iād forgotten about that track, itās lovely.
Not really the same but these have some nice tracks on also. Not sure they quite capture the same mood really but good all the same.
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Probably echo what has been said above, Iāve not gone too deep into his post 2000 career and from what I have heard about it, I will not check it out.
Port Rhombus EP is his best release imo
Possibly the first one on the list that I havenāt only not heard, but also donāt know anything about.
Big fan of Vic Acid
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Probably a āsecond tier IDM greatā for me. Donāt quite love him the way I do Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada et al but still often raises a smile. I do tend to find break-core a bit exhausting over the course of an album though.
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i only know a handful of tracks which i really like and had no idea he had so many records out. will check out some more.
Interested to hear from @Twinkletoes on this one actuallyā¦
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Oh yeah, I know this too as j also had the soundtrack, had just totally forgotten he was on there
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Very much this for me. I got big in to that stuff in I guess early 2000s and Squarepusher is the only one Iāve lost interest in. Found Hello Everything a bit boring and just kinda drifted away from him after that. Should probably check out his more recent stuff. As it is, a 3.
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He gets a 5 JUST for Tundra 4.
I met Squarepusher backstage at Green Man. I was playing with my band and we stumbled across him recording a live session. Afterwards I basically collared him, talked about times weā seen him before and asked if he would give me bass lessons. Expected him to laugh in my face but he actually was like āMaybe, Iāll give you my managerās emailā. Ended up exchanging emails with him for a while - it never happened but it was fun. A quote:
I have a perverse interest that ideas that donāt fit and that are awkward and provacative and Iād be concerned that infecting you with some of that attitude might actually make things harder for you.
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Ffs on the day I have meetings over lunch! Very long slow essay incoming.
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Iām torn here. You see I donāt like IDM, Jazz and Breakcore. I donāt get Squarepusher at all.
I though some of the stuff with trance synths was alright but never liked enough to bother listening to those songs.
I tried to watch him twice at Glastonbury, the first time he was playing the hardest drill n base Iāve ever heard, the second the was playing jazz IDM, I ran away just as fast both times.
Iām torn because I think I donāt like his music enough to give him a 1 but he is much better than the other acts Iāve give a 1.
Torn I sayā¦ 
This bangs though.
So many great songs on there, easily done. Plus itās like a minute long 
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Weird one, in that I think his exceptional technical ability as a musician is what holds him back from making really great music.
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this is what i like about him.
he hasnt just sat in one groove throughout his career. the guy is exceptionally talented. doesnt always land but when it does 
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seems mad talented, donāt really get on with what iāve heard - Tommib is the only one I can bring to mind, his much more mellow side
does a good cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart though
oh the 2020 one is lovely, might have to check that album now
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Letās go back to my Kid A inspired Warp discovery phase when I was spending my hard-earned weekend job cash picking up the classics. MHTRTC, SAW 85-92, ICBYD, RDJ album, Bytes, Not For Threes all made sense fairly quickly, but there were a couple of albums which I just couldnāt get my head around - Amber and Go Plastic. Amber was sparse and alien, while Go Plastic felt manic and out of control. Iād dabbled in drum & bass but this was just on another level with the rhythmic complexity.
I figured there must be something in them, so tried earlier releases by both Autechre and Squarepusher - Incunabula and Feed Me Weird Things respectively. In both cases it was like the slightly less out-there sounds laid the blueprint for my ears to process the later albums. I remember, clear as day, sitting in the car park at the local leisure centre waiting to pick up my sister, Go Plastic on the stereo and it suddenly clicking. There are only a handful of records I can remember listening to like that, where suddenly a whole new horizon opens up - magic.
I think Squarepusher, particularly his more breaks-centric albums, is the biggest reason I wanted to make music. I was and remain utterly fascinated by the attention to detail in his percussion, this impossible intersection of jazz freedom and hyper-editing with drum motifs which morph and twist and turn at breakneck speed. Iāve got The Exploding Psychology on now and itās just wild
For me
probably what sets him apart from the other stars from that era. I think maybe he approaches compositional structures and instrumentation in a different way to yer BoCs, Autechres and Aphexes precisely because he has that āorganicā ability to hand. Nothing else sounds quite like Feed Me Weird Things with the contrast of those beats against his masterful bass playing. Or the sprawling genre-melt of Ultravisitor where youāve got the unexpected beauty of Iambic 9 Poetry set against the darkness of 50 Cycles and the absolute carnage of Steinbolt. Then youāve got the more experimental jazz side like Music Is Rotted One Note and Budakhan Mindphone - his range is astonishing.
I donāt love much of his post-Ultravisitor output, although rinsed Ufabulum at the time. His Shoebaleader One band had some cool moments as well. Youāve got four 10/10 albums in Feed Me Weird Things, Hard Normal Daddy (the obvious entry point for newcomers), Go Plastic and Ultravisitor plus a load more gold between 1995 and 2005 which is more than enough to make him an all-timer for me.
I get why he leaves some folks a bit cold, but Iād urge anyone to at least give Hard Normal Daddy a chance and see how you get on.
Got 2 ours of meetings now - might be back laterā¦
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His album Be Up A Hello from 2020 is a lot more frenetic than that, though is really good if you like that kind of thing. This track came from the Lamental EP that followed it, which has more tranquility across it.