Boards of Canada Why is Squarepusher so popular?

I only really like Ultravisitor, it would seem that I'm watmming wrong.

The quintessential Squarepusher track

If I had a chance of playing one track to get someone into SP, I'd play Do You Know Squarepusher

I can understand the Flying Lotus thread. But this???

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

...The list goes on and on....

Yes Admiral Spratters!!! Yes!!

plaistow flex out

close the thread this needs no explanation to anyone with a brain

I think he's more of a craftsman than an artist. I'm not that emotionally engaged when I listen to the majority of his music.

Welcome to Europe will always be one of my favourite tracks though.

  On 5/3/2012 at 7:13 PM, chenGOD said:

The quintessential Squarepusher track

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

Yup... I have admittedly shed a tear while listening to this track. A true artist in my books.

  On 5/3/2012 at 8:59 PM, Suffocate Peon said:

I think he's more of a craftsman than an artist. I'm not that emotionally engaged when I listen to the majority of his music.

 

Welcome to Europe will always be one of my favourite tracks though.

Feel exactly the same about squarepusher. I enjoy it from time to time and it's obviously good, it's just totally void of any emotion for me. I have quite a bit of his stuff (Ultravisitor, Go Plastic, Big Loada, Hard Normal Daddy, Numbers Lucent, Hello Everything, Just a Souvenir) I nostly find myself listening to Hello Everything.

It's probably my least listened to warp classic artist after aphex, who I also find (though to a lesser degree) lacks emotion.

It's all about Ae and BoC for me.

  On 5/5/2012 at 1:29 PM, usagi said:

  On 5/5/2012 at 12:49 PM, Xenblake said:

Feel exactly the same about squarepusher. I enjoy it from time to time and it's obviously good, it's just totally void of any emotion for me.

 

I don't get this at all. many of his tracks have distinct emotional qualities. I would've thought it'd be impossible to listen to either of the Iambics and not feel something.

Iambic 9 poetry is nice. Actually vacuum garden evokes something emotional in me. But most of the time tom's music sounds like he's stumbling upon melodies whilst sitting around tuning his instruments, which of course has it's charm but It never strikes me as if there's any emotion behind his music, not anywhere near the way autechre and boards of canada make their music. WIth them I always get a distinct sense of hidden warmth. I think it's because autechre and boards of canada are duos, whereas aphex and squarepusher is just one guy noodling around that makes it less emotional.

I've always thought of richard and tom as a bit stand offish and kind of come off as dicks, whereas sean & rob and michael & marcus seem more upfront and down to earth (also in interviews not just in their music)

Go Plastic is the best thing WARP ever released.

  On 5/6/2012 at 12:46 AM, vamos scorcho said:

Go Plastic is the best thing WARP ever released.

yeah it's up there

Squarepusher is void of emotion?! WHAT? WHAT!!!!!??

My god, opinions are an awesome spectacle of deliberate controversy.

lack

  On 5/5/2012 at 12:49 PM, Xenblake said:

  On 5/3/2012 at 8:59 PM, Suffocate Peon said:

I think he's more of a craftsman than an artist. I'm not that emotionally engaged when I listen to the majority of his music.

 

Welcome to Europe will always be one of my favourite tracks though.

 

Feel exactly the same about squarepusher. I enjoy it from time to time and it's obviously good, it's just totally void of any emotion for me. I have quite a bit of his stuff (Ultravisitor, Go Plastic, Big Loada, Hard Normal Daddy, Numbers Lucent, Hello Everything, Just a Souvenir) I nostly find myself listening to Hello Everything.

 

It's probably my least listened to warp classic artist after aphex, who I also find (though to a lesser degree) lacks emotion.

 

It's all about Ae and BoC for me.

compared to Ae how exactly is squarepusher lacking emotion? oh well...

and don't get me started on aphex.

go plastic is my favorite. ultravisitor has it's moments

just listened to burningn tree today all the way through thanks to this thread and i quite enjoyed it

you guys mustn't forget about this gem:

[youtubehd]ejOLKyJcytE[/youtubehd]

  On 5/5/2012 at 3:34 PM, Xenblake said:

 

I've always thought of richard and tom as a bit stand offish and kind of come off as dicks, whereas sean & rob and michael & marcus seem more upfront and down to earth (also in interviews not just in their music)

When was the last time they were upfront about anything? lol

no emotion? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOHUw5T36ro

Sean in particular can be a dick

  On 5/3/2012 at 7:13 PM, chenGOD said:

The quintessential Squarepusher track

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

^knows what he's talking about

take anything squarepusher has done and compare it with say; drane, piezo, vletrmix, rae, pir, ilanders. They're all charged with a seemingly natural, deep emotion that I just find generally lacking in squarepusher's music.

Hey, maybe it's because I haven't listened to shoebaleader one yet

  On 5/7/2012 at 1:13 PM, Xenblake said:

take anything squarepusher has done and compare it with say; drane, piezo, vletrmix, rae, pir, ilanders. They're all charged with a seemingly natural, deep emotion that I just find generally lacking in squarepusher's music.

 

Hey, maybe it's because I haven't listened to shoebaleader one yet

Listen to tundra 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD3vr7_Al88

But yes I do get what you mean.

  On 5/6/2012 at 1:36 AM, cloud capture said:

My god, opinions

  On 5/6/2012 at 5:18 PM, YELLOW said:

Sean in particular can be a dick

I am sure if you met Sean he would be very down to earth and fine, he just seems like a normal lad to me. He seem's more like a nutter than a dick imo lol.

  On 5/6/2012 at 1:51 AM, Mcdergbit said:

lack

  On 5/5/2012 at 12:49 PM, Xenblake said:

  On 5/3/2012 at 8:59 PM, Suffocate Peon said:

I think he's more of a craftsman than an artist. I'm not that emotionally engaged when I listen to the majority of his music.

 

Welcome to Europe will always be one of my favourite tracks though.

 

Feel exactly the same about squarepusher. I enjoy it from time to time and it's obviously good, it's just totally void of any emotion for me. I have quite a bit of his stuff (Ultravisitor, Go Plastic, Big Loada, Hard Normal Daddy, Numbers Lucent, Hello Everything, Just a Souvenir) I nostly find myself listening to Hello Everything.

 

It's probably my least listened to warp classic artist after aphex, who I also find (though to a lesser degree) lacks emotion.

 

It's all about Ae and BoC for me.

 

compared to Ae how exactly is squarepusher lacking emotion? oh well...

 

and don't get me started on aphex.

Well, if you were to ask me of sad/bittersweet/emotional/melancholic/deep and personal Aphex Twin/Autechre tracks I'd be able to name dozens. Tbh the same applies to Venetian Snares.

But with Squarepusher, I'd struggle to think of many. I don't find the lambic poetry's moving, or 'my sound'. I feel like there's this barrier between him and his music, it's not as instinctive, it's not as personal, those aforementioned artists have this consistent knack of getting under my skin. It feels like their music comes from this deeper place, that it wasn't consciously created. With Squarepusher, I feel like he's thought 'i want to make something bittersweet now', or ' I want to make something moody and angry now'. They don't strike me as precious moments. I think maybe it's because he plays an instrument and considering how much he waffles on and on about his music, it doesn't surprise me that it lacks a a raw impulsiveness. He doesn't need to say 'yeah recently i've been thinking about pure electronic music that's aggressive', it ought to be that the music doesn't come from such a considered place and just IS. I don't find Ufabulum pure or aggressive.

I do really love Welcome to Europe and Rotate Electrolyte though. That all sounds so unappreciative and unfair, I'm comparing him to my favourite artists.