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1996 studio album by Squarepusher

Feed Me Weird Things
Squarepusher.feedmeweirdthings.jpg
Studio album by

Squarepusher
Released 3 June 1996 (1996-06-03)
Recorded December 1994 – February 1996
Genre
  • Drill 'n' bass
  • IDM
  • jungle
  • jazz fusion
Length 66:27
Characterization Rephlex
Producer Tom Jenkinson
Squarepusher chronology
Bubble and Squeak
(1996) 		Feed Me Weird Things
(1996) 		Squarepusher Plays...
(1996)

Feed Me Weird Things is the debut studio album by English electronic musician Tom Jenkinson under the allonym Squarepusher. It was released on iii June 1996 by Rephlex Records.

The anthology received positive reviews from critics and has been retrospectively cited as a landmark release in the drill 'n' bass subgenre. A 25th anniversary remastered edition was released on 4 June 2021 by Warp.

Production [edit]

Tom Jenkinson produced the tracks on Feed Me Weird Things from December 1994 to February 1996, while he was a pupil at Chelsea Higher of Art and Design.[1] He used his student loans to purchase much of the equipment that he utilised in recording the anthology.[1] Richard D. James (better known equally Aphex Twin), who co-founded Jenkinson's label Rephlex Records, selected the tracks that appeared on the concluding anthology.[ane] The tracks were mastered by Paul Solomons at the studio Porky's.[1]

Title and packaging [edit]

Co-ordinate to Jenkinson, the championship Feed Me Weird Things was inspired by a conversation with Steve Beckett, a co-founder of the characterization Warp, "in which he told me about his girlfriend who would ask him to 'feed me drum & bass'."[1] Jenkinson collaborated on the artwork for Feed Me Weird Things with Johnny Clayton.[2] The packaging for the anthology features various photographs taken by Jenkinson at dissimilar London locations in February 1996,[1] which were subsequently edited by Clayton.[ii] The front end comprehend photograph was taken inside a job middle in Palmers Greenish.[1] The album's liner notes were penned by Richard D. James.[3]

Release [edit]

Feed Me Weird Things was released on iii June 1996 by Rephlex Records.[four] On 4 June 2021, Warp released a remastered edition of Feed Me Weird Things for the album's 25th anniversary.[v] [6]

Critical reception [edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [7]
Mojo [8]
Muzik 5/v[9]
NME 8/10[ten]
Pitchfork eight.0/x[11]
Record Collector [12]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide [13]
Uncut 8/ten[14]

Muzik 'due south Calvin Bush praised Feed Me Weird Things as "the kind of anthology Miles Davis might accept fabricated if he had been wired into breakbeats, Aphex Twin and Ninja Tune."[ix] Ben Willmott of NME accounted it Jenkinson's "most consistently varied, bedazzling and rounded deposit to appointment."[10] New York Times critic Neil Strauss said that Jenkinson "deftly combines the laid-back absurd of fusion jazz with the frenetic intensity of drum-and-bass" and "makes one realize just how broad a window of opportunity for musicians drum-and-bass has opened."[xv] At the cease of 1996, The Wire named Feed Me Weird Things one of the yr'southward 50 best records.[16]

Writing for Spin, Ken Micallef said that with Feed Me Weird Things and its follow-upwardly Difficult Normal Daddy (1997), Jenkinson "did to jungle what Frank Zappa did to rock—satirized its excesses with a maze of neurotic, scurrying notes, while adding a nerdy musicality that practically invented a new genre."[17] AllMusic credited the 1996 releases of Feed Me Weird Things and Plug'south Drum 'n' Bass for Papa as catalysts for the popularisation of the drill 'n' bass subgenre.[18] Ben Cardew of Pitchfork chosen Feed Me Weird Things "a time sheathing of the era'south drill'due north'bass and jazzy jungle" that demonstrated Jenkinson's innovative fusion of "the maximal pulsate programming of pulsate'n'bass" with alive fretless bass guitar playing.[xi] AllMusic'south Paul Simpson wrote that the album showed that Jenkinson "was capable of doing things nobody else had dreamt of earlier, and it however holds some of his all-time best material."[7] San Diego Spousal relationship-Tribune journalist AnnaMaria Stephens cited Feed Me Weird Things every bit one of the most important IDM albums.[19] In 2007, The Guardian listed it as i of "1000 Albums to Hear Before Y'all Dice".[20]

Track listing [edit]

All tracks are written past Tom Jenkinson.

No. Title Length
1. "Squarepusher Theme" 6:20
2. "Tundra" 7:53
3. "The Swifty" 5:xviii
4. "Dimotane Co" 4:53
v. "Smedleys Melody" ii:32
six. "Windscale 2" 6:35
7. "Due north Round" 6:07
viii. "Goodnight Jade" 2:45
nine. "Theme from Ernest Borgnine" 7:55
ten. "U.F.O.'s over Leytonstone" half dozen:37
xi. "Kodack" seven:xiii
12. "Time to come Gibbon" ii:19
Total length: 66:27
Japanese[21] and 25th anniversary[5] edition bonus tracks
No. Championship Length
13. "Theme from Goodbye Renaldo" half-dozen:01
14. "Deep Fried Pizza" 3:49
Total length: 76:17

Charts [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f grand Feed Me Weird Things (liner notes). Squarepusher. Warp. 2021. SQPRCD001. {{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ^ a b Montesinos-Donaghy, Daniel (24 July 2014). "We Spoke to Johnny Clayton, the Guy Who Made Aphex Twin Creep The states Out". Vice. Archived from the original on 7 Apr 2020. Retrieved 7 April 2020.
  3. ^ Feed Me Weird Things (liner notes). Squarepusher. Rephlex Records. 1996. CAT037CD. {{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  4. ^ "New Releases three – nine June 1996: All". Juno Records. Archived from the original on 27 September 2004. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Feed Me Weird Things – Squarepusher". Warp. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  6. ^ Eede, Christian (thirty Apr 2021). "Squarepusher To Reissue Debut LP, 'Feed Me Weird Things'". The Quietus . Retrieved v June 2021.
  7. ^ a b Simpson, Paul. "Feed Me Weird Things – Squarepusher". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  8. ^ Cowan, Andy (July 2021). "Squarepusher: Feed Me Weird Things". Mojo. No. 332. p. 97.
  9. ^ a b Bush, Calvin (July 1996). "Squarepusher: Feed Me Weird Things". Muzik. No. 14. p. 142.
  10. ^ a b Willmott, Ben (20 Apr 1996). "Squarepusher – Feed Me Weird Things". NME. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  11. ^ a b Cardew, Ben (three June 2021). "Squarepusher: Feed Me Weird Things (25th Anniversary Edition)". Pitchfork . Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  12. ^ Pollock, David (June 2021). "Squarepusher: Feed Me Weird Things". Record Collector. No. 519. pp. 110–11.
  13. ^ Wolk, Douglas (2004). "Squarepusher". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Anthology Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 773. ISBN0-7432-0169-8.
  14. ^ Martin, Piers (July 2021). "Squarepusher: Feed Me Weird Things". Uncut. No. 290. p. 47.
  15. ^ Strauss, Neil (xxx July 1996). "New Sound Takes Root And Grows". The New York Times . Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  16. ^ "1996 Rewind". The Wire. No. 155. January 1997. Retrieved v September 2017.
  17. ^ Micallef, Ken (Jan 1999). "Squarepusher: Music Is Rotted One Note". Spin. Vol. 15, no. 1. p. 122. Retrieved 12 April 2020 – via Google Books.
  18. ^ "Drill'n'bass". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  19. ^ Stephens, AnnaMaria (26 June 2003). "In Commemoration of Electro-Whatever". The San Diego Spousal relationship-Tribune. Archived from the original on five February 2019. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
  20. ^ "1000 albums to hear before you die – Artists first with S (part 2)". The Guardian. 22 November 2007. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  21. ^ "Feed Me Weird Things" (in Japanese). Sony Music Entertainment Nippon. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  22. ^ "Trip the light fantastic Albums" (PDF). Music Week. 15 June 1996. p. 21. Retrieved iii June 2021 – via World Radio History.
  23. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Squarepusher – Feed Me Weird Things" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  24. ^ "フィード・ミー・ウィアード・シングス | スクエアプッシャー". Oricon. Retrieved eleven June 2021.
  25. ^ "Billboard Japan Peak Albums Sales". Billboard Japan (in Japanese). 14 June 2021. Retrieved xiv June 2021.
  26. ^ "Official Scottish Albums Nautical chart Top 100". Official Charts Visitor. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
  27. ^ "Official Albums Sales Chart Height 100". Official Charts Visitor. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  28. ^ "Official Dance Albums Chart Top 40". Official Charts Visitor. Retrieved xi June 2021.
  29. ^ "Official Independent Albums Nautical chart Summit 50". Official Charts Visitor. Retrieved xi June 2021.

External links [edit]

  • Feed Me Weird Things at Discogs (list of releases)
  • Feed Me Weird Things at MusicBrainz (list of releases)

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_Me_Weird_Things

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