Squarepusher will release his Damogen Furies LP via Warp Records on April 20th. Today Tom Jenkinson has made his track “Rayc Fire 2” available for download from his website. Discussing the upcoming work, the musician explained, “Through this record I aim to explore as forcefully as possible the hallucinatory, the nightmarish and the brutally visceral capacities of electronic music.”
“Rayc Fire 2” is indeed a frightening proposition–a glitched and itchy trip down the sonic K-hole. Punishing, hyper-speed rounds of synth squelch and mangled beats are juggled by this mad professor as he seems hell-bent on delivering an audio ass whooping to electronic music’s new generation of come latelies. Give the cut a listen, and then consider that Squarepusher recorded all the tracks on Damogen Furies in one take–amazing, given the amount of complexity here. In addition, the album was created using custom built software that the artist has spent the last decade perfecting, ensuring it a sound uniquely Jenkinson’s own!
Look for Squarepusher to play some live European dates this spring, but his only US stop will be at Coachella in April…
March 15- La Cartonnerie, Reims, France
March 16 – Le Grand Mix, Lille, France
March 17 – The Old Firestation, Bournemouth, UK
March 22 – Bangface Weekender, Southport, UK
April 4 – Electron Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
April 10 ? Coachella, Indio, CA, USA
April 17 ? Coachella, Indio, CA, USA
May 3 – Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Cheltenham, UK
May 8 – Brighton Festival, Brighton, UK
May 15 – Garden Hall, Tokyo, Japan
May 16 – The Star Festival, Kyoto, Japan
May 30 – Life Festival, Belvedere House, Ireland
July 31 – Dekmantel Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
August 14 – Boomtown Fair, UK
