Squarepusher

Quick Facts

Full Name	Squarepusher
Occupation	Jazz Musician
Date Of Birth	Jan 17, 1975(1975-01-17)
Age	49
Birthplace	Chelmsford
Country	Wales
Birth City	Chelmsford
Horoscope	Capricorn

Squarepusher Biography

Squarepusher is one of the most popular and richest Jazz Musician who was born on January 17, 1975 in Chelmsford, Chelmsford, Wales. Tom started considering new ideas about how to put music together. At this time Richard D. James introduced Tom to the music of Tod Dockstader, an American composer who had worked extensively in the 1960s, principally realising his compositions by tape editing. Alongside this Tom was becoming interested in the work of 20th Century composers such as Stockhausen and Ligeti, specifically their electronic and electroacoustic works.

The first recordings using Tom’s new set up were released on the Spymania label. This was an offshoot of Zoom Records, which was based in Camden Town and was set up by Tom’s school friends Hardy Finn and Paul Fowler who worked at Zoom. The first e.p. was called “Conumber”. “Conumber” exhibits the influence of mid-1990s jungle, which at that point had eclipsed his interest in other forms of dance music. Tom cites “Babylon” by DJ Splash, “Dub Plate Style” by Marvellous Kane and “R.I.P.” by Remarc as being particularly influential on him. But a very specific influence came from Luke Vibert’s recordings as Plug, especially the track “Military Jazz” from the “Plug 2” e.p. of which he says: “I recall hearing that on the radio in the summer of

1995. I was dumbfounded, I thought I was listening to some funk group and suddenly this massive Amen breakbeat kicked in. It sounded like the future.” This influence came to fuel many of Tom’s ideas over the next two years, in particular the album Hard Normal Daddy and becomes more apparent on the second Spymania EP Alroy Road Tracks. Another influence at this time came from frequenting the club “Speed”, which was put on by DJ’s Fabio and LTJ Bukem and was held in central London.

In autumn 1994, Tom began to pursue his fascination for integrating breakbeats into electronic music. This was partly inspired by early 1990s recordings on record labels such as Shut Up And Dance, Chill, D-Zone and Kickin’, but also Aphex Twin’s usage of breaks in tracks such as “Polynomial C” and “Dodeccaheedron” as well as Renegade Soundwave’s “Black Eye Boy” and Mantronix’s “King of the Beats”, which had been a favourite of Tom’s from the days of DJing at parties in Chelmsford.

This period also saw the release of the “Burning’n Tree” album, which was a compilation of Tom’s Spymania releases. The set includes three pieces that were recorded in late 1995 during the Feed Me Weird Things sessions that were not originally released on Spymania.

He was also revisiting a lot of the mid-1990s drum and bass that had so inspired his early releases. He describes the set-up for Go Plastic as follows: “It was the next stage in the “liquid effects processing” idea. “To me it was all about trying to make it sound totally liquid and psychedelic, like liquid LSD. Not evil though, “evil” music just sounds daft and theatrical to me. I’ve always had a Frankenstein-thing going on, ever since I was kid when I was playing around with electronics. I love the idea of the set-up having such a complex level of internal activity that it begins to resemble a living being.” “My Red Hot Car” is his most well known piece. That and “Boneville Occident” were two of the earliest pieces from these sessions. The piece “Tommib” was so named after Tom recalls that: “Aphex [Twin] was helping me edit a track for Vic Acid and he named the project ‘Tommib’ and I always remembered that for some reason.” Tom claims that “My Fucking Sound” was written specifically with Chris Cunningham in mind: “We had talked a lot in that period about working together, loads of ideas were flying around. That track was intended for Chris to use, and that project was called “Spectral Musicians.” Tom recalls that “Aphex [Twin] rang up when I was finishing off the track. He asked what I was up to and I said something like “I’ve got 31 bars left to write on this track I’m doing.” He just started laughing and said he never thought of music like that. I suppose it does sound a bit strange and clinical.”

Squarepusher Net Worth

Squarepusher is one of the richest Jazz Musician from Wales. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Squarepusher 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Tom Jenkinson (born 17 January 1975), known professionally as Squarepusher, is an English electronic musician. His music spans several genres, including drum and bass, IDM, jazz, and electroacoustic music. His recordings are typified by a combination of electronic sound sources, live instrumental playing, and digital signal processing. He is the brother of Ceephax Acid Crew (Andrew Jenkinson).

In 1986 Tom went to the King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford. One of his formative musical experiences came from seeing guitarist Guthrie Govan playing in the school’s inter-house music competition. Tom went on to develop a friendship with Govan which continues to this day. Tom joined his first band at 12, a Metallica influenced thrash metal group consisting of several other pupils from the school. Over subsequent years Tom played bass guitar in various local bands playing numerous gigs around East Anglia and London, and took part in some studio recordings.

In 1991 Tom became interested in house music, hardcore, acid house and techno, through which he became friends with Hardy Finn who went on to co-found record label Spymania.

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In March 1999, with the Budakhan Mindphone and “Maximum Priest” sessions wrapped up, Tom found himself in quite changed circumstances. He had made new friends in Sheffield and found himself a regular DJ and punter at various club nights around Sheffield. At this point Tom became quite skilled at tape editing. Another element that he was keen to bring back was the usage of sampled breakbeats. At this time, Tom was frequenting a Manchester-based club night called “Schizm”. It was run by friends of Sean Booth and Rob Brown from Autechre who themselves had played there on occasion.

Facts & Trivia

Squarepusher Ranked on the list of most popular Jazz Musician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Wales. Squarepusher celebrates birthday on January 17 of every year.

Early 2000 saw Jenkinson consider “radical tactics”. He states it became clear that it was high time return to sequencers and leave behind the live-playing approach, which he had adopted since late 1997. Around this time, Tom started seeing more of Chris Cunningham.