Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 22:35:26 -0700 From: vilexile Subject: Re: seefeel On Tue, 26 Jul 1994, Douglas Yoshida wrote: > i have quique but not the new release. is it worth buying? Very, if you are in fact talking about Starethrough. The new US compilation (is it out yet) contains some older stuff, some of which is fairly different from Quique. Despite some remixed getting in the way, the music is suberb. Atmospheric and epic but without that Quique feel that comes from all the cool percussion and the more pronounced looping. Starethrough is four songs, twenty minutes, kind of samey with Quique, but at the same time pretty different. More complex, harsher but more beautiful melodically. Some new elements, the use of voice and shrillness of harmony, they make it more haunting then combined with what I think is more true ambience--soundscapey noise that hasn't really got much to do with the songs. This is, of course, just what I get out of it. I still like Quique a lot better. Just so you know where I'm coming from, my favorite Seefeel songs are Polyfusion and Industrious. If anyone has the US comp and can comment on the packaging or for that matter what actually made it on there, that would be nice. The colors on the US Quique were terrible, but my paper UK copy is tattered, so it's a toss-up. Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 17:19:42 +0100 From: David Thorpe Subject: Re: Seefeel Sorry can't help with the Moby. Irene said: >Also saw (but unable to listen in the shop) Seefeel's'93 Cd on >Astralwerks : Polyfusia. The only Seefeel I've got is Succour as >well as Disjecta's Clean Pit and Lid. Is Polyfusia recommended? This is Seefeel circa the "Quique" Too Pure/Astralwerks LP, one of the best ambient-dance-electronica LP's around. The two EPs related to this LP are <> and <> which were compiled as a Mini-LP <> for the American market. Quite a few imports of that here in the UK: presumably it's still in print, whereas the EPs and possibly Quique aren't anymore. There's lots of mixes on Polyfusia of (I think) Plainsong, Minky Starshine, Time to Find Me, etc. As with most remixes, they aren't all entirely essential, but you'll like most of this if you prefer the later Seefeel circa Succour. Some of it is recorded badly - a couple of Aphex Twin remixes come to mind here. All the original songs are absolutely fantastic droning affairs however. Conclusion: It's not rare, and if you can find it cheaply and you like Succour, it's great. If you can find the Quique LP snap that one up too. There's another Mini LP called 'ch-vox' which was kicking around some record company basement for a while - that one is more ambient than the others, doesn't quite fit in. Seefeel sort-of split and Mark Clifford has done a variety of side projects since then. The other members went on to being called <> and were supposed to have a new LP on Too Pure ready by now. There's still no slated release date however. Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 23:39:23 +0100 From: Andrew Norman Subject: Seefeel, Autechre & Creatures Irene McC: > Also saw (but unable to listen in the shop) Seefeel's'93 Cd on > Astralwerks : Polyfusia. The only Seefeel I've got is Succour as > well as Disjecta's Clean Pit and Lid. Is Polyfusia recommended? Definitely - but it's quite different to the two you have already. It's a compilation of the first EP "More Like Space" (one track could have been lifted from "Loveless" and the others have that MBV feeling to some extent, too), the second EP "Plainsong", and the Aphex and Sine Bubble (a.k.a. Locust) remix EP. The UK version's called "Pure, Impure" and misses the first EP. Seefeel were much more obviously guitar-based, and like the other Too Pure album "Quique" this stuff features multiple layers of guitar loops at different speeds. Plus the "Plainsong" EP has "Minky Starshine" which is ten minutes of ambient bliss. I like "Succour" too, but I wish they had carried on in the style of these releases (and their first Warp EP).