I've never heard _feed me weird things_ but I did pick up _Bubble and Squeak
and _Squarepusher plays_ this weekend and I absolutely loved them both. I had
the DJ Food remixes and I thought the SP remix on there was pretty boring, just
freaky beats for their own sake without much else. Still I walked into the shopand found Tom Jenkinson releases everywhere. 4 different releases at the same
time! I thought _SP plays_ was amazing. _
"theme from Renaldo" is so damn funky as is the "SP theme". I see where the 70sreferences come from as he does dip heavily into that sound. However I thought
it worked wonderfully. He captures the essence of the 70s cheese sound without
getting bogged down in it. "Deep Fried Pizza", however, did nothing for me. The breaks get totally lost and it just trudges along without them.
_Bubble and Squeak_ is more of the same. He can make the music sound so live.
Almost like a real jazz feel. The constantly mutating percussion sounds showed
an impressive attention to detail. Both the tunes on _B & S_ did sort of get
lost in making noise out of a hopelessly complex percussion maze at the end
which IMO makes the Rephlex 12" the better buy.
Mark Bowen
mb@gettins.bche.uic.edu