Tom Jenkinson is an English electronic music known primarily for his work (mostly released by Warp Records) under the alias "Squarepusher". He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass and acid, with a significant jazz and musique concrète influence. Jenkinson was born in Chelmsford, Essex in 1975 and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School. He went on to study Mathematics at Imperial College, London. Jenkinson performs live, playing with a fretless or fretted bass guitar, a laptop, and other hardware.