squarepusher Does anyone else think Squarepusher is a prick?

IDM producers in general seem to possess a sort of arrogant/snotty attitude.

I know that sounds like a bit of a generalization but I certainly find it to be true.

  On 1/19/2010 at 6:04 PM, The Dark Lord said:

IDM producers in general seem to possess a sort of arrogant/snotty attitude.

I know that sounds like a bit of a generalization but I certainly find it to be true.

i have learned now after many disappointments-not to find out to

much about any musician i listen to.

it's more pleasant to just use my imagination in regards to their music's.

He seems like a friendly dude

He seems like a smart cookie.

Anyone who thinks Squarepusher's interviews are a bit much should check this out:

http://drexciyaresearchlab.blogspot.com/2005_05_01_archive.html

I love Drexciya, but damn Mr. Stinson did go on...

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Water was here at the beginning before we existed and water will be here when we go away. It s beautiful. Think about this. Do you know of anyone who can create water? What is this stuff? How can you make water, if it doesn’t already exist? Sure you have molecules and all that stuff, but outside this planet, how can you make more water than that s already here? If you have Lake Michigan, how can you produce the equivalent of Lake Michigan water, without taking it from some other place on the planet, how can you create that in a lab? Because if they can do that, don't you think we'd all be drinking fresh water instead of contaminated water? They would have dumped all this water on this planet and made fresh water in areas that are needed? Don't you think if they can actually do that they would do it? What I’m saying is water is a very interesting, very marvelous element that people take for granted. Once it goes, you re done. Air is very important too, but water you're done. Your body, is like 80% composed of water. Without it, you're done.

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The reason why we give a lot of our tracks aquatic titles is because waves are constantly changing. It moves in so many different directions, and that s the way we see our music. It doesn’t go straight forward. It takes you on an adventure. We record all our stuff live. You have to capture that moment, that spirit, that energy. We could never recreate one of our records. Every Drexciya record is different. We're dealing with your personality, your emotions. We try to get you to open your mind up and listen to the sounds, and hopefully then you can paint a picture in your mind. That's what it s all about.

Who gives a shit waht Squarepusher is like? Why don't you just go bake some brownies and then eat them or something.

  On 1/18/2010 at 6:19 PM, Lianne said:

It's obvious that some of his quips are tongue-in-cheek, but sometimes when he's being deadly seriously it is hard to like him, simply because one gets the impression he really, really likes the sound of his own voice. I mean, don't get me wrong... it is refreshing to hear an artist in this genre who is actually eloquent, but there is a way of being eloquent, confident and chatty without the negatives Tom sometimes veers towards. Having said that, I much prefer his 'intellectual' approach now to his Go Plastic period, where he just swore a lot, stammered and yeah-ed a lot, and seemed determined to demystify himself and his music as much as possible.

 

I actually really liked him on the BBC culture show, too. He came across as intelligent, very polite, and overall someone you'd want to sit down with for a while discussing absolutely anything (not that he'd want to do that with me.)

 

But other times, such as this Mary Anne Hobbes interview...

 

 

Or his various Go Plastic interviews - they are quite cringeworthy.

lol @ pusher bringing his grandmom to his gig

  On 1/19/2010 at 1:05 AM, The Face Culler said:

Also, watch this video:

 

Look ~2:30... yeah what a prick

Lol that whole vid was full of epic win! thanks for sharing :)

  On 1/18/2010 at 7:18 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

  On 1/17/2010 at 12:07 AM, tbio2007 said:

For a while now (after go-plastic), I have come to dislike Tom, partly because his music has decreased in quality but mainly because of his almost unbearable persona. I mean this guy nearly comes close to Thom Yorke in terms of Douchebaggery, the only thing he could possibly say now that could annoy me further is that he is an enviromentalist.

 

His interviews are just cringeworthy, I think there is one on the BBC around the Hello Everything release, some of his answers must be a joke surely, at one point he was getting all philosophical about apples. In another interview with Mary Anne Hobbs, he just come across as a twat, dissing DnB like any chavbag can make it, MATE... your DnB sounds like a chavbag made it. Your new music is rubbish, it's a mixture of conventional bollocks and cheesy jazz/rock nonsense.

 

Please, you Schizophrenic, just retreat back into your room and make something interesting instead of growing your facial hair you facking sketbag.

hi tom, make more music like hard normal daddy and feed me weird things.

well yeah, isn't that the point? although i would say hard normal daddy and big loada if given a choice of a "golden age." i contend that if you released hard normal daddy over and over and over and over again nobody would ever bitch except for weird people who need to hear bass-only-albums because it would impress the girls at the coffeeshop.

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Does anyone else think Squarepusher is a prick?

nope

Everytime im in his company I turn into a spastic and im scared to talk incase I just scream I love you and run out crying. Ive spent some time in the company of his Dad and his brother and theyre decent blokes, so I see no reason why he wouldnt be.

tbio, have you listened to JAS? Its about as far removed from anything else ever. You deaf prick.

dirty protest, tell us more

I clean their pool.

I don't get this thread.

I got it this thread.

I also transcribed everything so I can have it archived after 2012. All you dumb bastards will be shaking in the corner without your precious watmm, all the while I'll be re-reading classic burlap threads and loling all the way to the bank!

  On 1/28/2010 at 7:30 AM, Dirty Protest said:

Everytime im in his company I turn into a spastic and im scared to talk incase I just scream I love you and run out crying. Ive spent some time in the company of his Dad and his brother and theyre decent blokes, so I see no reason why he wouldnt be.

Well my brother's a decent bloke, and i'm obviously not, so there's no golden rule here. I've never met Tom personally btw.

  On 1/21/2010 at 9:06 PM, James Cagney said:

Who gives a shit waht Squarepusher is like? Why don't you just go bake some brownies and then eat them or something.

LOL

Ive met mr jenkinson twice and he was a nice chap :) the first time was when he was touring before BIG LOAdA was unleashed. I had a lengthy chat with him as he disassembled his gear on stage and gave me a promo of BIGLOADA 2 months before its release - an amazing nite!! the second time was couple of years back prior to ultravisitor release. had a brief chat at the bar with him before his set and no promo shame :( my impressions are good sense of humour, down to earth and approachable. fuck, this is like a sex ad.. he likes going for walks, cosy nights in spinning tunes, eating out looking for someone to share a soggy bag of chips with blah!

  On 2/6/2010 at 7:34 PM, boredroom said:

Ive met mr jenkinson twice and he was a nice chap :) the first time was when he was touring before BIG LOAdA was unleashed. I had a lengthy chat with him as he disassembled his gear on stage and gave me a promo of BIGLOADA 2 months before its release - an amazing nite!! the second time was couple of years back prior to ultravisitor release. had a brief chat at the bar with him before his set and no promo shame :( my impressions are good sense of humour, down to earth and approachable. fuck, this is like a sex ad.. he likes going for walks, cosy nights in spinning tunes, eating out looking for someone to share a soggy bag of chips with blah!

Thats fuckin awesome. Wish I got a Big Loada promo off Tom.

  On 3/28/2010 at 8:45 AM, xxx said:

This thread got me thinking about this perception of the artist vs. enjoyment of music strictly as a faceless product. First, I have to say that I have mostly loved every glimpse of "him" I've gotten except that obtuse liner manifesto that was more annoying than funny or insightful or whatever he wanted it to be. But he's on record, either through RDJ or Mike Paradinas as being a really great guy to be around but extremely strange and that's just how "jazz people" are and whichever one said that was completely correct. Think Miles Davis:

and all the heroin and Prohibition Era rotgut and marijuana and the sheer insanity real jazz demands--not that square shit on your NPR bumpers. And that's Tom's frequency.

 

One of my favorites--I'd kill to have it as an animated .gif or preferrably a loopable video is when he was talking about buying his first shit drum machine but spending enough time with the programming to make it do granular synthesis type shit and he made these machine gun farting noises at full blast and made his hands come together and fly apart like a manic Patty Cake to indicate wildly expanding and contracting wave forms.

 

Back to my point, I work in health care and physicians are infamous for being stochastically and violently assholish or strange and then coming back in line. To me, it's a mixture of a V8 engine brain of massive intelligence that is always pumping and working so hard to get to a specific environment that supports that weird but formidable intelligence. However TJ or RDJ or whoever act flippantly about their music; "oh shat this on the bog a fortnight ago" and it's a "Hard Normal Daddy" or "Richard D. James" album, make no mistake that there is sweat and intense effort in that and neither of them strike me as coming from particularly posh backgrounds that would support a dilletante approach to the IDMz. This means that they wanted to succeed and worked really hard towards a single goal, like a physician. I guess, because of my background, I won't let them disrespect me or fuck with me condescendingly but I will grant them the idiosyncrasy and a dose of arrogance because I'd be the same way. But, anyway, I don't see this universal "prickishness" in him; the remaining brothers Phil and Andy show a genetic penchant for the silliness and tomfoolery in the Jenkinson family.

 

P.S. What the fuck must their holidays look like? Probably non-eventful for all the fantasies of 303's on the table and weird Chelmsford Film Society films getting made after dinner.

 

P.P.S. Apologies for tl;dr tonight. My parents are going on a Eurotrip next Friday and my mom wants some books-on-CD on her mp3 player. Jesus cocking Christ--15 discs on some of these???? Foobar takes a solid 8 minutes to get it all said and done so that's 2 hours right there. I've been chained to the laptop all day. But she'll need it. My dad is 60 and she's 55 and neither of them have ever been outside America. I expect them to be shitting it frequently so she'll need a "decompression" from all that freaky-deaky Dutch, German, and a bit of the 'elllooo muuuaaaate when they wrap up in London. Serious tragi-lol when my parents lay eyes on the tube map.

excellent post here

  On 1/19/2010 at 6:04 PM, ZAZBanned said:

IDM producers in general seem to possess a . . . snot. . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huny02GCj6I

those guys look like psychos, particularly the one in the back

why don't people read fucking interviews before opening their mouth?

  On 1/17/2010 at 12:07 AM, tbio2007 said:

at one point he was getting all philosophical about apples.

That made me lol, but nah, i like squarepusher =)

I think you're a bit of a prick.

Edit: @ OP