Squarepusher

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Squarepusher is the performing pseudonym of Tom Jenkinson, an English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records. He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass, musique concrète, and acid, with a significant jazz influence.

Jenkinson was born in Bridport, Dorset in 1975 and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School. He went on to study Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Jenkinson performs live, playing with a fretless or fretted bass guitar, a laptop, and other hardware. He appeared twice on BBC Radio 1's The Breezeblock show.

[edit] Equipment

Squarepusher sequenced his pre-2000 work on a BOSS DR-660 drum machine. He uses hardware for his electronic music such as King Tubby-style spring reverbs, Akai samplers, (S950 for early work, S6000 for later work), a Roland SH-101 synthesizer, a Roland TB-303 bassline synthesizer, and a reel-to-reel tape machine. Around the year 2000, Squarepusher bought a computer with Reaktor and an Eventide Orville for digital processing. According to a list of gear from the official website, Squarepusher owns:

He has been known to play Fender, Ernie Ball, and Warwick basses.

Perhaps the most ubiquitous sample associated with many Squarepusher songs is the use of the Amen break.

He is currently performing live with drummer Alex Thomas.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

• Feed Me Weird Things (June 3, 1996)
• Hard Normal Daddy (April 28, 1997) #115 UK
• Burningn'n Tree (November 10, 1997)
• Buzz Caner (May 25, 1998) (as Chaos A.D.)
• Music Is Rotted One Note (October 12, 1998)
• Budakhan Mindphone (March 1, 1999) #183 UK
• Selection Sixteen (November 8, 1999)
• Go Plastic (June 25, 2001) #100 UK
• Do You Know Squarepusher (September 30, 2002) #192 UK
• Ultravisitor (March 8, 2004) #90 UK
• Hello Everything (October 16, 2006) #89 UK
• Just a Souvenir (October 27, 2008)

[edit] EPs, singles and promos

[edit] Compilation appearances

[edit] Remixes

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Warp: Squarepusher
• Squarepusher at Discogs
• BBC Collective: Ask Squarepusher! Tom Jenkinson extensively answers fan's questions. Plus listen to 'Hello Everything' in full.
• Interview (2004)
• Interview (2001)
• Interview (01/1999)
• Review of Hello Everything
• Article (05/1999) (archived version)
• [6] Warp BIO and interview
• Squarepusher takes over guardian.co.uk/music (10/11/2008)
• Short bio at CTM

• Squarepusher discography at MusicBrainz

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