Flow State - Squarepusher
Today's edition is sponsored by How to Begin: Start Doing Something, a new book about finding the best way to spend your time. This is the perfect book to start 2022 strong. Subscribe to remove ads | Advertise with usToday we have a guest recommendation from Scott Layne, a listener and friend of Flow State. Tom Jenkinson, as Squarepusher, melds together genres of progressive jazz and drum and bass. Producing for Warp Records among the other electronica greats Aphex Twin, Autechre, and Boards of Canada, he combines studio recordings of his own virtuosic bass playing, drums, and even, on his Budakhan Mindphone album, Balinese gamelan with sequenced drum, synthesizer, and sampling. Squarepusher works as focus music for the mind like alternating hot and cold baths invigorate the body – by variously arousing your parasympathetic nervous system with a profound ambient jazz soundscape and then jolting you to attention with the jittery, stimulant rush of a crisp and aggressive drill'n'bass sequence. A Squarepusher breakdown can dwindle to nothing more than a free form, Jaco Pastorius-like jazz bass solo, next layering back the restless electronic drum riffs and breakbeats, and occasionally, and increasingly in his later work, reaching a degree of spasmodic discord (sometimes dubbed "dark psychedelic") that would threaten the Flow State of even the most transcendent monk. Feed Me Weird Things - Squarepusher (80m, no vocals) Hard Normal Daddy - Squarepusher (60m, no vocals) Have a great weekend. |
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