Ultravisitor

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Ultravisitor
Studio album by Squarepusher
Released	8 March 2004
Genre	Drum and bass Jazz Musique concrète Electronic music Rock music Industrial music
Length	79:49
Label	Warp Records
Producer	Tom Jenkinson
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork Media (7.9/10) link
Squarepusher chronology
Do You Know Squarepusher (2002) Ultravisitor (2004) Hello Everything (2006)

Ultravisitor is an album by jazz musician and drum and bass artist Tom Jenkinson, known by his recording alias Squarepusher. It was released March 8, 2004 by Warp Records (see 2004 in music).

Ultravisitor incorporates many of the various musical styles exhibited by Jenkinson on his previous albums, including drum and bass and acid techno, jazz fusion, and electronic noise. A few of the tracks feature layered Spanish guitar, or filtered bass guitar. Many of the tracks have samples of an audience, blurring the lines between live performance and studio performance.

Tom Jenkinson has stated that "Ultravisitor is my spectacle of beauty and of terror. It is unknowable, and will never be understood by anybody, least of all its creator." [1]

Ultravisitor is the only album to show a clear portrait of Tom Jenkinson's face on its cover art.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Ultravisitor" – 8:32
2. "I Fulcrum" – 3:31
3. "Iambic 9 Poetry" – 6:55
4. "Andrei" – 2:00
5. "50 Cycles" – 8:33
6. "Menelec" – 5:43
7. "C-Town Smash" – 1:29
8. "Steinbolt" – 7:44
9. "An Arched Pathway" – 4:06
10. "Telluric Piece" – 1:53
11. "District Line II" – 8:33
12. "Circlewave" – 6:28
13. "Tetra-Sync" – 9:27
14. "Tommib Help Buss" – 2:10
15. "Every Day I Love" – 2:39

The album was released in three formats. The first is a standard CD release, presented in a standard jewel case. Second, there is a limited edition of the CD, presented in a book-style case, with bonus artwork and notes by Jenkinson. Third, a double LP vinyl version of this album was released. Orders from the Warp Records website included a 3" mini CD, entitled Square Window, with outtakes and B-sides from the album.

A promotional CD and record for Ultravisitor featured "Square Window," a new track entitled "Talk About You & Me," and the title track, "Ultravisitor."

"Venus No.17" was also released as a vinyl-only single, featuring the title track, an Acid remix of it, and a reworking of the Feed Me Weird Things track "Tundra," entitled "Tundra 4."

Also, track five: "50 Cycles" seems to be either a reworking or modification of the track "F-Train" from Jenkinson's previous album, Do You Know Squarepusher.

[edit] External links

• Ultravisitor at the official Warp Records discography (features audio clips).
• Ultravisitor at MusicBrainz
• Ultravisitor interview at Warp Records site.

v • d • e Squarepusher Albums Feed Me Weird Things (1996) – Hard Normal Daddy (1997) – Music Is Rotted One Note (1998) – Buzz Caner (1998) – Selection Sixteen (1999) – Go Plastic (2001) – Do You Know Squarepusher (2002) – Ultravisitor (2004) – Hello Everything (2006) EPs Crot EP (1994) – Conumber E:P (1995) – Alroy Road Tracks (1995) – Port Rhombus EP (1996) – Squarepusher Plays... (1996) – Big Loada (1997) – Remixes 12" (1998) – Budakhan Mindphone (1999) – Maximum Priest EP (1999) – Ultravisitor (2003) – Square Window (2004) Singles Vic Acid (1997) – Do You Know Squarepusher (2001) – My Red Hot Car (2001) – Venus No. 17 (2004) – Welcome to Europe (2006) Compilations Burningn'n Tree (1997) Related Artcles Warp Records