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  • ¥T

  • the drums really make this track

  • FAN....FUCKING TASTIC!!!!!!!!!A hard drum with a sweepy melody....

  • this is so good it hurts

  • And then this was posted on /mu/ for no reason.

  • Pearsquasher

  • Damn. Every time he starts a song I think "ehh this opening melody doesn't sound like it could possibly go anywhere interesting." I'm proven wrong every time.  Crazy dude. Look up Dorian Concept if you enjoy this.

  • It's breathtaking..

    Can't explain how perfectly this hits the nail on the head when it comes to perfect music arrangement..

  • Fuckin incredible

  • whoa

  • this is amazing..

  • The choice of sounds, width of those Rhodes and variety in arrangement all blend together to form the most moving melody I ever heard. I have to admit, this moved me to tears a few times when it first came out.

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  • @elsewhereify

    It is not foolish to address the implicatures of an utterance (see Grice). Also, you are guilty of a category mistake when you accuse me of logical fallacy. Obviously, there is an important difference between a putative factual error and a logical fallacy. There is nothing fallacious about my statement. Your only escape is to deny that your utterance carried the implicature, I claim it does. If you prove this, you prove that (continued above)...

  • best song ever!

  • One of the greatest melodies.

  • sure the stats might not be great but the average comment is like 4 lines. talkin bout crazy shit

  • Jngl4U :]

  • sometimes it isnt always about beats, but with this song, it is! well done to my man squarepusher

  • killer beats!

  • better than shitty pendulum

  • @gogolplex74 true that

  • is anyone still trying to make this kind of stuff, other than wisp? if not, why not???

  • @79redflowers Try some Boxcutter, he's an up and coming legend to be on Planet Mu

  • @79redflowers wisp is shit, complete garbage - dont insult a legend

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  • @deewon4 the fuck you on about? wisp is bomb

  • @SupakSlice wisp is the bomb diggity.

  • Great !

  • his best album

  • great

  • This is one of his best tracks. I have listened to it hundreds of times and I don't get tired of it.

  • squarepusher forever!!!!!!

  • squarepusher makes my music seem inferior to his but if anyone could give it a listen and an opinion it would be much appreciated :)

  • @0Neutrality0 he makes most music inferior. ahaha !

  • Ja, echt hoor, vette shit weetje, kèèk nòààà! Olde basterd nog steeds, hahahaha!

    Greetzzz, Pleun. (A.K.A. Pluis)

  • Love this music, I was into Squarepusher since the very early days in the 90s, saw him play live lots of times, in festivals and other venues. Also saw him DJ and play bass in clubs!! Fantastic!!

  • Maaaan what a tune, blows me away every time i hear it!

  • wish this song could play in my ears everyday all day.. should make life perfectly energetic..

  • @digitalarturo

    being productive would be alot easier and enjoyable ;P

  • @RCD608 and more enjoyable*

  • Tundra was borne of this.

  • Fuck yeah gospel!

  • This tune makes my adams apple sore with emotion.

  • AWESOME I fuckin love dubstep!!!!

  • Well, that's nice but what does that have to do with Squarepusher. If you're implying this is dup-step in any way then you're sorely mistaken. Just dub w/ other Electronic shit. No step.

  • @Iamcola65 Man I love jazz!

  • @Iamcola65 lmfao seriously hope you are joking.

  • @adrenacrumb STFU I don't care what you say DUBSTEP RULES! It's my favourite genre of music ever and I don't care if you say mean things to me.... you sad little faggot

  • @Iamcola65 No, I meant this track is not dubstep in any way whatsoever so I don't know why you mentioned dubstep. This track was released about 5 years before dubstep was even a genre.

  • @Iamcola65 If you think this sounds like dubstep in any way you have no clue what dubstep is.

  • @adrenacrumb That guy's trolling you. He's pretending to be stupid to piss you off

  • @itarethetroll Figured that after checking his page, should have just checked it first.

  • this is the track that got me into squarepusher... and although he has performed veritable miracles of sound.... THIS one is by far (for me) the one that pulls heart strings like no other..... beautiful... x

  • Even in FLAC and with a decent equalization system, I realized a couple years ago that this song is really subdued, muddy -- pointless. I stopped listening to it completely (but still had it). Tonight though, I turned on foobar's Noise Sharpening DSP; and it's as if it was made specifically for this song. Back in business!

  • WTF happened to WARP records after this (mainly post 98). Used to be modern, futurist and unlike anything else. Now they are securing a broader market by offering some watered down pop shit. Get those guitars out of my ears and hey Aphex/Pusher and the rest GO AND SPEAK TO MIKE PARADINAS

  • @jonathanwhitefield perhaps these words will console you: noone. fucking. gives. a shit.

  • "I have always loved music that has both elements: melancholy and sadness as a description of the current situation you are in, but at the same time a hopeful, utopian element that reminds you of the possibility of a different life." -Ulrich Schnauss

  • His music always reminds me of modern Britain. Visit any British city -- preferably a Scottish city -- and sit on a bench listening to Squarepusher on a grey, chilly day. It's amazing how his music seems to describe Britain and its people without so much as a word.

  • @elsewhereify alright...gaaaaaaaaay lol jks

  • @elsewhereify Tundra FTFW

  • @elsewhereify Nice comment. I know exactly what you mean by this. I love this song, and all these 90s Squarepusher tunes, for the same reason. Truly beautiful track.

  • @elsewhereify

    Agreed. Portishead and Massive Attack are that way with Bristol. And hell, Squarepusher and everyone else on Warp are class acts... boards of cananada, aphex twin, autechre, flying lotus- loads more- it's all preium electronic and instrumental talent.

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  • @elsewhereify

    I see you partake in that peculiarly dangerous psychiatric disorder known as 'nationalism' as do your 27 mindless devotees. Although, this is an apparently benign expression of it. Go ahead, help yourself to the accomplishments of other people simply because you happen to have born in a particular locale. I used a little abductive reasoning to derive this conclusion but if you're being honest, you'll own up to it.

  • @bon1931

    Are you autistic? Because you completely misread his comment and are acting like a little aspie.

  • @bon1931

    There is a difference between being proud of one's nation and, for instance, proclaiming it to be greater than any other country in the world. May I suggest you study the rise of German nationalism from 1815 onwards? May I suggest you then compare some of the remarks made by devoted German nationalists to mine?

  • @bon1931

    In addition, I fail to see how I have 'helped myself to the accomplishments of other people simply because I happen to have been born into a particular locale'. If you had read my initial comment and understood it fully, you would realise that this is not the case. Perhaps, before you launch an eloquent but ultimately illogical counter-argument, you should consider your position. Nobody likes being made a fool of on the Internet; I'm sorry that I had to make you look a fool.

  • @elsewhereify I agree, I've lived inside this album for years, love it, like the theme tune for some metropolitan informercial

  • @elsewhereify yeah, shit and cold...

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  • This song still speaks to me, all these years later. For me, this is what math must sound like. It's perfect in pitch, tone, and beat, yet has soul. Good music somehow stays relevant over time.

  • i like the aphex twin feel to it.

    my kind of music. :)

  • Tom Jenkinson and Richard D. James should have a baby together

  • @Dereck89

    This.

  • :) when I listend to this album for the fist time late 90's in my late teens I remember being totally blown away (I even cried).. I had the feeling being understood true music :) I think I listened to the album like everyday for a month onwards ;) listening to it now again..immediately warps(record) me back to the 90's to the mind on a teenager for whom life is so new, intense, deep, exiting.. it still gives me goosebumps..

  • @Rijogs chill out son

  • @Creepfacexo explain ?

  • @Rijogs Thanks for that comment. I'm pretty young and just discovering this amazing music now and it's like endless windows are opening up for me. All my art is improving, I'm even doing better in f*cking school. It's like there is this mystical nature to the music. It's so undeniably human yet it's made with machines. Anyhow,, thanks for the amazing comic from someone going through what you did.

  • 8 people need to get their head checked

  • 6:01 and on are the best

  • 2:24 is ecstatic

  • amazing amazing...just heard this track for the first time! Keep it on divine!

  • Squarepusher is my favorite Drum'n'bass artist. He independently embodies every fundamental of what it means to have soul: not just exhibiting a funky sound but exhibiting an open heart not afraid of transition. This song is so addictingly calm. Thank you for posting this vid!

  • just posted on my FB. this is such a great song for waking up and everything in between :)

  • r.i.p brandon lee, great martial arts actor that needed songs and music like this in his movies. well done squarepusher

  • Squarepusher is awesome!!) long before modern artists (who's mostly composing lot of template-like music)

  • OK, OK. I get it. I'm Off to buy some squarepusher. RIGHT NOW!!!! :-)

  • this is really moving it makes me cry almost

  • this album is gold

  • try to roll a joint listening this, you won´t be able to start smokin..

  • Another album I've never heard by him! Thanks for posting

  • Good trips people.

  • Hard normal daddy like a freak politician or like a strong childiecian?

  • i love that

  • Showed this to my bud...he's laughing all the way through..then he gives me my headphones back and he's like "Drugs" and kinda walks off.......

  • @Kamari101 : first, ask him whether he was talking about Aphex Twin's "Drukqs". If not, dump him... ;-)

  • PLI HOSIMO GOUTSARO ME 1000

  • @ALLiLaTioN 4:18 point classaTOOOO

  • I've been a fan of squarepusher for a nice few years now, but there is still so much of his music I have yet to hear. But the more I listen to him, and view his interviews, the more I think he's one of the most talented musicians around. He just makes amazing music!

  • @joncoish Same story here, I always keep finding new tracks he's made. Every time I think I've heard it all I'll find something new by him. I just discovered a single by him called "Hanningfield Window"

  • Most days I'm an atheist, but after experience beautiful creations like this, I just can't possibly accept the fact that we are all collections of dominant patterns of matter, randomly thrown into action. Everything in the universe is random, chaotic, and has no pattern... but when you look at us, it's insane how advanced the patterns are. The act of enjoying music is beyond the chances of near eternal measures.

  • @LIGHTRONIX how can you say there are no patterns in the universe, and then say the patterns are advanced- clearly everything follows patterns from earth to the solar system, then swirling galaxies and so on- music is the root of all these patterns, the blueprint of all existence, which is why we find it so entrancing. squarepusher gets closer to the origin of existence than anyone else.

  • @zepiego sorry I was totally plastered when I wrote that, what I was trying to say was where did all those patterns come from? There are very specific patterns that everything runs by, and I think it would take more than just trillions of years for dominant patterns to advance to the level we experience here on earth.

  • @MIKEDURSTEWITZ

    These are exactly my three favourite Squarepusher songs.

    The other songs are great too, but these three have something really special about them!

    What are your next three favourite ones? Mine are Bubble Life, Welcome to Europe and Planetarium or Coopers World, I can't decide which one I like better.

  • this has been the theme tune to the past 7-8 years of my life- happy, sad, ecstatic, doomed... its all here, a song for life

  • One of my favourite tracks of all time. It's Just stunning. The arrangement, programming, melody, drums are all flawless

  • life should always feel like this.

  • good :D

  • This had to be one of my favorite squarepusher songs.. but really its hard to compare.

  • back in the days.........love it so much!

  • i almost cry hearing this song

  • @LackingLack0 This great aint it?!

  • Chicken Skinned enlightenment...

    The places my thoughts go to listening to this...

    awesome!

  • THIS TUNE MAKES ME WEEP TEARS OF SOLID DIAMOND

  • @LackingLack0 this makes me puke and sneeze and sweat and spit and cry and bleed and piss and shit and burp and cum and cough and laugh at the same time

  • @LackingLack0 Ouch lol

  • wicked , still one of his best tracks

  • everyone throws around the word genius but i think its apropros when it comes to squarepusher

  • respect to squarepusher!

  • The last bit sounds like something out of Secret Of Mana.

  • Tom Jenkinson is tha man!

  • Best Squarepusher track ever :)

  • I've been meaning to get around to listening to Squarepusher. I like it, any reccomendations on albums to start with?

  • @weLOVE2trip anything and everything from Squarepusher!!!

    you can literally grab ANY of his albums at random, and it'll be a great place to start.

  • Pandora revealed this to me yesterday. I'm still in awe as to how intricate and amazing it is. I will DEFINITELY look up more songs from this artist.

  • amazing tune from squarepusher... very beautiful.

  • Ironic. Enough likes/views and this will get noticed and removed

  • Whoever disliked this... disliked... this... song... I guess....

  • Now you've got my LIKE too!

    THX

  • this reeks of squarepusheresqueness...

  • Pretty nice to find some chill dnb for a change. 

  • My favourite Squarepusher tune! Amazing track.

  • One of the first tunes i heard of Squarepusher. It was on an old Sampler i think. Lovely Tune! Brings pictures in mind.

  • I'm going to make a little tour of a couple of Squarepusher songs and see if we can figure out the breaks he's using.

    For Beep Street? Tough one... I'm going to go with Kool & The Gang – NT. Pitch up NT and then approach it from the perspective of a jazz drummer. Arrange a sequence of rudiments. You should get a very familiar sound.

    Warning: cutting the break itself is a bitch because of some dissonant noise during the "drum solo". Make sure you get a clean slice with some ghost notes.

  • @DavidAlanRogers

    This sounds more like Soul Pride to me. I could be wrong.

  • If anyone is wondering, the snare sound is actually a high-tension snare drum, most often used my marching bands.

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  • Music is. You either understand that or you don't. Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote "When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you". Nowadays that might sound like intellectual poo, but it is a truism. When you leave a comment to this piece of art by Tom, just remember, you are leaving a comment about how you have interpreted this which show others how your brain works and not necessarily about what this music is (well, rarely actually).

    I love it, it's art at its best

  • love this tune

  • Thanks very much for posting mate

  • does anyone understand how to write breakbeats or glitch drumming? I understand it's samples cut up at 1/64th, but what sequencer program are they using/effects...... Like at 1:03- 1:06 & 1:34- 1:38; how do you make the snare start out fast, then spread thin, then back together again. I'm using reason 4 for sequencing. I've been able to replicate it somewhat, but I have a feeling I'm doing it the wrong way. Help!!!! message me.

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  • @BodyBraille sample and hold effects, no idea how to do it in reason, just use buzz tracker for effects, lol :p

  • @BodyBraille If I'm not wrong, I think Jenkinson used a Yamaha Q7000 to sequence the drums on this track. If not, it's what he's been using for a while.

    You'll find it difficult to do in Reason 4 without some crazy effects routing. Trackers like Renoise, Modplug and the like let you have crazy control over sample sequencing but they're hard to learn.

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  • so happy everyone is enjoying this tune

  • @divineclown i actually downloaded the album because of this song lol :D

  • @divineclown richard d james????????

  • @divineclown HELLZ YES...I ALMOST MADE A BABY TO THIS!!!!...THANKS TROJAN!!

  • @divineclown you just made my day

  • @divineclown

    can you tell me if there are any other tracks from him that are like this one? calm and driving at the same time? i don't want to search on youtube for about 3 hours :D

    I would appreciate it very much!

  • @Graphite92 this entire album :P

  • @Graphite92 a journey to reedham

  • @Graphite92 - "Tundra" from Feed Me Weird Things.

  • Thanks a lot - lovely tune !

  • Okay I just heard "Do you know Squarepusher" and I take back everything i've said. I'd put him at the top with AFX, Autechre and Mike Paradinas.

  • I think I could listen to this song all day...long...

  • @divineclown LOL!

  • Autechre+Aphex+ u ziq = way better than squarepusher.

  • @chillskid If you sum all three of them. I like autechre the most out of all three at this point in time - I liked squarepusher the most when I liked jazz and manual drum-programming the most. I like autechre the most for automated / generative things, and I like aphex twin only the most out of nostalgia as I heard him first. They're incomparable. And, u-ziq seems more versed in non-jazz compositional realms. royal astronomy was inspired by his live tour with bjork. they're incomparable.

  • @midinerd I just haven't found I squarepusher track that I like as much as tracks such as 444 by autechre, alberto balsalm by aphex and hasty boom alert by µ ziq. If you can recommend one that's perhaps more melodic I'd be interested. I think I tend to prefer songs what are more instrumental based than percussion. This song is pretty good though.

  • @chillskid try Tomorrow World

  • @KaunisRoheline23 Wow thanks for that recommendation. That's definitely the best song I've heard by Squarepusher yet.