Ultravisitor

Ultravisitor
Studio album by Squarepusher
Released 8 March 2004
Genre IDM, experimental, drum and bass, breakcore, jazz, free improvisation, avant-garde, musique concrète, industral, ambient, glitch, noise
Length 79:49
Label Warp
Producer Tom Jenkinson
Squarepusher chronology
Do You Know Squarepusher
(2002)		 Ultravisitor
(2004)		 Hello Everything
(2006)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
The Daily Telegraph (favourable)[2]
The Guardian [3]
The Independent [4]
Music Emissions [5]
The Observer [6]
Pitchfork Media (7.9/10)[7]

Ultravisitor is an album by Squarepusher. It was released on 8 March 2004 by Warp Records (see 2004 in music).

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 feature layered Spanish guitar, or filtered bass guitar. Many of the tracks have samples of an audience, blurring the lines between live performance and studio performance.

Tom Jenkinson has stated that "Ultravisitor is my spectacle of beauty and of terror. It is unknowable, and will never be understood by anybody, least of all its creator."[8]

Ultravisitor is the only album to show a clear portrait of Tom Jenkinson's face on its cover art.

Track listing

  1. "Ultravisitor" – 8:32
  2. "I Fulcrum" – 3:31
  3. "Iambic 9 Poetry" – 6:55
  4. "Andrei" – 2:00
  5. "50 Cycles" – 8:33
  6. "Menelec" – 5:43
  7. "C-Town Smash" – 1:29
  8. "Steinbolt" – 7:44
  9. "An Arched Pathway" – 4:06
  10. "Telluric Piece" – 1:53
  11. "District Line II" – 8:33
  12. "Circlewave" – 6:28
  13. "Tetra-Sync" – 9:27
  14. "Tommib Help Buss" – 2:10
  15. "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 with Tom Jenkinson featured on the cover. 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's online store Warpmart 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".

The beginning of the track "Steinbolt" was sampled for an episode of Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!.

Jenkinson has stated that the track "50 Cycles" took over a month to complete.[9]

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ The Daily Telegraph review
  3. ^ The Guardian review
  4. ^ The Independent review
  5. ^ Music Emissions review
  6. ^ The Observer review
  7. ^ Pitchfork Media review
  8. ^ "Interview from ID magazine". Warp Records. 1 March 2004. http://www.warprecords.com/artists/news.php?ti_id=791. Retrieved 3 June 2009. 
  9. ^ "Ask Squarepusher!". BBC. 20 October 2006. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A16411187. Retrieved 2 November 2011. 

External links

Squarepusher
Albums
Feed Me Weird Things (1996) · Hard Normal Daddy (1997) · Music Is Rotted One Note (1998) · Buzz Caner (1998) · Selection Sixteen (1999) · Go Plastic (2001) · Do You Know Squarepusher (2002) · Ultravisitor (2004) · Hello Everything (2006) · Just a Souvenir (2008) · Solo Electric Bass 1 (2009) · Shobaleader One: d'Demonstrator (2010)
EPs
Crot EP (1994) · Conumber E:P (1995) · Alroy Road Tracks (1995) · Port Rhombus EP (1996) · Squarepusher Plays... (1996) · Big Loada (1997) · Remixes 12" (1998) · Budakhan Mindphone (1999) · Maximum Priest EP (1999) · Ultravisitor (2003) · Square Window (2004) · Numbers Lucent (2009)
Singles
"Vic Acid" (1997) · "Do You Know Squarepusher" (2001) · "My Red Hot Car" (2001) · "Venus No. 17" (2004) · "Welcome to Europe" (2006) · "Shobaleader One: Cryptic Motion" (2010)
Compilations
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