At 9:07 PM 6/7/96, Sean Cooper wrote:
quoted 2 lines like many on this list, i've been watching with some interest the growing>like many on this list, i've been watching with some interest the growing
>infatuation with yer Squarepusher,
ditto
i was at a party yesterday and my man Squishy showed up with "Feed Me Weird
Things" and Orbital's "In Sides". being in a very receptive state of mind
from all the beer 'n' weed floating around i sat back, ready to be blown
away...
well, i feel the same way everyone else seems to feel about lifeforms -
technically proficient, well produced, but just doesn't connect for me.
the jazz style he does he is obviously good at but i think it's pretty
shlocky sounding. also, the 303 jungle tracks were just annoying. i am so
sick of 303's squirting and farting their way through layers of distortion.
listen to Off And Gone's album to see how to properly use a 303 in 1996!
if i ever find the squarepusher album for cheap i'd probably get it but i
wouldn't spent $22 on it.
and yes, all the excessive hype definitely worked against it. hey man, my
life isn't changed after hearing it! where's my new life?!!?!
quoted 6 lines the drum'n'bass equivelent of the worst of late-era hard-bop>the drum'n'bass equivelent of the worst of late-era hard-bop
>or (yikes!) early '70s jazz-rock fusion. like middle period jazz messengers
>or the latter incarnations of the mahavishnu orchestra, Squarepusher
>assembles a euphoric, dizzying array of technique and stylistic facility
>before the listener, and one which is, at least where these ears are
>concerned, entirely devoid of emotional content and compositional dynamics.
i wouldn't say entirely devoid. the songs do change a lot and the guy is
obviously into what he's doing, but there's just some magic "x factor"
missing for me.
i dunno, weird. hard to articulate exactly what i didn't like about it. i
guess it's just that i wouldn't like that style of music without all the
drum 'n' bass stuff flying around it, so i don't like it much WITH all the
d'n'b stuff. make sense?
thought not.
*sigh*
-jon