Squarepusher - Just a Souvenir album and Planet Gear video

Since the release of his latest album Just a Souvenir, Tom Jenkinson (AKA Squarepusher) has gone ahead and created this music video for Planet Gear, the 8th track on the album.

From the description on squarepusher.net:

"The overall concept of this video revolves around images of imaginary astronomical phenomena. I selected a method which I anticipated would be appropriate to the construction of "scaleless" objects, such that one could imagine them occupying planetary sized volumes of space."



The new album is like nothing I've ever heard before. With carefully crafted layers of bubbling slap bass, complex (and erratic at times) jazz drumming, ultra-compressed distorted guitar riffs, vocoders and xylophones, glowing synth chimes and pads, time signature and bpm changes (that I still can't quite understand, which makes me like them even more), rock, prog-rock, punk, house, jungle, slow jams, reds, greens, colors, yellows, blues and purples, whites, GOOD LORD THE WHITES!!!

Okay I went a little over the top there, but you have to hear it to understand. There is no categorizing this album. Go give it a listen. That's an order not a suggestion.

Yoshiyuki's Equipment

Here is a selection of photos I took of some of my Ojichama's (Grandfather) photography, film and audio equiptment:


Leica M3 with filters and lenses


Graflex Super Speed Graphic


Birdie Type II Slide Projector


Bell & Howell Design 122 LR 8mm Projector


Keystone A7 16mm camera

Yoshiyuki's Equipment Continued

Canon 514XL Super 8 Camera


Elmo Sound Editor 912-S


Paximat-S Electric Slide Projector


Projecto-Editor 8mm Craig by Kalart


Polaroid Land Camera Automatic 100

My Ojichama died in 1984, so I don't really have any memories of him. But it's clear he had a real passion for documenting the lives of family members and friends. I also have quite a bit of his 8mm movies, many of which I'm transferring to DVD. I'll try and make some of those available to view on here soon. Here is a picture taken of him for a Japan Airlines ad:



You can view additional pictures of his equipment here.

Japan 2007

Here's a short movie I edited with footage and photos taken in Japan last year:



My sister, Kelly, and her classmates from college had already been there around 2001 and I in 2004 with my friends. We were dying to go back and explore more of what Japan had to offer. So we decided we'd do it together. It was a very satisfying trip which included short (but sweet) visits with relatives and plenty of amazing food and scenery.

This video contains footage of us in Kamakura and Kyoto. There's also a quick shot taken at night from the window of our hotel in Tokyo (the last shot in the movie). The music is by Susumu Yakota who I feel really captures the spirit of Japan in much of his music. Next time I'll be sure to take MUCH more footage. Enjoy.