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Squarepusher Slams Not Punk Enough Punks

Author: Jonty Adderley
Saturday, October 26, 2002
Experimental maestro Squarepusher has issued a curiously complicated statement of intent alongside his new double long player do you know squarepusher, in which he launches a tirade against punks.

"The lesson is that no punks have yet been punk enough," says Squarepusher.

"Rejecting and negating the mainstream just as quickly becomes subsumed in its own poisonous cliches (thus often becoming suitable for mass consumption). It is essential for any creator to want to negate and to reject, but this is coupled with a consummate understanding pf the phenomena one seek to reject."

Squarepusher: do you know squarepusher, is out now on Warp.
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