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:	Hard Normal Daddy
Label:	WARP RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	WARP 050CD

Now available at mid-line price. "Much anticipated 2nd full-length from THE all time kingpin weirdstep progenitor, a good sequence of impossibly difficult rhythmic structure amidst some more subdued green-room mind-food. Here, Jenks' special brand of ring-mod jazz and industrially-flared break-fuckery alots him another plaque in the hall of the revered ones, alongside Luke Vibert's work as Plug, the entire output of the Worm Interface and Spymania labels (both of which he was an integral part), and the rest of the albeit post-Jenks 'Spunk Jazz' squad. Sleeved in a milieu of Johnny Clayton's (aka Rubber Johnny's) 3-bit Atari-art." --Hrvatski

Artist:	SQUAREPUSHER
Title:	Go Plastic
Label:	WARP RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
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."

Artist:	SQUAREPUSHER
Title:	Do You Know Squarepusher
Label:	WARP RECORDS (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$18.50
Catalog #:	WARP 097CD

"If you've ever had the good fortune of talking to or spending time with Tom Jenkinson, you get a glimpse of hope in a future world for music... a way forward, which is something that is getting harder to see and hear in today's cultural morass. Watching the music, almost literally, spin 'round in his brain in the course of a normal day, habitually drumming out rhythms or mouthing arrangements is like a twilight thunderstorm rolling across the plains. Scary yet beautiful nonetheless. These seven new snapshots come in the form of a fierce squall. Some may be already familiar with this album's opener: 'Do You Know Squarepusher,' a recent live favorite that leaked out in slightly different form on a one-sided 12" early this year. For those that have heard it, it has left an indelible mark: every bit as catchy as last year's breakout single 'My Red Hot Car' but, even more foreboding and challenging. From there the album moves from schizoid MCs riding a groove with square wheels and atmospheric digitized darkness to manic []pusher-patented drum 'n' bass strafing fire and (perhaps the greatest surprise) a spooky restrained cover of Joy Division's classic 'Love Will Tear Us Apart.' Oh yeah, CD format comes with a bonus disc of []pusher live in Japan."

Artist:	SQUAREPUSHER
Title:	Ultravisitor
Label:	WARP RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	WARP 117CD

"Suffice to say, Squarepusher's new album Ultravisitor has just upped the ante. From Tom Jenkinson's perspective, his challenge is to find the point of tension between his two loves -- his all-time passion, playing the bass, at which his is a master, and the drums, alongside the satisfying mental absorption he finds in programming and sequencing on a computer. To hold these two divergent ideas in his mind at the same time, and imagine music that reinvents the intensity, depth of emotion and restrictive genre boundaries of musical language -- welcome to the odyssey that is Ultravisitor."

Artist:	SQUAREPUSHER
Title:	Shobaleader One: d'Demonstrator
Label:	WARP RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	WARP 196CD

"This is by far the most accessible record Squarepusher (aka Tom Jenkinson) has ever made. This was not the original intent, but the result is clear. This record will change the way people view Squarepusher. Having been known as a leader and innovator in drum 'n bass and various forms of up tempo electronic music for 15 years, Jenkinson was always able to push the boundaries of the genre, but on Shobaleader One: d'Demonstrator, he is pushing so far beyond his previous releases it is easy to hear why it might take a few listens to register that this is indeed a Squarepusher record. Vocals? R&B rhythms? Heavy synths? These and other un-Squarepusher like elements form what could even be described as 'baby makin' music'. Jenkinson's vast knowledge of rhythm and harmony help to make these songs much more than nu-soul R&B, they are truly an entity unto themselves."

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