Squarepusher

Squarepusher Is A Pseudonym Of Chelmsford Essex England Electronic Musician Tom Jenkinson B. 1975 Best Known For His Experimental Drum And Bass With A Heavy Jazz Fusion Influence. A Skilled Bassist And Multi-Instrumentalist Jenkinson's Virtuoso Playing Is A Staple Of His Music And One Of The More Obvious Affiliations With Jazz Although His Formal Arrangements Are Often As Jazz-Derived As His Playing . His Bass Style Includes Melodic Fretless Playing High-Speed Slap Bass And Intricate Chordal Work. The Project Débuted With Conumber E P 1995 Spymania And The Latest Is Be Up A Hello January 2020 Warp . The Son Of A Jazz Drummer Jenkinson Grew Up Listening To Greats Such As Miles Davis Charlie Parker And Art Blakey Plus Dub Pioneers King Tubby And Augustus Pablo. He Played Bass And Drums In High School But Was Frustrated By The Limitations Of Playing With Other Musicians. Introduced To Electronic Music Through Experimental Electro-Techno Artists Such As LFO And Carl Craig As Well As The Local Rave Scene Jenkinson Soon Began Assembling These Disparate Influences Into An Amalgam Of Post-Bop Avant-Garde And Progressive Jazz With Breakbeat Techno Making Heavy Use Of The Amen Break. Conumber E P And Another Early EP As Duke Of Haringey Alroy Road Tracks 1995 Spymania Were Initially Disregarded As Misplaced Perversions Of Jungle's More Obvious Compositional Principles. However They Found A Ready Audience In Fans Of Post-Acid House Experimental Listening Music. Tracks From These EPs Were Later Compiled Onto The Album Burningn'n Tree. His First Album Feed Me Weird Things 1996 Rephlex - Richard D. James' Label And From There He Progressed To Warp Records For The Port Rhombus EP Classic Second Album Hard Normal Daddy 1997 And All Subsequent Releases To Date - Except As Chaos A.D. An Album Of Old Acid Techno Tracks Buzz Caner 1998 Rephlex . For Music Is Rotted One Note 1998 He Stopped Using Sampled Drum Breaks And Instead Multi-Tracked Himself Playing Drums Bass And Keyboards. The Following Year He Released Two EPs Budakhan Mindphone And Maximum Priest Plus Album Selection Sixteen. Go Plastic Summer 2001 Marked A Change Of Direction With Entirely Sampled And Synthesized Sounds. It Includes The Closest Thing To A Hit Single Squarepusher Had Seen "My Red Hot Car". His Subsequent Releases E.G. Do You Know Squarepusher 2003 And Ultravisitor 2004 Found Him Refining His Fusion Of Composition Programming And Musicianship. More Recently Just A Souvenir 2008 With A More Rock-Influenced Sound Was Followed By Solo Electric Bass 2009 Consisting Of Live Recordings Of Jenkinson On The Titular Instrument. read less