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- Date Released: April 28, 1997
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Dance
- Label: Warp Records
Squarepusher's Warp debut somehow finds the line uniting Jaco Pastorius and Richard D. James
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We Say...
You don't have to like jazz fusion to like Squarepusher, but it certainly helps. On Tom Jenkinson's first proper full-length for Warp, his bass-playing background is as important to the proceedings as his trippy drill & bass stylings. It makes for perhaps one of the strongest collections of songs that Tom Jenkinson has ever constructed — a 60-minute romp that includes three eight-plus minute excursions rife with jaw-dropping bass solos, a few interludes that barely rise above sound-design status and a whole bunch of tracks somewhere in between those two poles. ("Coopers World" and "Rustic Raver" are good places to start for those looking for that middle ground. The latter's final two minutes are essentially every single Squarepusher influence poured into one ecstatic rush of a concluding statement.)
Unlike the work that would follow, Hard Normal Daddy holds together perfectly as an album — somehow making a Jaco Pastorius and Richard D. James jam session sound like the most natural thing in the world. James famously penned an essay in the liners to Jenkinson's 1996 Feed Me Weird Things that reads in part: "When my partner Grant Wilson-Clarriarge saw Tom spasmodically twitching in order to play a funky bassline in time with a 347 bpm drum and bass track, he thought he should either be committed or recorded (fortunately he chose the latter)." Hard Normal Daddy is the moment that Jenkinson figured out how to harness that potential into something amazing. -
They Say...
Tom Jenkinson's jazz roots come through louder and clearer on his full-length Warp debut. Although, like the preceding Port Rhombus EP, this album sounds substantially cleaner and more thought out than previous releases for Spymania and Rephlex, it also far surpasses those releases in terms of musicality and track development, not simply relying on the shock value of "tripping-over-myself" drum programming and light-speed fretless bass noodling. Jenkinson's bass accompaniment also sounds far less prog rock-influenced here, making Hard Normal Daddy his overall most listenable work to date.
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| 01. |  |
Coopers World |
5:09 |
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| 02. | |
Beep Street |
6:37 |
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| 03. | |
Rustic Raver |
5:08 |
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| 04. | |
Anirog D9 |
1:11 |
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| 05. | |
Chin Hippy |
3:16 |
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| 06. | |
Papalon |
8:10 |
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| 07. | |
E8 Boogie |
8:13 |
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| 08. | |
Fat Controller |
5:38 |
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| 09. | |
Vic Acid |
3:07 |
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| 10. | |
Male Pill Part 13 |
8:38 |
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| 11. | |
Rat/P's + Q's |
4:33 |
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| 12. | |
Rebus |
2:47 |
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12 Total Tracks, 62:27 Total Length
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