Slowdive and the rest of the first-wave shoegazers used to be popular for a short time in the early 1990's but then eventually lost popularity in favor of other genres, like britpop and grunge. However, shoegazing is actually starting to make a comeback, right now in the 2010's, thanks somehow to the Internet.
As a result, many people are starting to look for their demos, outtakes, and early recordings. Guess what - I'm one of them. For years, hardcore fans have kept reservoirs of these rare recordings on the quieter corners of the Internet, waiting to be found. It's a serious pleasure to find, after a while of searching, the rare recordings I was looking for. Take this one, for example:
This flexi disc was one of their earliest releases, now out of print and nowhere to be found. Or so I thought - it turns out that someone had saved FLACs (compressed lossless copies) of all the data on the disc!
