1. Squarepusher's recordings are often typified by a combination of complex drum programming, live instrumental playing, and digital signal processing.
28 Facts About Squarepusher
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Squarepusher is the older brother of Ceephax Acid Crew.
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Squarepusher took an interest in this, as well as in music reproduction equipment.
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Squarepusher cited hearing the track "LFO" by LFO as an early influence.
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Squarepusher then placed two songs on Worm Interface releases, "Dragon Disc 2" and the "Bubble and Squeak" EPs.
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The sleeve artwork was generated from a set of images taken by Squarepusher wandering about Chelmsford town centre.
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In January 1997, Squarepusher moved to a flat on Albion Road in Stoke Newington, London.
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The piece was the first to be recorded of the set and was originally commissioned to be used in a computer game, but Squarepusher decided it was too important to hand over to somebody else's project.
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Squarepusher started considering new ideas about how to put music together.
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Alongside this Squarepusher was becoming interested in the work of 20th Century composers such as Stockhausen and Ligeti, specifically their electronic and electroacoustic works.
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Squarepusher stated that he was keen to carry on with the method of making music he had developed making the "abstract jazz" elements of Music Is Rotted One Note.
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Squarepusher decided to switch focus slightly and approach the following phase with a less rigorous aesthetic in mind.
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Squarepusher relates that "Iambic 5 Poetry" is "apparently one of Bjork's favourite songs".
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Squarepusher stated that this piece was obliquely inspired by the films Solaris and Stalker by the Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky.
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Squarepusher had made new friends in Sheffield and found himself a regular DJ and punter at various club nights around Sheffield.
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Squarepusher was revisiting a lot of the mid-1990s drum and bass that had so inspired his early releases.
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Squarepusher played his first shows in America at this point, one of which was at the Coachella Festival.
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Squarepusher spent the remainder of 2002 working on software patches and recorded many pieces in that period that were to feature in his show at Warp's 20th anniversary party in Sheffield in 2009.
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Squarepusher toured with the London Sinfonietta, performing the piece "Tundra 4" live.
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All of these tracks are based on live drumming tracks, which Squarepusher had planned out quite meticulously beforehand, in contrast to similarly realised tracks on Music Is Rotted One Note.
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Squarepusher appeared at Glastonbury and Glade Festival in the summer of 2005.
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At the time of the release of Hello Everything, Squarepusher appeared on the BBC's Culture Show and was interviewed by Lauren Laverne, and performed a short version of what was to become one of the pieces on Solo Electric Bass.
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Squarepusher appeared at the John Peel tribute event at the Electric Ballroom in Camden around the time of the release of the record.
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Squarepusher first started working with the team of Japanese roboticists behind the Z-Machines in 2013, who had commissioned him to write music for robots that were capable of playing beyond the capabilities of the most advanced musicians.
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The EP was made using software that Squarepusher programmed by himself.
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In 2016, Squarepusher took his Shobaleader One band on the road, and is continuing to tour the project.
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Squarepusher wrote a suite of short organ pieces which were performed by James McVinnie as part of 2016 national tour "The Secret Life of Organs" celebrating the county's great organs as the first 'synthesisers' invented centuries before their electronic counterparts.
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Squarepusher was influenced by the death of Chris Marshall, his childhood friend to whom he dedicated the album.