Squarepusher, a performing pseudonym of Thomas Jenkinson, is a British electronic music artist (born within Chelmsford, Essex) signed to Warp Records. He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass, musique concrete (sampled digitally rather than by tape), & acid, albeit with the important jazz influence.

The self-taught skilful-level bass guitar player and drummer, his style of extremely convenient, cut-higher beats mixed by owning fusion jazz & interlaced with synth lines and samples has gained him the cult below. He is friends with Richard D. James (Aphex Twin), and his albums have been critically acclaimed for their forward-thinking approach to electronic music.

Jenkinson performs survive, swimming sustaining the fretless or even freted bass guitar & the laptop computer. He appeared twice in BBC Radio 1's Breezeblock show.

On the 26th June 2005, Squarepusher played at the RFH around London when a share of the Indicate "Songs of Experience" the tribute to Jimi Hendrix. His Xii microscopic performance was built higher of a potpourri of Hendrix tracks played soley on the bass guitar by owning the utilize of results.

His brother, Andy Jenkinson, is also a respected recording creative person, under the title Ceephax Acid Crew.

Equipment
Squarepusher sequenced his pre-2000 work on the Boss DR-660 drum machine, which wasn't designed to sequence entire songs. He utilizes devices for his electronic music like King Tubby-style spring reverbs and Akai samplers (950 for early operate, s6000 for afterwards work). In the area of the season 2000, Squarepusher bought a computer by using Reaktor and an Eventide Orville for digital processing. Squarepusher claims to understand other just about his music devices than a manufacturers of the products themselves.

Philosophy
Squarepusher holds a belief that a machines utilized to produce music hang on to even when much influence on a users when a users run themselves, & that homo don't control these machines independently; i hang on to the equivalent reciprocal originative capacity as the two. He says that a restraints instrument held it used to be that were quintessential to music composition & that a insignificance of modern classical music, following of fresh technology, exposes this point. This, he says, is how come machines themselves okay, contribute such influence to musical composition.

Inside his look at, my most common delusion that exclusively i personally human being come a resole reason of a originative run effects using a machine resisting the composer's might, hindering a run of creation. After a machine is unable to collaborate, it works against its user. Within his learn from, a violent domination of machines create "artifacts of human stupidity, not art." He says this originates from either my ideal to control all about, possibly a bar of dying. This want to become "controllers" works against the states inside each time it may be obtained. A creative person be discomfited that their machine might non cooperate, & this, when Squarepusher claims, is the understanding how come and then numbers of creative person keep close at hand died immature, never to return mad or even committed suicide.

Creative person try to represent themselves around their music in an attempt to survive when dying. When modern music incorporates technology other & supplementary, Jenkinson observes that musicians come a foremost class action of originative society to represent themselves by using machines. My want to exist as superior to machines concerted by having a reality that i am does'nt creates a jealousy of machines; it get a greatest objects of want.

Jenkinson's review is that a commercialisation of machines is but an attempt to dominate the babies, by possessing the children when mere fashion accessories.

Discography
Albums: Alroy Road Tracks [as Duke of Harringay] (1995) - Spymania Feed Me Weird Things (1996) - Rephlex Hard Normal Daddy (1997) - Warp Big Loada (1997) - Warp/Nothing ''Burningn'n Tree (1997) - Warp Music Is Rotted One Note (1998) - Warp/Nothing Budakhan Mindphone (1999) - Warp/Nothing Selection Sixteen (1999) - Warp/Nothing Go Plastic (2001) Do You Know Squarepusher (2002) - Warp Ultravisitor (2004) - Warp

EPs and Singles: Crot [as Tom Jenkinson] (1994) - Rumble Tummy Jum Stereotype [as Tom Jenkinson] (1994) - Nothings Clear Conumber (1995) - Spymania Squarepusher Plays... (1996) - Rephlex Bubble & Squeak [as Tom Jenkinson] (1996) - Worm Interface Port Rhombus EP (1996) - Warp Vic Acid (1997) - Warp Maximum Priest E.P. (1999) - Warp My Red Hot Car (2001) - Warp Ungentle (2001) - Warp Square Window [Ultravisitor Promo] (2004) - Warp Venus There are no. Seventeen (2004) - Warp

Remixes: DJ Food - Scratch Yer Hed (Squarepusher Mix) (1996) (Appears in Refried Food & various Ninja Tune compilations) - Ninja Tune Funki Porcini - Carwreck (Squarepusher Mix) (1996) (Appears in Carwreck EP) - Ninja Tune East Flatbush Task - Tried By Twelve (Squarepusher Mx) (1998) (Appears in Tried by 12 Remixes) - Ninja Tune Psultan (Squarepusher Mix) (1999) (In "Braindance" compilation) - Rephlex

When Chaos AD: Buzz Caner'' (1998) - Rephlex