A Brief Exploration of Aphex Twin & Squarepusher

Dewey dB — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 02:55:55 +0000

Hello, and thank you all for your continued support of my music blog. I’m glad that many people frequent it because I really love sharing music with everyone in my life. One of the questions I get asked on a consistant basis is to recommend some “good” Aphex Twin (Richard D. James) and Squarepusher (Thomas Jenkinson) songs. I would like to take a moment to emphasize the point that this is by no means an exhaustive journey into either of these creative geniuses. Rather these six songs I have selected, three from each artist, are meant as a sampling of a few of my favourite songs by each artist. If you know of similar songs by these artists, we would love to hear about it, just leave a comment! Without any further rambling lets begin:
Aphex Twin – Girl/Boy Song sample taken from his 1996 LP “Richard D. James”
Squarepusher – Port Rhombus taken from his 1996 EP “Port Rhombus”
Aphex Twin – Flim sample taken from his 1997 LP “Come to Daddy”
Aphex Twin – Window Licker sample taken from his 1999 EP “Windowlicker”
Squarepusher – My Red Hot Car taken from his 2001 LP “Go Plastic”
Squarepusher – Do You Know Squarepusher taken from his 2002 LP “Do You Know Squarepusher”

Honourable mention also go to the following songs, which are also very good, but I am not comfortable posting that many “sample” songs on here, so look them up, and buy the cd’s/lp’s to support these guys!
Squarepusher – Iambic 5 Poetry (Budakhan Mindphone EP, 1999)
Squarepusher – Iambic 9 Poetry (Ultravisitor LP, 2004)
Squarepusher – Come on my selector (Big Loada EP, 1997)
Aphex Twin – Vordhosbn (DrukQs LP, 2001)
Aphex Twin – Avril 15th (DrukQs LP, 2001)
Aphex Twin – Mt Saint Michel Mix St. Michaels Mount (DrukQs LP, 2001)

Clark – Throttle Furniture (Warp)

Dewey dB — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:53:39 +0000

This new ep from the artist formerly known as Chris Clark, is going to be seriously on point, as always! Mr. Clark is well known in the experimental electronic music scene as being one of the godfathers of the genre. His first EP, Clarence Park was an intense journey through his twisted interpretation of electronic music, with serveral tracks that were so powerful and emotional I had them on winamp repeat for well over a week. With his first double lp, Empty the Bones of You, his style drifted somewhat to the more minimalistic/ambient style of electronica, but still very cutting edge and Warp worthy! His second EP, Ceramics is the Bomb continued along the same style of minimal nasty broken beats truely only worthy of a true electronic fiend.
His third EP, Throttle Furniture, is a sneak preview from warp records of the direction clark will be taking with his newest and second full length album, as well as some of the material he will be showcasing on his upcomming UK tour with 65 days of Static starting on the 25th of February. Unfortunately the only song on this EP that will be on his forthcomming album is Herr Bar, and we haven’t been able to get our filthy little fingers on that one yet, ’cause the EP isn’t out till Feb 20th, but we do have a very special treat for all our dedicated readers, a downtempo.ca exclusive, Clark – Frau Wav which has an incredibly catchy wonky plastic disco style to it. Download
Of course you can also pre-order the the EP from WarpMart

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A Brief Exploration of Aphex Twin & Squarepusher

Clark – Throttle Furniture (Warp)