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Written June 26 2009 , Tags: things we know
anyone read the text on squarepusher.net? hilarious.
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It is an altogether rad site. The audio player is especially sweet.
Is it just me, or is his stuff sounding more like a hippie jam band with every album? Reminds me of Portland hippie music festivals with my mom in the 70s, light beer in the park, frisbees, etc. he really enjoys slapping that bass nowadays. Im all for it.
i end up feeling embarrassed for him when i listen to his new stuff
big loada and feed me weird things
wow.. hadnt listened to new squarepusher in a long time...
I want some of this new drug he's discovered.. I'm imagining it's something like crack for people who wear chequered woolen vests and drink tea in their english garden. and don't even get me started on when people compare him to jaco pastorius. GIVE ME A BREAK SON
it would be like comparing the sax player on saturday night live to coltrane.
I just want versions of Cooper's World. I like his 70's stuff the most and there needs to be more of it.
I bet the guy on SNL is pretty good at sax and has played ton's of Coltrane in his day. It's not like you have to be a real cool cat to be up to date on Jazz. It's an old dead genre. Meaning .. it's pretty blatent that Squarepusher digs on Jaco. It's just a technique. Is every acid line a rip off of Phuture? Is every skateboarding trick a rip off from Rodney Mullen. monkvolcano said: "i end up feeling embarrassed for him when i listen to his new stuff" i just feel sad because i don't like it and it's less new music to buy and enjoy and i wish it was killer but it just isn't but somewhere in the back of my mind i look forward to the next []pusher evolution.... this latest stuff to me is.. as i've said before "scientology cocktail party music". it's like he's hanging out w/chick corea or something. djugel said: " Is every skateboarding trick a rip off from Rodney Mullen." pretty much. he was doing all that stuff ages ago.. his board pretty much became the standard ya know. but i guess you can say he planted the seeds for all that board flipping stuff we see. i'd like to watch rodney mullen skate to "go plastic". sorry djugel.. yr out of yr element. there's an enormous difference between snl dude and trane.. and jaco and pairsquisher.. if i know every word in th english language that don't mean im shakespeare.
and still.. snl and sp are a huge notch down from their respective greats. every time sp plays a fast lick it sounds like he's got his weiner muscles tensed into a knot trying to play the most mindd blowing lic u ever heard. monkvolcano said: " and still.. snl and sp are a huge notch down from their respective greats. every time sp plays a fast lick it sounds like he's got his weiner muscles tensed into a knot trying to play the most mindd blowing lic u ever heard." was playing "infamous" on my ps3 yesterday doing some particularly skyscraping platforming and the simulated heights had my wiener muscles in a knot. I didn't have the words to describe until now, though, so thanks much. []pusher's slap technique is more victor wooten than jaco. Beyond just the tone, i don't get why everyone does comparisons on just these 2 guys.
squarepusher's composed music has gotten less and less interesting in recent years.
i remember being blown away by the first squarepusher i heard, Selection Sixteen. a lot of the other albums have great great stuff, but they tend to be hit-or-miss as a whole. the techniques and sonic design in Go Plastic and Do you know Squarepusher? are probably my favorite, but all that he's been doing since then has mostly just made me yawn. i'll be the first to agree he's an accomplished bass soloist. but i am not interested in hearing an album of solo bass, especially if it's anything like the wankery on Ultravisitor. what i hear is virtuosity in playing fancy passages on a string instrument, without very much interesting musical content, improvised or not. i don't really like how the label has elevated his talents to the point that he's this untouchable musician in Warp's ivory tower. if he's a "live musician" then he should play live shows more and not release albums that are just reflections of live shows that he hardly ever does. my overall impression of squarepusher is that he got compositionally lazy, but his articulate compositions are the best work he does. hate to beat a dead horse but he ain't a vrtuoso. i don't like victor wooten to much either but u could definitely call him a virtuoso. squarepusher can play kind of fast at the cost of being pretty sloppy. does this constitute being a virtuoso?
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