Squarepusher

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* Audio CD (October 13, 1998)
* Number of Discs: 1
* Format: Enhanced
* Label: Nothing Records
* Catalog Number: 90257
* ASIN: B00000DMOK
* Average Customer Review: based on 26 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #21,831 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
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1. Come On My Selector Listen Listen
2. A Journey To Reedham (7 A.M. Mix) Listen Listen
3. Full Rinse Listen Listen
4. Massif (Stray Strong) Listen Listen
5. The Body Builder (Dressing Gown Mix) Listen Listen
6. Tequila Fish Listen
7. Jacques Mal Chance (Il N'a Pas De Chance) Listen
8. Port Rhombus Listen
9. Problem Child Listen
10. Significant Others Listen
11. Lone Raver (Live In Chelmsford Mix) Listen
12. The Barn (303 Kebab Mix) Listen
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
blending reality for aural consumption, August 29, 2002
Reviewer: ixion75 (MD, United States) - See all my reviews
Ask three of four different artists to paint you the house across the street, and you'll get a variety of portraits. One of the responses might be a series of unconnected multicolored blocks. Asking your artist friend if there was some mistake, the artist might reply, "No. There is no mistake. You asked me to represent the house, and I have. It's not my problem if you can't see it."

This is my probably unsuccessful attempt to describe the staccato beauty and pockmarked majesty of these tracks by Tom Jenkinson. _Big Loada_ is a 1998 collection of three Squarepusher EPs. It was my introduction to the young bassist and jazz [fan] from England, and it has some of his finest work.

"Come On My Selector" is a 3-and-a-half minute dollop of poodle hiccups and bass strums, and yet so much more as well; it sets a perfect tone for the disc. "A Journey to Reedham" and "Port Rhombus" deliver brilliance in brooding yet wholesomely gorgeous mixes of electronic rhythms and drum and bass samples. "Problem Child" is more traditional drum n' bass, and "Massif" and "Tequila Fish" continue the ride. The cd ends with higher tempo faux-Aphex madness, with two tracks from the Vic Acid EP.

This is a recommended listen for anyone into progressive or alternative electronica, whether drum and bass or techno. It's music being done at the edges of established conventions by a vital talent. Slap it on and see what portraiture Squarepusher's music creates for you.

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3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
good, to a point, August 24, 1999
Reviewer: Giuseppe A. Paleologo "gappy" (Riverdale, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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I like Squarepusher's work, but sometimes I have the impression that his artistic efforts are inconsistent. On one side, this is clearly jazz-minded music: it sounds "as if" some musician was improvising. On the other side, this is no improvisation, and the musical palette available to a computer is much flatter than that produced by a jazz quartet. On repeated listenings, the lack of improvisation shows up. Another criticism I have is that the electronic paraphernalia don't mask a certain melodic monotonicity. Other than this, "big loada" is solid work and a good electronica album. I would also recommend Budakhan Mindphone" of the same artist.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Wrong CD, October 2, 2005
Reviewer: LHB (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews
I just picked up a supposed copy of "Big Loada." Luckily, I'd read the reviews below from people who got the "wrong" CD when they purchased what they thought was this disc. I did too: I got "Budakahn Microphone." It's labeled as if it's "Big Loada" but it's not. Evidently there's a run of bad discs. What's interesting to contemplate is how many people are out there thinking they're listening to "Loada" when they're listening to something else. You don't have to be a Squarepusher expert to tell: if your copy of "Loada" has 7 tracks on it, it's REALLY "Budakahn Microphone." "Big Loada" has 12 tracks. Who knows when the "real" "Loada" will once again be available.… (más)

Product Details

* Audio CD (October 13, 1998)
* Original Release Date: 2000
* Number of Discs: 1
* Label: Nothing Records
* Catalog Number: 90294
* ASIN: B00000DMOM
* Average Customer Review: based on 33 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #74,614 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
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6. Parallelogram Bin Listen
7. Circular Flexing Listen
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12. Ruin Listen
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15. Last Ap Roach Listen

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A perpetual workaholic, Squarepusher (a.k.a. Tom Jenkinson) released three albums in rapid-fire succession in 1997. While his complex compositions stayed admirably fresh over each disc, by the end of the series it was evident that he had exhausted every trick in the abstract drum & bass book. On Music Is Rotted One Note, Squarepusher wisely expands his musical palette by sidestepping the conventions of electronic music. Relying primarily on minimalist jazz patterns and contemplative rhythms, he creates a low-key freeform soundtrack that is accented beautifully by electric guitars and moody bass lines. --Aidin Vaziri

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This 15-track LP is a brave ... departure from Squarepusher's patented hyperkinetic fusion/jungle antics.... The main difference with Music: Squarepusher ... plays all the instruments live, leaving out the samplers and sequencers.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Miles Would Approve, October 30, 2005
Reviewer: directions "jazz fanatic" (Port Washington, NY United States) - See all my reviews
Squarepusher revisits Miles' most controversial album "On the Corner" in Music is Rotted One Note. At one time bands would not touch that album, now everyone wants to say they were influenced by it. However, Music is Rotted One Note uses Miles music as a sketchpad for something even darker and disturbing. Unlike Miles this is not a continuous jam. Some tracks are in the vein of dark ambient and one track even sounds like Morton Subotnick. Despite the variety, the album is cohesive. Each track feeds into the next. Though Squarepusher is known for drill 'n' bass, this to me is his best album because it takes Miles' music to new hights that it could have reached.… (más)

Product Details

* Audio CD (January 5, 1999)
* Original Release Date: December 22, 1998
* Number of Discs: 1
* Label: Rephlex
* Catalog Number: 21261
* ASIN: B00000FEP4
* Average Customer Review: based on 32 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #126,079 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
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1. Squarepusher Theme Listen Listen
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4. Dimotane Co Listen Listen
5. Smedleys Melody Listen Listen
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7. North Circular Listen
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9. Theme From Ernest Borgnine Listen
10. U.F.O.'s Over Leytonstone Listen
11. Kodack Listen
12. Future Gibbon Listen

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With 12 tracks of lunacy, mayhem, and sheer beauty, Tom Jenkinson's 1996 debut as Squarepusher remains one of the few must-have records of the electronica revolution. Though Jenkinson builds his tracks around his remarkable fusion-inspired fretless bass playing, the album initially sounds like a study in maniacally intricate drum solos and patterns, themselves built from a few Roland drum machines. But closer listening reveals a keen intellect at work. Jenkinson has no interest in either the repetitive drum patterns most junglists prefer or their vapid soundscapes. Instead his songs douse you in rhythm and melody. The acoustic Brazilian guitar of "Squarepusher Theme" is soon devoured by a steaming, staccato drum groove, the track ultimately resolving itself as a kind of 21st-century Latin jazz epic. "Tundra" recalls a battery of mad insects destroying a caterpillar; "UFOs over Leytonstone" creates a slow death rumba; "Kodack" revels in glistening beats and streamlined and manic synths, a sign of Squarepusher to come. "Goodnight Jade" is the album's most unusual track, a lush, ambient drone of lovely bass harmonics and a mouselike melody, showing Jenkinson to be a composer of surprising weight and depth. Squarepusher would make records harder, more intense, and more spectacular, but none more musical than Feed Me Weird Things. --Ken Micallef… (más)