Music Is Rotted One Note is the third full-length album released 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....

, on UK

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 electronica

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 label Warp

Warp Records

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Following the abrasive sounds of 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 the drum and bass

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 feel of the Big Loada

Big Loada

Big Loada is a 1997 EP by UK drum and bass and acid artist Squarepusher. It was his fourth release on Warp Records in the UK, and was later released in the U.S., with an expanded track listing, by Nothing Records.-Warp Records edition:The original Warp Records edition tracklisting consists...

EP

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, Music Is Rotted One Note has a far more relaxed, abstract sound, owing much to both jazz

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 and electroacoustic music

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Overview

The album production did not involve any sequencing

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 or sampling

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 equipment, which had featured heavily on Squarepusher's previous work. Many of the tracks instead have a 'live' feel, featuring virtuoso playing by Squarepusher on the drum

Drum

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s and bass guitar

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. His own comments on the album include:

Reception

The album won critical praise, notably garnering a rarely high 9.8 from Pitchfork Media.

Track listing

1. "Chunk-S" – 2:20
2. "Don't Go Plastic" – 4:20
3. "Dust Switch" – 4:28
4. "Curve 1" – 2:06
5. "137 (Rinse)" – 3:45
6. "Parallelogram Bin" – 2:24
7. "Circular Flexing" – 4:57
8. "Ill Descent" – 2:37
9. "My Sound" – 6:07
10. "Drunken Style" – 0:45
11. "Theme From Vertical Hold" – 4:25
12. "Ruin" – 1:56
13. "Shin Triad" – 2:26
14. "Step 1" – 1:46
15. "Last Ap Roach" – 4:00

External links

• Music Is Rotted One Note at the official Warp Records
  Warp Records
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