{"id":3401,"date":"2012-05-19T11:42:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T18:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/05\/the-squarepusher-dialectic\/"},"modified":"2012-05-21T11:47:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T18:47:47","slug":"the-squarepusher-dialectic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/19\/the-squarepusher-dialectic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Squarepusher Dialectic"},"content":{"rendered":"

from SPIN Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Squarepusher Q&A: A Chat With Electronic Music’s Own David Foster Wallace<\/h1>\n

May 17 2012, 8:03 AM ET
\nby\u00a0Philip Sherburne<\/a><\/p>\n

Tom Jenkinson on video synthesizers, synaesthesia and self-indulgence<\/em><\/p>\n

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Seventeen years ago, Squarepusher (Tom Jenkinson) began his career as a breakbeat gadfly, chopping up jungle with Jaco Pastorius into a style known briefly as “drill ‘n’ bass” (or, better still, “weirdy-beardy”). Since then, across a dozen albums, he has established himself as one of electronic music’s least predictable musicians, capable of infectious 2-step garage, sepulchral ambient, molecular breakbeat science and even an entire album of solo electric bass. Fair-weather fans might snicker, “Spinal Tap Mark II performs Jazz Odyssey,” but anyone who really knows Squarepusher \u2014 a gauntlet he threw down with 2002’s\u00a0Do You Know Squarepusher<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 recognizes that there’s a method to his madness.<\/p>\n

Jenkinson is famous for meticulously constructed rhythms and audacious, even alienating, stylistic shifts, and both qualities are readily apparent in a conversation with him. He’s cordial, candid and 100 percent engaged, but I’ve never heard another musician speak in such analytical terms about his own work \u2014 terms that might sound cold, until you realize the extent to which his right-angled career is as conceptual as it is wildly expressionistic.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at spin.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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