seefeel thread for discussion of relevant informations pertaining to the "quique redux" 2cd superbonus reissue (and other seefeel matters)

It makes me sad that this band isn't as widely revered as, say, The Orb. They really deserve much more praise than they get.

You'd think there would have been primed for some serious critical re-appraisal about 5 years ago or so, when all those MBV-meets-laptronica bands like (early)M83, Ulrich Schnauss & all the Morr acts started popping up all over the place. That shit has Seefeel's fingerprints all over it.

Haha, I was about to post here saying what Pillbox just said. I finally snagged this reissue over the weekend and hearing it now in 2009 in such a context is breathtaking. But what's interesting is that while it does predate those styles and predicts them, Quique very much is its own sound, and there's things going on almost track for track (like the astonishing bassline on "Industrious") that few of the modern bunch are either able or willing to try.

I listened to this on Spotify and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think I'll listen to it again now.

Still prefer Ulrich Schnauss, mind. :p

This album came out right around the time I started buying CDs (instead of tapes, ya I M old) and somehow I never got around to buying it on CD or on vinyl, even though I had virtually everything else in Seefeel's catalogue on one of those formats. So basically, since all of my tapes are stashed away somewhere now, I hadn't listened to "Quique" in ages before I bought the reissue. And yeah, it was astonishing to hear it again. It sounds so fresh, novel, and unpredictable these days, which is weird because at the time a lot of people dismissed them as MBV/Cocteau Twins rip-off fetishists!

Yeah this is a 10/10 star totally great album, unfuckwithable. I dug out the reissue last week also and listened to it and was of course blown away.

Does anyone rate the stuff that comes after Quique? I like Polyfusia well enough but haven't given much time to Ch-Vox or that other record of theirs that came later...

The Starethrough EP is pretty great!

anything with "starethrough" on it is necessarily gonna be great, but which one? the warp cd one or the white label?

aren't they the same?

Still prefer Ulrich Schnauss, mind. :p
Craziest talk on ILX yet!

Succor remains my favorite Seefeel by a mile.... they've lost some of the shoegazing qualities, in favor of a more ambient/dub/isolationist character. One of the best things Rephlex ever released; still can't understand why this hasn't gotten a reissue.

http://www.discogs.com/Seefeel-Succour/release/3617

there's things going on almost track for track (like the astonishing bassline on "Industrious") that few of the modern bunch are either able or willing to try

Mebbe cuz the Seefeel guys were at one point rockers? Whereas I could never truly accept M83 as a rock act. Most of Seefeel's distinctiveness, to me, from a 2009 standpoint comes from the feeling that the boundaries between electronic music and rock are still porous.

Seefeel fans, set those turntables to stun! Hot off the heels of Too Pure’s revamped reissuance of the late, lamented London quartet’s 1993 opus Quique, we are beyond thrilled to announce that we’ll bringing this outstanding release to your hi-fi as a 4-platter vinyl set early next year. This fabtabulous offering will be limited to 500 copies (100 of them blue) and brought to you in beautiful gatefold packaging. Nearly 15 years after its debut, this daring exercise in ambient glory sounds every bit as ambitious as it did then, so don’t miss this rare opportunity to rediscover this long out-of-print masterwork in fantastic wax.

That was late 2007 on a clairecords newsletter, guess it never happened.

i thought this was pronounced KEE-KAY, like the diminutive of Enrique. Thank you strongo hulkington (RIP) for educating me so i don't make a faux-pas in a hypothetical future Seafeel conversation that I may have.

I prefer the Moby Dick pronunciation of "kwee-kway" but whatever, it's gorgeous.

I was sure it was "Keek", at least that's what I remember.

I have been mentally pronouncing it as "kweekweh" but that is because I keep thinking it's a Latin word like "quisque" or "quoque" and it isn't. But as yet I've never had any call to talk about it out loud.

Whoops, Succour was on Warp (as the link I provided showed!). And MP3s are available on Bleep.com! Let the record show that I'm an idiot.

"Keek" is how reviewers were describing the pronunciation at the time...while we on the topic, how's Tricky's debut pronounced?...Max-In-Kway or Max-In-Key?...or neither?...or both?

had not actually encountered this record before finding it the other day; love the way everything just billows outwards around those basslines.

do you think they'll give the re-ish treatment to any of the other stuff? probably gets a bit complicated when it's spread over different labels.

The last School of Seven Bells EP has a remix by Seefeel ("Chain") - didn't seem to attract much attention?

I recently emailed Too Pure begging them to reissue all the other stuff. Still regard "Quique" as severely underrated

could listen to 'climactic phase #3' all day - like the long, slow-morph patterns that spiritualized were mining circa pure phase.

i was just listening to "succour" this morning, it's weird how their whole career was like their music decaying into its most basic elements. and then on ch-vox they lost EVERYTHING but the guitar.

could listen to 'climactic phase #3' all day - like the long, slow-morph patterns that spiritualized were mining circa pure phase.

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So funny you say that; I've been really into Pure Phase recently and the two share a very distinct connection

definitely my fave spiritualized record. as much as i like the next couple of records, i kinda wish j spaceman had pushed the pure phase envelope a bit further!

New EP coming out on the 21st. "Faults." On Warp. Excited!

http://media.warp.net/images/WARPCD205Packshot_480.jpg

Out 7th February 11
Vinyl, Download & CD
WARP207

Digital Tracklisting

01 - O-on one
02 - Dead Guitars
03 - Step Up
04 - Faults
05 - Gzaug
06 - Rip-run
07 - Making
08 - Step Down
09 - Airless

link

Hmm. Didn't expect that as a cover.

I saw them the other night - my second time since they came back. As support for the NEU - Rother / Shelley thing they were pretty fantastic. As a headline last month at the ICA - meh, not so much.

At the Barbican the other night they were great and I don't think they played many (any?) of the older tracks. The Japanese bass and drums really took over I felt. For the best - loved it. Looking forward to new releases,

Anyone heard the Faults EP? Any good?

Hoooooly shit I'm kicking myself for not having heard it yet. I'm two tracks in right now and it's VERY good; this will probably be in my year-end top 10.

Oh, they definitely played older material at the Barbican. I'm never good with track names but at the very least they did Time To Find Me.

And yeah, that show made me want to hear the new album now.

woah I had no idea these dudes reformed! also: cool EP cover

PS thank you ILM for getting me to buy the quique reissue when it first came out, that was a good choice

ah fuck I used my new display name to post in the thread that inspired it, PARTY FOUL

faults is very good, yes. can't decide whether track 4 (which is a lot emptier) is the best or worst thing on it though.

ooh, new gig date, 31st jan. king's place too.

btw, the warp link above says you can get free copy of Faults ep for signing up to their seefeel info list.

I am not liking Faults so far. I want to, but it just sounds kinda cheesy and bad and not very Seefeel to me.

Just checked the Warp link - you get the song, not the whole EP, if you sign up.

ah, ok, just the track for signing up. down a bit it says:

"Preorder at Bleep now to receive the new Faults EP for free instantly
(offer expires 17 December 2010)"

I see Succour is available from Bleep on CD again... the original release somehow got lost in the shuffle, but it's a really good album!

Succour was too sparse and not textured enough IMO. The best part of Quique was that it feels so dense; you could get lost in it.

Yeah but the sparseness is what makes CH-VOX so great. It's a giant spaceship encased in ice.

Seefeel's original trajectory was kind of like watchin the terminator go from a fleshy bulked up Austrian dude to a metal skeleton.

^^^^this makes me want to dig out the entire Seefeel back catalogue and listen to it in slow motion.

loads of scrapes and whirrs.

sounds good.

are playing london on monday. am tempted.

(description sounds good, that is. not actually heard it, is on pre-order. ep was promising)

their new self titled album is pretty good. 'dead guitars' has that lovely bent note / chord change thing happening.

Is the touring version of Seefeel now just Mark Clifford? I was happy to find out that they're playing in Florence in April in a great space (https://www.musicusconcentus.com/sala-vanni-firenze/). The description here makes it sound like it's him and an A/V guy:

. . . questo A/V live show vede protagonisti il fondatore dei Seefeel Mark Clifford assieme all’artista visuale Dan Conway: uno show unico, capace di immergere lo spettatore nelle atmosfere musicali del celebre gruppo inglese.

If it's Mark Clifford and yer gran on bongoes, it's still Seefeel.

Ha, kinda. When I interviewed him a few months back he didn't give any indication that the general core live lineup had changed much, but I do get a sense it can be a bit ad hoc depending on availability, with Sarah living in Berlin etc.

https://boomkat.com/products/quique-redux-edition-3bddc8d9-0483-45a1-be03-48039bcbbf04

quique redux 2025 remaster?

same tracklisting

(oh, i read march as may, so this is out already)

wait, is this a remaster of a remaster?

oddly the boomkat newsletter today was touting a quique non-redux 2025 remaster.

(which makes 4 versions now)

https://boomkat.com/products/pure-impure-expanded-edition

cd actually cheaper than the two original eps from 94/95

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/seefeel-announce-first-album-in-15-years-share-ever-no-way/

Quite right.

https://seefeel.bandcamp.com/album/sol-hz

Lucky enough to be listening to an advance -- it's a treat, of course, as the recent EPs showed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S0-OstIrZI

awesome

love the intense guitar focus for a song that has basically no recognizable guitar

I didn't know what to make of the minimalism of this when I first heard it, but it's growing on me, drawing me deeper in

bandcamp cds were listed as sold out. but bleep was always going to be a better option anyway, given that it's on warp. and they have a special 2cd edition with a mix by someone. which felt reasonably priced until they added £6 postage, tracked, non-optional.

https://bleep.com/format/1923117-solhz

"Exclusive Seefeel mix CD by Kenyan sound artist KMRU with first run of CDs"

sol.hz out today

A++ listening on good speakers/headphones in the dark music

didn't grab me on first listen. did enjoy the mix cd though