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Product details

  • Audio CD (8 Mar 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Warp
  • ASIN: B0001E70BM
  • Other Editions: Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,580 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Ultravisitor
2. Fulcrum
3. Iambic 9 Poetry
4. Andrei
5. 50 Cycles
6. Menelec
7. C-Town Smash
8. Steinbolt
9. An Arched Pathway
10. Telluric Piece
11. District Line II
12. Circlewave
13. Tetra-sync
14. Tommib Help Buss
15. Every Day I Love

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
It's been a slow, almost imperceptible evolution, but on Ultravisitor, the seventh album from Tom Jenkinson's Squarepusher project, we finally see this Chelmsford-based electronica guru shrugging off the rather primitive drill 'n' bass tag, and maturing into a fully-fledged musical auteur. Look at him on that sleeve, all serious stare and mutton-chop sideburns: this record feels like a conscious attempt to install Jenkinson into a serious musical canon alongside his obvious heroes John Cage, Miles Davies and Sun Ra.

It's a good try, as over these 70-odd minutes of electro-rave mayhem and frighteningly complex jazz-fusion improv, Jenkinson shows absolutely no sign of slowing his dizzying inventive velocity. The flirtation with UK garage that formed the synthetic exoskeleton of 2001's My Red Hot Car is sadly absent, but pieces such as "Menelee" and "Steinbolt" demonstrate fresh fascination for all manner of mutant strains of electronic hardcore and urban junglism, and fill the gap admirably.

Elsewhere, we find Jenkinson's passion for live instrumentation more pronounced than at any time since 1998's "Music Is Rotted One Note". This isn't always a good thing. The thrumming, masturbatory bass-soloing of "C-Town Smash" takes jazz proficiency into new realms of ridiculousness. But "I Fulcrum" carries the interstellar legacy of Sun Ra into as-yet undiscovered galaxies, and "Iambic 9 Poetry" proves Jenkinson's gift for melody remains gloriously intact, a perfect example of chiming instrumental clarity amid the deranged chatter of machine-code chaos. --Louis Pattison

CD Description
Seventh album of hyperkinetic electronic madness from Tom Jenkinson, possibly Warp's best-known and most respected producer behind Aphex and Autechre. Being hailed as his best work yet, this combines his usual "drill 'n' bass" beats and amelodic ambient with a more "live" feel, helped by Jenkinson's actual playing of bass guitar on the record. Includes the title-track single.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Another classic from Tom Jenkinson, 9 Mar 2004
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Ultravisitor seems like tom jenkinson's attempt to lift himself above the title of 'electronic producer' to the ranks of a truly great and classic musician/composer. The comparison to Sun Ra, Miles Davis and John Cage is not undeserving. his bass improv is incredible: he gets into quite a lot of it. his compositions are musically very complex, his skill at his instrument(s) is phenominal. melodically, this album is great. as usual the programming is amazing.
this album is sort of like music is rotted one note, in the fact that it has a strong live aspect. there is crowd noise sprinkled throughout the whole album, and it plays like one long show. at one point in the very punk-ish 'steinbolt', i forgot i was listening to a 'studio' album. it sounds like tom in concert.
one thing that's interesting about 'ultravisitor' is the fact that he seems to draw from the entire squarepusher catalogue, using samples from tracks 'exploding psychology' and 'come on my selector.' in the track '50 cycles' one wonders if tom is recreating, or sampling a bit from, 'f-train.' in any case, the vocal manipulation is similar.
more mellow, yet more harsh, than other squarepusher releases, and more grounded in technical musical composition/performance, this is a great overall album. it's very moody as well. one song is a gentle lament, the next is an intense breakneck punk'n'bass track. wow. squarepusher.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Unique Squarepusher Experience, 3 Aug 2005
Tom Jenkinson's new one is certainly not for the light eared. Despite the often mellow pace and jazzy interludes, this CD often launches into a grating hell of catastrophic sound. When "50 Cycles" peaked, there was such an explosion of pure noise my flat became temporarily convinced Judgment Day had arrived: lamps cast shadow, chairs became flaccid, and my cat took out nine life insurance policies online, despite my protests that he really only needed one, before merging interdimensionally with a Smoking Baby® incense holder. He never was much into electronica anyway.

A relative departure from 2001's lyrically intense Go Plastic, Ultravisitor is almost entirely an adventure in sound. Cascading synths roll behind a jazz-funk bass while fractured snares and the like accompany a truly gifted set of overworked, natural drums. The presence of well-timed crowd sounds give the album a sense of completion and comfort during an often bumpy ride. It also sucks the listener into a concert type feeling forcing one to pay more attention to the man behind the music and the creative process which helped bring this album to life as opposed to the dehumanized approach heralded by the likes of Kraftwerk.

As such, your enjoyment of this LP depends on your tolerance of generally menacing noise and patience during the many interludes. I, for one, find it to be a powerful, immensely enjoyable and moving piece of electronic art which should age well and influence many in the future.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Ultravisited, 29 Sep 2005
By E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" (MD USA) - See all my reviews
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Squarepusher -- Tom Jenkinson -- stares serenely from the cover of "Ultravisitor," as if he's examining whoever is considering buying it. Surprisingly, it doesn't feel weird. Somehow the cover seems appropriate, as Jenkinson seems to have matured musically in the frantic, beautifully mad newest album, and the calm cover reflects it.

The title song kicks off "Ultravisitor" in a whirlwind of mad bleeps, robotic flashes and breakneck percussion. And that's just the first few minutes -- what follows is a mixture of jazzy solos, a delicate guitar melody, and a halting ambient pop melody that seems uncertain of where exactly it's supposed to go.

About one-third through, Jenkinson gets more expansive, creating a mix of sweeping electronic panoramas and robotic vocals in "50 Cycles." It sounds like a compressed cyberpunk movie. Then he strays deeper into sputtering feedback, buzzing tools, and ghostly creaks. Don't expect a robotic, mad climax -- instead, he chooses to end it with a pair of startlingly delicate little instrumentals.

Squarepusher sounds more polished and sure of himself in this release, as if he has a good grip on what he can do best. It's sparse, cold and metallic at times, but is warmed up by the acoustic instrumentals. Those songs are where Jenkinson sounds least sure of himself, but it gives "Ultravisitor" a gentler tone.

Jenkinson is in fine form as he creates apocalyptic hard electronica, sounding like a robot city imploding on itself. But he also indulges in his love of jazz music, and performs songs that are nothing but a hesitant little solo on an acoustic guitar. It's difficult to believe that these songs are all by the same person, or that Jenkinson could do them all so well.

Squarepusher stretches his boundaries in "Ultravisitor," a more mature album that displays all his musical talents. Definitely worth getting.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Ultravisitor
One of the interesting things about Squarepusher is that his fans cannot agree on which is his best album, and there are many contenders. But to me, this is it. Read more
Published on 23 Jan 2007 by RM

1.0 out of 5 stars Noise, not music
For someone who can play a bass guitar like no other, there's an awful lot of everything else in this mix ... just nowhere near enough bass guitar. Read more
Published on 9 Nov 2006 by Mr. K. Hubbard

1.0 out of 5 stars Music is music ?
If it's not science then its art and if its art then it either touches you or leaves you unaffected. Read more
Published on 8 Jul 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Squarepusher; pushing the envelope.
Squarepusher. Richard D James once said that the Squarepusher is someone who wonders what the holes of a flute sound like without the flute. Read more
Published on 9 May 2004 by bolly_eggs

5.0 out of 5 stars A Squarepusher fan
Excellent. Before I got the album I had the impression that it was going to be totally different from his previous ones. Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2004 by N. J. Higham

5.0 out of 5 stars mind melty jazz odyssey
Tom Jenkinson's a musical genius. There really is no argueing with this point even if his output at times has been less than amazing, Selection Sixteen anyone? Read more
Published on 10 Mar 2004 by A. Provan

5.0 out of 5 stars Another classic from Tom Jenkinson
Ultravisitor seems like tom jenkinson's attempt to lift himself above the title of 'electronic producer' to the ranks of a truly great and classic musician/composer. Read more
Published on 9 Mar 2004

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