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Tom “Squarepusher” Jenkinson can be broadly described as an electronic musician, though he is perhaps best known for his experimental with a heavy influence. A skilled bassist and multi-instrumentalist, Jenkinson’s virtuoso playing is a staple of his music and one of the more obvious affiliations with jazz (although his formal arrangements are often as jazz-derived as his playing). His bass style includes melodic fretless playing, high-speed slap bass and intricate chordal work.

Born in 1975 (Essex, England), the son of a jazz drummer, Jenkinson grew up listening to greats such as Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, and Art Blakey, plus dub pioneers King Tubby and Augustus Pablo. He played bass and drums in high school but was frustrated by the limitations of playing with other musicians. Introduced to electronic music through experimental - artists such as LFO and Carl Craig as well as the local rave scene, Jenkinson soon began assembling these disparate influences into an amalgam of post-bop, avant-garde and progressive jazz with breakbeat techno, making heavy use of the Amen break.

His initial releases were the Conumber EP (1995) and (as Duke Of Haringey) the Alroy Road Tracks EP (1996) on Spymania. They were initially disregarded as misplaced perversions of jungle’s more obvious compositional principles, but found a ready audience in fans of post- experimental listening music. Tracks from these EPs were later compiled onto the album Burningn’n Tree.
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  • ilim09

    everyone has to check out square pushers new album!! he's been incorporating a lot of new chords into his music and it sounds amazing!! http://thecelebritycafe.com/reviews/2012/05/squarepusher-reaches-stars-ufabulum

    yesterday evening

  • SixShooterSam

    that's a shitty joke. If RDJ made ufabulum i'd be really depressed.

    yesterday afternoon

  • GaliMaGimmo

    one of my favorite rdj side projects [2]

    Saturday morning

  • Mr-Usuario

    Dark steering... god.

    Friday afternoon

  • ut0

    one of my favorite rdj side projects

    Thursday evening

  • no-thanks

    I've basically just been drinking way too much caffeine and spazzing out to the new record for the past week and it's been really awesome.

    Thursday evening

  • m-saIami

    Enstrobia EP is great

    Thursday morning

  • GaryChoad

    Love the Squaremen.

    Wednesday evening
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From Warp's website:"Squarepusher’s excursions as a solo bass virtuoso will be immortalised with the forthcoming release of 'Solo Electric Bass 1', out on August …

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