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Music CD - Squarepusher: Big Loada
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Music CD: Big Loada
Artist: Squarepusher
List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $11.77
Your Save: $ 3.21 ( 21% )
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks
Manufacturer: Nothing Records
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Tracks:
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1. Come on My Selector
2. A Journey to Reedham
3. Full Rinse
4. Massif (Stay Strong)
5. The Body Builder
6. Tequila Fish
7. Jacques Mal Chance (Il N'A Pas de Chance)
8. Port Rhombus
9. Problem Child
10. Signicficant Others
11. Lone Ravers
12. The Barn
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0666489025721
Format: Enhanced
Label: Nothing Records
Manufacturer: Nothing Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Nothing Records
Release Date: 1998-10-13
Studio: Nothing Records
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Squarepushers Finest Album
Comment: This album is truely a great work. Many Squarepusher albums have non-melodic tracks, this one however, does not. You can listen to it start to finish. He uses a lot of bells and chimes on the album which just add to it's character. BUY IT!
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Summary: Wrong CD
Comment: I just picked up a supposed copy of "Big Loada." Luckily, I'd read the reviews below from people who got the "wrong" CD when they purchased what they thought was this disc. I did too: I got "Budakahn Microphone." It's labeled as if it's "Big Loada" but it's not. Evidently there's a run of bad discs. What's interesting to contemplate is how many people are out there thinking they're listening to "Loada" when they're listening to something else. You don't have to be a Squarepusher expert to tell: if your copy of "Loada" has 7 tracks on it, it's REALLY "Budakahn Microphone." "Big Loada" has 12 tracks. Who knows when the "real" "Loada" will once again be available.
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Summary: WRONG ALBUM
Comment: BEWARE THE ALBUM IS NOT BIG LOADA IT'S BUDOKHAN MINDPHONE
NOTHING RECORDS MADE A MISTAKE AND SOLD IT.
Customer Rating:
Summary: same artist, wrong album
Comment: i don't know if anybody else has experienced this, but upon receiving Big Loada i immediately shoved it into my cd player, but was surprised to hear the tracks from budakhan mindphone (another of mr. jenkinson's albums) instead. i thought it was a joke, but i've done everything i know to do to verify this and it's definitely budakhan mindphone wearing the garb of big loada--even the pressed cd has the big loada title on it. i don't much care (since it's still the masterful squarepusher), but it is rather disconcerting to know that the pressing company put entirely wrong music on an album and then sold it.
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Summary: Brilliantly crafted Intelligent Dance Music
Comment: Tom Jenkinson, like many of his labelmates, makes music that show us that electronic music doesn't always mean a consistent thump of bass over slowly changing harmonics. Tom Jenkinson's music is truly engaging in every sense of the word. It makes the listener actively absorb every facet and subtle element of the dense complexity of the music. Although, it is not to be said that listening to his work is arduous or exhausting, it merely allows for a deeper and more complete appreciation. Squarepusher is not for everybody, as is common in progressive music. Jenkinson creates thickly layered beats, rhythms and harmonies.
When one listen's to Jenkinson's beats it can conjure up the image of a hundred-armed jazz drummer. Much of it's influence is derived from that genre. Squarepusher's drill-and-bass take on that style of drumming is, although occasionally confusing, nothing short of brilliant. His ear for rhythm and the tweaking and manipulation of it is amazing.
On "Big Loada" Squarepusher somewhat departs from his often jazz-heavy music. There is a much more synthetic, mathematical feel. "Journey to Reedham (7 AM Mix)", one of the album's best tracks, is also unlike much of his previous efforts. This is so in the sense that it is much more happy and up-beat than even the more optimistic tracks on previous albums. The song conjures up the exact image it's title implies, one of being half-awake, on a road-trip, driving into the rising sun as it leaves the horizon.
"Come on my Selecter", another amazing track on the album is break-neck to say the least. This track moves like an amphetamine-soaked hummingbird. Meant, I am supposing, for club-goers who enjoy contorting their bodies and flailing their limbs at a million miles per hour. This track is a prime example of, like Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy", Jenkinson's devious and ironic tweaking of more mainstream musical genres. This one being the club-friendly electronica that warp artist are often the antithesis of.
"Big Loada" is a woderfully orchestated masterpiece of drill-and-bass. Squarepusher is one of those artists that goes largely unappreciated but is, although below the radar, reshaping electronic music as we know it.
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