Hard Normal Daddy - Squarepusher (1997)

If there is a “classic Squarepusher” era, it’s 1997/1998 when he released this one and the wildly different Music Is Rotted One Note back-to-back.

It’s a genuine hybrid of jazz and 90s drum and bass. The drum programming is fast-paced and skittery, with live bass and keys holding it all together.

Nobody really sounds like Tom Jenkinson, but these records did a lot to influence where electronic music was going in the next 20 years.

Tracks I Liked

E8 Boogie - impossibly fast and fun

Chin Hippy - relentless and exhilarating

Fat Controller - It was probably too old to be a web developer joke, so i looked it up and this is apparently named after a character in the Thomas the Tank Engine books. Funky as hell tune, tho