Squarepusher – Go Plastic
The music gear and equipment used by the artists, producers, engineers, and more involved in the making of the 2001 album Go Plastic.
Music from Go Plastic
Gear Used On Go Plastic
Explore the instruments, equipment, software, and production tools used in the making of Squarepusher – Go Plastic (2001). Click more on each item to see exactly how it was used.
Studio Equipment used by Squarepusher on Go Plastic
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By using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine (available at https://archive.org/web/) and searching for the page "http://www.squarepusher.net/justasouvenir/data/interviews.xml", it is possible to find various interviews that were gathered together over the years and kept at squarepusher.net until around the year of 2012, when the site was updated. In one of those (precisely the 2006 Rockin On' Magazine [Japan] interview), Tom is asked: "In ULTRAVISITOR, you revived the authentic Squarepusher sound by integrating the free jazz approach in Music is Rotted One Note and laptop originated sound in Go Plastic, Do You Know Squarepusher. Would you say that having recorded ULTRAVISITOR had a positive effect on HELLO EVERYTHING?" In his answer, he reveals the setup used in the Go Plastic album: "First of all, I didn't use a computer on Go Plastic. It was made with a Yamaha QY700, TX81[Z] and FS1R, an Eventide DSP4000 and Orville, an Akai S6000 and a Mackie 16 channel desk. Second, precisely what is the "authentic Squarepusher sound"? Although you seem to have made up your mind, I would be entertained to see if anybody agreed with you or each other! Certainly if there was a consensus, I would feel like I had failed to fufil my primary objective which is to rubbish the notion of the static artistic persona. The tendency to develop and change ideas, musical or otherwise is a hallmark of an active and intelligent mind -yet it is not prevalent in the sphere of music. Once musicians establish their "style", it appears that many feel compelled to take the safe option of sticking to it. The ironic thing is that repeating the same ideas over and over again gets pretty uninteresting and inevitably leads to stagnancy; thus their career is sabotaged by these very attempts to safeguard it. For me, to stick to some sort of style is to prematurely throw your artistic potential down the drain. Thus I assert that nobody could coherently state what the "Squarepusher sound" is. After recording the Ultravisitor material, I felt it was time to shift the compositional focus to simpler ideas."
