Squarepusher - Dostrotime
Squarepusher - Dostrotime
Squarepusher is a name I recognize. And I’ve probably heard music by him before, considering the length of his career. But I admit I’d be hard-pressed to name a track or an album. I simply know “Squarepusher” as the name of a prolific electronic act. And if you pushed me I’d guess that since I’ve been hearing the name since I was a kid in the ‘90s, that it was some sort of rave-style house act.
I’d be right, if only in part. While Squarepusher started with and still operates in the idiom of the ‘90s electronic rave scene, he has clearly evolved and experimented until coming to occupy his own space and category.
I seem to have a taste for so-called deep house and other older genres of electronica like drum ‘n’ bass. I think it has something to do with some core memory of listening to the radio at midnight on my Discman in the ‘90s and 2000s, when the rock stations would switch over to club music. During those late night explorations into a world I knew nothing about, this is the type of thing I would hear.
OK, well not this exactly. Dostrotime is far more experimental than the party tracks I was hearing. But it was still this kind of mile-a-minute, breakbeat focused, acid techno stuff. And to me there’s a warmth in this kind of sound that I don’t find in a lot of other types of electronic music.
This album is an excellent example of that sound. Varied, experimental, sometimes crazy fast, sometimes slow and stripped down, sometimes jazzy. It’s super-interesting and engaging. A real gem.
Not streaming anywhere yet, but the single Wendorlan is below.
Highlights: Enbounce • Wendorlan • Akkranen
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