Squarepusher
Album Review: Squarepusher – Dostrotime
Whether composing Music For Robots with 78 fingers, performing with Shobaleader One, or exacting the drum and bass carnage his three decade career is prized for, Tom Jenkinson presents exhilarating experiments in a stoic yet playful manner. But as with any album bearing the “Made In Lockdown” tag, it’s hard not to attribute emotionality to …
Album review: GoGo Penguin – ‘GGP/RMX’: deus ex Mancunia as the jazz trio take the remixes album to new heights
THE EXCELLENT, leftfield Mancunian trio GoGo Penguin, who work out in the truly creative zones where dancefloor and intelligence and jazz bump into each other, decided they could be lifelong friends, are all set to release a really exciting remixes album, GGP/RMX, for Blue Note in May. They’ve been creating their particular forward-forging meshing of …
News: Squarepusher’s thrilling, insane ‘Feed Me Weird Things’ gets a silver jubilee reissue; revel in the deep acid of ‘Theme From Ernest Borgnine’
NOW THIS … this is sexy news for the lover of the weird and the wired and the warped (and, serendipitously, the Warp). Squarepusher’s hyperactive, insane, thrilling debut album for Warp, Feed Me Weird Things, is to get a 25th (what now?) anniversary reissue on June 4th. Stand back, light the touchpaper. Not only will …
Track: GoGo Penguin – ‘F Major Pixie (Squarepusher Remix)’: Tom Jenkinson wreaks his inimitable magic
THE EXCELLENT Mancunian trio GoGo Penguin, whose catalogue is full of thrills of jazz with a firm focus on creativity and the dancefloor, working in the same territories as Cinematic Orchestra and Red Snapper, are all set to release a really exciting remixes album, GGP/RMX, for Blue Note in May; and boy, what an excellent …
Watch: Squarepusher – Detroit People Mover
It has been a ridiculously busy year for electronic musician Tom Jenkins a.k.a Squarepusher already. Not content with the release of January’s Be Up a Hello, the first proper follow up to 2015’s Damogen Furies (Elektrac and All Night Chroma don’t count), last Friday saw the artist drop a five track EP, Lamental. This week? …
EP: Squarepusher – Lamental EP
Tom Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher, has never taken the easy route, in either his output or his sense of risk taking and collaboration, with projects such as his brilliant Shobaleader One with a crack team of jazz musicians, and his project with Japanese robots – Squarepusher x Z-Machines, showing why he’s been pushing boxes for getting …
Track: Squarepusher – ‘MIDI Sans Frontières’ (Avec Batterie) plus tour news
Tom Jenkinson, aka inventive and groundbreaking producer Squarepusher, follows up his recent 10th full length album Be Up a Hello, with a new EP Lamental, out on April 10th via Warp Records. From the EP he’s shared ‘MIDI Sans Frontières’, originally composed as a response to the EU referendum in 2016, and he’s released his …
Track: Shobaleader One – Journey to Reedham
Out on Warp Records on Match 10th, is Elektrac. Its a new project made up of Strobe Hazard, Squarepusher, Company Laser and Arf Nution. Elektrac features the bands versions of eleven of Squarepushers most iconic tracks. From the album, the band are streaming their version of Journey to Reedham. Its a mass of electronics, both …
Track: Squarepusher – Stor Eiglass
If not hot on the heels, then certainly warming the socks of fellow Warp Records and electronic music genius Aphex Twin, Squarepusher has announced details of his new album Damogen Furies, which comes out on 20th April. Talking about the record Tom Jenkinson, aka Squarepusher says “Through this record I aim to explore as forcefully …