FACT mix 493 - Squarepusher

One of electronic music’s true daddies steps up.

Growing up, 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, and his forthcoming London show in October is billed as his biggest yet.

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

You can catch Squarepusher and more at Lovebox this Summer. For tickets and more information, head here.

Tracklist:
Shut Up And Dance – Derek Went Mad (remix)
Shut Up And Dance – Derek Went Mad
Shut Up And Dance – This Town Needs A Sheriff (remix)
Ragga Twins – Wipe The Needle (remix)
Shut Up And Dance – Death Is Not The End
Ragga Twins – 18″ Speaker
Shut Up And Dance – Here Comes A Different Type Of Rap Track Not The Usual 4 Bar Loop Crap
Ragga Twins – Spliffhead
Shut Up And Dance – Runaways
Shut Up And Dance feat. Ragga Twins – Lamborghini
Shut Up And Dance – So What You Smoking?
Shut Up And Dance – The Green Man
Shut Up And Dance – A Change Soon Come
Rum And Black – Slaves
Shut Up And Dance – Down The Barrel Of A Gun
Ragga Twins – The Killing