Squarepusher INTERVIEW
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2021
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His debut album Feed Me Weird Things has just turned 25 and been remastered. It's an IDM classic; check it: squarepusher.bandcamp.com/alb...
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I see Tom is recreating the Ultravisitor album cover for this interview.
lmao
this is a quallity comment
I found out he is older today. Research.
Sans beard though.
With a little more of a receding hairline but he rocks it well
A melon interviewing a square, now that's not something you see every day.
I like people with long brain. I have long amount of disl*kes btw. Why? Maybe people with short brain disl*ke because jealous of my long amount of subscr*bers. Please have long brain, dear colin
@@AxxLAfriku preach father preach
Rodsquare
6/10 melon boy vs square pushing boy
they needa put that shit in minecraft
The talk about him meeting Richard is very important IDM lore
LMAO
Fax, I didn’t know that before this interview
they also made an song toghether
which time?
@@christophhofer303 some time ago. the song was called rome song or aphex twin and squarepusher untitled song
Damn Anthony is killing it. These interviews are always great he picks good artist, and gives them good questions. You can tell he actually deeply appreciates the art/artist. Much love melon
It's borne out of a lot of research and love. Always what's so best about Fantano is his earnestness. And honestly it's the same with Squarepusher or most great artists: they care and want to be good and conscientious about things.
Now get his brother, the legendary acid man
Ceeeephax Aciiiiid Crewww
Ceephax gets a lot of love within IDM and Acid communities. Underrated for sure
United Acid Emirates is a top 10 album for me. Any time I'm in a shit mood I can throw on Life Funk and you literally can't be bummed with that track playing
@@tylergraf2285 emotinium is the ultimate feel
@@tylergraf2285 and royal lounge is just vibes af
I love how Tom’s video frame looks like the cover of Ultravisitor..
Tom is such a real, kind and humble musical genius. Enormous crush on him and his brain haha.
All-time favourite. His fundamental lack of pretention and absolute sickness make him really special. Such a fucking cool dude.
Yeah, I appreciate how much he's willing to share (seemingly excited to educate fans), unlike some others on the warp roster.
@@vordkaze Fully.
Tommy is indeed a legend, I can't say enough about how important he and Richard D were to shaping my taste in music.
its all about you mate innit
Holy FUCK Anthony. This is a legendary one. This is one for the books.
Totally 👍
Anthony should absolutely review more IDM artists. This would give them a ton of much needed exposure.
Would love to see Autechre get interviewed on here. They'll probably do it also.
Really wish he didn't move away from covering electronic music. I feel like the IDM fan base I nowhere near as toxic as some of the other fan bases Fantano has to deal with.
@@winesue Would be a good chance for him to get away from the Swifties for a bit
@@sega-megadeth1276 or the opium fans.. 🤮
Some balls to say to an artist that you pirated their music. Respect. Great response from Tom.
my heart flew out of my ass when i see this in my notifications
so real
He's so underrated. Meanwhile It's almost a crime that Moby is this giant rock star, just making mediocre car commercial music...
@@Eidelmania yeah moby is white hot these days
That's a nice way to describe how you shit yourself
If symptoms persist please see your doctor.
isn't this the first legit legend he's interviewed
depends what makes an artist a legend. squarepusher def is one
It is
i think you’re forgetting his interview of Matt Watson from SuperMega
He interviewed Julian Casablancas and Mike Dean before this he’s been on great interviews lately man.
Jello biafra
no fucking way, the minute i start listening to iambic 5 poetry, this drops
I was just listening to Hard normal daddy and this popped up, very strange
One of my favorites!
Love hearing Tom talk about the Ultravisitor period and how much time he spent on individual tracks, of that focus on creating intense, non-repetitive rhythms that could act as ear worms in the same way a catchy melody does. For me, that period from Go Plastic through Ultravisitor is perhaps Tom's great musical legacy - 'The Exploding Psychology', 'Menelec', 'Tetra-Sync' - being there to witness that evolution of sound through the IDM 90s, I still haven't heard anything since that period that has felt as musically progressive, from any artist.
I’m pretty sure Tetra-Sync was one of the first SP tracks I heard and it changed my life, such a huge tune
greenways trajectory, my fucking sound, and exploding psychology have not been topped in 20 years
@@TrustyButterknife Completely agree
Damn. It's funny (and also kinda sad) to discover, almost 20 years later that I wasn't alone in loving those tracks (back then I felt like a freak listening to that stuff). I would also add Tundra 4 from the Venus No. 17 LP which also blew my mind. Oh, and the dark and noisy 'Steinbolt' from Ultravisitor.
@@igorlesage21 you definitely weren’t alone :) we were just spread out across the globe I think. You are so right with Tundra 4, I haven’t listened to that track in quite a while but I remember when it came out, it is such an epic journey. I’m going to put it on right now, thank you for the reminder of such a brilliant tune.
let's goooooo squarepusher is a legend
~23:00 talks about first meeting with Richard James (Aphex Twin). For posterity
Thx lol
Nothing more British than a middle aged man lamenting the closure of a pub he used to go to 30 years ago.
Been spinning Feed Me Weird Things since it dropped. So great. About time it got a vinyl reissue. Next up: Hard Normal Daddy and Go Plastic…
You got an interview with Tom Jenkinson?! Legendary musician. Props on nailing this one.
My Red Hot Car is still my ringtone.
Lol nice. I just listened to it for the first time in ages, then saw this in my recommended
No Anthony, Squarepusher isn’t a hacker, so stop asking him about Squarespace.
@armersuender I don't know a lot about SP, but I know his style and influences enough. Thx tho :)
Well he did write his own sequencing software from what I understand, So there's that. He's been doing it since the mid 80'
"I cherish stuff that's transient".
Hell of a paradox.
His description of the way hearing LFO for the first time made him feel made my heart flutter. Losing Mark Bell was such a fucking horrible tragedy.
OMG need to listen properly again. Indeed. LFO was THE revelation there at WARP. I remember I wrote many messages to them (telefax) and was really annoying because I couldn't wait. Haha, and WARP, my godssend label, always replied... LFO took a too long break. But well, 2nd album wasn't as good any more, but no problem. Was the golden era. RDJ and Ae entered the chat.
Ikr I can't imagine how Bjork must've felt
Big props to melon for this! I’ve been a fan of squarepusher and melon for a while. I’m always excited when he covers these electronic artists. I hope he reviews a Luke Vibert record.
Anthony should definitely review more IDM artists, like Aleksi Perala, Bogdan Raczynski, Mike Paradinas, Ceephax Acid Crew and (like you mentioned) Luke Vibert. There are so many incredible artists within that genre that it's criminal how they are not discussed more.
@@sega-megadeth1276 not even mentioning afx because we all know it won't happen 😥
I 100% feel him on the ''just pick anything' approach with drums etc., I still often just pick basics from FL studio and swap, tweak or drastically change them from there. I also have some processing chains that I know produce interesting results I can't predict fully, I just throw stuff on those and see how they sound. A lot of my music even starts like that, I ''find'' a sound I like and I make a mostly arbitrary pattern I like that suits it, then these steps keep slightly informing the next mostly arbitrary step until I know I wanna go somewhere specific, until then I run out of concrete ideas, and I start poking around again.
It’s such a freeing approach to producing tracks, that’s why I love granular synthesis so much, you never know what you’re gonna get. The unpredictability of just playing around is much more interesting to me personally rather than taking a calculated approach (not that there’s anything wrong with that, there’s no right or wrong way to produce).
@@arizonateagod8491 It's also just incredibly relaxing, especially compared to pulling your hair out not getting something ''right''. At times I can easily sink hours into this stuff, especially because sometimes I'll just make it an exercise without expecting real results.
It can also be kinda in between, maybe I find something would work well in a hypothetical videogame and run with that, it'll likely sit in my folders forever, but I had a great time either way, sometimes with some good takeaways too.
@@Gnurklesquimp definitely agree, I used to try and do things the “correct” way every time which usually resulted in me just twiddling the same knobs for hours. I also have tons of stuff buried in folders that’ll never see the light of day but was essential in the fact that it allowed me to take a breather and just create for the sake of creating.
It’s helps a lot to separate the actual creation of a track: laying down chords, melodies, bass lines, drums, etc.
And doing the more technical aspects of production: mixing, mastering, etc. on separate days so that I don’t lose that initial creative spark/urge you get before/during the process of creating something
@@arizonateagod8491 And much like having placeholder sounds, you just gotta trust it'll sound great when you've worked out all of that. If you're applying principles that lead to at least a decently mixable track during your main creative workflow, it should work out just fine.
Sometimes I kinda do a lot of main creative idea stuff for a bit, then work on details and polish so I really feel the vibe before going back into the creative flow, but I've been getting better and better at just feeling out how it will sound.
@@Gnurklesquimp that’s certainly a good mindset to have, took me a minute to get over the fact that it’s generally never going to sound amazing on the first draft.
he's a genius in my eyes, Hard Normal Daddy blew me away, I couldn't believe this kid made such a masterpiece. it really was so good a producer three times that age wouldn't be able to make something like that.
no one can do it
@@montanacorpboom for real
In grade school and high school, in Chicago you waited till midnight and there were 5 college radio stations that played whatever they wanted, it was always the most underground experimental electronic music, trip hop, acid jazz, jungle, house, arena, ambient, 80s style hip hop, spoken word, goth, dark danse, noise, etc. And if you didn't tape it you would never hear it again.
I was so disappointed when the lockdowns began last year because I was going to see Squarepusher at a festival in the summer, guess it's time see where he's playing next.
same, but i was going to see him in san francisco...
Yo same here. Was going to see him in NYC and I was forced to cancel my trip. Luckily I got to see him during the Ufabulum tour but was still pretty bummed I missed this one.
Me too. Was gonna see him in Detroit in April 2020. Still haven't gotten my tickets refunded yet! Luckily I caught Shobaleader One in Chicago a few years back. Oh my gosh: "Don't Go Plastic" was a brain melter. Elektrac version doesn't even come close!
It's always awesome to hear the details of a genius artist's journey.
And to hear Squarepusher talk about bringing jazz into electronic is incredibly interesting.
I got Big Loada. At the time I was heavily into dnb and the scene in central Florida. Trying to get everyone to listen. A Journey To Reedham sounded like a lovesong, a celebration. Fully augmented my idea of what electronic music could become.
The bodybuilder and full rinse and come on my selector 🔥
Thank you for this, Anthony. Tom is such an inspiration for me through my life - such an icon and really setting the bar for musical artistry with his approach and aesthetic. I see him on the same level of the greatest musicians/artists ever. He creates out of necessity - only searching for his own voice. He has had a profound influence on me and I'm eternally grateful.
It really seems he has so much unreleased music. I wish some day that some of that gets out and maybe gets curated.
I also wish he discussed his thoughts on the current state of music but I would imagine he doesn't concern himself much outside of his own world.
damn u said what i was thinking
I never thought of checking out an interview with him. Years of playing the music, first interviews I’ve seen. A total gem!
6:50 - superb early question! Straight to the tech spec!!! Love it!!! Always love to know what hardware was used to create the early sounds! Thank you Mr Fontano
Toms music pretty much defined my late teens and im 26, i was thinking feed me weird things has like 3 acts you have the opener which is square pushers theme, then you have tundra through UFOs over leytonstone which is like the bulk of the album, then you have everything after UFOs which is like the encore. Its neat.
imagine if you got an aphex twin interview
One can only hope
I'd shit my parachute pants
It would never happen unfortunately
@@zoljol he has done interviews before ya know
@@Warnerchild in one of his interviews in the past few years he said he would stop doing interviews for a while. It was in a magazine I think
Living fucking legend, and a huge inspiration to the music I produce. Thanks melon 🍉!!!
Ditto
squarepusher reminds me of SuperHans from Peep Show, lmao
"This is the Squarepusher CD, and this is the speed"
Go Plastic is THE best electronic album
@@rorz999 agree. It was his peak for sure
The Exploding Psychology is such a massive track
Autechre's NTS Sessions would like a word with you
It really is a masterpiece.
idk confield
Thanks for this, I've been going down some of these rabbit holes myself recently and Tom's advice is fantastic. This provides some great perspective.
I guess the Hip-Hop track that Tom mistakenly thought to say "Don't go plastic" is indeed called "Dope on Plastic" and is the only single by rapper Uptown. No Britcore track, but still has that hectic sound. Dope track, look it up!
Yay! Just when I started getting back into Squarepusher
I had literally no idea what I expected SP's voice to sound like but somehow it fits perfectly.
It's surprisingly close to vocals in the Do You Know Squarepusher vocal samples, F-Train and 50 Cycles
It's bassy for the bass guitar
Good interview. great to hear in depth long form conversation centered on music.
Great interview. Thanks alot for that. Some great nerdy insights too into the gear and recording process ! Now if you can get a BOC interview you will officially be the champion of the whole internet forever
Excellent interview, Squarepusher was actually the first electronic artist I enjoyed listening to back in the mid-2000s. I was a metal kid with a lust for guitars and effects pedals but my mate burned me a copy of Hello Everything and I was like 'woah, this is like the soundtrack to a crazy videogame that never existed'.
Squarepusher a living legend
Absolute legend.
This man influenced me more than anyone as a teenager.
As a Canadian only music we had other than the traditional pop bullshit was "MuchMusic" they had a show called the "Orange Squeeze" or something like that, they'd play a lot of European music we'd never hear in Canada anywhere.
The internet was new to me at the home at the time. After seeing "Come on My Selector" I immediately went on Napster and downloaded every Squarepusher song I could find.
I was too young to have any spare money but Napster was around. I went to concerts in Toronto every time he was in town though so I feel I made up for the stealing.
One show hearing the sorta epic of bass thru time was amazing, I could never find a recording of it. Seemed like it was improvised maybe for the Toronto show, was my favorite part. From old jazz to Jimmy Hendrix to modern stuff in one tune.
Was mind blowing.
Squarepusher is legit interesting to listen to and seems ultea sympathetic. Alot of respect from me.
Great interview! Tom is one of the most underrated bass players performing today.
Feed Me Weird Things gets a reissue and now an interview? Holy shit!! This dude is a legend.
I love that the audio is lined up just off in a way that makes them sounds like they're always biting on each others heels
Great interview. I'd assumed Squarepusher might have been some hyperactive IDM mutant but he's a thoughtful low-key guy who speaks really well.
YOU ABSOLUTE LEGEND. Tom's one of my favorite musicians. Can't believe what I'm seeing!
I love Tom. What a guy. Enthusiasm and momentum. Amen to that! great interview, thanks for that.
Great interview! Absolutely loved it. Thanks.
Tom and Richard are two people who shaped my musical taste. The album Feed Me Weird Things was a turning point in my life. I can not express how much a value these two individuals. They brought so much meaning and color to my existence.
Trianglepuller
We listened to Squarepusher in college for a DA Production class. It was awesome.
Been a huge fan for a while. Great interview.
Well this is pretty much epic. Tough to describe how influential he has been. Which is to say, massive. Been getting back into his sound after around a 10 year absence. Never gets old. And that's really saying something about an artist.
THE ONE THAT MADE BEEP STREET?
Correct
This was a great interview. Thank you so much for doing this!
How did I miss this before? Great interview, love Squarepusher. I banged that on soulseek then as well...
This interview was awesome.
Killer interview. Great to hear some insight into his musical process.
seeing tom smile makes me feel something again
LETS GOOOOO
thanks for this interview, it's your best one IMO
Thank you Mr. Jenkinson. You make the world a better place.
56:39 hes probably referring to Dope on plastic by Uptown. but who knows.
lol jesus finally some electronic music content
Oh my my my. I lost track of him but was a huge fan in the 1990s and early 2000s. Big Loada (1997) especially was like nothing I had ever heard. I mean, there was the drum and bass influence but it was so ahead of it all.
Ty for this interview 💙
It's nice to see Tom being so open and flexible with his answers. Knowing of his previous interviews, obviously he could've gone into more philosophical and techincal stuff but instead he aimed to please the interviewer and his audience.
Squarepusher seems like such a chill dude!
The vinyl reissue is quite good, very glad I got it. Sounds much better than the cd. The b-side 7” included is also very fun, never heard it before!
I believe the song he mentions for the inspiration of the Go Plastic title either is or sampled Uptown - Dope On Plastic
Amazing interview!
such a good interview bro, thoughtful respectful spontaneous. and Squarepusher is so mellow always following his joy.
A deeply satisfying interview. Thank you.
amazing interview!Thanks :) Would be amazing to see one with Autechre :)
Great interview with a fascinating musician. Thank you!
Absolutely awesome, I didn't expect this!
Man, thanks so much for this interview!
I am absolutely the biggest fan of Squarepusher, my eyes lit up when I saw this video
So glad this interview exists!
legend
Very revealing, open and honest.
I loved the trivia surrounding his relationship with RD James Twin.
Awesome.
It was and is Windscale 2 that impresses me most on fmwt. BRILLIANCE.
It's safe to assume, we now desperately need Steinbolt 2 and Tundra 64. OMG, the two existing Tundras are sooooo massive ❤️💕💓💓💓💓
Steinbolt is a fucking monster!
I forgot all about Beep Street!!
1:14 This is a sign your next interview should be Ariel Pink
Might still be my favorite Pusher track. Absolutely breathtaking.
Awesome! Love TJ. Maybe Bibio and Clark in the future?
A living legend, danke my friend
Crazy I literally just stumbled upon this guy and here we are
Good tips and inspiration for producers thanks
As for LFO - LFO I think the "alien person" in the logo helped a lot to set the theme... Track was THE revelation back in the days.
amazing interview!
What he says at ~44:00 about making music applies to so many things. You have to start somewhere with a basic form before you can expand it, refine it and work out the details.
Also applies to Netflix. Sometimes too much choice is a bad thing, you waste time instead of creating or watching.
This is great, thank you for the interview.
This is a really excellent interview! Well done man :)
great interview!