Seekae

"The Sound of Trees Falling on People"

I first heard this track on a cool Sydney evening. Sitting beside a friends pool, sipping on tea and listening to the choppy electronic beats beam from an impressive outside sound system. I was immediately aware that this was music I could listen to endlessly. It helped that my friend was so clearly in love with the track, the band and the genre. Such a passion can obviously be infectious and it does make me wonder if there are some sounds that instinctively appeal to everyones taste. That maybe good music is just good music, that is universal and ignorant of genre. But then I remember those people who are insistent that the tiny sub genre of music they play or listen to is the only music in the world. And also when I really really really love a song I am simply mortified when I find that others don't feel the same way.

Anyway...Seekae is the name of the band. Which is derived from the 90s computer game Commander Keen, that I remember fondly. This probably dates the three boys quite specifically, though unlike most of the swarms of 20 old year old kids making electronic music in their bedrooms these days, Seekae is born from a more respectable musical background of indie bands, classical flute and cello. Their influences include Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Kettel, Apparat, Hot Chip and Telfon Tel Aviv causing them to travel between the sounds of ambient and a slightly more upbeat mish-mash of electronica.

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