SO..... Ultravisitor

What was jenkinson trying to capture through Ultravisitor? What was the theme? It kind of seems to me like what his dreams would have been like during his go plastic tour. Theres a very surreal fuck shit up attitude to the songs but it seems to drift into this other side of his musical terrain of slow jazz band kinds of things, its funny how the live audience just drifts in at random times. I would definately say it is his most surreal album, it doesn't really make sense to me. Also I noticed it to be very quiet then get louder and quiter around teh steinbolt-circlewave transition and finally get louder for tera-sync and then die off with more quiet dreamy acid trip auditory hullicinations.

Do you think this was a collection of experiments or a really thought out sort of thing, was there something he was really trying to capture?

UV is very good.

fuck knows what it's all about

either

A) it's pretty crap

or

B) i'm just not ready for it

i hope it's B

but i always kinda thought it was A

ho hum

all the people / all the time etc.

It's just two gay flamenco tracks away from being a 10/10 record.

right

i'm going to listen to it today

haven't heard it in about 2 years

the only track i remember liking was UV

Program out the gay flamenco tracks. You should be ok.

ultravisitor is the best album tom has made in all his career... ultravisitor is one of my favorites but the one i can listen non-stop!!! i like all tracks, all r perfect, innovators...

feed me weird things

I love the progression of the album, including the flamenco tracks. You listen to the thing straight through and it's like a mixture of accoustic beauty and digital insanity. Like those little guitar licks at the begininng of 50 Cycles. They really contrast to the rest of the track. I love it.

I love this album, I've been listening to it a LOT just the last two days! It took my a while to get into though. It's a giant, messy, sprawling, ambitious bastard of a record with an attitude that meshes prog with punk. it's full of musical masturbation, but that's part of its appeal - Tom slappin' round prodigously on his bass with some eerie sound effects, and then WHAMMO it's like he's launching sonic assault on his audience, just firing off sickening tones and headcrushing rhythms, and then HUZZAH he's on his drumkit and he's hitting things and then it gets more and more intense and then THWAIT he's serenading me with some classical guitar.

If you check out the live stuff Squarepusher was doing around this time - its all fantastic and the album sounds like an outtake form these gigs with some nice slap-bass filler

the pusher is a a natural live in the moment player and so usually his albums sound dull and flat so "ultravisior" bridged the gap for me

I listen to him live mostly........Liquid, Roppongi, Coachela, electric Ballroom etc being the dogs nuts

  phudoshin said:

If you check out the live stuff Squarepusher was doing around this time - its all fantastic and the album sounds like an outtake form these gigs with some nice slap-bass filler

 

 

the pusher is a a natural live in the moment player and so usually his albums sound dull and flat so "ultravisior" bridged the gap for me

 

 

I listen to him live mostly........Liquid, Roppongi, Coachela, electric Ballroom etc being the dogs nuts

which of these ^^ are soundboard recordings? (assuming you're talking about live recordings available here)

i have all the tracks but not in the right order, so i've not really experienced it properly.

nonetheless it is a fucking sublime bunch of tracks, beautiful mellow jazz, Everyday i love is fantastic, and the headfuck tunes are exactly that....i hope he releases more mentalist 22nd Century madness like that, in particular tunes like District Line II.

Amazing.

I particularily like the "Welcome to Blackboard Jungle" sample in District Line II. Mainly because I love The Upsetters.

it's great. but i think it does not sound very well.

lol, i thought it said "welcome to plankton" hahaha

The last 20 minutes of the album are really amazing. Circlewave, Tetra, Tommib, Every day I love. They are absolutely un-electronic music, there's nothing "electro-electronic music-DSP-drill" in them.

I think Ultravisitor was his most ambitious, he achieves everything except one thing : His damn annoying WAHH bass thing that he overdoes all the time live.

Speaking of live, I still say nothing is live in that album. Crowds were added-in, the live feeling was recreated, but nothing recorded live.

  phudoshin said:

If you check out the live stuff Squarepusher was doing around this time - its all fantastic and the album sounds like an outtake form these gigs with some nice slap-bass filler

I'd definitely agree with this. I saw squarepusher about 2/3 times in and around the release for Ultravisitor and the album itself is probably the closest you get to a live show on record. Given that the shows I saw at that time were fucking amazing I've got nothing bad to say against this album - except for perhaps some of the mastering/levels at times.

duunno about soundbpoard recordings but

"liquid 97" for HND-era stuff

and "Roppongi Rooms" for Ultravisitor-era

"Live at Frigids" for Go plastic are all excellent quality - better than "Alive in Japan" actually.

The crowd nosie is essential for live mp3's.

District Line II is brilliant and i love that sampling too.... its a great great tune.

Electric Ballroom and Breezeblock 06 sets are also the biz

best thread title 2007

but it was about music and i liked a lot of it

i dont quite like the live audience stuff in some of the tracks

in Ultravisitor, i always hear some guy talking about his cellphone .. gah!

Its his drukqs, except even more ambitious in my opinion. His short tracks in it seem to be more concise than RDJ's piano pieces. BRAVO.

whoa shit 20 replies.., randomly made this thread.

It's actually one of the few albums I don't have.

district line is amazing.

This album is frustrating. I mean, Ultravisitor is my favorite post-big loada song by far. Iambic 9 Poetry is very purty, direct line is the beez knees.

So why the hell did he need to release it in this crappy quality?