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Tom Jenkinson

Squarepusher

*SQUAREPUSHER RARITIES*

Virtual Instruo filter with cutoff and resonance modulated at audio rates

Feedback Drone Forward

One of my favourite tracks from Tom Jenkinson. Sounds great at 33 RPM as well.

Originally released on the Chaos A.D. Remixes 12" (1998). This version is from the 2001 compilation The Braindance Coincidence.

© Rephlex

The Braindance Coincidence

Chaos A.D. - Psultan (Squarepusher Mix)

Oh heck do I love the old Brüel & Kjaer lab gear...  a type 1405 Noise Generator feeding Pink Noise into two hand cranked 1621 swept bandpass filters.  The recording was made with two overdubs - one with the filters set to a 23% slope and one to 3% slope.   Each filter was hard panned resulting in pure analog generated eeriness!

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2021.

Brüel & Kjaer: Twin 1621 Winds... (SFX With Lab Gear)

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker (Acid Edit).wav

user48736353001 – 5 Acid Misc

https://www.discogs.com/release/1328-Chaos-AD-Buzz-Caner

Chaos A.D. - Buzz Caner

https://www.discogs.com/release/32761-Caustic-Window-Joyrex-J5-EP

Caustic Window - Joyrex J5 EP [Rephlex CAT005]

https://www.discogs.com/release/4700-Caustic-Window-Joyrex-J4-EP

Caustic Window - Joyrex J4 EP [Rephlex CAT004]

Wisp - The Shimmering Hour (Rephlex Cat 195)

https://brainwaltzera.bandcamp.com/


@brainwaltzera #film #itsame #epilog

The Brain Waltz Era Mix.wav

https://archive.org/details/Mu-Ziq_Soundcloud_101-200_of_392

μ-ziq - Acid Pop

Not compiled from me - credit goes to YouTuber hexagon calx - comp is excellent

Squarepusher - Unreleased Comp.

Aphex Twin / Squarepusher - Reconstruction

https://www.discogs.com/release/200-Stereotype-Stereotype-EP

Tom Jenkinson - Stereotype - A1. Whooshki.flac

Dostrotime

Arkteon 3

SQUAREPUSHER-cryptic motion / MR OIZO REMIX

Tracklist and full article: http://www.factmag.com/2015/04/27/fact-mix-493-squarepusher/

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One of electronic music's true daddies steps up.

Heavily influenced by Aphex Twin, who went on to become his labelmate at Warp, Tom 'Squarepusher' Jenkinson had an experimental approach to bass guitar - both at school, and then later in teenage metal bands - which he applied to electronic music, releasing his debut record, Stereotype (under the name Stereotype) in 1994. After a series of records on Spymania, Jenkinson landed on Warp's roster in 1995, and became part of the label's stable of 1990s titans with Aphex, Autechre, Boards of Canada, Plaid et al.

The 20 years since have seen Squarepusher tear up the templates of jazz, drum'n'bass, psychedelia, techno and more across over 15 albums, while also developing one of the most talked-about live shows on the electronic circuit. Last year, the Squarepusher project reached a logical climax of sorts when Jenkinson released an EP, Music for Robots, that was written by him but performed by a trio of Z-Machine robots (including a 77-fingered guitarist and a 22-armed drummer). That hasn't, of course, stopped him: this month he released his latest album, Damogen Furies. 

For Squarepusher's FACT mix, he looks way back, at the rave music from the turn of the 1990s that not only inspired him, but many of his contemporaries. This is Squarepusher presents Shut Up And Dance, 1990-1992, and it's rude as fuck.

FACT Mix 493 - Squarepusher (Apr '15)

Vic Acid

Fat Controller (G7000 Mix)

Squarepusher DJ Set on NTS celebrating the 30 years of Warp Records.

https://www.nts.live/shows/wxaxrxp/episodes/squarepusher-live-from-nts-london-22nd-june-2019

Squarepusher - WXAXRXP DJ Set (22/06/2019) [NTS Stream]

Warping time using FM encoded tape... here two intertwining arpeggiated patches from my Blue Zone Kontakt library were recorded at 240bpm using only keys from the top two octaves onto two (out of 7) tracks of a TEAC MR-30 Laboratory Analog Data Recorder at 38cm/sec.  The FM encoded audio was then played back at 9.5cm/sec thus restoring the pitch but time stretching everything around it including reverb, delays and modulation effects.  The result is quite magical – not least because the tape machine itself adds a load of mojo in terms of smearing/limiting/filtering/noise resulting in a sort of crusty sonic Sepia effect.

No additional reverb has been added - its mearly the original reverb and delay tails ending up 4 times longer due to the tape speed reduction.

The MR-30 was originally intended as an Instrumentation Recorder to capture mainly slow DC signals (yes, it will record CV in parallel with audio!) and vibrations from transducers in laboratory experiments but it turns out the unit is capable of recording 7 tracks of audio concurrently well into the audio range (about 10KHz)and can playback and record at 6 different speeds from 1.2 to 38cm/sec.  In max speed a C90 lasts less than 10 minutes!

Here is the recording... warts and all.

Composition & Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio 2020.

1983 TEAC MR-30 Slo-Mo: Molécules d'eau (Lo-Fi FM Encoded Tape Experiment)

https://www.discogs.com/release/385638-AFX-Analord-01

2005 Analord 01

AFX - Analord 01 / B2 // Grumpy Acid

Patskin

patskin - XP4 ACID

TB-303 Test Run...
Sent through Hughes & Kettner "Metal Master" Tube Distortion.
A Million Times heard, but it still rocks ;-)

TB-303 Test Run

A mysterious recording found on a reel of steel recording wire on a Bakelite spool that was bundled with a WWII 1942 Armour Research Foundation (ARF) Model 50 wire recorder (originally built for the US Airforce) I purchased several years ago.

I don't know why but it just seemed right and I felt compelled to preserve this vintage slice of life on amateur radio from yesteryear.  My guess is that the recorder was purchased, like so much ex postwar kit, from a surplus store by a radio ham who used it to capture long distance two-way SSB "DX" radio conversations he'd managed to setup and work.

I love the aesthetics of analog SSB SW radio - it is as alien as it is as human with all its bizarre pitch shifting and phasing artifacts - a truly analog phenomenon!

Unlike the flight recording I discovered on another wire reel, some research into this one ultimately turned out to be very fruitful thanks to the community spirit and great record taking of countless DX radio hams around the world over the decades.

The recording itself was probably from the early 1950s and the recording was clearly made from the UK side of an historical shortwave DX radio conversation between an operator in Stockholm and a radio ham in the UK.

SM5RM aka Olof Fridman was an extremely enthusiastic and well equipped radio ham from Stockholm. In this recording he is talking to a friend G2JZ aka Jack Rushton from the Midlands in the UK telling him a story about an old friend and a strange coincidence....

Here is the text of SM5RM's original QSL card:

"SM5RM of Stockholm can give linguistically-inclined DXers workouts in fluent English, German,French, Spanish, Italian and three Scandinavian languages. Olof runs 150 watts on several DX bands, is building a 500-watt final amplifier, owns a printing business and has been hamming for 30 years."

Mr Olof Fridman was born on October 29, 1909, but died in late 1971, only 62 years old. He lived in the capital Stockholm where he owned a printing company named "Masterprint". He printed thousands of verification cards from the late 40's to the late 50's.

ARF built around 2000 Model 50 wire recorders for the US military during WWII. A spool of ultra fine wire, 15,000 foot long, could hold 66 minutes of recording on one spool of steel wire.

On the machine is a serial number plate marked USN Bureau of Aeronautics Special Devices Division Contract No.3153. It was built in the early 1940s.

Unfortunately I learned the hard way that when one of these crazy machines suffers a wire spill the resulting tangled carnage literally leads to tears as the wire is so thin untangling it without snapping the wire is near on impossible!

Transfer & Audio Restoration by D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2020.

1942 ARF Model 50 Wire Recorder: Vintage Radio Ham DX Recording

“I Care Because He Does.”









This is a page inspired by the artist Richard D. James, more specifically, his work on the Rephlex Records label, unreleased/rare releases, and the album he released under the alias “The Tuss”, called “Rushup Edge.” Leading up to this official release, there were multiple MySpace pages said to be accounts belonging to The Tuss. At this point in 2023, it is still unclear how much of these Tuss accounts Rich was involved in… the only confirmed RDJ Tuss material are the aforementioned “Rushup Edge”, and the ep the preceded it, called “Confederation Trough”.

This page also focuses heavily on the “SoundCloud Dump”, which was a series of releases uploaded to a number of anonymous accounts on SoundCloud that eventually became clear to the world to be Richard. It is an astonishing amount of material - spanning his entire artistic career. They eventually were taken down by his record label, but there are a number of folks that compiled each track in a zip archive and can be downloaded for free to this day on archive.org. 

Though this page is dedicated to and inspired by Aphex Twin - I came to a turning point with where to take this page. The main goal is to promote. In other words,  to provide a place online for fans of Aphex Tain to easily stream the best of their favorite artist, as well as showing younger fans of electronic music who I believe is the greatest electronic musician. 

I’ve also uploaded various tracks from a few other artists that are either collaborators, influencers or those influenced by Aphex Twin. You will find some original DJ mixes done by me and some straight up “mixtape” style hour long tracks arranged by and mastered by me. 

I do not profit in any way from this monetarily speaking, but I do get a lot out of seeing the comments and the joy that the songs uploaded bring about, and archives are important.

https://evel.bandcamp.com/album/adopt-me

https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/blackbox-life-recorder-21f-in-a-room7-f760

https://squarepusher.bandcamp.com/album/dostrotime-1

https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/grush



https://archive.org/details/aphex-twin-2023

Squarepusher - Unreleased Comp.

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