"I pay respect to my roots. I'm fully about respecting my roots so that I can go forward. As much as Jazz, I acknowledge Techno and Jungle and Acid-House. But one of the things I find about these later musics is that they are quite static. I want music to go somewhere, to have some kind of evolution within it. The movement of jazz is one of the thing that excited me - it's so kinetic".
Tom Jenkinson on his musical roots as featured in www.drumandbass.co.uk

Like his Warp cohort, Aphex Twin, Tom Jenkinson - aka Squarepusher - illustrated himself as one of the beat-choppers supreme of UK electronica. The son of a jazz drummer, Tom Jenkinson released jazz-tinged breakbeat material on several imprints including Warp and Trent Reznor's own Nothing records imprint.

Though Jenkinson confesses an obsession with the harsch hammering of early acid-house releases -one quite similar to his infamous Aphex sibling- his musical education as a jazz musician -primarily bass but actually all kind of instruments- had him listening extensively to the likes of Miles Davis or Sextant era Herbie Hancock . This explains why some of his early releases may sound quite close to classic UK techno in the vein of LFO -Vicacid- while most new material is intricate drum & bass with a natural instinct for abstraction -Two Bass Hit .

This appetite for " uneasy listenning" and jazz-fusion was brilliantly materialised on the Hard Normal Daddy LP, however it is only on his lastest releases and especially on the Budakhan Mindphone EP that Squarepusher reached his musical apex, one where mere musical virtuosty is constrained for greater musical purpose. The sublime torch-song Lambic 5 Poetry featuring little slap-bass action when compared to previous releases is examlary of this new approach. After the release of subsequent Maximum Priest and Selection Sixteen EPs, Warp announced the new album - to be released in March - as mindblowing and even more singular than previous Aphex releases. We can't wait!