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I consider Seefeel as as radically important in their own way as My Bloody Valentine. Both took the indie-rock blueprint and warped it. If MBV mined a fraught emotional terrain of ever-threatening psychic rupture, Seefeel took their music in a gentler, but no less vital, directions. They started life worshipping Pram but quickly came into their own, laying down the blueprint for a new kind of uncompromising ambient, connecting the dots between indie rock and experimental techno. Their amniotic blissout was expansive and oddly innocent —no matter how disorienting or fractured their music became, their was always an almost pre-lapsarian purity at the heart of the chaos. It’s oddly comforting.

Their startling debut Quique has been given remix/remaster treatment. It’s been expanded to two CDs (meaning unreleased songs and remixes) and we can all be very thankful for that. This album’s been out-of-print for awhile (and fetching not-so-gentle prices on ebay and GEMM) so if you haven’t heard it, you’re in for a treat. This music sounds as startling now as it did when it came out. It’s amazing how well it’s aged.

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MP3Seefeel, “Filter Dub”

MP3Seefeel, “Clique”

PHOTO BY ANDREA | LONDON 2007

Garden of Earthly Delights

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This photo doesn’t require too much explanation. Neither should this song. Everyone should own this album.

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MP3The United States of America, “The Garden of Earthly Delights”

England’s Dreaming

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I’m in the middle of reading make that skimming Clinton Heylin’s new Babylon’s Burning —something in his authorial tone I find off-putting, even a bit smarmily jokey. (If you’re going to read him, start with the far-superior From the Velvets to the Voidoids.) But I did come across this wonderful club flyer reproduced within its pages. Man, I’d give my eye teeth to have gone to any one of these shows. *sigh*

MP3PragVEC, “Nervous”

MP3Essential Logic, “Wake Up

MP3Rema-Rema, “Rema-Rema”

MP3Joy Division, “Heart and Soul”

MP3Throbbing Gristle, “Hot on the Heels of Love”

PragVEC (Wiki) | PragVEC (Home Page)| Throbbing Gristle | Joy Division (Wiki) | Essential Logic |Rema Rema

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