quoted 3 lines DJSTiK420@aol.com wrote:>DJSTiK420@aol.com wrote:
>istening to big loada and imo it blows all other
>squarepusher away easily.
I agree. Big Loada is the one. Yeah, it's a collection of ep's and is
all over the place but it has a bunch of the tracks where his vision
and his technique really fuse and take off, very exciting.
a track like Port Rhombus is a great little effusive gem, a perfect
manifestation of his effort to work jazz into drill and bass, to work
traditional musicianship into super-synthetic programming. but to my
ears, a lot of his later attempts to further mine this sort of fusion
don't work so good, though i was excited by what he was attempting.
sometimes the problem was his stylistically interesting but
rhythmically lackluster fusion drumming.
the most recent stuff I find painful...it's kind of like he was
really on fire when he went off into his jazzoid Music is One Rotten
Note thing....and then he got a lot of shit for it, so he came back
to acidy breakbeat but with this begrudging, cynical attitude. like
he wants to maintain the audience he initially attracted and is even
willing to compromise to keep it, but the price is eating at his soul.
Anyway, my second favorite is Burning'n Tree, just a collection of
early singles, but very nice in my opinion. highlights his drum
programming which is not a bad thing.
k
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