Name: Seez
Brand: Herva

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ZIQ446

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Colour

Black

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-09-16

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Cargo

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5055869566292

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Herva

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

Planet Mu

Electronic music producer and software engineer, Herva, was born in 1991 and is based in Florence, Italy. With a passion for both technology and music, Herva has found the perfect balance between his two interests. As a co-founder of *ker*, he has made significant contributions to the electronic music scene.

Herva's unique sound draws inspiration from various genres including techno, experimental, and ambient. His tracks are characterized by intricate rhythms, atmospheric textures, and captivating melodies. With each release, he pushes the boundaries of electronic music and creates immersive sonic experiences.

Known for his innovative approach to production, Herva has gained recognition among fellow artists and critics alike. He shares similarities with renowned performers such as Lee Gamble, Hieroglyphic Being, Eomac, and many others who explore unconventional sounds within their compositions.

Planet Mu is an independent music label that was founded in 1995 by Mike Paradinas. Originally starting as an imprint on Virgin, the label was created to release music from artists like µ-Ziq and others who shared a similar style. However, due to Virgin's lack of success in marketing this type of music, Mike Paradinas decided to establish Planet Mu as an independent label in 1998. It is at this point that the catalog numbers for releases under the name *ZIQ* began.

Herva started to work on Seez right after the release of his last Planet Mu album 'Hyper Flux' back in 2017. He was experimenting with home-made hardware and after the album release wanted to raise the bar, challenging himself to build a point-to-point mixer from scratch. This task took almost a year of intense soldering and forced him to scrap music production. Eventually all this hard work grew into making studio hardware properly and he co-founded a new company making mixers and compressors that work with Eurorack, called Audio Gear Obsession.

On Seez Herva moves away completely from the sample-based music he's most known for and into programming and computational production, which he mixes and compresses with his newly-built hardware tools to give them the life and feeling he requires. There's also an element of randomness in Seez as the music is generative, defined with numbers and ratios from his own software, tuned by ear rather than to set scales, with unexpected outcomes.To make the record, he spent more time digging between the different iterations of each track than coding the programs that generated them. He says "How I make music is kind of weird for most producers, but I like it, and I plan to dig further. You can think of Seez as the alpha version of what I and my system are able to do." The new music still retains Herva's laid back airy feel. Each track is like a small ecosystem of chiming tones, wafting drones and skittering rhythms, hinting at formal patterns and melodies but developing on its own abstract terms.

It feels as if it's the audio equivalent of watching sped-up recordings of a camera capturing different combinations of plants growing, a pleasant and curious experience to let yourself enjoy

Seez

Music GB