Squarepusher X Z-machines: Music For Robots - EP 05 April 2014

I for one am excited.

  On 2/13/2014 at 9:11 PM, spratters said:

I for one am excited.

me too! stoked!

I think the biggest thing is, that video posted... the mastering is good. The last few SP releases have been mastered terribly, with a few tracks being the exception.

The SP track in here sounds slightly more subversive, and more in line with his expressed ideas on man and machine.

Is that not the bit from around 3 mins of the video on page one but a bit more of a lo-fi recording and flashier lights ?

I think you are right. Which means I am wrong. But I'm not gonna admit that.

  On 2/13/2014 at 7:08 PM, Rulohead32 said:

I'm loving this ep!

It's not out yet young man.

this is weeeeeeeird

I am not quite sure about that one...At first it sounds/looks very exciting but then I don't know, it's like he didn't explore all the possibilities that the Z-Machines could have offered him...
Waiting for the whole EP to come anyway

Z-machines? Really? Well Tom has just hit rock bottom of creativity it seems, relying on gimmicks like that.

  On 2/17/2014 at 12:45 AM, Philip Glass said:

Z-machines? Really? Well Tom has just hit rock bottom of creativity it seems, relying on gimmicks like that.

It's probably worthwhile to recognize a huge portion of his audience is in Japan and they tend to like stuff like this. Nothing wrong in appeasing his target demographic.

i don't really understand how this is a 'gimmick' .Clearly tom is an accomplished composer, and something as we've seen in this video wouldn't have been able to exist in purely human terms or even something digitally created. I'm not in love with the style of jazz he's doing with them, but I'm surprised so many (not just you) are deriding it as a simple gimmick. I don't see anything about this that's not creative, who else has done something like this with real instruments not using multi-track recording or editing?

I for one am excited to hear just the drum beats on a real acoustic kit he's sequenced with these machines

  On 2/17/2014 at 12:48 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

i don't really understand how this is a 'gimmick' .Clearly tom is an accomplished composer, and something as we've seen in this video wouldn't have been able to exist in purely human terms or even something digitally created. I'm not in love with the style of jazz he's doing with them, but I'm surprised so many (not just you) are deriding it as a simple gimmick. I don't see anything about this that's not creative, who else has done something like this with real instruments not using multi-track recording or editing?

 

I for one am excited to hear just the drum beats on a real acoustic kit he's sequenced with these machines

for realz!

It's strange when the terms gimmick and wankery appear in Squarepusher threads. He is constantly experimenting with new sounds or methods of creation. Here he is able to have robots play more technical pieces of music at unnatural speeds and timings, while have it all sound more natural because they are played using actual instruments. He could have hired 4 session guitarists and someone playing synthesizers and a couple of drummers maybe... but here it is more controlled, precise, and cheaper. Maybe you don't like the presentation, but he is always trying "new" things for himself, and I find that respectable.

I also think his songwriting is more "mature" now... I think that his technical chops are interpreted as wankery. I enjoy the chaotic and stabbing breakdowns. It's not always easy listening, but the more you hear his tracks, the more subtleties you pick up.

I am very excite!

I wish SP would have spent the last two decades remaking Feed Me Weird Things.

Dunno, I'd say this is kinda similar to his latest project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1AqwCETSLQ

(though the newer one has about 400x the complexity of the guitar programming)

sorry if jazz but interview

  On 2/18/2014 at 1:36 PM, usagi said:

sorry if jazz but interview

JAZZ ALERT

JAZZ HANDS JAZZ JAZZZZ

JIZZ

in that interview does anyone know the name of that artist he mentions at the end? I'm not sure the spelling.

The drums seem awesome, but I feel the entire concept is taken from this guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64GbhskV6OI

And he probably barely makes ends meet.

  On 2/18/2014 at 7:06 PM, guidewire said:

in that interview does anyone know the name of that artist he mentions at the end? I'm not sure the spelling.

Finally someone has gone out and made some music for Aphex Twin's monkey drummer! He's had a pretty slow decade from what I've gathered =(

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