Editing Hard Normal Daddy (section)

== Background ==
Tom Jenkinson was offered to sign to [[Ninja Tune]], [[Rephlex Records]], [[R&S Records]] and [[Warp (record label)|Warp]]. Jenkinson eventually chose Warp as he was more interested in the label's music.<ref name="psf">{{cite web|url=http://www.furious.com/perfect/squarepusher.html|title=Squarepusher Interview|website=[[Perfect Sound Forever (magazine)|Perfect Sound Forever]]|last=Gross|first=Jason|date=January 1999|accessdate=4 July 2013}}</ref>

=== Music ===
''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''{{'}}s Seth Colter Walls cited the album's musical style as an early example of the [[drill 'n' bass]] subgenre, described by the online music database [[AllMusic]] as a version of [[drum and bass|drum 'n' bass]] that warped "old midtempo beats and breaks into a frenzied, experimental potpourri of low-attention-span electronic music."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/style/drillnbass-ma0000012008|title=Drill'n'bass|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=25 January 2017}}</ref><ref name="bestidm">{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/10011-the-50-best-idm-albums-of-all-time/?page=3|title=The 50 Best IDM Albums of All Time|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|date=24 January 2017|accessdate=25 January 2017|page=3}}</ref>

''[[The Baltimore Sun|Baltimore Sun]]'' critic [[J. D. Considine]] described the album as [[jazz fusion]] influenced, characterising its contents as "lyrical, complicated keyboard riffs, dense, churning beats, nimble, melodic fretless bass – add in a saxophone, and you'd have the drum 'n' bass equivalent of [[Weather Report]]."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-02-15-1998046084-story.html|title=The New Jazz Age|newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|last=Considine|first=J. D.|author-link=J. D. Considine|date=15 February 1998|accessdate=5 July 2020}}</ref> Tom Jenkinson has stated that his music on ''Hard Normal Daddy'' was not influenced by jazz fusion but by [[funk music|funk]]-oriented music such as [[Herbie Hancock]]'s [[Death Wish (soundtrack)|''Death Wish'' soundtrack]] and 1970s television themes from police and detective shows.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/squarepusher-interview|title=Interview: Squarepusher|publisher=[[Red Bull Music Academy]]|last=Blanning|first=Lisa|date=8 August 2012|accessdate=7 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109011236/http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/squarepusher-interview|archive-date=9 November 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>