Squarepusher ˇ
Biography ˇ
There is a contradiction at the heart of Squarepusher. As one of the most consistently forward looking and endlessly inventive electronic musicians of the last two and a half decades he has been utterly predictable in only one respect: his complete unpredictability. The electronic musician, virtuoso bass player and composer, Tom Jenkinson, seems so allergic to repeating himself that his behaviour can seem almost pathological. The proactive decision to continually confound expectation was something he took very early on, saying that after the release of his Warp debut, Hard Normal Daddy (1997) the idea of who Squarepusher was, had already started to “coagulate”. He explains: “It’s easy to caricature that sound. Some fast breakbeats. Some slightly questionable out of place fretless bass. Some industrial elements. Some jazz. And some, ‘Fuck you.’ But I found the idea of an identity forming round me tied up in commercial considerations really unpleasant. Something inside me just snapped. I said, ‘I can’t have this.’”
Releases ˇ
Feed Me Weird Things (Remastered), album, 2021
Lamental EP, album, 2020
Be Up A Hello, album, 2020
Vortrack, single, 2019
Damogen Furies, album, 2015
Music For Robots, EP, 2014
Enstrobia, EP, 2013
Ufabulum, album, 2012
Squarepusher presents - Shobaleader One - d'Demonstrator, album, 2010
Solo Electric Bass 1, album, 2009
Numbers Lucent, EP, 2009
Just A Souvenir, album, 2008
Hello Everything, album, 2006
Venus No. 17, EP, 2004
Ultravisitor, album, 2004
Do You Know Squarepusher, album, 2002
Go Plastic, album, 2001
My Red Hot Car, EP, 2001
Selection Sixteen, album, 1999
Maximum Priest, EP, 1999
Budakhan Mindphone, album, 1999
Music Is Rotted One Note, album, 1998
Burningn'n Tree, album, 1997
Big Loada, EP, 1997
Hard Normal Daddy, album, 1997
Vic Acid, EP, 1997
Port Rhombus, EP, 1996