"I got to know Tom Jenkinson (Squarepusher), and I like Tom quite a lot."
OOF
tbh he's a great bassist and a synthesist.
The problem, and why I can't get along with a lot of his music, is because he doesn't always go fully into the electronic realm, where cluttered maximalism would make much more sense. This is an absolute classic
I also like it when he uses the format of jungle breakbeats to go on extended tb303 work outs, which was never really an explored possibility.
But yeah, not as keen on his double bass breakbeat things. Although I think they can sometimes be unfairly maligned, but also, sometimes its necessary to draw hard ideological lines, especially as square has a tendancy to lean heavily into the toilet humour just a bit too much, although so does Eminem, and most people wouldn't dream of reviling him as much as they do Autechre, which is telling. a white person who makes hip hop, quintessentially so, but manages to excise everything from rap as an art form which makes it good. If the choice is between showing tolerance for eminem and being a nerd, give me nerds any day! fuck liberalism!