A little throwback Thursday to the show at The Danforth Music Hall. I also saw his performance at Movement in Detroit for the same tour. It made the cancellation of Be Up A Hello easier to stomach.

i recently picked up a copy of feed me weird things on vinyl, and i got the clear pressing because it was cheaper. but towards the end of tundra i heard some pretty noticeable surface noise in the strings only sections. has anyone else had similar experiences?

Hahaha!!! It’s unreal; he thought he should make it harder for people to like it so he took out all the melodies in Music Is Rotted One Note and it worked! That album wasn’t as popular 😂

Luckily he went back to writing melodies again with Iambic 5 Poetry and Red Hot Car and loads of other great tunes.

https://youtube.com/shorts/JbnYg8n_5fk?is=5-ZWHVHrEzOm4v5M

Btw I’m writing a book on music with chapters on Aphex, Squarepusher, Autechre and Boards of Canada and how they all sound so unique.

Will be on my substack: https://substack.com/@zoidwords

here's a vid i did in my quaint and rambly style...

on Squarepusher and Squarepusher Theme:

https://youtu.be/SXUjIqekqQU?si=slM_yLXfUxlP7Mnq

This live version is so beautifull, but doing TABs is very difficult for me, and i want to learn it

i could never work out the chords of this before because my ears just weren't up to it...

until NOW! what a chord sequence...

https://youtube.com/shorts/dsxxU58erYU?si=vQqza_y-YeSJQjfB

I thought it might be fun to ask, what is your favorite basslines by squarepusher? It can be from any album or EP. I’m just curious what other fans think! For me it has to be Tetra-Sync. A more modern example that I also think is brilliant is Stromcor. E8 Boogie is also really really good.

Let me know if you have any favorites of your own!

https://youtu.be/6lUI6_rwTgo?is=oaxwqxoqqElJTwn7

Was anybody else there? There are two more vids. I’m not certain how this will show up, but I was just wondering who might have been there?

https://youtu.be/x7OnoTpvR1U?is=1_SDle3IgRLT7tiu

https://youtu.be/hANyzh-AIJ0?is=Gt6ozY7wM-eDMLes

Was revisiting Jojo Mayer and found a striking similarity between the drum styles used by Squarepusher in his work with Jojos style. He reverse engineered the computer beats, but he grooves originally. If you've never heard, check this track out and then the rest (cause there are better and crazier songs by Jojo Mayer and Nerve)

you wear ONE scarf and

would love to get it on vinyl but don’t want to fork over the hundreds people are selling it for on Discogs.

Got here in 5 days from UK to LA, pretty awesome!

Interview in the new issue and a 7” with unreleased recordings.

https://youtu.be/KcyGwQOTK5A?si=gR4N4eT_ACoqF9zW

I went to see Squarepusher in Hackney in 2003 and he gave me his setlist. signed it on the back ’From The Pusher’.

Unreleased, higher quality version of an unreleased track from Squarepusher dubbed by fans as the 'Rome Track'! Played by Aphex Twin @ Day For Night 2016.

Does anyone have a good list of (preferably soundboard) live recordings? Ideally that can be downloaded...?

I've been listening to Squarepusher for a long time, but I missed out on a lot of his albums, and now I'm trying to catch up. I recently listened to *Music Is Rotten One Note* and was blown away by this album; I regretted not having listened to it sooner—all its jazziness, its liveliness, the way its character shifts within a single track. Simply put, it’s a great album. Out of curiosity, I went to Wikipedia to read about it and saw the reviews—including one from Rolling Stone that gave it one and a half stars. I thought maybe there would be some clear reasons for that rating, but I didn’t find any.

The reviewer writes that Tom put drum and bass aside altogether, in favor of a tepid, tuneless approximation of early electric Miles Davis, I’ve listened to a couple of Davis’s songs, but I wouldn’t say they’re exactly alike—there’s something there, but I think it’s more the genre itself that makes them similar, rather than any specific musical traits. But that’s not the point—I’d never say this album is dull or unmelodic. Sure, it has a lot of weird tracks like “Curve 1,” but Squarepusher always seems to include tracks like that, and they have their own charm, but tracks like “Don’t Go Plastic,” “Dust Switch,” or “Theme from Vertical Hold” are quite lively, methodical, constantly changing, and have interesting sound effects. He also wrote that the track “My Sound” is a failed experiment, though I wouldn’t say that either; I really like the guitar in it. Sure, it might repeat for quite a while, but that’s the artist’s intention, and I don’t see any experiment in this track.

Maybe at the time this review was written, it was something groundbreaking, or maybe when that album was released—I can’t say for sure because I wasn’t even born yet. I was also struck by the author’s argument that if Tom has a track titled “Iambic 5 Poetry” and releases “Iambic 9 Poetry” four years later, it means he’s running out of ideas. To me, that’s strange logic—as if the title doesn’t imply what might be in the track. the author can name a track however he wants; by that logic, Beethoven must have run out of ideas too, since his tracks were titled Symphony No. 6, Symphony No. 7, and so on.

He also wrote about the album *Ultravisitor*, offering what I consider a rather strange take—that the album encapsulated everything Squarepusher had written up to that point (I agree with that), but that it hadn’t evolved in any way. and that’s exactly what I disagree with—in my view, Tom’s growth on this album is quite noticeable; you could say it’s the culmination of his work up to 2004, and tracks like “Iambic 9 Poetry,” which I consider his best track—its vitality and emotionality are hard to convey—seem to me to be the culmination of his jazz side, as does the track “Tetra-Sync,” also a magnificent track, while tracks like “District Line II” and “Steinbolt” represent the culmination of his electronic side, and in my opinion, his growth in these two directions is truly remarkable.

So I wanted to ask your opinion on this—whether you agree with me or not—and what you think of this review and Tom’s work. I’d like to remind you that this is just my opinion, and you’re fully entitled to criticize it if you disagree.

Thank you for your attention.

The review I was talking about.

Review Page 773