Ever since 'My Hot Red Car' Squarepusher has held a place very dear to breakbeat enthusiasts. Here he delivers more skewed breaks and Aphex-style acid squelches with a Daft Punk-esque exploration into a synth space odyssey. But of course, it's darker, twisted and without any anthemic sugar highs.
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."
His new album is called Ufabulum, and available for pre-order at Bleep.
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