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From:
John Sweeney
To:
Intelligent Dance Music
Date:
Tue, 17 May 1994 20:12:38 -0400
Subject:
WIRED seefeel review
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<94May17.201241edt.74488-5@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
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hey there- I just got the new WIRED today (June 94, not the zippie one =) and in the back in i think the "Street Cred" section they had a review of Quique. Thought all you would be interested.... Seefeel's thick compositions bombard the listener with repetition in the hope of tapping into some primal instinct, yet they ultimately fail. Strip away the excessive layers of judicious echo and delay, and each track consists merely of a few chords repeated in loop after relentless loop. A startling homogeneity of tiresome sounds accumulates over a lifeless drum track and the occaisonal swoop of Sarah Peacock's barely perceptible voice. Put simply, Seefeel shows genre-bending potential but ultimately smothers it under the short-lived novelty of noise processing. -Stephen Reese ---- john sweeney jds@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu binary sound(imprints)