Album Preview: Just A Souvenir, Squarepusher (Warp)
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A virtuoso bass guitarist, Tom Jenkinson is part Jaco Pastorius, part Mark King. He's also a virtuoso with a sampler, pioneering the "drill and bass" style of breakbeat jungle beloved of labelmates such as Vibert and Richard James.
It's a fine line between virtuoso and show-off, and for all his high-speed riffing and skittering breakbeats it's the abrupt shifts of mood and ear for the unconventional which elevate his eleventh album above the merely ordinary.
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