Sweet Trip is an experimental ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

 pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

/shoegaze act from San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...

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Background

The group was formed in 1998, and its mastermind is producer and songwriter, Roberto Burgos. Since its inception the band has released three full-length recordings with Darla Records

Darla Records

Darla Records is an independent record label founded by James Agren while he was in New York. Darla Record's first release was a 7-inch by Grifters, an indie rock/lo-fi band from Memphis.- Background :...

, namely 1999's Halica, 2003's Velocity:Design:Comfort, and 2009's You Will Never Know Why

You Will Never Know Why

You Will Never Know Why is the third album by the Californian band Sweet Trip, released in 2009 on Darla Records.-Track listing:# "Conservation of Two" – 2:37# "Air Supply" – 4:30# "Forever" – 3:59# "Acting" – 7:05# "Milk" – 4:25# "Darkness" – 6:27...

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Labelmates Junior Varsity KM — whom Burgos has done several remix

Remix

A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....

es for — has toured with Sweet Trip on several occasions. Other notable outfits Burgos has done remixes for include Takako Minekawa

Takako Minekawa

is a Japanese musician, composer and writer.-Background:As an accomplished all-around musician, Minekawa's musical skills set her firmly outside of the J-Pop "idol" tradition: she writes and composes most of her material, singing quirky lyrics about subjects such as clouds, cats, and the color...

, Club 8

Club 8

Club 8 is a Swedish musical group consisting of Karolina Komstedt and Johan Angergård .-History:Formed in 1995, Club 8 were signed to the Spanish record label Siesta...

 and Gnac

Gnac

gnac is a pseudonym used by songwriter and music producer Mark Tranmer. The name is derived from a short story by Italo Calvino in Marcovaldo entitled Luna e GNAC ....

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Sweet Trip never announced an official breakup though their original website went down in 2009 a few months after the release of "You Will Never Know Why." Even their MySpace page has not been updated or posted a login since 2009.