Do You Know Squarepusher

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With a clutch of album releases under his belt and a growing reputation, it seems a little strange that Tom Jenkins still feels obliged to include a lengthy synopsis of his musical standpoint in relation to popular culture (hence Do You Know Squarepusher). Maybe this is the result of a bad review or confused audience feedback, or maybe it was simply about that time when justification was finally met. Logically, it follows that the musical template remains a hallmarked cacophony of splintered beats and fractured sonics that find an aggressive medium of balancing melody in and around contorted backdrops. Lyrically, it's a pastiche, with "F-Train" coming across as the Streets played off and out by the Anti-Pop Consortium. Not a particularly comfortable thought, but then, Squarepusher doesn't necessarily do easy listening. The closest to that comes on the latter half of the album ("Mutilation Colony"), where the beats are dropped in favor of soundscaping, which again combines abstract parts (akin to Carlos and Richter), but still finds a path for more accessible pieces, too. Rounded off with a passable version of "Love Will Tear Us Apart," it's another astute album with a hint of aging and acceptance. --Found Sounds

Product Description
2002 release featuring 7 tracks including a spooky restrained cover of Joy Division's classic 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'. Includes a bonus CD entitled 'Alive In Japan', recorded in July, 2001.

Do You Know Squarepusher,Squarepusher,Warp Records,Dance Music,Drill'n'bass,Electronic,Experimental Jungle,Jungle/Drum'n'bass,Pop

Average customer rating: Pretty good, but quite short Lets get this straight Do I Know Squarepusher? pushin' all squares... pushin' all squares... wow

Do You Know Squarepusher Squarepusher Manufacturer: Warp Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music IDM | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music IDM | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Big Loada Go Plastic Ultravisitor Hard Normal Daddy Burningn'n Tree ASIN: B00006C2P4 Release Date: 2002-10-01

Tracks:

1. Do You Know Squarepusher
2. F-Train
3. Kill Robok
4. Anstromm-Feck 4
5. Conc 2 Symmetriac
6. Mutilation Colony
7. Love Will Tear Us Apart

Tracks:

1. Alive In Japan. Recorded July 2001
2. Alive In Japan. Recorded July 2001
3. Alive In Japan. Recorded July 2001
4. Alive In Japan. Recorded July 2001
5. Alive In Japan. Recorded July 2001
6. Alive In Japan. Recorded July 2001
7. Alive In Japan. Recorded July 2001
8. Alive In Japan. Recorded July 2001
9. Alive In Japan. Recorded July 2001
10. Alive In Japan. Recorded July 2001

Amazon.com

With a clutch of album releases under his belt and a growing reputation, it seems a little strange that Tom Jenkins still feels obliged to include a lengthy synopsis of his musical standpoint in relation to popular culture (hence Do You Know Squarepusher). Maybe this is the result of a bad review or confused audience feedback, or maybe it was simply about that time when justification was finally met. Logically, it follows that the musical template remains a hallmarked cacophony of splintered beats and fractured sonics that find an aggressive medium of balancing melody in and around contorted backdrops. Lyrically, it's a pastiche, with "F-Train" coming across as the Streets played off and out by the Anti-Pop Consortium. Not a particularly comfortable thought, but then, Squarepusher doesn't necessarily do easy listening. The closest to that comes on the latter half of the album ("Mutilation Colony"), where the beats are dropped in favor of soundscaping, which again combines abstract parts (akin to Carlos and Richter), but still finds a path for more accessible pieces, too. Rounded off with a passable version of "Love Will Tear Us Apart," it's another astute album with a hint of aging and acceptance. --Found Sounds

Album Description

2002 release featuring 7 tracks including a spooky restrained cover of Joy Division's classic 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'. Includes a bonus CD entitled 'Alive In Japan', recorded in July, 2001.

Customer Reviews:

Pretty good, but quite short.......2006-12-11

This album seems to be decidedly unreviewed on Amazon.com (Amazon.co.uk, by the way, has many more user reviews of this particular album). While I really don't want to criticize any reviewing style, "Do You Know Squarepusher" seems not to be have yet been extensively reviewed here for it's actual content. I hope this review will do just that.

The first CD has the new stuff.
The two tracks that possibly make this album worth it are "Do You Know Squarepusher" (the title track) and "Anstromm-Feck 4". The title track is a pristine and masterful drill n bass piece, sporting superb mixing of its drums, its manipulated vocal bits, and its pristine lead humming a quirky and moody melody. Anstromm-Feck 4 is fast and tightly sequenced, a sort of Drum n Bass anthem twisted into a Drill n Bass brain-splatterer.

Now the other tracks are somewhat less interesting, in my opinion. "F-Train" is probably the best of them, with trippy, quirky, drums, layered with a mumbling science-fiction rant. Its quite similar in sound, in fact, to his track "50 Cycles" on his "Ultravisitor" album. "Kill Robok" has a similar set of quirked-out experimental drums, but lacks the vocals, reducing it to not much more than a novelty. "Conc 2 Symmetriac" and "Mutilation Colony" are both experimental ambient tracks, neither of which I found particularly noteworthy. The last track is a passable cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart Again", and completely different from all the other tracks on the CD, as it's primarily acoustic in flavor and only moderately syncopated.

The second CD is a live recording, containing mostly tracks from this album and from Squarepusher's previous album "Go Plastic!". I personally found the recording very muddled, and the live atmosphere not really worth the price of quality. I prefer listening to these tracks in their original form, as Squarepusher's music just doesn't sound right muffled. His breakcore bits need to remain crisp, and his sparkling leads need to keep their crystalline clarity. In short, I've heard much better live recordings.

All in all, this CD's got some good content, but not enough of it. "Mutilation Colony" fills up an entire 10 minutes of the first CD, and is pointedly unvaried. While I like ambient music, it just clogs up a drill n bass line-up, and felt a bit suspiciously like filler.

If you like Squarepusher, and already have most of his other CD's, then I'd recommend buying "Do You Know Squarepusher". Otherwise, I'd recommend some of Squarepusher's other CD's over this one, such as "Go Plastic!" or "Ultravisitor".

I hope this was helpful!

Lets get this straight.......2004-03-15

Alright, let me just say Pithy Commentz is a f*ckin moron! Just 4 the hell of it I checked out the other reviews this idiot did, and (lol) he likes Jay-Z, Marilyn Manson, and thinks Bill O'Reilly is the best reporter! LOL!!! What a tool.

Do I Know Squarepusher?.......2004-01-30

Yeah i do, this guy can't spit out a decent album if his life depended on it. Another product of Warp Records' "Let's Sell Music Without Melody; Just Make It Weird So All The 12 Year Olds Eat It Up!" campaign. Ignore it, the only decent things this guy dropped were the Dragon Disk and that Untitled EP.

pushin' all squares... pushin' all squares..........2003-10-16

I enjoyed this album much more than "Go Plastic". I can't stop listening to track 2 - it's like some dark, futuristic, electro, euro rap... i love it. Track 1 is a classic of course. Track 3 and 4 are insane (and 4 is so friggin' speedy gonzales on coke). Not sure how I feel about the Joy Division cover... but it is certainly refreshing after all that ambient, 2001:Space Odyssey crap. I've only listened to the live disc once so far... no comment.

wow.......2003-05-27

This is definitely not like any of the other cd's put out by squarepusher. He goes off from his normal jazz style and comes up with some great new material which is why I love this album.

Average customer rating: Pretty good, but quite short Lets get this straight Do I Know Squarepusher? pushin' all squares... pushin' all squares... wow

Do You Know Squarepusher Squarepusher Manufacturer: Warp Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Drum & Bass | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music IDM | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music IDM | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Big Loada Go Plastic Ultravisitor Hard Normal Daddy Burningn'n Tree ASIN: B00006C2P5 Release Date: 2002-10-01

Tracks:

1. Do You Know Squarepusher
2. F-Train
3. Kill Robok
4. Anstromm-Feck 4
5. Conc 2 Symmetriac
6. Mutilation Colony
7. Love Will Tear Us Apart

Tracks:

1. Alive in Japan
2. Alive in Japan
3. Alive in Japan
4. Alive in Japan
5. Alive in Japan
6. Alive in Japan
7. Alive in Japan
8. Alive in Japan
9. Alive in Japan
10. Alive in Japan

Amazon.com

With a clutch of album releases under his belt and a growing reputation, it seems a little strange that Tom Jenkins still feels obliged to include a lengthy synopsis of his musical standpoint in relation to popular culture (hence Do You Know Squarepusher). Maybe this is the result of a bad review or confused audience feedback, or maybe it was simply about that time when justification was finally met. Logically, it follows that the musical template remains a hallmarked cacophony of splintered beats and fractured sonics that find an aggressive medium of balancing melody in and around contorted backdrops. Lyrically, it's a pastiche, with "F-Train" coming across as the Streets played off and out by the Anti-Pop Consortium. Not a particularly comfortable thought, but then, Squarepusher doesn't necessarily do easy listening. The closest to that comes on the latter half of the album ("Mutilation Colony"), where the beats are dropped in favor of soundscaping, which again combines abstract parts (akin to Carlos and Richter), but still finds a path for more accessible pieces, too. Rounded off with a passable version of "Love Will Tear Us Apart," it's another astute album with a hint of aging and acceptance. --Found Sounds

Album Description

2002 release featuring 7 tracks including a spooky restrained cover of Joy Division's classic 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'. Includes a bonus CD entitled 'Alive In Japan', recorded in July, 2001.

Customer Reviews:

Pretty good, but quite short.......2006-12-11

This album seems to be decidedly unreviewed on Amazon.com (Amazon.co.uk, by the way, has many more user reviews of this particular album). While I really don't want to criticize any reviewing style, "Do You Know Squarepusher" seems not to be have yet been extensively reviewed here for it's actual content. I hope this review will do just that.

The first CD has the new stuff.
The two tracks that possibly make this album worth it are "Do You Know Squarepusher" (the title track) and "Anstromm-Feck 4". The title track is a pristine and masterful drill n bass piece, sporting superb mixing of its drums, its manipulated vocal bits, and its pristine lead humming a quirky and moody melody. Anstromm-Feck 4 is fast and tightly sequenced, a sort of Drum n Bass anthem twisted into a Drill n Bass brain-splatterer.

Now the other tracks are somewhat less interesting, in my opinion. "F-Train" is probably the best of them, with trippy, quirky, drums, layered with a mumbling science-fiction rant. Its quite similar in sound, in fact, to his track "50 Cycles" on his "Ultravisitor" album. "Kill Robok" has a similar set of quirked-out experimental drums, but lacks the vocals, reducing it to not much more than a novelty. "Conc 2 Symmetriac" and "Mutilation Colony" are both experimental ambient tracks, neither of which I found particularly noteworthy. The last track is a passable cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart Again", and completely different from all the other tracks on the CD, as it's primarily acoustic in flavor and only moderately syncopated.

The second CD is a live recording, containing mostly tracks from this album and from Squarepusher's previous album "Go Plastic!". I personally found the recording very muddled, and the live atmosphere not really worth the price of quality. I prefer listening to these tracks in their original form, as Squarepusher's music just doesn't sound right muffled. His breakcore bits need to remain crisp, and his sparkling leads need to keep their crystalline clarity. In short, I've heard much better live recordings.

All in all, this CD's got some good content, but not enough of it. "Mutilation Colony" fills up an entire 10 minutes of the first CD, and is pointedly unvaried. While I like ambient music, it just clogs up a drill n bass line-up, and felt a bit suspiciously like filler.

If you like Squarepusher, and already have most of his other CD's, then I'd recommend buying "Do You Know Squarepusher". Otherwise, I'd recommend some of Squarepusher's other CD's over this one, such as "Go Plastic!" or "Ultravisitor".

I hope this was helpful!

Lets get this straight.......2004-03-15

Alright, let me just say Pithy Commentz is a f*ckin moron! Just 4 the hell of it I checked out the other reviews this idiot did, and (lol) he likes Jay-Z, Marilyn Manson, and thinks Bill O'Reilly is the best reporter! LOL!!! What a tool.

Do I Know Squarepusher?.......2004-01-30

Yeah i do, this guy can't spit out a decent album if his life depended on it. Another product of Warp Records' "Let's Sell Music Without Melody; Just Make It Weird So All The 12 Year Olds Eat It Up!" campaign. Ignore it, the only decent things this guy dropped were the Dragon Disk and that Untitled EP.

pushin' all squares... pushin' all squares..........2003-10-16

I enjoyed this album much more than "Go Plastic". I can't stop listening to track 2 - it's like some dark, futuristic, electro, euro rap... i love it. Track 1 is a classic of course. Track 3 and 4 are insane (and 4 is so friggin' speedy gonzales on coke). Not sure how I feel about the Joy Division cover... but it is certainly refreshing after all that ambient, 2001:Space Odyssey crap. I've only listened to the live disc once so far... no comment.

wow.......2003-05-27

This is definitely not like any of the other cd's put out by squarepusher. He goes off from his normal jazz style and comes up with some great new material which is why I love this album.

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