Do You Know Squarepusher

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Do You Know Squarepusher
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Studio album by
Released30 September 2002 (2002-09-30)
Genre Electronic
Length32:13
Label Warp
Producer Tom Jenkinson
Squarepusher chronology
Go Plastic
(2001)
Do You Know Squarepusher
(2002)
Ultravisitor
(2004)
Singles from Do You Know Squarepusher
  1. "Do You Know Squarepusher"
    Released: 2001
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 62/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
BBC unfavorable [3]
MusicOMH favorable [4]
Pitchfork 4.8/10 [5]
Playlouder Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]
PopMatters mixed [7]
Stylus Magazine F [8]

Do You Know Squarepusher is the sixth studio album by Squarepusher, released on Warp in 2002. It peaked at number 35 on the UK Independent Albums Chart. [9] It includes a cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart". [10] The CD version of the album includes an additional disc of live recordings, titled Alive in Japan. [11]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Tom Jenkinson, except where noted

Do You Know Squarepusher
No.TitleLength
1."Do You Know Squarepusher"5:05
2."F-Train"4:19
3."Kill Robok"3:34
4."Anstromm-Feck 4"3:29
5."Conc 2 Symmetriac"1:23
6."Mutilation Colony"10:48
7."Love Will Tear Us Apart" (Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Bernard Sumner)3:32
Total length:32:13
Alive in Japan
No.TitleLength
1."Mutilation Colony (Excerpt)"2:43
2."The Exploding Psychology"7:39
3."My Red Hot Car"5:02
4."Do You Know Squarepusher"5:01
5."Direct to Mental"3:23
6."Boneville Occident"7:13
7."Go! Spastic"8:47
8."Greenways Trajectory"9:50
9."My Fucking Sound"8:56
10."Anstromm-Feck 4"4:18
Total length:62:55

Charts

ChartPeak
position
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [9] 35

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