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Squarepusher: Do You Know Squarepusher (Warp Records)

Todd L. Burns, Stylus, December 2002

SQUAREPUSHER's latest release, Do You Know Squarepusher mines a lot of the territory that his return to drill 'n bass, Go Plastic, did. He also mines the territory that Richard Devine explored on his work Aleamapper. He even takes a stab at the rap inversions of Funkstorung and Autechre. On the last track, he takes a straight ahead look at Joy Divison's 'Love Will Tear Us Apart'. All in all, Squarepusher knows a lot of other people and what they're doing. But it doesn't seem like he's doing anything himself.

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