Squarepusher has been riding the Jaco Pastorius slap-bass shtick for a few albums now—and I’ll admit it’s kinda worn out it’s welcome—but this new single off his upcoming Shobaleader album for Ed Banger has some focus we’ve not heard from Mr. Jenkins in a minute. And of course, since it’s Ed Banger, Mr. Oizo gives the whole thing a more electro dance floor polish.

Squarepusher – Cryptic Motion Edits by Hypetrak

Many will note that this project is a departure from SP’s longtime home at Warp Records. Although it seems there’s a friendly connection going on here, even if the explanation is a little lost in translation.

A couple of years ago I had the idea of calling WARP to propose them a split 12″, ED BANGER artists collaborating or remixing Warp artists…A year ago we throw a hell of a party in Paris with Clark, Hudson Mohawke on one hand, Mr Oizo and Sebastian on the other. WARP/ED was the name of this surprising party.

Of course it was surprising, first for us, Warp accepting to collaborate with the little frenchie label. Surprising for the Warp fans who might not be familiar with Ed Banger’s finest. ZIMI TENOR “Intervision”, SQUAREPUSHER “My red hot car”, LFO “Freak”, APHEX TWIN “Windowlicker” or GRIZZLY BEAR “Veckatimest” being in Ed Banger’s playlist, this reunion was not that crazy for me.
I am pleased today to announce the release of SQUAREPUSHER’s new project SHOBALEADER ONE on ED BANGER RECORDS

My dream come true, two worlds, one release :
SQUAREPUSHER on A side with “CRYPTIC MOTION”, the perfect soundtrack for a remake of Zabriskie Point in 2012, heavy bass that slaps your flesh and some sunset vocoder. MR OIZO on the B side for an epileptic p-funk remix only him can twist that way.

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