Ultravisitor

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Ultravisitor

Studio album by Squarepusher
Released	8 March 2004
Genre	Drum and bass Jazz Musique concrète Electronic music
Length	79:49
Label	Warp Records
Producer(s)	Tom Jenkinson
All Music Guide link Pitchfork Media (7.9/10) link Prefix (8.0/10) link
Squarepusher chronology
Do You Know Squarepusher (2002)	Ultravisitor (2004)	Hello Everything (2006)

Ultravisitor is an album by jazz musician and drum and bass artist Tom Jenkinson, known by his recording alias Squarepusher. It was released March 8, 2004 by Warp Records (see 2004 in music).

Ultravisitor is a comprehensive compilation of the many musical styles that Jenkinson visited on his previous albums, but with new, previously unreleased material. From the drum and bass and acid techno sounds of his early releases such as Feed Me Weird Things and Big Loada, to the jazz fusion sounds of Hard Normal Daddy and Music Is Rotted One Note, or the harsh, abrasive sounds of his more recent releases Go Plastic and Do You Know Squarepusher. A few of the tracks feature layered Spanish guitar, or filtered bass guitar. Many of the tracks have the sounds of a crowd cheering during quieter moments in the songs, blurring the line between studio and live recordings (some of the crowd noises may have been recorded during his 2001 tour.)

Tom Jenkinson quote: Ultravisitor is my spectacle of beauty and of terror. It is unknowable, and will never be understood by anybody, least of all its creator.

[edit] Track listing

"Ultravisitor" – 8:32
"I Fulcrum" – 3:31
"Iambic 9 Poetry" – 6:55
"Andrei" – 2:00
"50 Cycles" – 8:33
"Menelec" – 5:43
"C-Town Smash" – 1:29
"Steinbolt" – 7:44
"An Arched Pathway" – 4:06
"Telluric Piece" – 1:53
"District Line II" – 8:33
"Circlewave" – 6:28
"Tetra-Sync" – 9:27
"Tommib Help Buss" – 2:10
"Every Day I Love" – 2:39

The album was released in three formats. The first is a standard CD release, presented in a standard jewel case. Second, there is a limited edition of the CD, presented in a book-style case, with bonus artwork and notes by Jenkinson. Third, a double LP vinyl version of this album was released. Orders from the Warp Records website included a 3" mini CD, entitled Square Window, with outtakes and B-sides from the album.

A promotional CD and record for Ultravisitor featured "Square Window," a new track entitled "Talk About You & Me," and the title track, "Ultravisitor."

"Venus No.17" was also released as a vinyl-only single, featuring the title track, an Acid remix of it, and a reworking of the Feed Me Weird Things track "Tundra," entitled "Tundra 4."