Selection Sixteen

Squarepusher | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 16, 1999)
• Original Release Date: November 16, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nothing Records
• ASIN: B00002SWJF
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #228,539 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #71 in Music > Indie Music > Dance & DJ > IDM

Track Listings

1. 'Eye

2. Square Rave

3. Time Borb

4. Dedicated Loop

5. Tomorrow World

6. Cool Veil

7. Schizm Track #1

8. Freeway

9. Snake Pass

10. Yo

11. Mind Rubbers

12. Tesko

13. Acid Tape Track

14. 8 Bit Mix #1 [*]

15. 8 Bit Mix #2 [*]

16. Schizm Track #2 Mix [*]

17. Ceephax Mix [Remix by Andy Jenkinson][*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Squarepusher at his definitive peak, July 21, 2002

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JLS "amotion" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Selection Sixteen (Audio CD)

This album truly is Tom Jenkinson at his peak. There are plenty of overlapping synths complementing each other as if if were a day at the symphony. There are funk elements scattered throughout the recording in the form of Jenkinson's highly conceptualized bass style, and there are free-form jazz interludes that lead into the extreme beauty of the full-on electronic onslaughts.

There is something that sets this album apart from Squarepusher's other albums. In most of Squarepusher's discography, the drums are brought to the forefront to precisely compliment the melodies. Here, they are subdued, giving Jenkinson's melodical skills a chance to shine. The complexity in the drum work is on par with the rest of his albums, but for some reason, he seemed to turn down the volume on them. This is a very good thing when speaking in terms of an album such as this. This is the album where Jenkinson went straight into composing melodies as if it were to be played by an orchestra. There are so many synth tracks working together on this album that a turned up drum track would only hinder their splendor and beauty.

I am sure that there are some people out there that do not like this album or would not like it if they bought it. I do not really see how a person couldn't like such a classic example of beauty, but an opinion shouldn't be criticized. I don't really think it matters what type of music you are used to listening to, beauty is beauty no matter what form it comes in, and this is truly an album the conceptualizes it well.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Squarepooper: What Genius!!!!1!1one, April 17, 2004

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"_--" (Stykkishólmur, Iceland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Selection Sixteen (Audio CD)

My, how did people with such a low intellect even come to find who Squarepusher is? Bone Thugs, trying to edit the work 'heck', and lack of vocals? Why are you even in this genre? What wanks.

This album, which isn't his best material, is still a very nice listen. The bonus tracks seem to give more of a fulfilment when finished. Compared to his newer, and even some of his older, works, this seems very thin. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, just that his later albums have more of a personality to them. Kind of a completist's thing to get, really.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great mixture of past and present styles, November 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Selection Sixteen (Audio CD)

My favorite two titles by Squarepusher are "Hard Normal Daddy" and "Music Is Rotted One Note", and I was surely not disappointed in either realm of those styles upon hearing "Selection Sixteen". The mixture of breakbeats with melodies, follwed by a quick jazzy tune is a pattern found repeatedly on this album. Despite the short 35 minute length of the 'official' first 13 tracks, "Selection Sixteen" is a great listen for anyone looking to sample Tom Jenkinson's total body of work in one album, or for any fan of anything he's done in the past.