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"When Stars Collide" "As the City Rumbles Underneath" Dream pop shoegaze...

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As some of you may know I've been working on a project with a good friend of mine Cat Forsley , called " As the City Rumbles Underneath ".  She approached me about making "shoegazer" music last summer and I got really excited about the prospects of doing something like that.  In the 90's while in college I fell in love with bands like My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and Curve but I've never really had a lot of opportunity to pursue those kinds of sounds in my professional career at the studio.  Generally my space echo from the 70's sits idle, my many delays cry for... well you get the idea.  If you don't, here's a picture of my space echo which I use quite a bit for the music we make. Ashton's Space Echo Anyway, I was really interested in doing something like this and using some of the gear I've accumulated in a new way but I wasn't interested in recreating something that bands from the past had done.  Cat and I both felt the...