If anyone asks about my favorite band, artist, genre of music, album, song, (insert anything related to music), my answer is always… in some way… Squarepusher. Tom Jenkinson has never disappointed me.
However, there’s a sound I prefer to hear and I don’t really hear it on Just A Souvenir. It’s a great release and again, he’s never EVER disappointed me, but I always find myself going back to tracks like Ultravisitor and Theme From Ernest Borgnine. That’s my favorite “Squarepusher Sound”.
Still, two thumbs up, five stars, however you want to say it. I especially love “The Coathanger”.
my red hot car is the greatest thing squarepusher has done that has a vaugely memorable name - there are others i love but fuck man - get some decent track names already
To be honest: I was aware of Squarepushers work for a few years but never really interested. Right until this thread. I’ve bought the “Souvenir Album”, thought it to be funny, bought some more stuff and came to the conclusion “Big Loada” might be the nicest work of his. Dunno.
I’m about to fill my AFX collection (same story like SP) and Venetian Snares. Does anyone have some recommendations?
Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album
Aphex Twin - Drukqs
AFX - Chosen Lords
The Tuss - Rushup Edge
Venetian Snares - Infolepsy
Venetian Snares - Cavalcade Of Glee And Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms
Venetian Snares - Detrimentalist (<-- he just recently released this one)
There are many more albums I’d recommend, but if you’re really loving Big Loada, I’d suggest you get this stuff before exploring more. (For example, Snares put out 2 albums that have a lot of strings/orchestral melodies. They’re both great, but you’d probably like his crazy synth stuff more.)
You may also like Wisp a lot, but I’m not as familiar with his albums sooooo I can’t recommend favorites.
Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album [X] bought
Aphex Twin - Drukqs [X] bought
AFX - Chosen Lords [X] bought
The Tuss - Rushup Edge
Venetian Snares - Infolepsy
Venetian Snares - Cavalcade Of Glee And Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms
Venetian Snares - Detrimentalist (<-- he just recently released this one) [X] bought
I’m spending a lot of money on mp3 releases lately. Bleep.com is great. Thx for the other recommendations. I’m just about to build a nice repertoire.
I do also like Squares’ almost solo Bass-playing on a lot of his albums. I’ll have a look at Wisp
The only way to get hand of all of those would be to… pirate them… ^^
I don’t usually pirate music. But I DID this week nab the Analords 1 - 11 Flac torrent. How the eff else are we supposed to get them? If digital downloads existed I would have been all over that.
I actually just downloaded Aphex Twin’s unreleased “Melodies From Mars”. It was originally supposed to be music for a video game, but it was replaced by the RDJ album. Definitely worth checking out, its very interesting to hear Aphex chip melodies.
