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Music CD - Squarepusher: Feed Me Weird Things
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Music CD: Feed Me Weird Things
Artist: Squarepusher
List Price: $16.98
Our Price: $33.96
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Manufacturer: Rephlex
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1. Squarepusher Theme - Squarepusher, Jenkinson, Tom
2. Tundra
3. The Swifty
4. Dimotane Co.
5. Smedleys Melody
6. Windscale 2
7. North Circular
8. Goodnight Jade
9. Theme from Ernest Borgnine
10. U.F.O.'s Over Leytonstone
11. Kodack
12. Future Gibbon
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0718752126120
Label: Rephlex
Manufacturer: Rephlex
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rephlex
Release Date: 1999-01-05
Studio: Rephlex
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: A good place to discover Tom Jenkinson's music.....
Comment: I really enjoyed this album and would recommend it to anyone interested in Squarepusher. Do yourself a favor and check it out.
DEFINITELY DO NOT PAY MORE THAN $13-17 FOR IT THOUGH! THIS IS NOT A RARE ALBUM AND IS NOT HARD TO FIND AS THIS SELLER CLAIMS!!!
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Summary: Feed me weird things
Comment: Waste of money and a crutch to those who think they are alternative listeners and experimenters.
But hey, I bought it, too....:( So at least you know this is an educated judgement.
Any album that has almost an essay to promote it on the front cover should have been a warning sign.
Behold: a lesson in "how NOT to make purchasing decisions when bored in music stores". If you have a blurb about the album, on the album, about how great the artist is and how difrerent and how new and wow....should've steered clear. Sucker for marketing, I thought, hell, why not give it a go.
Yeah OK, so this guy's done lots of albums Great portfolio...but the un-listenability of album it is blatant. Don't know about the rest of the albums, but this one is pure PONG. Samples aside, and some are great, there's no flow,. no beat. A saw sawing...sawing...sawing...I mean, If this guy was Andy Warhol, it would still lack arty/any cred.
If you're into trance, this would be good substitue as background noise. If you're into hang-overs, this one will ensure the pain lasts all the way into mid-morning. DIS- appointed.
PS : )....if you ARE into GOOD new sounds and experimentations - try THE AVALANCHES.
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Summary: miles davis changed jazz once, squarepusher did it twice
Comment: what miles davis was trying to do 30 years ago, squarepusher finally did. Squarepusher changed the way we look at jazz and at music in general. If you want to buy a cd for historical purposes buy Burning 'n' tree. If you want a cd that will change your life buy feed me weird things. You will not know what hit you.
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Summary: Superb
Comment: Between his somewhat dancy beats and his hardcore jazz breakdowns this has got to one of the best cd's that i have ever heard. This cd, if you read on the back, was soley responsible for the Richard D. James Album. Aphext Twin gave all the credit to Tom Jenkinson and then latter, Aphex Twin got all the credit for IDM. (...) I don't think anyone could touch Tom's style. Allot of people have recreated what Aphex Twin has done. Tom Jenkinson is by far the best bass player of my generation (and thats with Les Claypool taken into consideration). Buy this cd for yourself, your grandmother, your mailman. Everyone should have it.
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Summary: Aphex Twin meets Jaco!
Comment: This is a far mix of jazz fusion with hardcore Richard James style techno - I've never heard anything quite like it... Overall this is an excellent album - at least for now. I wonder about how this kind of experimental stuff will weather... but I am glad I bought it.
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Editorial Reviews:
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With 12 tracks of lunacy, mayhem, and sheer beauty, Tom Jenkinson's 1996 debut as Squarepusher remains one of the few must-have records of the electronica revolution. Though Jenkinson builds his tracks around his remarkable fusion-inspired fretless bass playing, the album initially sounds like a study in maniacally intricate drum solos and patterns, themselves built from a few Roland drum machines. But closer listening reveals a keen intellect at work. Jenkinson has no interest in either the repetitive drum patterns most junglists prefer or their vapid soundscapes. Instead his songs douse you in rhythm and melody. The acoustic Brazilian guitar of "Squarepusher Theme" is soon devoured by a steaming, staccato drum groove, the track ultimately resolving itself as a kind of 21st-century Latin jazz epic. "Tundra" recalls a battery of mad insects destroying a caterpillar; "UFOs over Leytonstone" creates a slow death rumba; "Kodack" revels in glistening beats and streamlined and manic synths, a sign of Squarepusher to come. "Goodnight Jade" is the album's most unusual track, a lush, ambient drone of lovely bass harmonics and a mouselike melody, showing Jenkinson to be a composer of surprising weight and depth. Squarepusher would make records harder, more intense, and more spectacular, but none more musical than Feed Me Weird Things. --Ken Micallef
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