Warp Records
2004
Ultravisitor
About This Album
Squarepusher showed incredible promise during 1999, releasing a third LP (Music Is Rotted One Note) that found intelligent dance music finally assimilating two of its major inspirations -- the easy, careless perfection of programmed electronica and the difficult, experiential notions that characterize live jazz. Ready to embrace him as Miles Davis and Teo Macero in one, a techno savior come to rescue dance from dismissive rock critics, fans instead watched as Tom Jenkinson messily deconstructed that record over the next three years, releasing work that either raided the vaults or became mired in self-absorption. Ultravisitor then comes as a complete surprise. First of all, it's vastly more impressive than anyone could've expected from Squarepusher at this late date. Secondly, it's a trial by fire for adventurous listeners since, on the surface, little appears to have changed from its pitiful predecessor. Instead, the seemingly aimless experimentation of Do You Know Squarepusher is revealed as merely the necessary journey to get to this better place, where Jenkinson's various genres of interest (drum'n'bass, hardcore techno, jazz fusion, musique concrète) and dual compositional techniques (played or programmed) can coexist in harmony, within tracks or next to each other.
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