Squarepusher - 'Dark Steering' taken from 'Ufabulum'

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Music and LED visuals by Tom Jenkinson
Camera Direction and Editing by Rollo Jackson
Director of Photography Carl Burke
Squarepusher on Dark Steering:
"For a while I had apocalyptic nightmares about trails of nuclear missiles in the night sky. So I aimed to recreate that strange combination of exhilaration, terror and sadness both visually and emotionally through this piece. It lead to the idea of a spacecraft leaving earth at vast speed to escape, but oddly the music also made me think of it flying through a library. So I generated the visual aspect such that, as the piece progresses, it seems as if the viewer is ever accelerating through massive corridors of books."
For more on Ufabulum album and live show, visit:
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[@syphonunfiltered]

Imagine if you travelled back in time and showed someone from the 1800s this video and said 'this is what music will be like in 200 years'

[@DavidDavidson587]

That's so awesome to think about.

[@thecurlyhedgehog4840]

They'd think you are a witch and would try to kill you.

[@AshleyPomeroy]

Problem is that this isn't what music was like 200 years from then - Jennifer Lopez or Katy Perry would be more representative of the modern age. Which is depressing. But it's nice to see that this has over a million views, perhaps there is hope for humanity.

[@KinkidelicInk]

Ashley Pomeroy I'm living in a bubble where this is the present. I don't know what you're talking about.

[@midinerd]

Ashley Pomeroy True... would certainly depend on who you spoke to 200 years ago. Are they around a campfire, a set of mathematics books, an altar?

[@emotivebounce]

Mr. Jenkinson, I love you since I was 12 years old. 23 years ago. Middle school was so difficult, listening to your music with friends who were listening to Backstreet boys. I was a young girl, and I've never met another girl listening to your music. So sad!

[@geroutathat]

I am the same but a boy, none of my friends liked squarepusher or aphex twin.

[@burger322]

​@@geroutathatin that stage rn. (I'm 13) Everybody in my class says I have ass music taste💀

[@burger322]

​@@geroutathatI am back. people still say I have horrible music taste ):

[@cuntman7411]

​@@burger322thats rough

[@UNINOIZ3]

@@burger322 They are all 100% wrong and you are ahead of your time, musically. Tell them to go fuck themselves.

[@tempo2921]

Don't need drugs to enjoy squarepusher's music it's from another dimension.

[@sajtban13]

psyopus syzygy I laughed really hard at this

[@supercontrolroom4238]

stfu with that bullsh** (jkjk)

[@MrJohnQCitizen]

They call him 'The Big Pill'

[@jessechuff]

this seriously has to be one of the best electronic music songs/compositions ever created. squarepusher is a fucking legend, man.

[@nathanxr]

+Mentalitarium Fucking oath my man!

[@geoffreylebowski8641]

+Mentalitarium I'm with you

[@rehmsmeyer]

+Mentalitarium Dios Mio...

[@TheTacticalMess]

Winston Churchill I don't see how this isn't a great piece of work? I mean the fluidity, the pure and clean quality of the sounds, the way every sound compliments the other so nicely. It's beautifully produced and thought out. There's few people that can take something so advanced and construct it in such a way.

[@agustinavazquez9952]

Ableton ♡

[@jmi_music]

its incredible how a track can be so busy and complex yet sound so pure and clear with each element perfectly spaced in the stereo field. no clipping no clashing frequencies. no mud, no mess. and as well as being so beautifully mixed and mastered its also an intense, musically exciting and euphoric composition.

[@ale_papa]

This is not music... This is music masterclass! As a musician myself I feel humbled.

[@MrSublimestylee]

Hands down, one of the most mind blowingly enjoyable songs Ive heard in a while.

[@johnnyaxon_]

Listen to full album

[@JNCPoPs]

100%

[@supercontrolroom4238]

This song makes me feel incredibly gifted/humbled to even be alive in the same timeframe let alone alive in the same DIMENSION as Tom.

[@uniformxii]

The breakdown in this track is masterfully executed. Each sound is intentionally placed. I love the way he creates this clash or tension between sounds. He progressively breaks the climax down, till it borders on chaos, keeping just enough of the original beat to allow the listener to fill in the blanks mentally. Then it burst into the lovely acid conclusion. It creates a ton of imagery... It's genius, for the lack of a better word.

[@tunyaa]

saw him at ozora 2017 on 250 mcg, never heard of him before. It was the most intense experience of my life. I felt like he is toying with my emotions, the visuals were synched to the music to a level that i cannot even comprehend. I was grounded in utter shock. I hope I'll have the fortune to see him again in my life. Thank you! Love.

[@HasturLaVishnu]

ill give my left testicle to watch him live

[@jim041276]

At 250 mcg everything is intense lol

[@dreamsmadeflesh1]

Never listening to a Squarepusher song before now, and now I'm wondering where this music's been for all my life.

[@88xetrov88]

+dreamsmadeflesh1 Same!

[@BenC460]

+dreamsmadeflesh1 He's been around forever and has always been as good.

[@kaylemkerr6989]

+ZaCatharsis ZaeCathe Music teacher?

[@michaellk2254]

@@narsie3326 was your teacher Mr. Gates?

[@TheCulturaTv]

Underground

[@RmaNYouTube]

This is one of the most uniqe and historical Piece of Electronic Music Right Here, Can't Believe How stupidly Underrated it is.

[@notabubba8976]

This man has it all. God tier bass player and drum programmer.

[@emilhappy5696]

This track is simply a masterpiece. Its like Hes a classical music composer. Just using Electronic sounds as his symphony orchestra. Gives me chills everytime i heat that Tire-squeak, and I love it!. Bless you Pusher of Squares

[@curtisunit]

This whole album is one for posterity. My young kids request this track on a regular basis. I say what you wanna listen to? They say “hey can you put on some....sqqquarepusher?? They’re off to a good start.

[@taggerung_]

thats actually too cool

[@nopopolasturber]

The modern world is a shitty place in a many aspects, the dystopian global surveillance, poverty, wars, overpopulation... But man are we lucky to live in time where this kind of art is created and available for everybody to appreciate.

[@geroutathat]

2012, this song still gives me goosebumps in 2017. Having been a long time fan of squarepusher I thought all the surprises had come and gone, then he hits me right in the middle of my brain like an atom bomb with this album and I felt 16 years old finding a sound I loved for the first time. Seems like I have known it forever. Then he goes and makes Shobaleader One, and I just cant believe what he is doing. I am not a musician being inspired, I am just a regular guy being inspired, inspired to follow my original thoughts wherever they may lead, and I think I am a better person for it.

[@FreakyStyleytobby]

Great comment, similar feelings.

[@dowlernatasha1396]

@@FreakyStyleytobby STILL GOVES ME GOOSEBUMPS ALL OVER IN 2022

[@svetiars9764]

This sewage outlet pipe of a year brought me back here, at incredible volume. A masterpiece.

[@Kaerusss]

That was fucken sic, so much expansion and variation in each instrument and keeps it chaotic without turning it into a mess.

[@AgunZagunCom]

After 04:08, it's just an another level. I'm in love with this song.

[@gamemafia312]

Bence de baya güzel.

[@epolat19]

Iambic 9 Poetry de muhteşem bir şarkı bakın derim. :D Squarepusher eski albümlerinde daha bi güzeldi

[@SonicPimpTX]

Yes Sir, I agree.

[@MasterOfPuppets2012]

yes! it goes DNB!!

[@sageemerald7685]

***** I can't make past 1:50 without and eargasm

[@kobalt77]

After listening to this, I dont think I should ever go near a synth again .......The man is a genius.

[@LikeAColour]

To me, Squarepusher means forever pushing the metaphorical,constrictive square, box or room, that society binds us to. Allowing the space for progression and advancement in and otherwise suffocating environment. This track is just another example of Tom Jenkinson's ability to constantly evolve his sounds and move forward. Before listening to this, I wasn't looking for a track that sounded like something I've heard before, I was looking for something new, and thats exactly what I got.

[@Trazziiee]

I can’t believe this is from 2012. And now it’s 2020. 8 Years on... *Wow.*

[@DIGGERSOFTHEDEEP]

i feel the same bro

[@bruh-xi4qc]

sound design still holds up to this day

[@scottwinstanley4436]

As an older guy, reminds me of the first time I heard 'tour de france' by kraftwerk. I actually saw this promo at an Amon Tobin gig in London, great song in terms of fluidity and production. Awesome stuff

[@scottwinstanley4436]

2 million views now, wow, people actually have creative taste

[@BRUXXUS]

After 9 years. 5:39 still gives me chills!

[@massmouth]

Makes me to walk through a brick wall. Does me in.

[@autopick1902]

is it really so old? sounds so recent

[@URiiNE]

Comparing this to Daft Punk would be like comparing Decapitated to Bob Dylan because both have guitar in their music.

[@noctissama3146]

URiiNE i cant understand what u r comparing

[@fountane]

+Noctis Sama A death metal band to Bob Dylan.

[@kyletomlinson5365]

Daft Punk's not bad though...

[@deushex2356]

Come on now, don't u think ur being just a tad hyperbolic? Now I will say there is a clear difference in squarepusher's, and Daft punk ' s sound but I'd be remissed if I didn't mention their obvious similarities, stileistically and artistically, tho DP is more in the Chicago house, retro dancepop vein while s-pusher has always had more of an affinity for acid techno, glitchcore, breakbeat. Both bands having an enormously pivotal effect on modern EDM. enough so, at the very least, to be decently aware of each other.

[@benafallouss8632]

URiiNE decapitated is pretty sick though

[@zblumenfeld]

This music makes me feel alive.

[@nimequejo]

I listened to this on acid and it scared me to the point i started crying and my friends had to help me. Nice experience.

[@norwardradtke1361]

I did that too except my friends and I had the opposite experience, we were super excited and blown away ha

[@thegirlwiththemouseyhair6486]

DTfede I'm sure the artist is happy that you need drugs to listen to his music.

[@NeoRaze99]

Don't do acid, stupid.

[@Webkinzofficial]

"Don't do acid" Worst advice you can give.

[@dudhead3915]

Similar experience. Stay weird

[@notsure1969]

This video perfectly captures the feeling of the track.

[@MatthiasAletharch]

I really, really like this. Especially how there's simultaneously a lot of fast activity, a deliberately-paced chord progression under that, and then a very slow rise and fall of tension underpinning the whole thing. It's very nicely done.

[@creampop8553]

I probably shouldn't be watching or listening to this when I have a headache.

[@TechRedstone]

I probably shouldn't be listening to music that gives me a headache but that doesnt stop me from listening to autechre

[@chromeatic788]

I've only just discovered squarepusher and how much a legend he is. I'm entranced

[@uniformxii]

Yep, he is a bass player! In a recent interview, he clarified that the complexity of the melodies are second to the basslines, which are meant to take the forefront. It's like that in all of his music.

[@BenC460]

First thing I ever heard from Squarepusher was Come On My Selector back in the back in the late 90s. What a ride it's been.

[@BigAlf16]

can't wait to see him live

[@martincattell6820]

Happy Birthday Squarepusher. Hope you had a good one

[@parkatip]

PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY excited for the new album now. The world always needs more Squarepusher + Aphex Twin + Boards of Canada + Autechre.

[@nickgwiazdowky80]

i remember listening to DO YOU KNOW SQUARE PUSHER? in 06' and kids being like...wow what the fuck are you even listening to??? and those would be nerdy ass techno kids in the first place haha

[@furlag2]

Nick Gwiazdowky he made this also in 96 as a BuzzCaner but with way poor instrumentation. stillsame- high level.

[@griffinfannin2491]

Its always someone whos listens to mumble rap, or skinny white boys in flannel strumming acoustic guitars too.

[@yourgransbush]

Saw this guy at the warehouse project, Manchester. Blew my mind.

[@notsure1969]

It sounds like my brain is rewiring itself.

[@dubdan31]

This never gets old! Love it man 👊🏼

[@mimoincc]

These Jenkinson's brothers are just crazy!!!

[@St4bilityMusic]

This is probably the most "computer-y" sounding song I've ever heard and I love it

[@highspacefox]

damn, this dude can provide quite an interesting audio visual experience can't believe I haven't heard more of this man! fuckin sweet

[@jellexnitnub3436]

Love !

[@mattsharpey361]

The man has definitely experienced the shroom.....

[@nicholasclark3798]

This entire album just gives me goosebumps when i listen to it. Lovely.

[@boosra]

When I saw him it was just him in a tent with a bass guitar. I was on rather a lot of acid though, so for all I know I went to the wrong gig and just hummed squarepusher tunes in my head.

[@user-hi5hn8zu4g]

Просто, как всегда гениальное... феноменально до безумия... БРАВО

[@smonkponk]

Breathtaking visuals, that LED magic he's got goin' on here is the very definition of awesome. Lovin' these tracks too, really great album.

[@adj789]

I had a moment I realized I like watching this 6:53m clip more than I like watching a movie because movies are too long and this gives me just as much enjoyment

[@MrAphex117]

This guy is great. Truly, truly great. He's a genius, every album is different from the next and this song is fucking FANTABULASTIC (smoke a nice one beforehand). This guy and Aphex Twin.... true artists - that we want to see here in Canada!!!! Please come!! The both of you!!! Please!!! CANADA!!!!

[@Kostly]

Dick James is the fucking Daddy.

[@yukas1ngas]

Venetian Snares is good too

[@predawka]

what about the boards of your country

[@MrAphex117]

@@predawka I also enjoy boards of my country

[@DanMice1]

Venetian Snares is even better and is from Canada

[@goodpeace1]

Heard this when it first came out, still a tune in 2024!!

[@jasonwilson6686]

love this one

[@Vittorio1988]

Ohhhhh, so THAT'S why he's called squarepusher! What with all the square pushin' n' stuff!

[@malsypright]

Squares have been pushed today

[@starisesun7692]

@@malsypright 😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[@TheArgoBots]

@psyopus syzygy Licks your sheet and bangs out a deuce on your launchpad

[@Claidheambmor]

Go plastic!

[@stillshunter]

Wow, I just bridged a some synapses that were valleys apart!

[@andreschaubs1079]

Feed Me Weird Things changed my musical listening habit..and actually kept interested in continuing my music project . Thank god for CBC late night. that was 15yrs ago!

[@malsypright]

This is so wonderfully alien, especially 6:32; it sounds like a raiding party horn...or a final evil glare of a bandit before he and his gang soar away on their airbikes.

[@wadii1366]

2018 is still too early for this music

[@chris.hartliss]

Word. I listen to his much older work and wonder when people will catch up his level of creativity and obvious love for every sound.

[@xyzzyx6102]

Years ago I read that Squarepusher said that he makes future music.

[@ActualKaktus]

Still true in 2021

[@danielarce7631]

Watch_Dogs brought me here and me liking dubstep/electronic music and Squarepusher is fucking amazing!

[@BandicootMilk]

I'm not the only one

[@LoneCanadianPoet]

Awesome stuff.

[@WolfAsylum]

I think the comparison to make here is that whilst these are different genres, you can clearly see Tom putting his very heart n soul into his creations and its originality/genius shines through clear as crystal. Whereas Deadmau5 and Skrillex just don't have that extremely intricate grasp on sound design that Tom is showing in his music. Remembering that Tom started on his own, without millions behind him, just talent, as apposed to just any old pop flash in the pan artist. This is excellence.

[@drkroman9]

This is pretty much exactly how I envisioned music videos to look like in the future. I guess we're officially there.

[@utterbeastage]

Love that harsh noise, just to remind you he's in control haha.

[@EntombedHusk]

The begining is so good, and raw, but after that it gets kinda like melting, and then it's awesome.

[@spacelemon8526]

\o/ Jesus star-jumping Christ, that was incredible. I don't normally listen to music like this because the chaos is too great for me to appreciate, but this was utterly epic. The melody that comes in to surround, penetrate, and envelop the anarchy of sound was an absolutely unexpected paragon of aesthetic brilliance. Also, I have synesthesia, so I'm basically high after that ride of a composition. Thanks a great deal, Squarepusher.

[@mikehockisgone1835]

There should be an epilepsy warning for this

[@bjrntudsborg-petersen3437]

i like the slow wavyness of it

[@WhirlwindDrums]

the sound design on this album is freaking insane. So much glitchy textures, raging basslines, and melodic synthesizers. My favorite Squarepusher album behind Hard Normal Daddy

[@Widderic]

I took the bus from Baltimore to Brooklyn during hurricane Sandy. The subways were down and cabs were only taking groups of people. I walked from Brooklyn to Manhattan (half of the city was blacked out) and landed at Terminal 5 to watch Tom do his Ufabulum show. My friends thought I was crazy, I still think THEY'RE crazy. What a fucking night! Excited for the Brooklyn Steel show this year (postponed because of COVID).

[@lednerg]

The sqares are made out of circles.

[@troglobb]

what does the irrationality of squares has to do with the meaninglessness of life?

[@-snek.]

All these squares make a circle.

[@SpaceCadet5100]

I'm almost sure that "square" in his name refers to a square waveform.

[@Braxium1]

wow

[@licenselessrider4486]

You might call them Unreal Squares ;)

[@battleguy4026]

Bro it's been 5 years since I heard this song.

[@ross817]

When I was 13, I used to think that Squarepusher was one of Richard D. James' pseudonyms. Mostly because Chris Cunningham did a music video for Come on My Selector.

[@OldNorseGod1966]

Tom's the Mozart of our time,keeps an Old Norse God awake,❤him.☮️&❤2 all here

[@dozerZA]

6 mins of my life well spent. :D

[@SebastianMikulec]

Outside of Aphex Twin, no one can even come close to what tom Jenkinson puts out, and eve then, it's only kinda close.

[@charlotteturner3834]

Amon Tobin

[@lethan25]

Autechre

[@NilsIwens]

Boards of canada

[@MegaCnlSanders]

Charlotte Turner i vote for amon and squarepusher as being better than Aphex as well, though maybe the only 2

[@juancpgo]

Ceephax (his brother), μZiq, Flying Lotus, Luke Vibert, Photek are all remarkable musicians. Hard to put these names one above the other, but if I were really pushed I could say perhaps Squarepusher and Aphex Twin are my favorites. Ceephax also, very addictive music.

[@ducklaser]

If you mean that it's nice to hear Squarepusher go back to pushing squares, since he seemed to have dropped the ball at Hello Everything and now is back to what we loved him for, then I understand your comment wholly and I agree. Reminds me of Ultravisitor, the last time I enjoyed Squarepusher.

[@erikmohan9427]

I love the pusher and the way beats are supposed to be when they are produced properly!!!!

[@wadii1366]

This song is the reason why aliens wont harm humans.

[@dilligaf1212]

his teacher and mentor is and still is RICHARD D. JAMES and he my friends is and was the BEST (full stop)

[@manashgogoi6946]

Afx is a god amongst men.

[@DrumApe]

Thanks for mentioning that name, I saw his stuff from 1996 it's mind blowing!

[@peteidm]

LIES

[@MFDOM2K]

This melted my earwax

[@emmanuelsorin2577]

Eternal masterpiece, Squarepusher is just a genius and one of betters bassist on Earth.

[@Anon1696]

Comment on the upload: Superb sound quality for KZbin.

[@CronicRecordStore]

I think Ufabulum's going to be a kick-ass album. Looking foward to it being released.

[@hehaheadshot97]

You weren't wrong a bit.

[@TheBrendanio001]

One of the most creative uses of noise I've ever heard in a song with the screeching tyre synth WOO!

[@Silverweed]

saw squarepusher at moogfest 2012 and the whole show was like this video, SO AMAZING

[@Pachii42]

*2022* this is really cool

[@imDezrt]

Brilliant.

[@alna1287]

Been a fan of Tom's since the 90s, he never comes to the US but finally seeing him in Chicago next month - on the 30th anniversary celebration of my all-tine favorite venue. Fuckin EXCITED

[@bakkerem1967]

Saw him tonight @ the Melkweg in Amsterdam. Awesome !!

[@lukzz2010]

I'm just hearing colors or wtf?

[@spacelemon8526]

+California. Goth Synesthesia, sister/bro.

[@YannickDirou]

+SPACE LEMON i just knew i did too, thanks

[@zelo3238]

SpaceCowboy07 can i have what your smoking?

[@ruhtra1665]

i know how you feel. you probably have synesthesia and you didn't know. it must be because of the textures of this song. i kinda see colours and forms too.

[@TheArgoBots]

The auditory system records sound, while the visual system focuses, well, on the visuals, and never do they meet. Instead, a "higher cognitive" producer, like the brain's superior colliculus, uses these separate inputs to create our cinematic experiences. The textbook rewrite: The brain can, if it must, directly use sound to see and light to hear.

[@walterworrall]

Some classic reggae right here!

[@digitalblasphemy1100]

Squarepusher brought me here. Many many good trips with you my friend. After so many years, you're still killing it! That new robot shit makes me happy in pants.

[@junadaalsh9650]

Aliens.

[@digitalblasphemy1100]

Junada Alsh at LEAST!

[@junadaalsh9650]

Lol

[@ferrouswheel]

I saw the show in 2012 in San Francisco while passing through. This was a one of a kind unique and brain-melting experience.

[@stealers212]

Watchdogs brought me here!

[@kieranlong3696]

Squarepusher and aphex twin are the kings of idm

[@ramsuslethal]

I think Autechre are near too

[@patricklauer4452]

Luciano Ward Don’t forget BOC if you want some nice chill warm sounds that are not intense

[@emotivebounce]

And what about MuZiq? Plaid, Gimmik and much more? :)

[@RadioTaters]

I'm looking at this from a completely singular standpoint. Sort of like "to each his own". Each person has something they define as "the best music". If many people like pop music, all that shows is that it's popular, not the objectively best music.

[@Ruby-xk8kn]

just mind blowing, i would give anything to see him live, alas nobody i like ever tours Australia

[@1201Filmz]

He played the Espy in Melbourne, back in ummmm... 2006ish. I know he played the Opera House last year. They get out here but the PR's never great. Sometimes they're just one act at a festival or rave.

[@sembatimothynkalamo8986]

lol If Isaac Clarke was an actual person, and musician this is pretty much what it'd look like

[@yanizquierdo]

Haha, yeah, I immediately thought of Dead Space when I saw this outfit

[@antemrva7439]

I think code orange's underneath album would fit it more, this is just too beautiful

[@dixonnoxid4793]

Holy shit, Tom - this is a mindfuck!

[@WolfAsylum]

I'd just like to recommend to everyone who is unaware of these amazingly intricate styles of music to pop on over to warp records online and you will be sure to find many talents including squarepusher... the main reason artists like Tom don't get the attention they deserve is because of clever marketing of dumbed down music for the masses... the muic where you barely feel a thing, you know the type that lack spontaneity, the poppy dry old overused cliches... I for one desire more from music!!!

[@darkstate5324]

Holy mother of god I need a parachute to land safely after listening to this tune. Love it.