I've never been about trying to promote a brand of Squarepusher. I've never been keen on that idea that these are the character traits that I've got to stick with and amplify and keep pushing forward and pushing on the public. I'm really happy to throw it all away and start each record with a blank slate but I concede you've got a point, there are things I can't get rid of, no matter how hard I try.

Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.

Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.

I’m not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That’s nothing to do with me.

My plan is if you come to the shows in the first run of dates the versions you'll hear live are quite close to the record. But because I can set this up identically afterwards in a hotel room I can actually work when I'm on the move. The aim is that all the pieces will have had substantial remixes and different parts added and subtracted.