WARP Reissues “The Lost SQUAREPUSHER Album” ‘Stereotype’
Originally released in 1994 by a teenage Tom Jenkinson under the alias ‘Stereotype’ the hour-long 7-track album is finally getting the treatment it deserves
WARP Records appears to be digging back into early electronic projects by influential artists, dusting them off, and giving them the proper releases they never received the first time around.
Recently, the groundbreaking British label announced an expanded edition of the 1993 Richard D. James (aka APHEX TWIN) project Surfing On Sine Waves, released under his moniker Polygon Window. Now, Tom Jenkinson is having a formative release of his own exhumed for present-day consumption, and we’re all about it.
Being referred to as “the lost Squarepusher album,” Jenkinson originally released the 7-song effort under the alias ‘Stereotype‘ through a Spymania imprint back in 1994 as a run of 1,000 copies. The Stereotype E.P. may have been light on tracks, but the opener, “Whooshki” is over 16 1/2 minutes long, and is followed by the song “1994,” which is nearly 11 minutes, and “O’Brien” which clocks in at 9:26. At the time of its creation, Jenkinson was still a teenager.
WARP describes the release as “an hour of raw, dancefloor-focused early Squarepusher productions, fuelled by pirate radio and rave, remastered from the original tapes. A companion of sorts to the debut album under the Squarepusher name, Feed Me Weird Things, which was recorded around the same time before emerging on Rephlex Records in 1996.“
The label will reissue Stereotype on October 24th, offering it on CD and digitally for the first time ever. The vinyl edition has been recut into a double-LP. As they explain, “the original release crammed nearly an hour of music onto one 12” single!“
Stereotype is available for preorder now. Initial vinyl copies purchased from Squarepusher, Warp, or Bleep will include an A2 ‘Acid For The 90s‘ poster by Binary Communications.
Check out the track “O’Brien” below, followed by a selection of product images.
