Feed Me Weird Things

Squarepusher is Tom Jenkinson. Stunning, complex programming intertwined with fusion-flecked electric bass creating some of the most euphoric, havoc-wrecked sounds of the contemporary era. This is the album that put it all together and is, in simple terms, one of the cornerstones of mid-90s sound recordings. "The next thing I felt was a fuzzy vibration, as monophonic sound waves that had traveled from the other side of the room at the speed of light, compressed the air and displacing the smoke of ten spliffs, hit me in both ears simultaneously. It was Mr. Jenkinson, who was turning my heartbeat into the sound of a ring piece modulated resonant phase-locked trapezoid backwards edit phlanged kick drum. He made the sound of ambulances turn into slide trombones and the sound of a secretary filing her nails into a 24-piece string section...Undoubtedly, Tom Jenkinson is the first man in history to orchestrate an alka-seltzer fizzing into a two megabyte simms memory upgrade chip (with one nanosecond access time) and a toilet flushing. When Mr. Jenkinson is conducting, the rest of the world is a pit...Squarepusher is someone who wonders what the holes of a flute sound like without the flute. Sound like sound never sounded before. Richard Rogers and Julie Andrews gave us the Sound of Music, John Cage and Simon and Garfunkel gave us the Sound of Silence and now Squarepusher gives the Sound of Sound." --Prichard.D.Jams