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.
James Asher
Asher had written and had published library music albums, including "Gyroscope", "Generation Gap", "Electro FX", "Flash Music", and "Working It Out" for Bruton Music (now owned by Universal). Also albums for Studio G library – "Action Disco", "Flying Colours", "Powerhouse", "Powergame", "Science and Space", "Corporate Collection" (now owned by Downtown Music) and "Intervision" and "Time Cycle" for the Southern library. "The Great Wheel", Asher's first commercial album, originally on his own Lumina label with publisher John Gale, was released by Music West, topping the UK New Age music chart for two years. He followed this with his first world music-flavoured release "Globalarium", released by Silverwave. But it was his album "Feet in the Soil" that really built his profile, with sales of over 250,000 units, released by New Earth Records.