Squarepusher

there are great moments on the new one, though the tracks frequently build to the point of excess, w/showy displays of editing prowess/haste. First half of DRAX 2 (on youtube) is pretty nice. wish he built tracks more spare, or exercised more restraint on this. welcome release though

There are at least four killer tracks on this (4001, Unreal Square, Drax 2, Dark Steering), and the rest are listenable and may grow on me. Pretty good hit rate for a Squarepusher album.

nice interview here

http://www.spin.com/blogs/squarepusher-qa-chat-electronic-musics-own-david-foster-wallace

basically agreed with most of what he's saying but I find it a little hard to believe he wants us to take everything he's done so seriously

http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2012/05/high-five-squarepusher

just listened to Music is One Rotted Note for the first time in years. I remember not liking it much before - expected something more like Hard Normal Daddy - but holy cow this album is brilliant. It's amazing how good he can be when he just tries to sit down and play instead of seeing how fast he can loop an Amen break. Naturally, he didn't make another album like it.

I remember the reaction when it came out, "now he's gone too far" etc.

I listened to it twice and found it really boring, but I don't really like free form jazz.

I dunno, give it more of a chance. It's really great.

Music is Rotted... has been my favourite for *years*. Thanks to this thread though getting into other stuff.

I dunno if this was posted elsewhere but whoa

http://www.youtube.com/lQnORVoz1yI

Whoops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnORVoz1yI

Just stumbled upon a cool cover of "Journey to Reedham" by a Montreal jazz trio:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2wHIuTg9zXtuSZBRRAQs5V

Awesome. Thanks.

Squarepusher is underrated in 2015.

New album soon
http://www.squarepusher.net/

oh hey, new single is actually really good. i could see it going over with EDM kids but it's not pandering at all.
https://soundcloud.com/warp-records/squarepusher-stor-eiglass

wondering if he reads his youtube comments, and has since become familiar w/The Cure

???

The main descending synth line is heavily reminiscent of "Inbetween Days"

er I meant "Just Like Heaven" oops

Cure card revoked

If I go see him play live is it just gonna be him hitting play and then noodling on a bass

there's a rad light show apparently

i have always been super-into "my sound"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzoFHatryJQ

yeah that one's excellent. squarepusher rarely does the chilled/pretty jazz thing but it's something he's really great at.

new one seems super maximal and overdriven, with barely a deep breath in sight

I'm enjoying the new one. Very much continuing in a similar vein to the last one, unusually for him.

Just saw him with Shobaleader One in SF. Was expecting all Shobaleader songs with Tommy J going off and maybe a Squarepusher track as fan service, but instead it was an all Squarepusher cover set with them playing classics from almost every album from 1996-2007. I think they finally dropped a Shobaleader song for the encore. If you get a chance, check this show out! Some tracks I recall hearing:

Cooper's World - Hard Normal Daddy (opened the show)
Squarepusher Theme - Feed Me Weird Things
Iambic 5 Poetry - Budakhan Mindphone
Don't Go Plastic - Music Is Rotted One Note
A Journey To Reedham (7am mix) - Big Loada
Tetrasync - Ultravisitor
Hello Meow - Hello Everything

Of all the times I've seen him live (this was the 5th now) this had to be the most satisfying from a fan service perspective. And the drummer was NUTS. Incredible. RDJ in Houston? Squarepusher jamming his classics with a full band? What a time to be alive.

that sounds absolutely awesome, and exactly the sort of thing I have been wishing him to do for like, a decade now. this vid confirms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VypU8zojFsY

hopefully he releases a live disc, cuz damn

I decided to play Hard Normal Daddy after years of skipping over it in favor of other things and it is the best decision I've made in a long time.

you gotta hear his live band play the tracks it's incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VypU8zojFsY

Dude seriously has one of the most detailed musician pages on Wikipedia I've ever seen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squarepusher

holy shit that video

the Journey to Reedham video is insane as well

https://youtu.be/IXtQDsf4gJA

"Wind down with CBeebies Daydreams, an hour-long journey that focuses on the finer details of the world to help you relax. Voiced by Olivia Colman and music by Tom Jenkinson."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p062glb7/daydreams-cbeebies-wind-down

New album coming in January: Be Up a Hello

https://pitchfork.com/news/squarepusher-announces-first-album-in-5-years-shares-new-song-listen/

Squarepusher “returned to using a bewildering array of vintage analog and digital hardware, the same equipment that first helped him develop his sound in the early ’90s.”

The Fracture Remix of Vortrack is quite nice, and clearly has the old school hardware vibe he's going for. Album version is much weirder and has an interesting Aphex vibe. 90's instrumentation with modern side chaining. Not at all like the remix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ke5hp-p3E

yeah I'd swear the album version of this was Aphex, at least until around the 3:30 mark when the percussion starts really going haywire

lots of discussion on my FB about whether the Fracture remix is by Fracture or not... bit confused.

Discogs says it is... but the Pitchfork write up implies it's TJ? Also confused. Tbf he's used random remix names in the past, like on Big Loada

Another one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtSJA_U4W1U

seems to be getting very good reviews has anyone heard it yet

No but a friend of mine who doesn't normally like Squarepusher told me he really likes it.

It sounds like '90s Squarepusher.

listening now and it's really nice and chunky and satisfying. agree, it's the closest thing to Hard Normal Daddy he's done in a while and while being bonkers, it's a lot more accessible - not as much jazzy experiments, more burbling drill'n'bass in a dustbin

i think this might be one of his most enjoyable albums for decades. that said, I don't know if (like almost all his albums since the mid-2000s) I'll listen to it once, enjoy it, and then feel weirdly guilty for never digging it out again

Not enough robots IMHO. "Nervelevers" and "80 Ondula" are the keepers.

lol at opening the record with pachelbel's canon

Feels like a merge between the song structure and musical styles he refined with Hello Everything and Ufabulum combined with his old school gear and editing circa HND. Not sure it will have the staying power of those aforementioned releases, but it's definitely a solid album

I felt like I lost track of Squarepusher c Ultravisitor, which felt really messy and sprawling to me at the time, even for him. Never managed to get back on the Squarepusher train despite probably having heard every album since. But I do remember Hello Everything being good

Why are Tommib and Beep Street his most listened-to tracks on Spotify? Strange...

Maybe Tommib is on a bunch of ambient playlists, plus it's short, but Beep Street never struck me as a SP highlight to be standing over Red Hot Car and Iambic 5 Poetry...