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Feed Me Weird Things by Squarepusher album cover
Number 38 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century20th CenturyIDM

Feed Me Weird Things

Squarepusher

1996 · drill and bass · acid house · drum and bass · IDM

Rephlex · CAT037LP

38 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 20th Century

A jazz bassist attacking a drum machine; nobody had heard breaks cut like this

Feed Me Weird Things is a jazz bassist attacking a drum machine and discovering the breaks can fight back. Tom Jenkinson's real playing collides with edits that seem physically impossible, making drill'n'bass feel musical rather than merely athletic. The rough edges are where the collision sparks. It is a debut still finding those edges. The ones it found redrew the map.

5 on The 10 Best IDM Albums

Tom Jenkinson plays bass properly, which is the whole explanation. Drum and bass programming at inhuman speed with actual fusion musicianship on top, and a warmth the genre rarely bothered with.

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Dancefloor
№ 136
Influence
№ 75
External poll
№ 85

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Tracklist

  1. A1Squarepusher Theme6:18
  2. A2Tundra7:50
  3. A3The Swifty5:15
  4. B1Dimotane Co4:53
  5. B2Smedleys Melody2:30
  6. B3Windscale 26:34
  7. C1North Circular6:05
  8. C2Goodnight Jade2:42
  9. C3Theme From Ernest Borgnine7:52
  10. D1U.F.O.'s Over Leytonstone6:33
  11. D2Kodack7:12
  12. D3Future Gibbon2:16