Squarepusher releases new single "K7 Museum" from upcoming album "KAMMERKONZERT"

K7 Museum’, the new single from Squarepusher, is out today. It’s the second track to be revealed from his forthcoming album Kammerkonzert, due for release on April 10th via Warp Records.

Kammerkonzert is a riot of onyx-hard, hyperfast riffs. It is a riot of fiendish orchestral themes. It is a riot of handbrake turns through varieties of progressive, ambient, electronic and experimental music. But more than all of this, it is a riot of synapse-zapping, nerve-tingling fun. These mercurial juxtapositions can fleetingly remind the listener of the visionary French Zeuhl band Magma [‘K1 Advance’], the liquid fusion of Weather Report in their ‘. . . Body Electric’ phase [‘K2 Central’], and the baroque, blood-drenched giallo soundtracks of Ennio Morricone [‘K7 Museum’]. Elsewhere the more contemporary north London jazz riffing of Sons of Kemet [‘K3 Diligence’], the ring-modulated piano of Stockhausen’s ‘Mantra’ and even the atmosphere of Brian Eno’s ambient work with David Bowie [‘K11 Tideway’] all make themselves felt.

Kammerkonzert – whose tough-sounding name reflects the sonic militancy of the music it presents, while literally meaning ‘chamber concert’ in German – pushes mischievously inward at the extreme boundaries of music composition itself. Listening to Kammerkonzert is like standing too close to some infernal self-reassembling machine, with cogs, pistons, microchips and alternators filling the entire field of vision, so its full extent, design and purpose is entirely unclear – at first. And then, bit by bit, the full glorious picture emerges.