squarepusher wanting to give squarepusher a chance

[MAXIMUS MISCHIEF]

i have listened to him on and off over the years but never really gotten into it or liked it enough to want to buy/download a full album.

i just watched that 10 part warp 20 set and i have decided hm i should probly give this guy another shot.

so where should i start??

[Friendly Foil]

From the beginning

[MAXIMUS MISCHIEF]

what album

[Retape]

I'd say 'Hello Everything'.

[awesomeperson]

Selection Sixteen if you liked those tracks on the Warp live set.

[Guest Calx Sherbet]

I'd say 'Hello Everything'.

 

if anything start with that, then go JAS, hard normal daddy, big loada, feed me weird things, ultravisitor, go plastic, then try everything else in between. he had a couple of acid albums like "Stereotype" and "Crot" if you are into that sort of thing.

 

save Music is Rotted One Note and Budakhan Mindphone for an entirely separate listening session. those albums are much murkier, messier, gritty and just all around looser.

[MAXIMUS MISCHIEF]

thanks guys

which album is the last track he played in that set on ?? i am sure its on something i remember hearing it a long time ago.

[awesomeperson]

It's Port Rhombus.

[MAXIMUS MISCHIEF]

oh kooool

[gunnar]

possibly his best track

[mcbpete]

For me his best track is Iambic 5 Poetry

[Terpentintollwut]

My first was Feed Me and I doubt I would have gotten into him, had I heard J.A.S. or Hello Everything first (lucky they weren't out then). Feed Me just combines loads of different stuff and it's all good. Port Rhombus is a great track too though. The whole of Big Loada isn't too different from Feed Me imo.

[Deepex]

For me his best track is Iambic 5 Poetry

This post got me to listen to this track for the first time in a long time and I'm really glad I did!

[Guest Fishtank]

Go Plastic is my fav.

 

Ultravisitor

Big Loada

Hard Normal Daddy

Hello Everything

 

are my others

[gunnar]

start with feed me weird things. if you don't dig it, then maybe squarepusher is not for you.

[bubbhasdance]

Feed Me Weird Things

Go Plastic

Hard Normal Daddy

Big Loada

Selection Sixteen

Hello Everything

 

then go on from there :)

[Guest Apeofnaples]

Planetarium. Got me excited. I'm drunk

[pissflaps]

Hello Everything is probably perfect to start with. If you have some experience with good electronic music, you may go directly to FMWT and Big Loada, then GP and Ultravisitor.

[Candiru]

My first album was Hard Normal Daddy, which is sick as fuck and really does him justice. Beep Street and Fat Controller will make a convert out of you.

 

Go Plastic and Ultravisitor are his super technical, harrowing masterpieces.

 

It took me a while to get into Music is Rotted One Note, I started enjoying after checking out Miles Davis' fusion stuff, and then it clicked and whoa I'm glad it did.

[Hautlle]

My first was Feed Me and I doubt I would have gotten into him, had I heard J.A.S. or Hello Everything first (lucky they weren't out then). Feed Me just combines loads of different stuff and it's all good. Port Rhombus is a great track too though. The whole of Big Loada isn't too different from Feed Me imo.

 

This ^ why would you not start here? It has all of the themes he explores later in his work, and it's a great intro to his sound/style. Squarepusher's Theme, Tundra, Smedley's Medley, Theme from Ernest Borgnine, UFO's over Leytonstone, kodack, Future Gibbon... fuck the whole album is sick (the only one I don't care for is Dimotane Co.)

[Guest Dirty Protest]

Start at the start and listen to it all. Every release has something brilliant going on.

[Guest Calx Sherbet]

My first was Feed Me and I doubt I would have gotten into him, had I heard J.A.S. or Hello Everything first (lucky they weren't out then). Feed Me just combines loads of different stuff and it's all good. Port Rhombus is a great track too though. The whole of Big Loada isn't too different from Feed Me imo.

 

This ^ why would you not start here? It has all of the themes he explores later in his work, and it's a great intro to his sound/style. Squarepusher's Theme, Tundra, Smedley's Medley, Theme from Ernest Borgnine, UFO's over Leytonstone, kodack, Future Gibbon... fuck the whole album is sick (the only one I don't care for is Dimotane Co.)

 

oh jeez, Dimotane was my favourite

[Hautlle]

My first was Feed Me and I doubt I would have gotten into him, had I heard J.A.S. or Hello Everything first (lucky they weren't out then). Feed Me just combines loads of different stuff and it's all good. Port Rhombus is a great track too though. The whole of Big Loada isn't too different from Feed Me imo.

 

This ^ why would you not start here? It has all of the themes he explores later in his work, and it's a great intro to his sound/style. Squarepusher's Theme, Tundra, Smedley's Medley, Theme from Ernest Borgnine, UFO's over Leytonstone, kodack, Future Gibbon... fuck the whole album is sick (the only one I don't care for is Dimotane Co.)

 

oh jeez, Dimotane was my favourite

 

Well, when I first got FMWT my friends and I would get high as shit and drive around listening to it and we would jam out to that track. Over time it has just become more grating and I started liking it less and less.

[chomp]

I really like the Squarepusher epics, like Tundra 4 and Exploding Psychology and Greenways Trajectory. Massive buildups that culminate in absolute intensity. Right now this is the only thing I like about Squarepusher. When I got into electronic musics, Squarepusher was one of the most accessible for me. I agree with what basically everyone else said.

 

Assuming you're anything like me, I'd say go:

Big Loada / Hard Normal Daddy / Feed Me Weird Things

Selection Sixteen / Maximum Priest EP

Go Plastic / Venus No. 17 (for Tundra 4)

 

Also, there's the sweetest collaboration ever between Squarepusher and Aphex Twin on a WARP compilation, We Are Reasonable People, called Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid. I remember this being significant in the development of my listening interests (as they related to Squarepusher at least).

[phudoshin]

You're all forgetting live squarepusher - this is where he shines completely:

 

Liquid 97 (Hard normal daddy tour)

Frigids/Japan 2001 - (go plastic tour)

Rappongi 2004 (Ultavisitor tour)

Paradise boston (Tundra 4 stuff)

Warp20 2009 Sheffield (unreleased mayhem)