Squarepusher presents Shobadleader One

Squarepusher presents Shobadleader One

15 September, 2010 | 6.17AM

• Written by: Beatportal
• Filed under: Videos: ed banger, squarepusher, warp

Warp Records has posted a brand-new video for Squarepusher’s Shobaleader One project, which finds the former drill’n’bass miscreant getting all funk-rock (or something) in the context of a full band. As he tells us in an interview at Warp, Shobaleader One is a full band that grew out of a “fantasy group” in the ‘pusher’s brain, featuring “basically a bunch of people who you may or may not have heard of from other bands and projects. Part of their idea is that this music is a completely clean break with whatever they’ve done in the past so I’m not allowed to mention any names. I can tell you that they are pretty frightening players.”

‘Megazine’, the song in the video, will feature on Shobaleader One’s forthcoming ‘d’Demonstrator’ album on October 18. In the meantime, however, you can check out the first Shobaleader One output on the ‘Cryptic Motion’ single on Ed Banger.

Busy P’s label teased us a month back with a Mr. Oizo remix of the same, and now they bring us the original track, a slow-motion funk extravaganza that sounds a little like Gary Numan getting down with George Clinton&#8212or Isolee with Zapp, maybe. Twisted stuff that’s also shockingly beautiful.

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