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Number 8 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 21st Century21st CenturyIDMTier S

Go Plastic

Squarepusher

2001 · drill and bass · IDM · breakcore · drum and bass

Warp Records · WARPLP85

undergroundchart-reachCommercial reach 3 out of 5, where 1 is deep underground and 5 is top-40.

8 on The 250 Best Electronic Albums of the 21st Century

Go Plastic shatters breakbeat into jagged, jazz-schooled bass runs and reassembles it at inhuman speed and precision, pushing drill'n'bass to a peak of controlled violence that still sounds technically impossible on inspection. Live-bass virtuosity and digital rhythm editing become the same attack. 'My Red Hot Car' is the one everybody knows and 'Tommib' is eighty seconds of quiet that the rest of it needs. The player and the machine are almost impossible to separate.

12 on The 10 Best IDM Albums

My Red Hot Car and drill and bass played as free jazz. The technical ceiling for the entire style.

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Tracklist

  1. A1My Red Hot Car4:42
  2. A2Boneville Occident4:53
  3. B1Go! Spastic6:20
  4. B2Metteng Excuske v1.21:08
  5. B3The Exploding Psychology6:44
  6. C1I Wish You Could Talk4:54
  7. C2Greenways Trajectory7:08
  8. D1Tommib1:19
  9. D2My Fucking Sound7:05
  10. D3Plaistow Flex Out4:28