Album: Ultravisitor by Squarepusher (2004)
Genre: Electronic | Mood: Energetic
Record Label: Warp
Format: Album

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

Artist Background: 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. Jenkinson was born in Chelmsford, Essex in 1975 and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School. Jenkinson performs live, playing with a fretless or fretted bass guitar, a laptop, piano, and other hardware. He has appeared twice on BBC Radio 1's T... Part of the Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Drum & Bass movement. Known for Electronic style.

Music Scene: Part of the Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era. Associated with Drum & Bass movement. Known for Electronic style.

Tags: Electronic, Energetic, 2000s, Album, Warp

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

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