I dunno, give it more of a chance. It's really great.
― frogbs, Friday, 25 May 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
Music is Rotted... has been my favourite for *years*. Thanks to this thread though getting into other stuff.
― Philsatawny Punx (S-), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 06:39 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno if this was posted elsewhere but whoa
http://www.youtube.com/lQnORVoz1yI
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 24 March 2013 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
Whoops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnORVoz1yI
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 24 March 2013 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
Just stumbled upon a cool cover of "Journey to Reedham" by a Montreal jazz trio:https://open.spotify.com/track/2wHIuTg9zXtuSZBRRAQs5V
― jaymc, Sunday, 8 March 2015 20:32 (nine years ago) link
Awesome. Thanks.
Squarepusher is underrated in 2015.
― Allen (etaeoe), Sunday, 8 March 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
New album soonhttp://www.squarepusher.net/
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 9 March 2015 02:34 (nine years ago) link
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
― lil urbane (Jordan), Friday, 20 March 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link
wondering if he reads his youtube comments, and has since become familiar w/The Cure
― Dominique, Friday, 20 March 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
???
― lil urbane (Jordan), Friday, 20 March 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
The main descending synth line is heavily reminiscent of "Inbetween Days"
― DJP, Friday, 20 March 2015 19:39 (nine years ago) link
er I meant "Just Like Heaven" oops
Cure card revoked
― DJP, Friday, 20 March 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
If I go see him play live is it just gonna be him hitting play and then noodling on a bass
― the most painstaking, humorless people in the world (lukas), Saturday, 21 March 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
there's a rad light show apparently
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Saturday, 21 March 2015 22:41 (nine years ago) link
i have always been super-into "my sound"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzoFHatryJQ
― jaymc, Thursday, 16 April 2015 06:46 (nine years ago) link
yeah that one's excellent. squarepusher rarely does the chilled/pretty jazz thing but it's something he's really great at.
― but then again, who really cares? I don’t. (dog latin), Thursday, 16 April 2015 08:58 (nine years ago) link
new one seems super maximal and overdriven, with barely a deep breath in sight
― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 16 April 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link
I'm enjoying the new one. Very much continuing in a similar vein to the last one, unusually for him.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 27 April 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
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 ThingsIambic 5 Poetry - Budakhan MindphoneDon't Go Plastic - Music Is Rotted One NoteA Journey To Reedham (7am mix) - Big LoadaTetrasync - UltravisitorHello 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.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
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.
― (The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 20:17 (seven years ago) link
you gotta hear his live band play the tracks it's incredible
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 20:23 (seven years ago) link
Dude seriously has one of the most detailed musician pages on Wikipedia I've ever seen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squarepusher
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 20:27 (seven years ago) link
holy shit that video
― (The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 20:29 (seven years ago) link
the Journey to Reedham video is insane as well
https://youtu.be/IXtQDsf4gJA
― (The caption: “fine dining.”) (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 20:36 (seven years ago) link
"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
― koogs, Friday, 11 May 2018 09:40 (six years ago) link
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
― octobeard, Thursday, 21 November 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 November 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
lots of discussion on my FB about whether the Fracture remix is by Fracture or not... bit confused.
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Friday, 22 November 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
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
― octobeard, Friday, 22 November 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
Another one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtSJA_U4W1U
― octobeard, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 23:04 (four years ago) link
seems to be getting very good reviews has anyone heard it yet
― frogbs, Monday, 3 February 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
No but a friend of mine who doesn't normally like Squarepusher told me he really likes it.
― chap, Monday, 3 February 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
It sounds like '90s Squarepusher.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 3 February 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
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
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
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
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Monday, 3 February 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
Not enough robots IMHO. "Nervelevers" and "80 Ondula" are the keepers.
― Jeff W, Monday, 3 February 2020 16:53 (four years ago) link
lol at opening the record with pachelbel's canon
― you know my name, look up the number of the beast (rushomancy), Monday, 3 February 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
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
― octobeard, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 03:18 (four years ago) link
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
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 09:58 (four years ago) link
Why are Tommib and Beep Street his most listened-to tracks on Spotify? Strange...
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 09:59 (four years ago) link
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...
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 10:00 (four years ago) link
I'm taking a worldwind tour of his discography now. each album has its own vague overall vibe. But each one also suffers from wild oscillationgs between tear-out drill'n'bass rave, abstruse avant-jazztronica and the odd ambient or acoustic tune which would otherwise be considered quite pretty. It's Druqks syndrome all over again - the feeling of listening to three or four albums on shuffle rather than a consolidated whole.And while that tension can sometimes works, more often than not it's a jarring, implacable listen that never really settles into a groove. 'Hello Everything' starts with a bunch of fun upbeat bangers but halfway through the album it suddenly switches to three consecutive tracks of quiet, contemplative ambient jazz. This is all very well, but for me as a listener I'm rarely in the mood to be buffeted around in this way. It's nice that he's showing off his musical range, but it leaves me wondering how wide that range is, when he's released so many albums now that swing from what is ultimately two essential styles. Personally I'd much rather he released records like 'Music Is Rotted One Note', which was more focused on his jazz/experimental sound and kept the ravey stuff for other releases rather than trying to cram everything into one claustrophobic assortment box. It would let his range express itself more.
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 10:48 (four years ago) link
one recent-ish record of his I really dug was Just a Souvenir, in which he seemed to force himself to cut the unnecessarily abrasive & doodly stuff and just rock out. I think his audience at large didn't like it but I found it kinda charming.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 4 February 2020 14:43 (four years ago) link
Listening to the new one after enjoying his RA Exchange interview. It's really good, even though it sounds more like a video game soundtrack than anything else. There's usually a backbeat or a riff that keeps things from going off the rails entirely into squelchy madness.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 13 March 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
Just A Souvenir is one of his best
― El Tomboto, Friday, 13 March 2020 15:53 (four years ago) link
New album continues my personal theory that you could make a “best of squarepusher” album consisting of only the first full-length track on each of his albums/EPs/singles and it would be comprehensive.
― Michael F Gill, Friday, 22 May 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
You would miss 'Don't Go Plastic', 'Beep Street' and 'UFOs Over Leytonstone' at least.
― braised cod, Friday, 22 May 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link
Just looking at Squarpusher LPs on wiki, hoo boy that Pitchfork review of Go Plastic is one of the wrongest things I have ever read.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 22 May 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
returning to stuff I haven't really played since SOY (start of year), forgot how awesome Be Up A Hello is
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Friday, 11 December 2020 05:11 (three years ago) link