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Well, yes, why does Tom call himself Squarepusher? Does he like to push squares? And why Autechre? Or Plaid? I know the background for Aphex, BoC, and Venetian, otherwise, I'm clueless. I'd like to know about any IDM/Braindance-artist you know. ^^ |
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ehh, i have no idea but i would be interested in the background of aphex box and venetian |
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a thread just like this was started earlier today, btw and yeah, he's likes to push squares! |
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maybe it has something to do with square sound waves |
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thank you for clearing that. rhombus-pusher would be a shitty name for example |
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aphex-i think because of the acid stuff twin-because of his dead brother boc-after a tv documentary have no idea about snares |
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Basically, the Snares like the sound of it. Venetian Snares. And he uses Venetian Snare-like sounds in his tunes. |
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i'm starting to think you don't know anything |
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Tom Jenkinson has said it was just a whim of fancy, he combined "square" and "pusher" together and he liked it, so the stuck with him...no real history behind the name... |
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Well, it's true, Roygbivcore. Believe it or not. I've read it in an interview. |
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I always thought it was a statement about pushing boundaries and thumbing his nose at all the uncool "squares" hanging around him and his music (and there are plenty of those in England ;) ). Hence: "Squarepusher". |
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I don't know why he calls himself that,but I knicked his last bit-pusher. |
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so he uses the name venetian snares because he likes the way it sounds.. and you can't just maybe guess thats why tom picked squarepusher? |
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There's an article in http://squarepusher.watmm.com/sp_articles.shtml that mentions why, but I forget which one it was. |
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i think he meant because of the snares sound |
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Chill it, Roygbivcore. It's a plain simple question. I don't want to argue with you. Yes, he do like the way it sounds, and no, I couldn't guess why Tom picked Squarepusher. There's a phuqqing lot of reasons why he could call himself Squarepusher. Stop acting bigheaded. |
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Thanks, Joyrex. Will check it out. ^^ |
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as per the link in joyrex' post... EAR: Would you like to explain us the meaning of your singular pseudonym Squarepusher ? TJ: It's only a name I have extracted seeing a dictionary, it sounds good and I never attribute it a particular meaning, I wanted that it remained impressed in people's minds. |
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Yep, as I was reminded...Thanks, Joyrex and Portland... :) |
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There's an interview where aaron funk explained the name Venetian Snares. He found that his snares sounded a lot like running a pencil against some venetian blinds, and had a whimsical idea that his music sort of has venetian snares. |
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I (yes,me) thought Squarepusher got his name from the old saying 'trying to fit a square peg into a round hole'.(means trying to do something that's impossible) ....thus,Toms idea for his music is descriptive of the original meaning.... ok,am I making sense? No?ok. };> |
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he's pushing the boundaries of the square to the new dimension; the cube i could be wrong, but that's just my two yen |
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tom allegedly sold acid at college so acid = square and pusher this was in an interview a few years ago |
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I personally think this is full of shit: AU-dio TECH-nology RE-search. |
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i always thought of "acid dealer" but i never thought it was an intentional meaning. where's this interview? |
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maybe it's because he pushes the little squares/buttons on his synths/machines or whatever? |
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must have something to do with our age group..but it was exactly the images the name squarepusher conjured when I first heard the name:) |
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I thought it was a cross between AUdio and archiTECHteRE |
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I never thought of that. Makes sense. Autechicture...architexture...autechre |
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how do you get a square wave from a bass guitar. square waves can do some weird shit tho, oh yeah. |
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I could've sworn the name Squarepusher came from pushing the squares on an AKAI MPC2000. |
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I always thought of him pushing squares around to make music too, kind of like lego. |
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actually, a squarewave isnt far off for a bass guitar. We had to construct a fingered bass sound in modular functions/signal flow 2 weeks ago, and the primary waveform we used was a pulse wave (which is a square wave, but instead of equal durations of "on" "off" one is longer then the other) if that made any sense. I dont know how to desribe it non visually. |
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* and we had to do other things to the wave form, of course, so it wasnt just a pulse wave... but im just saying,,, |
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10-4 but it's not :p |
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but its close :-P |
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pixels are square; the whole digital thing made up of little squares, same with the music, music made of squares. |
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it's hip to be square |
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and what about plaid? |
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plaid = A boring patterned fabric. squarepusher = A dealer of acid. |
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I always thought of him like pushing those square things in fruity loops. Although I'm pretty sure that is not what he's using at all... |
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I always thought of squarepusher in the way of 'dealing' something, a pusher, squares. Acid? Yeah. Great name. |
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But obviously that image would not play well with his more modern "mature electronic jazz musician" phase he is going through. |
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don't know why, but I thought I read long ago that it was the square peg in the round hole, thing |
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That was the manual to your fisher price play centre you were reading. |
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aphex is a company that makes compressors or reverb units or something and RDJ owned one of those units. i saw a program done by the National Film Board of Canada and i see how BoC extracted their name from it, judging by the music played on the program. |
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Global Goon got his name because he is a big fat hippy with a friend called al. big fat world shaped stupid person = global goon. |
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the name aphex twin has nothing to do with aphex systems, he did not name himself after that equipment. richard came up with it when he was a kid/teenager. it was just a covincident that this company had the same name. |
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It's because when ever a nerd, or square, comes up to him at a show and requests a picture, he pushes them away. Pomme=Own3d |
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