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

Terrific show tonight in LA!

Super excited to see Shigeru and Iida are still in the lineup, they brought amazing power and grind to the sound. Instagram feed showed a recording session the other day - fingers crossed it's a new album, I loved the self-title as much as Succour, my favourite of the first incarnation.

Anyone else seen this tour? Very torn on whether to make the two-hour drive next week.

what was the show like, elvis? curious what kind of material they played

Going to the NY show, looking forward to it

I haven’t listened to the S/T is awhile so I’m not sure what the exact set list was but perhaps half was Quique tracks. Ishihara is definitely the MVP-the low end dub way out in front pulling things along. I wish more bands sounded like this.

were the peel sessions availble before (other than taped off the radio at the time)? they've been released as part of the huge warp box, but are also available separately (digital only?)

https://bleep.com/release/141395-seefeel-peel-session

(reading the link that i posted, they are also on vinyl)

Figured this revive had to do with the show last night. Anyway, they were great! Seemed extremely shy but the tunes themselves were hypnotic.

I wish I went a couple of days ago but sometimes it's really cold out and you just need to sleep. How loud was it?

Pretty loud, but not piercing. Total brain massaging goodness.

i saw them at that empty bottle show! they were great, but to be honest the sound system at the bottle was not quite up to the task. not usually a big deal with a lot of shows there, but a big part of seefeel's appeal (for me at least) is the wonderful quality of the sound that they create, so hearing it (unintentionally) distorted was less than ideal. don't get me wrong, though - they ruled. :)

Only hiccup last night was something not working in the guitar rig on one song, but we wouldn't have noticed if it weren't for him shrugging at the sound guy after twisting knobs on the amp.

Chicago show was great. Definitely not too dynamic on stage but my eyes were closed half the time anyway. Massive basslines a la the Orb maybe, incredible control over endlessly permutating waves of feedback. I'd love to see the signal chain on the guitars, keys, vox. The entire show was nearly seamless. Highly recommended.

just in case anyone needs stuff that strongly resembles Polyfusia

http://rxgibbs.bandcamp.com/album/disclosure-ep

happened across him via his remixes for Dead Leaf Echo, which are strongly worth chasing down.

couldn't find any official announcements on this, but it looks like there are four reissues coming out in may on warped:

Succour (redux) - 3LP vinyl reissue of their second album including bonus disk of unreleased stuff
(ch-vox) redux - 2LP vinyl reissue of their third album including bonus disk of unreleased stuff
St/Fr/Sp - vinyl reissue of the Starethrough and Fractured/Tied EPs on one record
Rupt and Flex (1994 - 96) - 4CD box including all the above material

https://seefeel.bandcamp.com/

i'm not made of money so i'll probably get the CDs - am pretty glad they've done it that way tbh

all mastered by stefan bettke aka pole btw

Ooohhh cool!

Ha! Just came here to post that info! Ordered!

vinyl bundle from Bleep not crazy (ymmv).

Nice t shirt at Bleep too

just to correct my stupid typo because it's bugging me, these are obviously coming out on warp, not warped

the digital versions are £9 each, including rupt and flex which seems to contain all the others. what am i missing?

ha, bit of an oversight there! might be worth contacting the band about that tbh

yeah. like that time i told the local hmv that the autechre ep box shouldn't be £6.99...

i think the trick is to buy it first and then tell them afterwards!

ordered the cds. bandcamp wanted an extra £9 for 'tax and delivery', bleep wanted £3.50.

Oh shiiiiiiiiiiiii

came to about US$50 for the CD box set... a little on the high side, but I wanna hear that unreleased stuff!

Only $30 for the 4CD set on Bleep! I haven't bought a CD in years but I'm tempted to buy this one. The shirt on the Warp store is cute, there's also a Quique one on their Bandcamp page I like too, I can't decide what to get. Both are much, much better than the shirts they were selling at their show a few years ago (https://seefeel.bandcamp.com/merch/seefeel-sfl4e-graphic-t-shirt-gold-on-red)

$42 with shipping from Bleep in the US... the t-shirts ARe nice tho

Listening to this set now (was sent promo MP3s). I'd heard this group's name over the years but never actually listened to them before. I wish someone had told me how much they sound like Pole/early Main/various Macro Dub Infection tracks; I would have been all over this 20-25 years ago.

Yeah their shift from being a 'band' in a recognizable but already kinda in-their-own-world sense on the initial EPs and album absolutely ramped up rapidly, in that exact context as you describe.

they were on Too Pure at the time, back when it was full of Faith Healers, PJ Harvey, Stereolab and Moonshake. and i didn't get it immediately, but it grew on me and is now a firm favourite.

they are one of those bands where i wish i knew more bands that sounded like them.

don't sleep on Quique or the most recent (self-titled?) lp either.

(and the two Disjecta lps)
(and clifford's remix of Cherry Coloured Funk)

Unperson - it feels amazing to have missed Seefeel, if you were listening to Pole/early Main/various Macro Dub Infection ... but that's how music is, I guess.

I compiled a playlist last year of music that I think I was listening to around the same time (plus a track that I just wanted to put on there). The dates don't actually quite add up and, in truth, it ought to contain Pole, Main and some Warp stuff:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0WNCUK2moLElB1CeOkMxVm

hahaha, it was 1993 and very easy to miss stuff!

they are one of those bands where i wish i knew more bands that sounded like them.

Main was my first thought, but djh beat me to the punch.

i need to listen to more Pole!

i have the hertz box and motion pool and the odd other thing, but I've never connected the two.

um, maybe seeing a ch-vox comparison, but that's a bit of an outlier for seefeel i think. seefeel's generally more loopy (no pun intended) and dubbier

Two phases really, loops and dub (early works and Quique) then sparse and isolationist (Succour and Ch-Vox). (and then muscular dub with the self title, come on guys make another with that lineup!)

New "ep" of unreleased tracks

https://open.spotify.com/album/3mNZPQiVKNEvKp7mYhRQPd

is there a non-spotify link for that because i'm seeing nothing?

https://thequietus.com/articles/29886-seefeel-four-previously-unreleased-track-reduct-ep

Oh, apologies Koogs, I forget that posting Spotify links won't work for all.

It's a nice pick of unreleased tracks.

it's here. looks a lot like the autechre eps box, but less grey.

There's probably a German word to describe the feeling that everyone else has got their Seefeel box set before you.

eifersucht

Ha! No, something more descriptive than that. Something that captures the curious longing but also the acknowledgement that, all being well, it will probably turn up tomorrow. Maybe Saturday.