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

$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.

seefeelsbadman

lol

well...

there sounds to be a mastering problem on track 11 of disk 2 - i get a glitch. rewound over it several times, same glitch every time

and i think they may've put the usual 2 second delay between tracks of disk 1 even though a couple of them run together - something sounded odd, certainly. (haven't reproduced that, didn't show up when i was skipping to tracks)

I seefeellessbadman about not having received it, now.

Seriously, though, that sucks. Seems such a shame. Like, presumably someone has played a test pressing or similar?

http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/seefeel.png

so here are the two cds ripped as single files and you can see the top one has crept out of sync because of the gaps placed at the starts of the tracks.

and, worse, they've added one where there's a mix into the next track - you can see the tiny bit they've orphaned at the top there. doesn't look much, but sounds terrible.

http://www.koogy.clara.co.uk/seefeel2.png

and the other glitch, cd2, track 11, is a gap that shouldn't be there.

yikes

Is this the CD?

yeah.

i made it slightly better using audacity by cutting the silence out and smoothing down the join but it's not that simple. will have another try tomorrow.

wonder if the FLACs on Bandcamp will be corrected?

wonder if the FLACs on Bandcamp will be corrected?

sorry I'm drunk and eating ice cream

cd3, ch-vox redux, sounds great though (and i don't know it as much as i thought i did)

Just ordered the box; apparently the first edition sold out, but importcds had copies for $24 (cheaper than Bleep, and the shipping was *much* cheaper).

so, the things from compilations that are still not collected, a probably incomplete list

Sonics - https://touched.bandcamp.com/album/found-sound-2
Ever Me - https://audioscope.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-a-good-home-3
Is It Now and Ripley - https://subrosalabel.bandcamp.com/album/water-architecture
Lief - Ambient 4 "isolationism"
Phase Maze - Melody Maker Quid Deal cassette
Acrobat - Warp 20 (Maximo Park cover!)
When Face Was Face (isan remix) - Warp 10+3
Air Eyes (In Her Emerald Mix) - Warp 10+3
Spangle (Kid606 Rebootleg Remix) - https://soundcloud.com/kid606/seefeel-spangle-kid606

of which the only one i don't have is the last. less than i thought tbh, but i'm probably thinking of all the little disjecta bits that appeared on compilations and small releases. and the split with zavoloka which was a clifford solo release.

(that isan remix is one of my favourite things ever, they've basically used it as a backing track and written another tune over the top of it)

(i lie. Touched "Found Sound 2" is different from "Touched 2" so that's another one i don't have)

Oh, ta for pointing out that ISAN mix. I own it and love both ISAN and Seefeel ... but somehow I'd forgotten it's existence.

This was on a "Volume" mag/CD: Seefeel – Come Alive (Climatic Phase #1 Mix)

(that was also on the quique redux cd though, so i counted that as collected, just not on the new box. volume 7 fwiw)

Ah, missed that it had been collected.

Time To Find Me (Saturnalia Mix) - The Sound Of Mob Culture
(mp3 here https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/davecinzano/episodes/2006-09-20T12_10_49-07_00 )

typically great Sherburne p4k piece on the reissues

The bass and drums, cornerstones of everything Seefeel had done until now, have momentarily fallen silent; this is a strictly liquid landscape, a vaporous guitar etude that twists like ink dissipating in water. It is the sound of pure electricity, exhausted and forlorn, a haunted dial tone singing deathbed lullabies.

Just picked up the box at my local. Fingers crossed re the glitches (tho I'm not even sure I would notice.)

they are on the digital copies too, if the bleep website is indicative - you can hear the worst right at the end of their clip of Monastic.

i wonder if the second pressing will be different?

I'm guessing someone has actually told Warp??

Hmmm. Maybe I'm not very good at this, but I don't detect any glitches at the end of "Monastic" on my copy.

not at the end, ~54 seconds in

(the sample on the bleep website is 60 seconds long so it's at the end of that)

Ah! Yep, there it is. At least it doesn't skip around, and perhaps this will be something of a collector's item someday, like that upside-down plane stamp.

on disc 2 track 9, you can hear them striking the same rib twice in succession yet they produce two clearly different tones

I emailed Warp on Friday (Aus time) so will see if I get a reply when they wake up today...
I got my copy from Bleep, so the digital copies from Bleep are definitely affected.
You can tell from the track lengths on Bandcamp that they are too.

FYI I made an edit of "Monastic" to get rid of the glitch - used some identical bars from later on.
Don't want to share here because copyright, but if you own it and want to listen properly, DM me? (I'm here so rarely I don't even know how that works!)