squarepusher I love you just a souvenir.

I'm not ready for JAS.

This is a great thread.

I'm not ready for 14 songs of piccolo snare with nasally distorted bass made to sound like punk guitar over the top. i wish i was though

just a souvenir is a load of wanktosh and this is coming from a diehard squarepusher fann

i can't tell if that's a good word or not

it's been a while since i listened. some of it turned me on and other parts repulsed me. it's shelved for now until the appropriate mood hits.

i remember liking Star Time 2 a lot but i can't remember a note of it. it'll be a good rediscovery for me months from now

  On 12/22/2009 at 9:04 PM, Awepittance said:

I'm not ready for 14 songs of piccolo snare with nasally distorted bass made to sound like punk guitar over the top. i wish i was though

yeah cause of course that's exactly what this album is

i didn't even know he was talking about JAS, honestly...

Why did he make a song about a coathanger? I find it a bit strange and kind-of creepy

RESPECT!!!!

JASband...

  On 12/1/2009 at 9:36 AM, vasio said:

I'm not ready for JAS.

  On 12/22/2009 at 9:04 PM, Awepittance said:

I'm not ready for 14 songs of piccolo snare with nasally distorted bass made to sound like punk guitar over the top. i wish i was though

  On 12/22/2009 at 9:10 PM, IRARI said:

just a souvenir is a load of wanktosh and this is coming from a diehard squarepusher fann

have to agree for the most part, I can dig jazz but not like this (or am I totally missing the point calling this jazz?] , in a lot of songs it sounds like just a bunch of chord progressions (of chords I don't like] over and over and I don't like the production either tbh, melodies are boring as well imo, sort of weak :(

I like the coathanger somewhat. don't think I'm ever gonna fully like this album sadly.... I like numbers lucent a lot though

give me the beep street melodies anyday

Its good its just not great.

i was a little thrown off when i first heard delta v

For me, all Squarepusher albums have had moments of "holy shit wow!" with a lot of kind of samey tracks that have the trademark Squarepusher musicality and rough production. That sounds kind of dismissive and like I'm undermining what a great musical output the man's given to the world --and there's no denying how vital he has been to both the electronic and jazz world (in the sense that he's bridged the gap between exceptionally well). I have mad respect for him as a musician and pioneer for the genre, and as far as bass players go he's pretty much second to none.

So that said, I must confess this may well be my favorite Squarepusher album. There are elements of his past work that have been a lot more important as far as influence goes, and this album didn't floor me the same way as when I heard Go Plastic for the first time (obviously as I know what to expect now). But I think in terms of cohesion this album holds up better than anything else he's done. That and the compositions are just really interesting and fun to listen to, especially when keeping the concept in mind as you listen. I'm glad he did everything he did for drill 'n' bass back in the day, but it's nice to hear him moving on and relying less on programming wizardry to make his point. It's also refreshing to hear a Squarepusher release where humor is such a predominating element. His work now sounds like that of someone who's mastered their craft and is using that knowledge to make it into whatever he wants, rather than simply rolling the dice and seeing what cool results occur. That's not to say he didn't have a good idea of what he wanted to do before, there just seems to be a lot more deliberation behind these track concepts. I hear a lot more spontaneity and a sense of randomness within the arrangements of his past work. I imagine having less of that kind of kills the experimental magic for some people, but to me it just sounds like the work of an accomplished artist. People will remember you for breaking boundaries, but part of the beauty of breaking them in the first place is that it helps establish a new framework for you to work within. If you spend your whole career trying to further break boundaries you won't get a chance to fully explore the ones you've created. And it seems to me like there really is no one else who's qualified to do what Tom's doing. He's just got a really rare combination of virtuosity and creativity. So while I can pick apart what I think he could improve upon or what I'd like to hear him do differently with production X, it's really all pretty moot. I nor anyone else could be doing it, so it's cool to just hear him doing whatever the fuck he wants and having fun with it.

it's almost impossible to tell what he will do next

country I reckon

i've been pushin for it

  On 12/23/2009 at 7:22 AM, Capsaicin said:

Why did he make a song about a coathanger? I find it a bit strange and kind-of creepy

I've got a shirt with the coathanger on it

I agree with the guy who wrote the long post about breaking boundaries and idm stuff

I like this album :squarepusher_logo:

  On 12/23/2009 at 4:04 AM, LUDD said:

  On 12/22/2009 at 9:04 PM, Awepittance said:

I'm not ready for 14 songs of piccolo snare with nasally distorted bass made to sound like punk guitar over the top. i wish i was though

 

 

yeah cause of course that's exactly what this album is

See, I think I would actually love this album if the production was very different. But Awepittance's description here does sort of capture my issue with the album's sound (not its compositions.) The drums sound super tinny and lack weight in most of the tracks; the bass distortion is cheap sounding and irritating - and the whole thing seems mastered in an even weirder and less satisfying way than both Ultravisitor and Hello Everything. I'm no audio expert, but there seems to a whole area of the frequency spectrum missing - and the record just lacks 'presence.' I like rough sounding punk records - but JAS does not have that feel. It's rough and brittle sounding, but not in a way that pleases my ears.

Just put Hard Normal Daddy on and then listen to this new one again. This isn't some of us just being negative for the sake of it - there really is something really cheap sounding and headache inducing about most of JAS's tracks! I'm totally into the idea of him having fun and having humorous elements in his music and giving up the drill'n'bass stuff for a moment, but at least produce it properly when you do it...

I've always found his production kind of crap for the most part, but on JAS he emphasizes the roughness to a point where it becomes aesthetically interesting for me. Usually on an SP release i just try to ignore the production and focus on the music, but I think it's complimentary this time around. It sounds like he's aware of that aspect of his sound, and he's delibrately pushing it (no pun intended ). Sure there's stuff I'd like to hear differently, but what can you do. It's a part of the charm.

Well. I played this again today, I think it was my second full listen. And I bought it the day it came out. I'm sure I'd already heard all the tracks a few times each just because of shuffling, but I was always afraid to play it again straight through after my first listen. But I did it, and it wasn't so bad. I think part of it was the environment maybe. I was at the gym on the treadmill the first time, and today it's nice and sunny, I walked to the grocery store, ate some sushi for lunch, shopped for some produce and stuff. It was more pleasant, but the cheesy stuff was still really cheesy and I don't like it.

  On 12/23/2009 at 7:22 AM, Capsaicin said:

Why did he make a song about a coathanger? I find it a bit strange and kind-of creepy

beacuse he's moonlighting as a backstreet abortionist in his spare time.