Various Artists - C90 [CD]

<p><strong><em>RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2018</em></strong></p> <ul> <li>1990 GIVEN THE HUGELY SUCCESSFUL &lsquo;C&rsquo; SERIES TREATMENT, RIFFING ON THE ORIGINAL &lsquo;C86&rsquo; FOLLOWING PREVIOUS BEST-SELLING COLLECTIONS C86 (2014), C87 (2016), C88 (2017) AND C89 (2018).</li> </ul> <ul> <li>63 TRACKS CHARTING THE RISE TO DOMINANCE OF THE INDEPENDENT MUSIC SCENE, AS ONCE SHOESTRING ARTISTS AND LABELS BEGAN TO FIND AN AUDIENCE BORDERING ON THE MAINSTREAM.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>INCLUDES MORE HOUSEHOLD NAMES THAN EVER &ndash; <strong>THE CHARLATANS, THE LA&rsquo;S, OCEAN </strong><strong>COLOUR SCENE, BOO RADLEYS, SPIRITUALIZED</strong>, ETC &ndash; ALONGSIDE SCENE FRONTRUNNERS LIKE <strong>PARIS ANGELS, WORLD OF TWIST, NORTHSIDE, THE SUNDAYS, FLOWERED UP, NED&rsquo;S ATOMIC DUSTBIN </strong>AND THE SARAH RECORDS ROSTER.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>ALSO DIGS DEEP INTO THE LESSER-KNOWN 1990 UNDERGROUND, REVEALING COUNTLESS HIDDEN GEMS AND EXCITING REDISCOVERIES.</li> </ul> <p>Some time since punk rocked the British musical scene to its foundations and caused an eruption of independently produced records, the scene and a new generation of figurehead artists began to let ambition in and head overground, playing to increasingly larger crowds, working with bigger budgets and selling more copies, finding a footing in the UK&rsquo;s Top Forty, venturing into the USA and, ultimately, creating a mainstream audience now primed for credible, guitar-tinged pop. Meanwhile, an underground revolution in clubland began to push towards the commercial same space, resulting in an inevitable fusion of songcraft and dancefloor aesthetics.</p> <p>&lsquo;C90&rsquo; captures perfectly the moment these tribes began to coalesce. From the opening, club- friendly rendition of The Charlatans&rsquo; &lsquo;Polar Bear&rsquo; to The La&rsquo;s knowingly backward looking &lsquo;Timeless Melody&rsquo; and all points in-between, this is the sound of a scene dropping the raincoats, dropping acid and aiming for domination. 1990 was the start of a new decade when the Indie scene was dominated by Madchester and the arrival of Shoegaze and with nods towards grunge and what would become known as Britpop, plus hints of a proto-laddism peering out from between the cracks in a post-<strong>Smiths </strong>aesthetic, the sound of 1990, it could be argued, set the tone for the remainder of the decade.</p>