fuck you tom jenkinson

  AOOproductions said:

  essines said:

this is like my first sober thread in months and this is what i get

 

EDIT - ROOK

 

This is WATMM. But why are you so angry, look at RDJ! Im way madder at him than Squarepusher. At least Toms still making music. Richard puts out 4 great tracks a year and makes you crazy for more. HE"S DRIVING ME INSANE!!!!!!!!

yea, this is better than the tuss

  Super lurker ultra V12 said:

yea, this is better than the tuss

lol, good one.

  Deepex said:

  Super lurker ultra V12 said:

yea, this is better than the tuss

 

lol, good one.

where's the goddamn electronic music melancholy

Honestly I don't know why there is any surprise, Tom has been on more on a jazzy improv trip for years now and honestly I can't blame him. Its mad fun just jamming out on your instrument, way more fun than tediously editing drill and bass stuff thats already way overdone now. I guess I've just always thought of Tom as a jazz musician on the fringe, one of those crazy fusion guys who just love to wail and don't give fuck about the context or where it fits into the bigger picture.

Enjoying this album quite a bit actually, way more than Hello Meow.

  IRARI said:

essines which do you like better just a souvenir or quaristice

quaristice

but i have always liked ae more that sp. maybe i'm biased.

also, wtf is this text on his website?

"the other day i heard some hippies playing banjo and stuff. blew my mind. mad respect."

  Super lurker ultra V12 said:

  AOOproductions said:

  essines said:

this is like my first sober thread in months and this is what i get

 

EDIT - ROOK

 

This is WATMM. But why are you so angry, look at RDJ! Im way madder at him than Squarepusher. At least Toms still making music. Richard puts out 4 great tracks a year and makes you crazy for more. HE"S DRIVING ME INSANE!!!!!!!!

yea, this is better than the tuss

i tend to find that aphex twin and each of his aliases releases 4 GOOD tracks a year, where as tom jenkinson releases like 1 album of shit a year.

hmm, gotta say i don't really like this album, except for coat hanger, which isn't exactly a tour de force either

every track sounds kind of the same....

  essines said:

jesus fucking christ, how did you go from groundbreaking, forward thinking innovater to lame 'genius' hack who can't even write one decent track any more?

 

fuck you. i'm glad i stole the new album but i'll probably end up deleting it anyway

 

does it count as piracy if you delete it?

the words of a man who gets it. (tho not as much as the watmmassive would dream of =)

honestly, man, he just kind of is doing this for some hipster love you know, this is the kind of sound that people in skintight black jeans and dirty undershirts with big hair and pilot glasses and the artistically-inflected five-days-unshaven look will get behind (take taht as literally as you want) and respect because they hear REAL INSTRUMENTS and for what it is, sure, he gives the whole rockband thing a ride... but like... i dunno. for what it is... yeeeargh. the only good track from the last year or two or whatever it is is the modern bass guitar....

and please do note that the modern bass guitar falls apart after 2:30 when it's just retread city and kind of lost in itself, the whole excitement and fist pumping momentum of the first part is totally lost, by the last reprise it's ergaaaa....

the only thing one can hope is that he'll come out of it sometime, as the music has rotted me arse and maximum priest and selection 16 era wasn't exactly at the level of go plastic or anstromm feck 4 or ultravisitor and some of the 12s in that era, so who knows, eh!?@

i think if enough people call him shite he's hypercognizant of what people think of him, so eventually he'll want to show up those who call him out as a hacky onemanband schtick and show that he can rock some proper superjungle.

or at least i hope aloud, eh?!@ =D

Honestly, I don't think Squarepusher is too concerned with our opinions. Squarepusher is going to keep doing what he wants to.

Let's just hope he wants some suppajungle cutupz.

  Drahken said:

drill and bass stuff thats already way overdone now.

 

Enjoying this album quite a bit actually, way more than Hello Meow.

those two phrases stick out to me as perfectly married, because if you think that properly mental drill and bass made by someone who knows the ins and outs of high speed car chase action sequences whilst shooting assault rifles out of the window because your life is on the line is overdone, you're wrong.

many try to do it, but like, they don't... venetian snares opened up the door to drill and bass hackery and i mean go find the mirex carbon comp or something and there's a whole bunch of them... i mean quick name 6 dev/null tracks or enduser or umm... who are those amen guys? shitmat and soundmurderer and ummmm... TERMINAL 11 DUDE#@%$#@ and of course, squarepusher has an impersonator whose name

Im not saying drill and bass as a genre is done, just that SP has already been there done that and has other avenues of music to explore.

"Tom: I started off getting like a lot of respect from drum and bass scene and as I started…as soon as my records started to mutate it was like “Oh no, Squarepusher is..he’s like shit he doesn’t tow the line away. He won’t just like stick with this one kind of like, image [more hand gestures] or this one thing and its like I can go a month without image."

im glad all you close-minded fucks hate this album. it's too good for you.

  Scrambled Ears said:

im glad all you close-minded fucks hate this album. it's too good for you.

actually its the other way around

this is really funny because Squarepusher hasn't "lost" anything if you remember the unreleased acid bangers he played at bangface. He just chose to release this particular stuff as an album, he's doing what he wants to do, more power to him.

I like jazz.

Oh this is a really a good sign! This could be a nice Squarepusher album, some friendly guys at watmm hate the album...I better check this one out!!!!

  amni said:

  Scrambled Ears said:

im glad all you close-minded fucks hate this album. it's too good for you.

 

 

actually its the other way around

lol

i don't agree.

honestly... i love this album just for that... i mean, i remember reading some comments on hello everything: "enough with the amen break!" "modern bass guitar sounds too cliche, like a bad squarepusher imitation", etc...

personally, i'm a bit fed up with all the "electronic music" cut-up-breaks shit :\, probably because of the wave of copycats (vsnares, flahblub lol), so i think this album is perfect. tom shows he's still improving, musically speaking. so much energy in 14 tracks... i love it.

i think is great that he keeps the more "electronic music" (:undecided:) tracks for his live performances. he still makes THE best acid and... drill&bass? tunes... those unreleased tracks in the bangface weekeender set... just wow.

on another note... tom jenkemson kicks afx ass. i think afx lost most of the energy that he used to print on his previous records. right now, the tuss just bores me.

  qnio said:

  amni said:

  Scrambled Ears said:

im glad all you close-minded fucks hate this album. it's too good for you.

 

 

actually its the other way around

lol

 

i don't agree.

 

honestly... i love this album just for that... i mean, i remember reading some comments on hello everything: "enough with the amen break!" "modern bass guitar sounds too cliche, like a bad squarepusher imitation", etc...

 

personally, i'm a bit fed up with all the "electronic music" cut-up-breaks shit :\, probably because of the wave of copycats (vsnares, flahblub lol), so i think this album is perfect. tom shows he's still improving, musically speaking. so much energy in 14 tracks... i love it.

 

i think is great that he keeps the more "electronic music" ( :undecided: ) tracks for his live performances. he still makes THE best acid and... drill&bass? tunes... those unreleased tracks in the bangface weekeender set... just wow.

 

on another note... tom jenkemson kicks afx ass. i think afx lost most of the energy that he used to print on his previous records. right now, the tuss just bores me.

but you're wrong

  qnio said:

honestly... i love this album just for that... i mean, i remember reading some comments on hello everything: "enough with the amen break!" "modern bass guitar sounds too cliche, like a bad squarepusher imitation", etc...

 

personally, i'm a bit fed up with all the "electronic music" cut-up-breaks shit :\, probably because of the wave of copycats (vsnares, flahblub lol), so i think this album is perfect. tom shows he's still improving, musically speaking. so much energy in 14 tracks... i love it.

 

i think is great that he keeps the more "electronic music" (:undecided:) tracks for his live performances. he still makes THE best acid and... drill&bass? tunes... those unreleased tracks in the bangface weekeender set... just wow.

 

on another note... tom jenkemson kicks afx ass. i think afx lost most of the energy that he used to print on his previous records. right now, the tuss just bores me.

I'm glad to see that Tom is moving on to other types of music. How long do you really expect him to be able to make super-awesome electronic music-style tunes. I love it all as much as the next person and I'm not a big fan of 'Souvenir', but Tom is a musician like any other who has evolving tastes and a need for self satisfaction. Clearly he isnt content doing micro-tuned compositions for extended amounts of time. The most satisfying artists are always those who do not stand still for too long.

As underwhelmed as I am by this album, I must say that my favorite tracks are the ones least in tradition with Tom up to this point. From 'Hello Everything' onwards my favorite tracks have been the acoustic pieces such as 'Open Society', 'Everyday I Love' and 'Andrei' (Ultravistor, I know...) 'Yes Sequitur' and 'Fluxgate'. I'm hardly appeased by the more cheesy and funky numbers -'Hello Meow' and 'Star Time 2' I'm looking at you - but if that's what Tom wants I'll play along... for a bit. Tom seems to have a hard time reconciling his love of rave music with that of more poppy funk because the last two albums have had some really mediocre melodie. It's not that he's incapable of making good melodies, but clearly he needs to put a filter on his lesser outputs. 'Ultravisitor' is proof that the man can write a killer melody. I think he just needs to try harder.

By the way, Delta-V is awesome.

not being able to see him live, my only opinion stems from his shitty albums he's started releasing. i don't care that they're not drill and bass, they just suck. not anything great, nothing i can enjoy. aphex, though he may not be groundbreaking, atleast releases a whole whack of good tunes, tunes i can still jam. tommy, however, is just sucking. hard. the weird jazz canoodling is better done by jazz musicians.

also, lol @ "THE best acid"

fredd-e hooked me up with this and he was all excited like a kid, i put the first track on and thought, yo this could be yellow magic orchestra and i was quite stoked, THE REST OF THE ALBUM IS SHIT

tom you are fucking running out of ideas, you old cunt. stop trying to badly recapture the old ways you cant fucking do it, all your bass noodling sounds the fucking same as do your melodies these days.

FUCK YOU

we're going to lap this shit up though, aren't we? i mean, i downloaded the album without getting it from bleep, and it's utter bilge. still going to buy it, contribute to the sales, because this stuff at least represents a once-powerful musical force. i don't mind jazz, but i like it melodic and funky, not all over the shop. it's great as part of that mid-90's mini trend for melding with electronica, and drum and bass certainly feels dated also, but if this man is as skilled at drum machines (et al) then let's hear some impressing programming as in 'go plastic'.