Ultravisitor

Infobox Album | Name = Ultravisitor
Type = Album
Artist = Squarepusher


Released = 8 March 2004
Recorded =
Genre = Drum and bass
Jazz Musique concrète Electronic music
Rock music
Industrial music
Length = 79:49
Label = Warp Records
Producer = Tom Jenkinson
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ol6qoawawijv link]
* Pitchfork Media (7.9/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/21995-ultravisitor link]
Last album = "Do You Know Squarepusher"
(2002)
This album = "Ultravisitor"
(2004)
Next album = "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." [http://www.warprecords.com/news/?offset=0&ti_id=791&filter=sqp]

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

Track listing

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

External links

* [http://www.warprecords.com/ography/release.php?cat=WARP117 "Ultravisitor"] at the official Warp Records discography (features audio clips).
*MusicBrainz album|id=426f0e00-b541-461d-9747-9d861ed75141|name =Ultravisitor
* [http://www.warprecords.com/news/?offset=0&ti_id=791&filter=sqp "Ultravisitor interview"] at Warp Records site.
*metacritic album|id=squarepusher/ultravisitor|title=Ultravisitor