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This is SQUAREPUSHERS music. With a defiant and uncompromising
agenda that defies almost all categorisation.
Twenty something year old, TOM JENKINSON has been causing
something of a stir ever since his debut releases on
the SPYMANIA label back in '95. The tracks, re-released
last year by Warp as the "Burningn'n Tree" album,only
serve to amplify Jenkin's irrasciable and devious approach
to music. Complex, fluid, always inventive, restlessly
striving to strike the right balance between fuelled
up simple energy and restless innovation.
These early tracks prompted Richard James and the Rephlex
camp, to release 'Feed Me Weird Things' Tom's debut
LP, in June of 96. In fact it was here that his hardcore
production was forged and managed: early drum 'n' bass
with more than a little jazz focused musicality. The
sound proved uncompromising. But not so the public.
They loved it.
Acclaimed gigs at Glastonbury, Mount Fuji Rock festival
in Japan, and Belgium's Ten Days of Techno, where Tom
improvised live bass around loose chaotic structures
created by boxes and tapes. His legendary DJ sets known
to include furious drum'n'bass, hardcore, tequila, even
the work of the brothers Bros (I Owe You Nothing?) have
shaken dancefloors to an incendiary state.
A ridiculously keen attention to programming detail
to rival jazz drumming greats like Buddy Rich and Art
Blakey merges with a similarly robust affection for
melody to create one of music most dualist sounds: at
once complex, at once simple.
Here are details of his US tour with Plaid and Mira
Calix.
07/8 VANCOUVER, BC Sonar
08/8 SEATTLE, WA The Showbox
09/8 PORTLAND, OR B Complex
10/8 OAKLAND, CA Indigo Event Center [CANCELLED]
11/8 SAN FRANCISCO, CA Bimbo's 365 Club
12/8 LOS ANGELES, CA El Rey Theater
13/8 day off
14/8 DENVER, CO Bluebird
15/8 LAWRENCE, KS Granada
16/8 MINNEAPOLIS, MN First Avenue
17/8 CHICAGO, IL Metro
18/8 DETROIT, MI St. Andrews Hall
19/8 day off
20/8 COLUMBUS, OH Wexner Center for the Arts
21/8 TORONTO, ON Phoenix
22/8 MONTREAL, PQ Club Soda
23/8 NEW YORK, NY Irving Plaza
24/8 NEW YORK, NY Irving Plaza
25/8 BOSTON, MA Paradise
26/8 day off
27/8 PHILADELPHIA, PA Trocadero
28/8 WASHINGTON, DC 9:30 Club
29/8 ATLANTA, GA Echo Lounge
30/8 ORLANDO, FL Sapphire Supper Club
31/8 MIAMI, The Polish American Club [Venue Change]
with Otto Von Schirach
01/9 DALLAS, TX Trees
02/9 AUSTIN, TX Mercury The album 'Go Plastic' has just been released on Warp
Records. Report compiled by A. Sargeant
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