If there’s one thing that will probably never vacate the world of electronic music, it’s the scores of imitators ready at a moment’s notice to ape the latest forward-thinking concept and blow it out and water it down until it becomes a limp, played-out, unfunny punchline. Frankly, we’re sick of ‘em. Which is why, for this music technology edition, we’ve decided to assemble a few of electronic music’s trailblazers to tell us about what goes into creating a truly iconic sound. From dubstep stalwart Mala’s punishing low-end to Cocteau Twins’ heavenly guitar processing, we got the straight dope on how these innovators crafted their unique sonic signatures—and how they continue to move forward…
Since he began releasing music via the Warp and Rephlex labels in the mid-‘90s, Squarepusher (a.k.a. Tom Jenkinson) has become inextricably linked to a large number of genres—like drum & bass, IDM, electronic-jazz fusion, and gabber, just for starters. Responsible for some of electronic music’s canonical records—Hard Normal Daddy, Music is Rotted One Note, and Go Plastic among them—the UK-based musician/producer/auteur gradually carved a signature sound for himself, only to rethink it with his recent d’Demonstrator LP, a jazz-centric collaboration with “a bunch of kids” (his words, not ours) under the moniker Shobaleader One. We called up Jenkinson to see what else has changed…
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