Go Plastic is an electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 album

Album

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 by Squarepusher

Squarepusher

Squarepusher is the performing pseudonym of Tom Jenkinson, an English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records. He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass and acid, with a significant jazz and musique concrète influence....

. The album was preceded by the single "My Red Hot Car

My Red Hot Car

"My Red Hot Car" is a single by Squarepusher, released in 2001 on Warp Records. The lead track on the single is "My Red Hot Car ", a somewhat more accessible mix of the title track, leaving the pop music aspects of the song intact...

".

The album shows a marked increase in musical complexity over its predecessor, Selection Sixteen

Selection Sixteen

Selection Sixteen is a 1999 album by Squarepusher, released on Warp Records. According to the CD, the cover-art is from a film called Acid Trayners 2, which seems to be different pictures of an oscilloscope...

, featuring a more open-ended, less structured approach to composition which was explored further on Do You Know Squarepusher

Do You Know Squarepusher

Do You Know Squarepusher is a 2002 album by Squarepusher. The title track had previously been released, in late 2001, as an untitled 12". The album was almost entirely digitally produced, with the exception of the last track, a cover of Joy Division's single "Love Will Tear Us Apart"...

, and culminated with Ultravisitor

Ultravisitor

Ultravisitor is an album by Squarepusher. It was released on 8 March 2004 by Warp Records .Ultravisitor incorporates many of the various musical styles exhibited by Jenkinson on his previous albums, including drum and bass and acid techno, jazz fusion, and electronic noise. A few of the tracks...

.

The track "Tommib" was featured in the films Lost in Translation

Lost in Translation (film)

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and Unleashed

Unleashed (film)

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.

Overview

Unlike many of his earlier albums such as Hard Normal Daddy

Hard Normal Daddy

Hard Normal Daddy is an acid and drum and bass album by UK electronic musician Squarepusher. It was his first full release on the Warp Records label....

and Music Is Rotted One Note

Music Is Rotted One Note

Music Is Rotted One Note is the third full-length album released by Squarepusher, on UK electronica label Warp.Following the abrasive sounds of Hard Normal Daddy and the drum and bass feel of the Big Loada EP, Music Is Rotted One Note has a far more relaxed, abstract sound, owing much to both jazz...

, which often prominently featured live instrumentation (particularly drums and bass guitar), the sound palette on Go Plastic is almost exclusively synthetic, with an emphasis on high-velocity breakbeat

Breakbeat

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s subjected to extensive manipulation and granular effects. In a contemporaneous interview, Squarepusher claimed to be 'fed up' with real instruments, wanting everything 'brutal and digital.'

Despite this, Squarepusher claims that the album was not produced using a computer but rather by utilizing a range of hardware including the Eventide DSP4000 and Orville digital effects processors, a Yamaha

Yamaha

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 QY700 sequencer, Yamaha TX81Z

Yamaha TX81Z

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 and FS1R

Yamaha FS1R

The Yamaha FS1R is a sound synthesizer manufactured by the Yamaha Corporation from 1998 to 2000. Based on Formant synthesis, it also has FM synthesis capabilities similar to the DX range. Its editing involves 2,000+ parameters in any one 'performance', prompting the creation of a number of third...

 synthesizers, and an Akai

Akai

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 S6000 sampler.

Track listing

1. "My Red Hot Car
   My Red Hot Car
   "My Red Hot Car" is a single by Squarepusher, released in 2001 on Warp Records. The lead track on the single is "My Red Hot Car ", a somewhat more accessible mix of the title track, leaving the pop music aspects of the song intact...
   
   " – 4:42
2. "Boneville Occident" – 4:50
3. "Go! Spastic" – 6:21
4. "Metteng Excuske v1.2" - 1:08
5. "The Exploding Psychology" – 6:43
6. "I Wish You Could Talk" – 4:53
7. "Greenways Trajectory" – 7:10
8. "Tommib" – 1:19
9. "My Fucking Sound" – 7:05
10. "Plaistow Flex Out" – 4:28

External links

• Go Plastic at the official Warp Records
  Warp Records
  Warp, commonly referred to as Warp Records, is a pioneering independent British record label, founded in Sheffield in 1989, notable for discovering some of the more enduring artists in electronic music....
  
  website