Madchester ( English Madchester ) - a genre of rock music that emerged in the second half of the 1980s. in Manchester , UK . A characteristic feature of the genre was the appeal to the psychedelic sound of the late 1960s. and the use of house music technology. The term is a merger of two English words - “mad” and “Manchester” .
| Madchester | |
|---|---|
| Direction | Rock electronic music |
| The origins | fashion , punk rock , house , ravers , psychedelic rock , postpunk , 1960s pop, garage rock , hard rock |
| Place and time of occurrence | mid 1980s, Manchester , UK |
| Heyday | 1988-1992 |
| see also | |
| Alternative rock | |
History
The musical spectrum of the madchester extended from purely guitar groups playing under the influence of psychedelia of the 60s to an experimental acid house . Groups in this direction were either at these opposite poles ( Stone Roses , 808 State ), or they maintained a balance between them ( Happy Mondays ). A related genre was shugeyzing , focused solely on melancholy guitar music.
The heyday of the genre came in 1988-92. Despite the fact that madchester was a phenomenon of a purely Manchester music scene, this genre spread to other cities in the UK and beyond ( The Farm were from Liverpool, Message played in Moscow). Madchester was an integral musical part of the subculture of raves . The compositions of such bands as 808 State and A Guy Called Gerald supplied the discos with the latest rhythms.
Musically, the madchester had exhausted itself by 1992 - it was replaced by a more uncompromising grunge and its full antipode - Brit-pop . Most of the leading collectives of the genre ceased to exist by the mid 90's.
Principal Performers
- Happy mondays
- The stone roses
- Inspiral carpets
- Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
- 808 State
- A Guy Called Gerald
- James
- The charlatans
- The farm
- Soup dragons
- EMF
See also
- Rave
- Party people
- Hacienda