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Biography
Original research|date=October 2007BLP sources|date=October 2007Infobox musical artist|name = Squarepusher|image = Squarepusher.jpg|caption = Tom Jenkinson performing at Glade Festival in 2005.|background = non_vocal_instrumentalist|birth_name = Thomas Jenkinson|alias = Chaos A.D. The Duke of Harringay Tom Jenkinson Squarepusher|birth_date = Birth date and age|1975|1|17|death_date =|origin = Chelmsford , Essex , England|instrument = Bass guitar , guitar , electronic keyboard|keyboards , synthesizer , drum kit|drums , music technology |genre = Intelligent dance music|IDM , acid techno , acid jazz , experimental music|experimental , drum and bass , breakbeat |occupation = Musician|years_active = 1994–present|label = Warp Records|Warp , Rephlex Records|Rephlex , Worm Interface , Nothing Records|Nothing |associated_acts =|website = http://squarepusher.net Squarepusher.net Squarepusher is the performing pseudonym of Tom Jenkinson , an England|English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records . He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass and acid house|acid , with a significant jazz and musique concrète influence.
Jenkinson was born in Chelmsford , Essex in 1975 and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School (Chelmsford)|King Edward VI Grammar School . Jenkinson performs live, playing with a fretless or fretted bass guitar, a laptop, piano, and other hardware. He has appeared twice on BBC Radio 1 's The Breezeblock show.
He is the brother of fellow musician Andy Jenkinson, who is also known as Ceephax Acid Crew .
Equipment
Squarepusher sequenced his pre-2000 work on a Boss Corporation|BOSS DR-660 drum machine . He uses hardware for his electronic music such as King Tubby -style spring echo (phenomenon)|reverb s, Akai Sampler (musical instrument)|sampler s, (S950 for early work, S6000 for later work), a Roland SH-101 synthesizer , a Roland TB-303 bassline synthesizer , and a Multitrack recording|reel-to-reel tape machine . Around the year 2000, Squarepusher bought a computer with Reaktor and an Eventide, Inc|Eventide Orville for digital processing. According to a list of gear from the official website, Squarepusher owns the following:
cquote|Bass guitars: Music Man / Rickenbacker 4001 / Custom built 6 strings. Guitars: Classical and Baritone classical / custom electric guitar. Software: Reaktor using only home made algorithms. Electronic Hardware: Eventide "Orville" + "DSP4000" using only homemade algorithms/ Yamaha sequencer / 16 track tape machine / MackieDesk / Sine wave generator / Roland SH101 / Octave "Cat" synth / AKG414 mics / Home made + AKG analogue reverb units / DAT recorder. Percussion: Ludwig drum kit / Balinese percussion / xylophone. Other: some wires, mains leads, a room to put it all in, cooperative neighbors, etc. He has been known to play Fender, Ernie Ball, and Warwick basses.
Perhaps the most ubiquitous sample associated with many Squarepusher songs is the Amen break .
He is currently performing live with some LEDs in support of his upcoming album Ufabulum.
Ufabulum (May 15, 2012)cite web|url= http://warp.net/records/squarepusher/announces-ufabulum|title=Squarepusher: Announces Ufabulum – new album and live show|date=2012-02-23|accessdate=2012-03-07
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A track entitled ' Lost in Space Drum n Bass 2000 ' or simply 'Drum n Bass 2000' exists on various music streaming web sites such as Last.fm for which Squarepusher or Amon Tobin are widely credited as the artist. However, the track is in fact 'Hungry On Arrival (Spring Heel Jack Remix)' by the group Outernational Meltdown and found on a compilation entitled "Lost In Space Drum 'n' Bass Phase 00:03".
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