squarepusher Solo Electric Bass 1

  On 8/14/2009 at 5:01 AM, Candiru said:

Oh dear! Pitchfork dismisses Tom Jenkinson's bass chops. Probably not my favorite music by the pusher, but whatevs. Pitchfork only really likes DIY music made by guys who look like this that feature synths heavily in their music but don't actually know how to use them. Like Animal Collective, who are like retarded monkeys with typewriters when it comes to making music. Their newest album had some melodies so it got a 9.8434.

Any release by Animal Collective is better than SEB1.

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Any release by Animal Collective is better than SEB1.

Ban this man.

listening now and this is very enjoyable... damn impressive

got it in tower .... wasn't expecting it.

brilliant stuff......made me go back to music is rotted.......

  On 8/14/2009 at 5:01 AM, Candiru said:

Oh dear! Pitchfork dismisses Tom Jenkinson's bass chops. Probably not my favorite music by the pusher, but whatevs. Pitchfork only really likes DIY music made by guys who look like this that feature synths heavily in their music but don't actually know how to use them. Like Animal Collective, who are like retarded monkeys with typewriters when it comes to making music. Their newest album had some melodies so it got a 9.8434.

pitchfork is mostly like that but animal collective is good you piece of shit.

  On 8/17/2009 at 12:22 PM, phudoshin said:

got it in tower .... wasn't expecting it.

 

 

brilliant stuff......made me go back to music is rotted.......

there are still Tower records in Ireland?

seb-108 is really good, some of it is so tight rhythmically it feels quantized. quite awesome.

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Half of the artist's share of royalties from this cd will be donated to Amnesty international

From the back of the cd cover.

I really appreciate this decision, and hope he continues with vol 2 in the same manner, as a constant side project of his squarepusher alias.

  On 8/18/2009 at 2:22 AM, Awepittance said:

seb-108 is really good, some of it is so tight rhythmically it feels quantized. quite awesome.

hendrix-pusher!

yeah, i'm digging this release. i was looking forward to it's release but wasn't sure if i'd actually be able to listen to it. luckily enough it's awesome enough for me to enjoy it enough to listen to it!

  On 8/19/2009 at 3:04 AM, teetime said:

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Half of the artist's share of royalties from this cd will be donated to Amnesty international

 

From the back of the cd cover.

 

with the other half being donated to Chelmsford Film Society?

this is just good music, but whats with excessively long un-edited applause at the end? Seems like they could have faded that out earlier instead of making me sit through a minute of cheering waiting for Tom to give one last tune or maybe a few words

too bad he's a "ice cold fretless bass playing psychopath"

beautiful record

Awesome artwork, and there are now YouTube videos as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lao_gl4JdC8&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4YdmXwotyQ&feature=player_embedded

Is it just me or does Tom always be seem to be pushing the tempo a bit much in his bass performances? I guess it's hardly a surprise coming from the guy who's brought us such preposterously fast tunes in the past.

  On 8/24/2009 at 6:42 AM, Wall Bird said:

Is it just me or does Tom always be seem to be pushing the tempo a bit much in his bass performances? I guess it's hardly a surprise coming from the guy who's brought us such preposterously fast tunes in the past.

i noticed this too. there doesn't seem to be a steady tempo in most of these tracks.

POST 2000!

This sounds fantastic. Some of the tracks are a bit "noodling", but then again.. so is a lot of jazz. Over all it is quite musical and a brilliant performance by any standard.

i like his noodling

i like some god damn noddles made by mother on a fine afternoon

by the way i really love this new album

Flea on "solo electric bass 1":

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His new record 'Solo Electric Bass' is a sublime example of his feeling for the instrument and his seemingly limitless ability to express the music inside him. In the past, one of the most exciting things for me about his bass playing was the new sounds he was coming up with, his bass being treated in all manner of ways, sounds coming out in such wildly violent bursts or ethereal trips outs of non retro psychedelic percussion. This shit just rocks and it blows my mind to hear it. If the Mahavishnu Orchestra would have had a genius 8 armed psychedlic octopus on bass this is what they would have hoped for it to sound like.

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feeling for the instrument

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he was coming

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coming out in such wildly violent bursts

lol

thats awesome that flea said that. nice to see our boy getting the deserved props from the outside world

wait, is this ultra limited or not? went to cd store in melbourne city and there was pissloads of copies. thinking it was an online only release i was pretty blown away :D

Yeah, limited my arse. I also saw it in Probe in Liverpool last week. Looks like you can also still order it from bleep as well.

I also no longer see anywhere on Bleep/Warp that it is limited to 850 copies. Thanks Warp, you suckered me into my frantic pre-order! Cunts.