Squarepusher is the nom de disque of Tom Jenkinson, who makes electronic dance music. EDM is associated with a relentless four-on-the-floor dance beat; it's loud and brightly colored and definitely part of the pop realm. Squarepusher, on the other hand, makes music that rides over a skittish, often nervous set of rhythms; his music may be somewhere on the fringes of pop, but it’s closer to the arty outsider known as Aphex Twin than it is to Tiesto or Calvin Harris or any of the other superstar dance DJs. Instead of EDM, this is IDM --  "intelligent dance music." A pretentious-sounding name, but hey, it’s not Squarepusher’s fault that critics have coined it.

You can dance to some of Squarepusher’s songs, but you really should be listening closely too, because many of his works reveal themselves fully only on repeated listening. There are echoes, sometimes distant ones, of jazz in his works – Squarepusher is also a virtuoso bass guitarist and has done whole concerts of solo bass. And occasionally, there are more recognizably rock and pop elements, as on the 2015 album, Damogen Furies, which includes a couple of tracks that sport catchy synth melodies. Opening track “Stor Eiglass,” for example, almost sounds like it wants to quote from The Cure.

Squarepusher did a recent project with musical robots, but his own music has somehow maintained an organic quality, a sense of playability rare in the world of laptop-based music. Hear Squarepusher perform several recent works in-studio.

Set List:

• "Kill Robok"
• "Rayc Fire 2"
• "The Modern Bass Guitar"