gone bad

i've come to notice that there are quite a few artists heavily influenced by endless hours of pushing buttons in front of a computer screen. no, i didn't all of a sudden realize that there is electronic music composed and produced on computers out there, but rather people like dan deacon and max tundra whose main sources of inspiration seem to be soundtracks to old video games. both "which song" and "get older" are beautiful, over-the-top exercises in blissed-out melodic weirdness which perfectly capture the excitement of a night spent in front of, i don't know, giana sisters while entertaining juvenile fantasies about girls. yes, i consider that sort of thing to be exciting. oh, while i'm at it: the depreciation guild has a somewhat similar approach, although they merge purely synthetic sounds with shoegaze rock in the vein of mbv and the likes. their album can be downloaded for free, so count yourself lucky.

in other shoegazing news, i discovered the label crucial blast whose artists seem to be into creating an unlikely yet interesting mixture of pop, sludge metal, noise, and - yes - shoegaze. i say " seem to" because i don't have the resources to actually buy some of their records at the moment, but once the money starts flowing, count me in. how can you not love a label that is responsible for inventing the subgenre "dreamsludge"? see, no one thought of it before, but the world is a happier place now.