Come on Mi Selector
I'm really loving the new Squarepusher album, out on Warp on 16th October.
You can see from the cover (acoustic guitar, xylophone, bass) that he's trying to show 'hey, i'm a real musician... not just a knob twiddler'. And well, he is of course. In last months 'Observer Music Monthly' he was described by Flea (from some band called 'Red Hot Chilli Peppers') as 'the best bass player on earth'
For evidence check out the first track on the album, Hello Meow. It's almost the archetypal Squarepusher track with its Jungle riddims & acidic analord synths. But just check the jaw dropping virtuoso bass hitting around the 2:50 mark.
SQUAREPUSHER - HELLO MEOW
Trouble is that like the AFX output of the past few years, Tom Jenkinson is prone to Jazzfinger, which has become more and more manifest since his incredible debut 'Feed me Weird Things' (released on Aphex's Rephlex label), which is still his best album IMO. I've got more into this new one than anything since though (excepting the occasional rip-roarer of a single - 'Come on Mi Selector', 'Do You Know Squarepusher' and of course 'My Red Hot Car'). The indulgence seems to have made way for something a lot more, well, fun. And euphoric. And save a few ambient tonal pieces in the middle it's full of tunes. 'Welcome to Europe' is another highlight, but I'm also particularly enjoying 'Planetarium'.... which starts off like some bad-bwoy junglist track before morphing into something like Moroder would have produced if he'd tried his hand at drum & bass.
SQUAREPUSHER - PLANETARIUM
Yeah i'm liking this a lot.
Also, looks like I didn't win this BT award thing... which i'm not exactly fussed / surprised about... however I can't quite understand how it was that the winning blog was the one from Mike Skinner & some mate of his called Ted Mayhem. They (there are two) are not updated often, they're a pain to access (via a shitty flash interface) and they write badly about inane shit. I mean SURELY there's a better music blog in the UK? Mind you, as No Rock & Roll Fun points out it was basically a big corporate backslapping.
But anyway, 6th. Yeah that's pretty cool. I'm better than Jamiroquai but not as good as James Blunt. Hmmm.
Personally I think xxjfg or xrrf should have won best blog. But I suspect they're respectively too cool and too cynical to enter.
Still, 'claps and smiles nicely'
,-)
You can see from the cover (acoustic guitar, xylophone, bass) that he's trying to show 'hey, i'm a real musician... not just a knob twiddler'. And well, he is of course. In last months 'Observer Music Monthly' he was described by Flea (from some band called 'Red Hot Chilli Peppers') as 'the best bass player on earth'
For evidence check out the first track on the album, Hello Meow. It's almost the archetypal Squarepusher track with its Jungle riddims & acidic analord synths. But just check the jaw dropping virtuoso bass hitting around the 2:50 mark.
SQUAREPUSHER - HELLO MEOW
Trouble is that like the AFX output of the past few years, Tom Jenkinson is prone to Jazzfinger, which has become more and more manifest since his incredible debut 'Feed me Weird Things' (released on Aphex's Rephlex label), which is still his best album IMO. I've got more into this new one than anything since though (excepting the occasional rip-roarer of a single - 'Come on Mi Selector', 'Do You Know Squarepusher' and of course 'My Red Hot Car'). The indulgence seems to have made way for something a lot more, well, fun. And euphoric. And save a few ambient tonal pieces in the middle it's full of tunes. 'Welcome to Europe' is another highlight, but I'm also particularly enjoying 'Planetarium'.... which starts off like some bad-bwoy junglist track before morphing into something like Moroder would have produced if he'd tried his hand at drum & bass.
SQUAREPUSHER - PLANETARIUM
Yeah i'm liking this a lot.
Also, looks like I didn't win this BT award thing... which i'm not exactly fussed / surprised about... however I can't quite understand how it was that the winning blog was the one from Mike Skinner & some mate of his called Ted Mayhem. They (there are two) are not updated often, they're a pain to access (via a shitty flash interface) and they write badly about inane shit. I mean SURELY there's a better music blog in the UK? Mind you, as No Rock & Roll Fun points out it was basically a big corporate backslapping.
But anyway, 6th. Yeah that's pretty cool. I'm better than Jamiroquai but not as good as James Blunt. Hmmm.
Personally I think xxjfg or xrrf should have won best blog. But I suspect they're respectively too cool and too cynical to enter.
Still, 'claps and smiles nicely'
,-)
posted by headphonesex @ 11:30 PM
