‘Damogen Furies’ will be released via Warp Records 20 April. Download ‘Rayc Fire 2’ at squarepusher.net

  On 2/20/2015 at 10:20 PM, Goiter Sanchez said:

 

  On 2/20/2015 at 10:16 PM, Herr Jan said:

Meanwhile...

 

http://youtu.be/1FUQoHt1fE4?t=10s

Pretty!

 

this is fooking mental. ( i dont even want to know how this was organized regarding live setup, notes for every musician and so on )

Edited February 20, 2015 by Kavinsky

He already used the "opening rusty metal gates" sound on 303 scopem hard, both tracks would be better without it.

 

BTW, in this interview you can see Squarepusher's reaktor ensembles, they look ultra convoluted:

http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2011/06/video-premiere-squarepusher-talks-to-the-creators-project/

  On 2/20/2015 at 10:40 PM, vasio said:

He already used the "opening rusty metal gates" sound on 303 scopem hard, both tracks would be better without it.

 

BTW, in this interview you can see Squarepusher's reaktor ensembles, they look ultra convoluted:

http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2011/06/video-premiere-squarepusher-talks-to-the-creators-project/

that rusty gate sound also appeared on "The Barn (303 kebab mix)", was the opening sound right at the beginning of the track. (edit: if you mean the same sound I'm thinking of)

 

 

There were a few other throwback noises on ufab as well, some sounds off of Buzz Caner etc.

Edited February 20, 2015 by StephenG

  On 2/20/2015 at 11:08 PM, StephenG said:

 

  On 2/20/2015 at 10:40 PM, vasio said:

He already used the "opening rusty metal gates" sound on 303 scopem hard, both tracks would be better without it.

 

BTW, in this interview you can see Squarepusher's reaktor ensembles, they look ultra convoluted:

http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2011/06/video-premiere-squarepusher-talks-to-the-creators-project/

that rusty gate sound also appeared on "The Barn (303 kebab mix)", was the opening sound right at the beginning of the track. (edit: if you mean the same sound I'm thinking of)

 

 

There were a few other throwback noises on ufab as well, some sounds off of Buzz Caner etc.

 

you mean guitar at the start of the track? ufabulum had soft/synths, right? or...i don't get it xD

Edited February 20, 2015 by Mag

  On 2/20/2015 at 11:37 PM, Mag said:

 

  On 2/20/2015 at 11:08 PM, StephenG said:

 

  On 2/20/2015 at 10:40 PM, vasio said:

He already used the "opening rusty metal gates" sound on 303 scopem hard, both tracks would be better without it.

 

BTW, in this interview you can see Squarepusher's reaktor ensembles, they look ultra convoluted:

http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2011/06/video-premiere-squarepusher-talks-to-the-creators-project/

that rusty gate sound also appeared on "The Barn (303 kebab mix)", was the opening sound right at the beginning of the track. (edit: if you mean the same sound I'm thinking of)

 

 

There were a few other throwback noises on ufab as well, some sounds off of Buzz Caner etc.

 

you mean guitar at the start of the track? ufabulum had soft/synths, right? or...i don't get it xD

 

 

 

The sound at the beginning of 303 scopem hard is almost the same as the sound at the beginning of The Barn (303 kebab mix)... slightly modified.

 

There are other sounds/samples he recycled from his back catalogue into ufab in the same manner but I don't have the album in front of me to point out which ones.

Edited February 20, 2015 by StephenG

Yeah that one, nice catch haha, how nice of Mr.Pusher to reuse such nice and pleasant sounds on not one but 3 tracks.

  On 2/21/2015 at 12:00 AM, vasio said:

Yeah that one, nice catch haha, how nice of Mr.Pusher to reuse such nice and pleasant sounds on not one but 3 tracks.

 

Wasn't the track 40.96a off Enstrobia also made almost exclusively from those screech sounds ?

Even if it was really harsh for the ears, I liked how he used those sounds both on Dark Steering and 303 Scopem Hard, because it linked those 2 track together and thus added "narration" to the album.

But it sounds kind of out-of-place on Rayc Fire 2 to me.

 

Anyway, that track is a real grower

Edited February 21, 2015 by StocKo

  On 2/21/2015 at 12:05 AM, StocKo said:

 

  On 2/21/2015 at 12:00 AM, vasio said:

Yeah that one, nice catch haha, how nice of Mr.Pusher to reuse such nice and pleasant sounds on not one but 3 tracks.

Wasn't the track 40.96a off Enstrobia also made almost exclusively from those screech sounds ?

Even if it was really harsh for the ears, I liked how he used those sounds both on Dark Steering and 303 Scopem Hard, because it linked those 2 track together and thus added "narration" to the album.

But it sounds kind of out-of-place on Rayc Fire 2 to me.

 

Anyway, that track is a real grower

 

It just sounds like he's trying to be "hard" like a lot of those early 90's IDM artists back then without having any real purpose other than to show he still has it.

  On 2/20/2015 at 6:41 PM, Palo Alto said:

Dude who wrote that's favourite band is U2 lol.

 

Could you rephrase that? I'm actually curious about what you were trying to say.

How one goes from the genius of something like Papalon or Don't Go Plastic to a track like Rayc Fire....

 

  On 2/19/2015 at 5:12 PM, Palo Alto said:

Really don't like that, and Squarepusher is my absolute fave. I did myself no favours by listening to Ultravisitor yesterday, nearly everything else pales by comparison.

All that screeching/ringmod just sounds like a gimmick to me, like as if he couldn't think of another way to challenge the listener, to prove that he isn't a sellout, that he's still the daddy than to fill the tracks with that. I understand he has a girlfriend now, he announced it on belgian radio station, so he's probably not up to spending days programming breaks but c'mon there has to be a middle ground.

 

Also what's with the timid breaks that show up in the Rayc Fire 2 for just a second? Did he include that to remember us how he got his... break?

Edited February 21, 2015 by vasio

  On 2/21/2015 at 12:17 AM, StephenG said:

How one goes from the genius of something like Papalon or Don't Go Plastic to a track like Rayc Fire....

 

Pretty much. But hey, maybe the rest is ace. There's always, at least, one perfect track from every Squarepusher release:

 

A Journey To Reedham (7am Mix)

Iambic 5 Poetry

Sarcacid, Pt. 2

Do You Know Squarepusher

Angel Integer

Theme From Ernest Borgnine

Tommib

Beep Street

Welcome to Europe

Quadrature

Song: Our Underwater Torch

You Endless

My Sound

Illegal Dustbin

Square Rave

Into the Blue

seb-1.09

Square Window

4001

Ultravisitor

Tundra 4

Yeah, I'm holding out hope there's a few gems on the new album! ^^^

 

He's a great artist I think he's just losing himself in the concept/art stuff lately....

Loving the sound of that preview!!!

And let's never forget the best "jungle" track ever made:

 

Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid

just listened to ufabulum again, ecstatic shock is a masterpiece so many little details going on

I'm already removing all the music from my phone to transfer everything from the Pusher into it. Will be revisiting Tom for the next two months.

  On 2/21/2015 at 12:42 AM, trananhhung said:

 

  On 2/21/2015 at 12:17 AM, StephenG said:

How one goes from the genius of something like Papalon or Don't Go Plastic to a track like Rayc Fire....

 

Pretty much. But hey, maybe the rest is ace. There's always, at least, one perfect track from every Squarepusher release:

 

A Journey To Reedham (7am Mix)

Iambic 5 Poetry

Sarcacid, Pt. 2

Do You Know Squarepusher

Angel Integer

Theme From Ernest Borgnine

Tommib

Beep Street

Welcome to Europe

Quadrature

Song: Our Underwater Torch

You Endless

My Sound

Illegal Dustbin

Square Rave

Into the Blue

seb-1.09

Square Window

4001

Ultravisitor

Tundra 4

 

 

How could you even choose Tommib as the perfect track from Go Plastic

  On 2/21/2015 at 1:01 AM, StocKo said:

 

  On 2/21/2015 at 12:42 AM, trananhhung said:

 

  On 2/21/2015 at 12:17 AM, StephenG said:

How one goes from the genius of something like Papalon or Don't Go Plastic to a track like Rayc Fire....

 

Pretty much. But hey, maybe the rest is ace. There's always, at least, one perfect track from every Squarepusher release:

 

A Journey To Reedham (7am Mix)

Iambic 5 Poetry

Sarcacid, Pt. 2

Do You Know Squarepusher

Angel Integer

Theme From Ernest Borgnine

Tommib

Beep Street

Welcome to Europe

Quadrature

Song: Our Underwater Torch

You Endless

My Sound

Illegal Dustbin

Square Rave

Into the Blue

seb-1.09

Square Window

4001

Ultravisitor

Tundra 4

 

 

How could you even choose Tommib as the perfect track from Go Plastic

 

I love that entire album. It's on my top 5 records FROM THE FOREVER. But that track, it's pretty much a perfect ambient track. Short, simple but only the Pusher could've come up with it. It stands as high as the rest of the planet engulfing monster tracks. That's how I see it. I know nothing though.

Forgot Exciton!

  On 2/21/2015 at 12:59 AM, Kavinsky said:

just listened to ufabulum again, ecstatic shock is a masterpiece so many little details going on

 

 

Indeed.

You guys are brutal! Don't blame Tom for your waning neuroplasticity you ungrateful cretins!

  On 2/20/2015 at 10:00 PM, caze said:

 

  On 2/20/2015 at 8:05 PM, Vaaler9 said:

 

..hmmm. I am more compelled to listen now at least. If it sounds like what I fear it will sound like though, I hope he does an Aphex and digs deep into his analogue gear on the next one and puts some real feeling back into his music.

Use of analogue gear does not automatically = feeling. Ufabulum used mostly analogue synths (101 and CS80), and everyone was shit talking that because of digitalness and lack of feeling. Judging from the PR blurb this one will be all Reaktor patches, but I doubt most people could genuinely tell the difference between the two.

Where did you hear that ufabulum had any 101 and cs80? Admittedly it's been a while since I listened to it but I don't recall hearing anything like that on it. Even the '303' in scopem was obvs a software patch Edited February 21, 2015 by Amen Warrior

  On 2/21/2015 at 12:17 AM, trananhhung said:

 

  On 2/20/2015 at 6:41 PM, Palo Alto said:

Dude who wrote that's favourite band is U2 lol.

 

Could you rephrase that? I'm actually curious about what you were trying to say.

 

 

If you scroll to the bottom of the article, the guy who wrote it lists his favourite bands as U2 and Stone Roses, and favourite album as Achtung Baby.

 

Minging!

 

http://www.xsnoize.com/squarepusher-announces-new-album-damogen-furies-out-in-april/