squarepusher Squarepusher - Just A Souvenir

listened to the album diagonally on warps website, sounds kinda meh except star time 2. i loved hello everything but this sounds rather shitty at firt listen

  kaini said:

hahahaha 'a real woman' omg!! ramones chord progressions, YMO synths, jaco pastorius bass!

 

 

he never did anything like this before :D

true, but that doesn't make it good unfortunately.

I take blitzkrieg bop over this anyday

nah i like it. i like the album as a whole, i think it is intended to be taken as such.

it coasts a little in places, but i like all the long tracks, on first listen. it has a reek of zappa or even kazume watanabe or ryuichi in places. it's refreshing.

we cannot see without open eyes

we cannot hear without open ears

we cannot think without open minds

I am just now toking up and listening to this album for the first time and its pretty fucking awesome in my opinion.

The drums may not kick ass... but the bass surely wipes the fucking floor.

i'm just going to look at is as the super-maxi Star Time 2 single w/ like 13 b-sides!

  kaini said:

i like the way the vocoder still has an essex accent lol

lol

  SPD² said:

i'm just going to look at is as the super-maxi Star Time 2 single w/ like 13 b-sides!

I think The Coathanger is definitely a better track for some reason. Weird I seem to be in such a minority.

love that track, maybe my favourite

a lot of people have a subconscious uneasy thing cos it's pusher with very few breaks, i think

yes, an old negro couple's house getting bulldozed has like loads to do with the new sp

i do have my suspicions regarding chavtechre though.

just listened to the entire Music for the rotted one note again for comparison on his 'live' production /recording techniques and i have to say either he was trying to go for a St. Anger (jesus am i really saying this?) 'garage' production sound on the live tracks here AND/or he has lost his skills as a mixing engineer.

The drums, bass, and guitars in Music for the rotted one note sound proper, have meat, blend together fantastically and rival the production of many other live/recorded instrument albums.

on Just a souvenir the drums sound hollow, flat, tinny, as does the distorted guitar and bass. Its as if he turned down everything 200hz and below. I can't even hear a bass on the bass drum on most of the tracks here. it just sounds like pure treble.

Oddly Music for the rotted one note while trying to sound like a bitches brew live jam sort of thing ends up sounding significantly more polished and refined compared to this new one.

tensor in green

i have a feeling he's gonna release another album very soon.

I don't mind golden, I just don't prefer it when compared to white.

If you take a slide and a sun, you get the geometry of two different dimensions. Reaching a span of infinite possibilities. Proving the theory of evolution as not only the scientific explanation but as the meaning and answer to everything including that one all powerful question. What happens?

To come to grasps with the pipe jammed into your neck, which sucks the fat from your already anorexic body. Its existence only a pear one dimensional light wave. Something that can be put out in mear moments.

Your complete existence is that insignificant... you fucking cocky bitch.

  karmakramer said:

  SPD² said:

i'm just going to look at is as the super-maxi Star Time 2 single w/ like 13 b-sides!

 

I think The Coathanger is definitely a better track for some reason. Weird I seem to be in such a minority.

yeah not feeling star-time at all, coathanger is the stand out track on this lp for me

Also this album is very emotional. Its all about his trips to Japan and what its like there for him. What he hears, what he brings back... his very own souvenirs.

  karmakramer said:

Also this album is very emotional. Its all about his trips to Japan and what its like there for him. What he hears, what he brings back... his very own souvenirs.

Was one of his souvenirs to abandon good production/recording techniques for drums and guitar?

  Awepittance said:

  karmakramer said:

Also this album is very emotional. Its all about his trips to Japan and what its like there for him. What he hears, what he brings back... his very own souvenirs.

 

Was one of his souvenirs to abandon good production/recording techniques for drums and guitar?

Its from another culture/country... of course its going to sound and stylistically be very different. Thats the fucking point.

  karmakramer said:

  Awepittance said:

  karmakramer said:

Also this album is very emotional. Its all about his trips to Japan and what its like there for him. What he hears, what he brings back... his very own souvenirs.

 

Was one of his souvenirs to abandon good production/recording techniques for drums and guitar?

 

Its from another culture/country... of course its going to sound and stylistically be very different. Thats the fucking point.

wait how is this supposed to be a japanese themed album again? i didn't read about that anywhere.

I love the concept....

I love genius.....

I know Squarepusher.......

  Awepittance said:

  karmakramer said:

  Awepittance said:

  karmakramer said:

Also this album is very emotional. Its all about his trips to Japan and what its like there for him. What he hears, what he brings back... his very own souvenirs.

 

Was one of his souvenirs to abandon good production/recording techniques for drums and guitar?

 

Its from another culture/country... of course its going to sound and stylistically be very different. Thats the fucking point.

 

wait how is this supposed to be a japanese themed album again? i didn't read about that anywhere.

Its not Japanese but what Tom thinks is Japanese. Its his take on their culture.

  Obel said:

Just a Poo-venir

lol

  karmakramer said:

  Awepittance said:

  karmakramer said:

  Awepittance said:

  karmakramer said:

Also this album is very emotional. Its all about his trips to Japan and what its like there for him. What he hears, what he brings back... his very own souvenirs.

 

Was one of his souvenirs to abandon good production/recording techniques for drums and guitar?

 

Its from another culture/country... of course its going to sound and stylistically be very different. Thats the fucking point.

 

wait how is this supposed to be a japanese themed album again? i didn't read about that anywhere.

 

Its not Japanese but what Tom thinks is Japanese. Its his take on their culture.

and you know this because...

I think he plays on a tiny drum set......

  GORDO said:

  karmakramer said:

  Awepittance said:

  karmakramer said:

  Awepittance said:

  karmakramer said:

Also this album is very emotional. Its all about his trips to Japan and what its like there for him. What he hears, what he brings back... his very own souvenirs.

 

Was one of his souvenirs to abandon good production/recording techniques for drums and guitar?

 

Its from another culture/country... of course its going to sound and stylistically be very different. Thats the fucking point.

 

wait how is this supposed to be a japanese themed album again? i didn't read about that anywhere.

 

Its not Japanese but what Tom thinks is Japanese. Its his take on their culture.

 

and you know this because...

Anyone who follows the present activities (concerts, interviews, etc) of Tom Jenkinson would know he has a deep admiration and interest in Japan. You could saying "Hello Everything" was the start to the japanese influence.... but this album really captures his interuptation of their culture. It gets inside his mind... just as Druqks got inside Richards.

man, you're fucking crazy if you think you can assume something like "oh this is his japanese influenced album. he wrote it about japan, OBVIOUSLY."