Squarepusher
At this time, Tom was becoming obsessed with bringing a "dark psychedelia" to Drum and Bass (which would eventually reach its zenith with "Go Plastic" from 2001).
During this period Tom also made a remix for Ninja Tune's DJ Food, which featured on the e.p. "Refried Food". The remix led Ninja Tune to offer Jenkinson a record contract, which along with an offer from Belgium's R&S records he declined in favour of a contract offered by Warp Records, which was partially instigated by Richard D. James.
Correspondence between Richard D. James and Tom Jenkinson sprung up after meeting at The George Robey. The resulting meeting led to Tom's first hearing of the "Hangable Auto Bulb" e.p. which Richard had brought with him. But the meeting also facilitated Richard's initial selection of Tom's tracks that went on to form the "Feed Me Weird Things" album released on Rephlex Records in 1996.
Gordon Jenkins
After a brief stint with RCA's "X" records, Jenkins later moved to Capitol Records where he worked with Frank Sinatra, notably on the albums "Where Are You?" (1957) and "No One Cares" (1959), and Nat King Cole, with whom he had his greatest successes; Jenkins was responsible for the lush arrangements on the 1957 album "Love Is the Thing" (Capitol's first stereo release, which included "When I Fall in Love", one of Cole's best-known recordings), as well as the albums "The Very Thought of You" (1958) and "Where Did Everyone Go?" (1963). Jenkins also wrote the music and lyrics for Judy Garland's 1959 album "The Letter" which also featured vocalist Charles LaVere, and conducted several of Garland's London concerts in the early 1960s.