Browse by Artist: SQUAREPUSHER

Artist:	SQUAREPUSHER
Title:	Big Loada
Label:	NOTHING
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	INTD 90257

Nothing is a large American recording company associated with the man who signs his checks as "Trent Reznor". Normally, Nothing is distributed via the Interscope conglomerate, but these licenses of some of the most desirable releases on the Warp Records UK label were evidently considered a bit too risque for the traditional American network. Some people say that Nothing derives it name from its thoroughly lackadaisacal non-output of announced IDM titles (domestic releases by Squarepusher and Autechre were first rumored close to 2 years ago), but with no real advance warning, here is the first batch at attractive American prices. Throw your leather pants into the wash for a minute and say hello. RE: Vic Acid: "The second post Stereotype/Rumble/Spymania/Worm Interface/Rephlex effort from one Thomas Jenkinson, aka Alroy Road Tracks/Chaos AD/etc., following Port Rhombus. All of the jam-session-with-Billy-Cobham aesthetic remains in tact, only this time Jaco sits out, favoring the tabletop version of 'Centipede' in the corner. There's a certain present affinity for the summer of love's 303-as-god sound, applied in droves on such Jenks classics as 'The Barn' (303 Kebab)' and 'Fat Controller' (G7000 Remix). Centering in on the sort of post-rhythm-as-rump-shaker manifesto he decidedly goes for later on." --Hrvatski. Re: Big Loada EP: "Higher IDM quotient than previous releases (audible in the melancholic swirls of melody-sound), but with the stick-tub-amp ratio on full. The indecipherable voice overs (notably, MC Twintub's 'Contribution' to 'Full Rinse', sure to bring a tear to Conrad's eye...) and overall blown sonics succeed in leaving your scalp more than agitated. More Amen/Lyn/soul pride grappling than allowed by Federal law. Much denser and more ear-pleasingly brilliant than previous efforts." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	SQUAREPUSHER
Title:	Music Is Rotted One Note
Label:	NOTHING
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	INTD 90294

"Full length number four (counting the recent Burning'n Tree collection of Spymania-owned sounds) for Tom Jenkinson under his 'Squarepusher' aegis -- issued domestically only one week after Warp's release in the UK. Totally eschewing the concept of tempoed linear composition, Jenks brings us an assortment of not-completely-un-Miles-like space-jazz sound-scapes (with TJ playing the DeJohnette, Zawinul, Holland, AND Macero roles without flinching, or developing carpal-tunnel syndrome) via multi-track recording technology and scattered computer post-processing. No breaks. No drum programming. Unreal. An amazing turn of events proving Tom to be a fairly proficient swordsman in a variety of post-prog-jazz roles. Likely to turn rave kids onto Sextant-era Herbie or some such wonder. Mental." --Hrvatski.

Artist:	SQUAREPUSHER
Title:	Feed Me Weird Things
Label:	REPHLEX (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	REPH 037CD

All-time classic debut album from 1996. Squarepusher is the UK's Tom Jenkinson. Stunning, complex programming intertwined with fusion-flecked electric bass creating some of the most euphoric, havoc-wrecked sounds of the contemporary era. This is the album that put it all together (to be followed by a series of albums for Warp) and is, in simple terms, one of the cornerstones of mid-'90s sound recordings. "The next thing I felt was a fuzzy vibration, as monophonic sound waves that had travelled from the other side of the room at the speed of light, compressed the air and displacing the the smoke of ten spliffs, hit me in both ears simultaneously. It was Mr. Jenkinson who was turning my heartbeat into the sound of a ring piece modulated resonant phaselocked trapezoid backwards edit phlanged kick drum. He made the sound of ambulances turn into slide trombones and the sound of a secretary filing her nails into a 24-piece string section. Undoubtedly, Tom Jenkinson is the first man in history to orchestrate an Alka-Seltzer fizzing a two mega byte Simms memory upgrade chip (with 1 nanosecond access time) and a toilet flushing. When Mr. Jenkinson is conducting, the rest of the world is a pit. The Squarepusher is someone who wonders what the holes of a flute sound like without the flute. Sound like sound never sounded before. Richard Rogers and Julie Andrews gave us the Sound of Music, John Cage and Simon and Garfunkel gave us the "Sound of Silence" and now the Squarepusher gives the Sound of Sound." --PRichard.D.Jams

Artist:	SQUAREPUSHER
Title:	Go Plastic
Label:	WARP RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	WARP 085CD

"Go Plastic is the record that folks have been waiting for... a more aggro, technologically-oriented outing. The incredibly catchy leadoff single, 'My Red Hot Car,' is revisited as a mind-bending two-step workout, Lee Scratch Perry stylee. Dub and d'n'b elements weigh in heavy on Go Plastic. Breaks rush by at the speed of light only to be tethered to some of Jenkinson's moodiest melodic work. Go Plastic is simply one of the most exciting, sinister records of the year."

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