Album · 1998
Music Is Rotted One Note
by Squarepusher
Music Is Rotted One Note is an album by Squarepusher, released in 1998 on Warp, with 15 tracks.
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- 48 min
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Album · 1998
by Squarepusher
Music Is Rotted One Note is an album by Squarepusher, released in 1998 on Warp, with 15 tracks.
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15 tracks · 48 min
Music Is Rotted One Note is the third full-length album released by Squarepusher, on UK electronica label Warp. Following the abrasive sounds of Hard Normal Daddy and the drum and bass feel of the Big Loada EP, Music Is Rotted One Note has a far more relaxed, abstract sound, owing much to both jazz and electroacoustic music. The album production did not involve any sequencing or sampling equipment, which had featured heavily on Squarepusher's previous work. Many of the tracks instead have a 'live' feel, featuring virtuoso playing by Squarepusher on the drums and bass guitar. His own comments on the album include: One of the reasons that I headed in that direction as opposed to the more computer sequence-type stuff is because I was actually beginning to feel really limited using sequencers and samplers...I was really beginning to yearn for the sort of unpredictability of the randomness of improvising with live instruments. I was just starting to choke. The sequencer is too square, too digital. I just wanted to get really fucking loose and just start again somehow. There were also other principles at play at this time relating to harmonic content. One was that I was to abandon the ov…