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  • Music Is Rotted One Note
    1. Chunk - S
    2. Don't Go Plastic
    3. Dust Switch
    4. Curve 1
    5. 137 (Rinse)
    6. Parallelogram Bin
    7. Circular Flexing
    8. Ill Descent
    9. My Sound
    10. Drunken Style
    11. Theme From Vertical Hold
    12. Ruin
    13. Shin Triad
    14. Step 1
    15. Last Ap Roach

    Music Is Rotted One Note is Squarepusher's third LP, released on Oct. 12 1998 by both Nothing and Warp Records. It is an avant-garde, highly experimental album full of contemporary techniques for sound production, with its songs leaning more toward jams and improvisational playing rather than "track" style dance arrangements; as such, some listeners call this Squarepusher's "jazz" or "fusion" album. On its face, the album could be labeled that so-called jazz way in part, but ultimately it's better described as a great presentation of the effect of contemporary production techniques on the outcome of recorded music. Tom Jenkinson, the man behind the moniker, presents his obvious musical prowess on this record, as he played all the instruments himself. He cooks up some grooves that are at points definitely reminiscent of the Miles Davis sound around "In A Silent Way" - which is probably the reason this album gets lumped into a fusion category so often - but in classic IDM fashion a la contemporaries like Aphex Twin, he'll cut the phrases around almost without warning before the groove sets in by the usual manner. But he doesn't just break listener's expectations of grooves - random pitches will shift, timbres will bend in unconventional ways, samples will pan in and out of the mix at random. These elements give the jazz base that is occasionally there a more random, pastiche feel that keeps this music from being easily contained by pigeonholing attempts and labels. It also gives the album huge replay value; new corners of sound reveal themselves after repeated listens. This is arguably the most well-received of Squarepusher's records in terms of critical response. Read more on Last.fm.

  • Go Plastic (2000)
    1. My Red Hot Car
    2. Boneville Occident
    3. Go! Spastic
    4. Metteng Excuske v1.2
    5. The Exploding Psychology
    6. I Wish You Could Talk
    7. Greenways Trajectory
    8. Tommib
    9. My Fucking Sound
    10. Plaistow Flex Out

    Go Plastic is a 2001 studio album by British electronic musician Squarepusher, released on Warp. It peaked at number 100 on the UK Albums Chart. Read more on Last.fm.

  • My Red Hot Car (2001)
    1. My Red Hot Car (Girl)
    2. My Red Hot Car
    3. Hardcore Obelisk
    4. I Wish You Obelisk

  • Ultravisitor (2004)
    1. Ultravisitor
    2. I Fulcrum
    3. Iambic 9 Poetry
    4. Andrei
    5. 50 Cycles
    6. Menelec
    7. C-Town Smash
    8. Steinbolt
    9. An Arched Pathway
    10. Telluric Piece
    11. District Line II
    12. Circlewave
    13. Tetra-Sync
    14. Tommib Help Buss
    15. Every Day I Love

    Ultravisitor is an album by Squarepusher. It was released on 8 March 2004 by Warp Records (see 2004 in music). Ultravisitor incorporates many of the various musical styles exhibited by Jenkinson on his previous albums, including drum and bass, acid techno, jazz fusion, and electronic noise. A few of the tracks feature layered, modulated, or filtered bass guitar. Several of the instrumental parts were recorded live and include applause, blurring the lines between live and studio performances. Tom Jenkinson has stated that "Ultravisitor is my spectacle of beauty and of terror. It is unknowable, and will never be understood by anybody, least of all its creator." Ultravisitor is the only album to show a clear portrait of Tom Jenkinson's face on its cover art. Read more on Last.fm.