Go Plastic

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title: "Go Plastic" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["2001-albums", "squarepusher-albums", "warp-records-albums"] topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Plastic" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Go Plastic
type	studio
artist	Squarepusher
cover	SquarepusherGoPlastic.jpg
released
genre	* Breakcore
length
label	Warp
producer	Tom Jenkinson
prev_title	Selection Sixteen
prev_year	1999
next_title	Do You Know Squarepusher
next_year	2002
misc	{{Singles
name	Go Plastic
type	studio
single1	My Red Hot Car
single1date	21 May 2001
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| name = Go Plastic | type = studio | artist = Squarepusher | cover = SquarepusherGoPlastic.jpg | alt = | released = | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = * Breakcore

• Drill 'n' bass | length = | label = Warp | producer = Tom Jenkinson | prev_title = Selection Sixteen | prev_year = 1999 | next_title = Do You Know Squarepusher | next_year = 2002 | misc = {{Singles | name = Go Plastic | type = studio | single1 = My Red Hot Car | single1date = 21 May 2001 Go Plastic is the fifth studio album by British electronic musician Tom Jenkinson, under the alias of Squarepusher. It was released through Warp Records on 25 June 2001. It peaked at number 100 on the UK Albums Chart.

Production

Unlike many of his earlier albums such as Hard Normal Daddy and Music Is Rotted One Note, which often prominently featured live instrumentation (particularly drums and bass guitar), the sound palette on Go Plastic is almost exclusively synthetic, with an emphasis on high-velocity breakbeats subjected to extensive manipulation and granular effects. In a contemporaneous interview, Squarepusher claimed to be "fed up" with real instruments, wanting everything "brutal and digital."

Despite this, Squarepusher claims that the album was not produced using a computer, but rather by utilizing a range of hardware including the Eventide DSP4000 and Eventide Orville digital effects processors, Yamaha QY700 sequencers, Yamaha TX81Z and FS1R synthesizers, and an Akai S6000 sampler.

Release

Go Plastic was released by Warp Records on 25 June 2001. It was released on both CD and 2xLP.

Reception

| MC = 70/100 | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1score = | rev2 = Hot Press | rev2score = favorable | rev3 = LA Weekly | rev3score = favorable | rev4 = NME | rev4score = 9/10 | rev5 = Pitchfork | rev5score = 5.1/10 | rev6 = Playlouder | rev6score = | rev7 = PopMatters | rev7score = favorable | rev8 = Rolling Stone | rev8score = | rev9 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide | rev9score =

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Go Plastic received an average score of 70, based on 17 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews.

In 2015, Exclaim placed it at number 2 on its list of "an essential guide to Squarepusher".

Track listing

| headline = Go Plastic track listing | title1 = My Red Hot Car | length1 = 4:42 | title2 = Boneville Occident | length2 = 4:50 | title3 = Go! Spastic | length3 = 6:21 | title4 = Metteng Excuske v1.2 | length4 = 1:08 | title5 = The Exploding Psychology | length5 = 6:43 | title6 = I Wish You Could Talk | length6 = 4:53 | title7 = Greenways Trajectory | length7 = 7:10 | title8 = Tommib | length8 = 1:19 | title9 = My Fucking Sound | length9 = 7:05 | title10 = Plaistow Flex Out | length10 = 4:28 | total_length = 48:21

| headline = Japanese bonus track | title11 = Hardcore Obelisk | length11 = 5:24

Charts

::data[format=table] | Chart | Peak position | UK Albums Chart (OCC) | |---|---|---| | 100 | | | ::

References

References

1. "My Red Hot Car". [[Warp (record label).
2. "Go Plastic". [[Warp (record label).
3. {{YouTube. knnLsJ37PLI. TechTV interview 2001
4. [http://www.squarepusher.net/ Rockin' On Magazine (Japan) interview 2004]
5. (7 September 2015). "Squarepusher Interview – Brutal Sound". MusicTech.
6. "Go Plastic by Squarepusher". [[CBS Interactive]].
7. Bush, John. "Go Plastic - Squarepusher". [[AllMusic]].
8. Sweeney, Eamon. (7 June 2001). "Go Plastic". [[Hot Press]].
9. Osbaum, Stacy. (25 July 2001). "Squarepusher". [[LA Weekly]].
10. Pattison, Louis. (21 June 2001). "Squarepusher : Go Plastic". [[NME]].
11. Schreiber, Ryan. (26 June 2001). "Squarepusher: Go Plastic". [[Pitchfork (website).
12. Alphabet, Adam. (9 July 2001). "Go Plastic". [[Playlouder]].
13. Koba, Kirsten. (9 July 2001). "Squarepusher: Go Plastic". [[PopMatters]].
14. Blashill, Pat. (30 August 2001). "Squarepusher, Go Plastic".
15. (2004). "The New Rolling Stone Album Guide". Simon & Schuster.
16. Keating, Daryl. (13 May 2015). "An Essential Guide to Squarepusher". [[Exclaim!]].
17. "Squarepusher". [[Official Charts Company]].

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