SEEFEEL — Quique (Redux Edition)

"1992 zwar als traditionelle Indie-Rock-Band gegründet, entwickelten sich Seefeel schon bald in Richtung Electro weiter. My Bloody Valentine-eske Gitarrenriffs wurden mit Techno-Beats in einen neuen Kontext gebracht, statt Refrains und Lyrics ließen die Engländer Loops und neue Programme den Takt vorgeben. Nach einigen EPs veröffentlichten sie 1993 ihr Debütalbum „Quique“, für das sie umgehend von der Presse als Erfinder des „Ambient Indie Techno“ gefeiert wurden. Vor allem Amerika und dort auch das Majorlabel Astralwerks zeigten sich begeistert von dem „Technoalbum, das sich auch Indiekids anhören.“ Damit wurde „Quique“ zum Türöffner für nachfolgende Künstler wie z.Bsp. Aphex Twin. Nun wird das Album wiederveröffentlicht - als Doppelalbum. CD1 enthält das neu gemasterte Originalalbum, die Bonusdisk enthält bisher rare Mixe und neue Tracks, insgesamt bisher 6 unveröffentlichte Songs." [Indigo]

Re-release of their great debut-album from 1993 / plus bonus-disc with rare mixes and previously unreleased stuff!

"God, we love this record! We’ve never stopped loving it. In its fourteen years of existence, it’s never sounded tired or dated. Can’t say that for a whole lot of other electronica records. So we are really glad to see our good old friend back in print again with this super nice 2cd deluxe re-issue. If you missed this the first time around, then you are in for a real treat, and if you bought this the first time around, you may just need to buy it again to get the whole extra disc of unreleased tracks and alternate mixes. We have been playing this daily since we got it, and we're surprised how many folks have never heard of Seefeel or experienced their incredible ocean of sound. So what is all the fuss about, you say?
Well, Seefeel at their peak were one of the main players that spawned the nineties electronica genre, at a time when there were
only Dance and Rock sections in most music stores. Their sound was a delirious mash-up between the shoe-gazing swirl of My Bloody
Valentine, the machinic rhythm programming of Autechre, the ambient chill of Aphex Twin and the driving pulse of Stereolab, with an early
hint toward the looping repetitions of William Basinski. They bridged ambient techno and indie rock by foregoing rock music’s verse and chorus structures in favor of beats and loops wrapped inside icy motorik rhythms, industrial whirs, blurbs of female vocals and dubby bass lines. Like the best work of minimal composers, Seefeel’s long- form compositions create a warmly hypnotic form of static movement that refused to fit neatly into music for either dance floors or chill out lounges.
Quique was their head-turning debut following two EP releases featuring remixes by Aphex Twin. That connection surely gained them a bigger following, but Seefeel was always one of those bands that should have been bigger. Of course such a potent and influential debut would lead to many of their contemporaries, bands such as Bowery Electric, Labradford, Boards Of Canada and Flying Saucer Attack, to take Seefeel's initial explorations in sound further into Post-Rock, Trip Hop, IDM and Neo-Psych territories, leaving Seefeel
at a bit of a loss for a follow-up. Signing to Warp, they delved further into a dark ambient direction in the vein of groups like Main, Ice and Scorn, that was just too stark for a wider audience to appreciate. They put out two more albums before splintering off into various side projects such as Scala, Disjecta and Sneakster.
The bonus disc contains six previously unreleased tracks, and three alternate mixes from a limited white label 12” and two ambient compilations. Out of the unreleased tracks, “Clique” sounds like it just barely missed the cut from the original album line-up
while “Silent Pool” is a longer version of Quique’s closing track “Signals”. “My Super 20” and “Is It Now?” are long beat-less swims
that are a warmer hint at their future direction and the two other unreleased tracks are versions of opening track “Climatic Phase #3, and “Time to Find Me” from their first EP. It might sound like at first listen that there is some repetition between the two discs, but
it’s really more in line with classic ambient music's infatuation with the Dub tradition of versioning, the adding or removing of various elements in a song to give it a totally different spin. Each version really does give a different feel even if the basic structures seem similar. Seriously, the second disc is just more of what you love already, and gives us a little more of the stuff we’ve been missing for ages.
Listening to Quique fourteen years later, it has lost none of its powerful splendor and warmly chilled charm. Add this to the list
of favorite one record bands like My Bloody Valentine and Stone Roses. So Amazingly Awesome!!!! Reissue of the year so far and so
totally recommended!!!!!!!!!" [Aquarius Records]



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