This writeup was on Feed Me Weird Things LP (Rephlex)
"Someone had just got glassed right in front of me at the George Robey pub,
Finsbury Park, North London, and I was thinking I wish I had stayed at home
in my studio. Oh, I might as well stay and watch the bloke with the bass
guitar, who keeps wandering behind the Dj booth. That, I thought, is almost
certainly going to be good for a laugh. The next thing I felt was a fuzzy
vibration, as monophonic sound waves that had travelled from the other side
of the room at the speed of light, compressing the air and displacing the
smoke of ten spliffs, hit me in both ear bones simultaneously. It was Mr.
Jenkinson who was turning my heartbeat into the sound of a ring piece
modulated resonant phaselocked trapezoid backwards edit phlanged kick drum.
He made the sound of ambulances turn into slide trombones and the sound of
a secretary filing her nails into a 24-piece string section. When my
partner Grant Wilson-Clarriarge saw Tom spasmodically twitching in order to
play a funky bassline in time with a 347 bpm drum and bass track, he
thought he should either be committed or recorded (fortunately he chose the
latter).
Undoubtedly, Tom Jenkinson is the first man in history to orchestrate an
akai-seltzer fizzing a two mega byte simms memory upgrade chip (with 1
nanosecond access time) and a toilet flushing. When Mr. Jenkinson is
conducting, the rest of the world is in the pit. One of his earliest
experiments was recording an ant walking on sand. Unfortunately, the
experiment was cut short by a cat meowing. Of course, this is not to say
that Tom 'Squarepushing' Jenkinson was the first person ever to discover
that the sounds of everyday life can be more melodious than the sounds of
traditional music. For instance, George Bernard Shaw once said, "Nothing
soothes me more after a long day of pianoforte recitals, than to sit and
have my teeth drilled." The Squarepusher is someone who wonders what the
holes of a flute sound like without the flute. Sound like sound never
sounded before, Richard Rodgers and Julie Andrews gave us the Sound of
music, John Cage and Simon and Garfunkel gave us the Sound of silence and
now the Squarepusher gives us the SOUND of SOUND. - PRichard.D.Jams"
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