 Madchester was a music and cultural scene that developed in the Manchester area of North West England in the late 1980s, in which artists merged alternative rock with acid house and dance culture as well as other sources, including psychedelia and 1960s pop.. A wave of British alternative rock in the early 1990s spawned the subgenres dream pop and shoegazing.Dream pop is typified by a preoccupation with atmosphere and texture as much as melody, whereas shoegazing is typified by the blurring of component musical parts—typically significant guitar distortion, feedback and obscured vocals—into indistinguishable mixture of sound.