Special edition 25th Anniversary reissue of Squarepusher’s debut album, Feed Me Weird Things. 2LP + bonus 10″ containing the album’s two Japanese bonus tracks. Includes a 16 page booklet surmising the legacy of the album.
Originally released on Aphex Twin’s label Rephlex, leading to Squarepusher’s discovery and eventual signing to Warp Records
Seefeel’s second studio album and their debut for Warp. This expanded 3LP edition is the first time it has been available on vinyl since original release and adds an extra LP of bonus material, mastered from original DAT transfers by Stefan Betke aka Pole. ‘On Seefeel’s 1993 debut album, Quique, the British quartet navigated a course between shoegaze and ambient dub’but by 1995, the electronic undercurrents of their sound had carried them to a very different place. Maybe it was the influence of Aphex Twin, whose remixes had honed in on the clean-lined rhythmic skeleton lurking beneath the group’s atmospheric swirl: The rolling, distorted drums of Succour’s ‘Fracture’ and ‘Vex’ are straight out of his playbook, and the beatless, bookending tracks ‘Meol’ and ‘Utreat’ both evoke Selected Ambient Works Vol. II at its most ethereal.
Together on CD for the first time comes an album of Beta Consciousness tracks spanning both the Nagual 4 & 5 releases plus four new tracks and bonus material. All tracks have been valve remastered for this release by Blackparticle.
Expect 90 minutes* of gorgeous Kosmiche / Berlin-school analogue electronica from the studio of Frank Rumpelt (aka _nyquist and also one half of 2xirtam with regular collaborator Lee Anthony Norris)
KRYSTIAN SHEK
FRANKFURT 2020
All tracks written and produced by Christian Schek.
Recorded during quarantine in Frankfurt am Main.
Field recordings created from the forests of Messel, Germany 2019-2020.
I found my old guitar, which I played up and down in my Berlin time as a kid in the 70s. As a young artist in the 80s, and when we moved into the studios in the 90s. I met different bands and artists and got together to start something. The revolution in the East just ended. We danced to Acid House and digged into the Neo-Hippie vibes just came back from Goa/India and the most important thing for us had been the music and experiencing this together with inspired people. The music took us to very special places and we risked our ears in dark cellars.
When I started playing my Berlin guitar again, there was a feeling of returning to those emotional states and a desire to produce an album with the guitar to capture that special energy. I realized that I had taken a huge mountain of memories with me to rediscover Berlin in a new process. Music from memory, experimenting with different methods to let things out in a different way compared to what and how I did that before, fusing the past with the here and now. I flew towards my ideas, influenced by Post Punk, New Wave, Art- and Kraut Rock, Psychedelia, Post Disco and Techno.
Archival material from 1997-1999 edited and compiled during isolation 2020.
I select a few tracks, what didn’t get that attention, or something happened that they didn’t release in the past. Finally, I’m so happy to release them without saying “these are old” because I produced them in a timeless way. I want to thank you guys for supporting me and follow my releases all those years. And for sure a big thanx to all people that I meet and had beautiful studio time and produced nice flows. Who I want to thank? Well, how snoop once said, I want to thank myself to being real in all those years and done all those with the real love to the music even how other acted. If you read to this, you are the one who now know that my mate Lee and I will go for a fancy spacy Atmo box next. A box of glory.
Berlin 2021
1.Qui | 2002 | a part of my ambient diaries’ series for Mandala Hotel Berlin.
2.Sunset | 1995 | one Track of ATMO.FEOS Album with Pascal FEOS. Never Released because Mr. Väth lost/got stolen the Original Dat on Goa by a private chill session | pascal, RIP Bro
3.On the Neon | 2010 | taken from BELOTONE Ep produced with Dj Olive, Richard Sharp, Hataken in Tokyo in one of the best days in my life.
4.Bamboo Neon | 2010 | BELOTONE | you can’t believe how lucky I am to see this track finally released
5.Time Traveler | Miss Silencio | a side project for much trippier feely stuff | 2009
6.Mystery of Blue | Miss Silencio | 2009
7.Blash | Lost Kids | done this in Barcelona in 6ROOM hotel with two French guys at night / never seen again | so guys, where were you? didn’t meet you at breakfast anymore?! | 2005
8.Behesht | ATMO & PCP | well, this is the first track that I did that was released on the FRANKFURT TRAX compilation | never got paid, for even they sell thousands | 1993
9. Untitled 3 | ATMO.BRTSCHITSCH | My project with fucking talented Frankfurt techno boy Paul Brtschitsch | Those tracks were for our second album that never released because the label was angry with us! Why? Because as we played 5 minutes too long as support for Chilly Gonzales because the people scream and had fun. You can’t believe it | 1999
10.Untitled 2 | ATMO.BRTSCHITSCH | with Paul Brtschitsch | 1999
11.Untitled 1 | ATMO.BRTSCHITSCH | with Paul Brtschitsch | 1999
12. Deep Heart | ATMO & A.O.D. | Well, after this one was fix,the guy wants to have 500€ for each track that he will produce in the next days. So, I paid 100€ and will call him soon | 2007
13. Black Seed | ATMO.BRTSCHITSCH | taken from gorgeous “change your life album” with Paul Brtschitsch | if you want the album, send me a mail; I have 50 pieces | 2000
14. Good Friends are hard to find | ATMO & PHONOSYNTHESE | those guys enjoyed my XS sets from the first minute and weeks later invited me to enjoy them in their studio. So, I played for the first time the key and finished that during all guys slept. I recorded on Tape and listened in my car during the sun come up. Don’t ask what happened to the guys? You will cry. Anyway, this track is one of the best what I(we) ever done | 1998
