Track Listing

1. Hello Meow
2. Theme From Sprite
3. Bubble Life
4. Planetarium
5. Vacuum Garden
6. Circlewave 2
7. Cronecker King
8. Rotate Electrolyte
9. Welcome To Europe
10. Plotinus
11. Modern Bass Guitar
12. Orient Orange

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52451 in Music
• Released on: 2006-10-16
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .12 pounds

CD Description
Ten years after inventing so-called "drill 'n' bass", Tom Jenkinson is still going strong. On this, his seventh studio album, he continues to head more in the jazz-funk direction he explored on 2004's 'Ultravisitor', smoothing out some of the sharp edges prevalent on his earlier work without totally abandoning his love for frenetic D&B beats and electronic textures. Includes the download-only single 'Welcome To Europe'.

Customer Reviews

Finally...
...a new great Warp album. Tom Jenkinson returns to tickle your sampling fancy with this excellent follow up to 2004's Ultravisitor. With a little more solid musical variety than Ultravisitor, this is more melodic than previous albums; more toned down. That's not to say there isn't an exception. "The Modern Bass Guitar" follows the same neurotic path and unearthly sampling techniques that were used in songs like "Greenway's Trajectory" and "Go Spastic" off of the album "Go Plastic". Tracks like "Theme From Sprite" and "Bubble Life" show us Jenkinson's amazing bass guitar talent. Other songs like "Hellow Meow", "Planetarium" and "Welcome to Europe" display a little of the newer melodic direction this album offers. Other than the occasional noise track, this album is full of new treats that will delight any Squarepusher fan. To me, it may not be "Big Loada" or "Hard Normal Daddy", but this is an excellent comeback from a brilliant musician. All in all, Squarepusher fans should not be dissapointed.

Niiiiiiice
Tom Jenkinson is an awesome bass player. Really. You get to hear that much more in this album. There's something potentially very pretentious about "the aura" of Squarepusher, but this is just great music that'll inevitably - and rightly - forward the way people think about music, and what actually constitutes music.

Anyone into electronica will already know of him, but this is music for anyone who likes their stuff progressive, intelligent and interesting. And, ultimately, good.

If you see or hear anyone talking about the "audible agony of his sonic experimentation" or "the philosophically angular notes of his modular symbiosis", etc etc, wallop the person with the business end of a bass guitar, spit, then have a listen with a cup of tea and a cigarette. Great fun.

Definately a grower.
I have always found squarepusher albums to be a bit hit-and-miss, usually having a few concisely brillient tracks, burried within slightly too much experimentation and jazz-infuenced experimental noodling. This effort is a nice step away from that, being much more consistant than his most recent work. Almost everytrack is enjoyable, with blissfully joyfull melodies and a lush, warm feel that pervades throughout. The few truely experimental tracks are thin enough on the group to be appreciated for what they are, and Tom Jenkinson's instrumental efforts are reigned in from excessive improvisation to tightly pre-meditated and nicely played facets of individual pieces, only adding to the warmth and uplifting effect of the album.

Some fans may be left wanting however, as there is a noticible lack of drum complexity. Most of the percussive work is either jazzy grooves with a real drumkit, or understated use of the amen with very little of Jenkinson's trademark micro-production. This does however give the 'live' sounding synth work more space to breathe.