Squarepusher - My Red Hot Car (Girl)

I'm gonna give you all I've got.

Album: My Red Hot Car single
Genre: Dance, IDM, 2 Step Garage
Release: May 21st 2001
Length: 5.00
Producer: Squarepusher
Vocalist:
Label: Warp Records

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Credits

The track samples drums from The Winstons - Amen, Brother, Lyn Collins - Think About It and Jimmy McGriff - The Worm

Processors, sampler (AKAI S600), sequencers, synthesizers,

Details

• The track was released as an alternative version of the single My Red Hot Car. The original version of the song can be found on the Squarepusher album 'Go Plastic' from 2001.
  
  
• You can tell by the four samples listed above how much effort went into making the drum breaks for 'My Red Hot Car'. Squarepusher's shows often featured live drummers until he decided to go purely digital as a well-programmed drum machine could out perform any drummer. Eventually however, even the drum machines couldn't keep up, so Squarepusher started using them in unintended ways. He implemented techniques such as granular synthesis to break drum samples into microtime and would compose beats that had an almost absurd amount of drum hits, sometimes many per second. Some of the fastest Squarepusher songs, such as 'Anstrom-Feck 4', is about 202bpm, which is well over three beats per second. He did it because he could.
  
  It was the turn of the millennium and instead of worrying about the bug like those people who sold their homes and waited on a mountain for the world to end, Tom Jenkinson AKA Squarepusher had embraced the machine. In an earlier life he was a talented guitar player who had grown bored of traditional instruments and traditional music. He wanted to see what it would sound like if you got a drum machine and turned the bpm as high as it would go? It was an interesting approach that took some getting used to but was worth it in the end.
  
  You'll never hear the type of sounds you hear on a Squarepusher record come out of a traditional instrument. It just isn't possible. Many musicians are afraid of technology and the change that comes with it because it represents the end of their livelihood. They're busy people who've already dedicated countless hours learning to play an instrument. The last thing they want is to learn the ins and outs of every new-fangled gadget. It was easier to dismiss things and hope they went away.
  
  However, the pioneers of electronica proved the machines weren't going anywhere and, over time it was traditional rock away. The digital revolution was here to stay. Bob Dylan HAD to plug in his electric guitar in the same way as Jimi Hendrix HAD to apply reverb to in the same way as Tom Jenkinson AKA Squarepusher HAD to abuse his drum machine. The people jeering didn't matter because they couldn't stand in the way of progress.
  
  
• "My attitude is that I like to take something and make it do what it's not supposed to do. The traditional of drums and a bass and a melody I make them so they can appear to swap places. Like the drums become the melody or the bass becomes the melody or the melody becomes the drums." (Squarepusher talking to TechTV)

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