SQUAREPUSHER
Selection Sixteen
WARPCD72
Warp Records 1999
13 Tracks. 46mins32secs

We've stopped counting Mr. Jenkinson's albums now. All we know is that there's always one to come, no matter what. Of course, everybody knows that he is best mate with Aphex Twin's Richard D James, and it is quite obvious that they've influenced each other a little.
Tom Boy carries on here his little adventures into the deep world of drill'n'bass'n'free jazz. And nothing seems to stop him from experimenting with sounds and drum patterns.
After last year's Music Has Rotten One Note and its accoustic/live jazz atmosphere, he has returned to a more electronic sound, earlier this year with Budakhan Mindphone and now with this new album. Although Selection Sixteen only records thirteen tracks at the back of the CD, Tom Jenkinson has once again be very generous and he's included four extra, not so hidden, tracks, track 16 being a jewel of acid, not so distant from his Vic Acid, a few years ago.
Squarepusher is back, on form, and is probably already recording the next mini album.

4/5