Squarepusher, Just A Souvenir
Conceived as a dream concert performed by five ultra-talented, trans-dimensional musicians, this new issue from veteran UK sound-setter, Squarepusher, is full-on epiphanic, funky fresh shit. Resurrecting the direction of his classic 1998 album, Music Is Rotted One Note, Just a Souvenir sees Tom Jenkinson back in live-playing territory - transcending notions of him as a bygone drill'n'bass artist via prodigious performances more aligned with Lightning Bolt or Aprodite's Child than the 'braindance' sound of old scene compadre, Aphex Twin. This is what Pivot's album was meant to sound like - spasticated space jazz future Prog-Tech.
Opener 'Star Time 2' retains a bit of the old Squarepusher circa Go Plastic - robotic cheese, cheeky drum rushes - but from there we fast-forward to an inverted Blue Note, unheard world. 'Coathanger' is acid pop sung by an android backed up by Bootsy Collins - flourescent, shimmering, sucking in and out on a cloud of dry ice. 'Delta V' and 'Tensor Green' are super-produced hair metal epics - arpeggiated riffing, outrageous slap bass, filters on everything and manic precision drumming. A suite of 'strange lonely songs of astral bodies... demodulated by the UHF calf skin,' as Jenkinson himself has said. Right.
By Mark Gomes
Genre: Electronic
Release: Album
Keywords: Warp, Electronica, Sci-Fi, Prog
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