Best Venetian Snares album?

I've heard these: 'making orange things', 'songs about my cats', 'higgins', '2370894', 'alien force', 'find candace', 'nymphomatriarch', 'chocolate wheelchair'.

The Album with the most songs that I like on it is probably that "Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972-2006-2002" thing. I love his spastic jazz/max tundra sounding stuff.

Pretty much like that, FWIW. You big nancy.

Oh and the answer's 'Higgins' although this doesn't take into account the, currently unheard, new one which includes a version of the theme from Coronation Street.

I can relate to Josh's comment about electronic music that plays with time signatures. Software has made it very easy to experiment with tempo, and so a lot of people are suddenly experimenting. No surprise that very few people have ears for good results, it's underexplored territory. Hard to leave the pleasures of strict tempo behind and find something actually compelling. It was just as much of a struggle with orchestral music and free jazz.

Snares owes a huge debt to music like Squarepusher, who I like but never really listened to much. Squarepusher's music has a lot of rhythmic density, but it's all completely on the grid; sure the rhythm's been intricately composed down to the 64th note but you can tap your foot throughout, I get bored. On 'doll doll doll' the rhythm breaks the grid, it hops with precision through signatures in unprecedented, humanly unperformable ways, it is mad. My ears blink, I'm on the edge of my seat, it leaves behind questions of craft, it's pure music.

His sample set borrows heavily from traditional darkcore dnb, and sometimes the horror movie samples make me feel like I'm too old to be listening to this music, but the rhythmic invention on his best stuff keeps me listening...

UNBORN BABY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUtmV1Guwbs

if ya like edwar scissorhands this one has a grand sample