Feed Me Weird Things

In one word, like all Squarpushers' albums; WeirdBut like allways a must have,Thanx for a great service.Erik

"The epitome of excellence and variety comes in the form of a Squarepusher album. You never know what you may get or not- jazz, trip-hop, techno, jungle, drum-and-bass, and noise. Without seering into the basics, his first album released on Richard D. James' (Aphex Twin's) Rephlex label is a phenomenal feature in all that is entertaining, imaginative, funky, bass-heavy, and ecletic. While for some this might be as too experimental or too rough on the ears, this album is quite accessible compared to Ultravisitor (which is a classic especially with Iambic 9 Poetry, 50 Cycles, Steinbolt, and other more jazzier/acoustic guitar-heavy tunes) and doesn't feature the whole kind of extreme offbeat moods that accompany the great but difficult album. A few songs here-and-there were featured on a Dutch documentary about drum-and-bass and thus has lead curiosity for me to discover it. This album is just strong given the sense of concentration with all that it has and more and its chaotic mood. It doesn't flow seamlessly like any Squarepusher piece/work but it does function with mastery and complexity like a dream. Don't miss out on his first album, which along with Ultravisitor (difficult yet ambitious), Music is Rotted One Note), Just a Souvenir (psychedelic rock experience), and Go Plastic (just funky and standard at his finest), stand out as his strongest works."BEST SONGS: Theme from Ernest Borgnine (fast, steady, and exciting to listen to). Tundra (chill and intense yet like floating in thin air). Squarepusher Theme (gets you into the mood at an instant as the opening track). The Swifty (what Squarepusher does best, jazz-fusion like Weather Report up the drum-and-bass and techno)SIMILAR ARTISTS AND ALBUMS: Amon Tobin- Bricolage and Permutation (lot of similarities here and there). Herbie Hancock- Future Shock. Aphex Twin- I Care Because You Do. The Prodigy- Fat of the Land.

I would like to tell the general public that their is an way to ease yourself into the intense, dense, complex world of Tom Jenkinson's Squarepusher. Sadly there is none. From there, Squarepusher's music is something that you like or you don't. Sure it takes some time to get past the opaquness of his work(some songs take some getting used to while others are almost immediately accessible), but if you can "get it", Jenkinson's "music" is some of them most rewarding IDM you can get into. That being said, Feed Me Weird Things is probably the best place to start for people with an itching to try Squarepusher.First off, I have to say that Jenkinson makes some of the most detailed and intricate IDM this side of Autechre or Aphex Twin. Layers upon layers of manically crafted drum machines, basslines, and synths are assembled together richly and compellingly. But what separates SP from most artists of this ilk is the light-fast speed of which all of this is done at. Even its more meditated moments, FMWT never sits still for an instant, creating a difficult but involving listen. For what its worth you can never say what Jenkinson does it boring. What I find positivily fascinating is that he samples his own playing (and form the live instrumentation of Music is Rotted One Note, he is truly gifted musician), something really amazing. Another thing that seperates his debut from his later works is that it's a full pallet of what the man is capable of doing. Switching from noise, to ambient, to intense drill and bass, to break beat, even to jazz/fusion, sometimes all one track is truly amazing to listen to. However if there is one pitfall of this CD is that it feels more like a collection of songs rather then a complete work which keeps it from being the quality of Hard Normal Daddy, Music is One Note Rotted and Go Plasitc (which are all postitively brilliant by the way).It would seem as though my praise for Jenkinson is non-ending so you would think that Squarepusher has rapidly become my new favorite artist. And while I love his work, I cannot say that I'm his biggest fan. But on the whole, I dare you to find an artist today that makes music as fasinating as Squarepusher. Its so different from everything else that it just begs to be listened to. Its certainly his most musical based work(some his latter work ventures in to pure noise territory), that alone makes it probably his most accessible work. If Squarepusher could ever be considered accessible....

This is a good CD. You get the whole Squarpusher expierence on this (minus the "live" dirge he recorded for Music is One Rotted Note). Hella fast breakbeats and snare-rushes keep his jazzy/hypnotic melodies from floating away like they did on Hard Normal Daddy. If you've heard nothing like this, at first listen it will sound very random and scattered, like static being played on thousands of instruments. But once you focus at it, maybe while on a drug with initials for a name, you realize that it's not chaos, it's just trying to squeeze as much music into every moment as possible. Instead of repeating the same gimic over and over, Tom compacts all his efforts into say, thiry second bursts. It is this painstaking process that people mistake as chaos. Why didn't it get five stars then? Well, it has to stack up against the other Tom Jenkinson CDs. This is my second favorite SquarePusher, With Big Loada in front of it and Hard Normal Daddy behind. This CD does however, contain my favorite Squarepusher song, Smedley's Melody, which sounds like backwards RagTime blues accompionied by Drum & (Symbol?) that is just so floored that it cracks me up. That song is perfection of the genre Tom Jenkinson created.

I won't repeat other reviews in describing the nature of the music, which I'm no expert in. However I would thoroughly recommend this album as one to get you started on Squarepusher. I bought Hard Normal Daddy and Ultravisor first and found them harder to get into. Feed Me Weird things is more consistently appealing, with interesting fast jazzy beats and melodies. With the exception of a few seconds of noise somewhere on the album, I would even play it in polite company without fear of "that weird experimental track" having them complain. If you're wondering how to get into this genre of music, go for this album!

Squarepusher's first and best album c/o Rephlex. Hasn't aged.

The cover is in great condition, sleeves a bit beat up, but may be from the factory.Overall sound quality is perfect, with no skips and crackles, but it needed a clean with a bit of alcohol since the first time I put it on the turntable it had skipping issues. After that clean everything was perfectly fine! The book came in excellent condition! Absolutely recommend!

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