A random collection of experienced musicians and composers, Ponga fuses together classic and avant-garde jazz with traditional jungle beats to form a sound a little left of center. Their 1999 self-titled release showcases this fusion and was followed by this album of remixes by such artists as Fila Brazillia, Capsule 150, and Amon Tobin. -All Music Guide

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Perhaps tiring of the invisible soundtracks playing in his head, Amon Tobin delivered a video-game soundtrack Chaos Theory: Splinter Cell 3 in 2005 and then hit the streets and studios, with microphones in tow, to produce 2007's Foley Room, an exercise in "field" recording. ("Foley rooms" are, apparently, the sound-effects chambers used by those in film.) Of course, anyone expecting crickets and hollers will be on unfamiliar ground, but those who are already aware of Tobin's penchant for spac   [ read more ]

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A marvelous introduction to the latest stage in Amon Tobin's brutal, beautiful musical development, the release of Foley Room will be accompanied by a DVD documentary showing the full story of how this remarkable record was made. ?Bloodstone?, the albums first single, begins life as a disturbing waltz, before the dirtiest, most foul-smelling and obnoxious vortex of a beat stomps all over that and the whole builds to a constantly deferred orchestral finale apparently built from tune ups. The strings i   [ read more ]

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It can long be debated what software maker Ubisoft expected when it hired Amon Tobin to soundtrack the Tom Clancy video game {*Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory}, but surely it never predicted getting, along with the deal, a ragtag lineup of desperate musicians that spanned three continents and included the composer of one of time's strangest cult films, the surrealist 1971 Mexican fantasy {#El Topo}. Tobin, long a fan of vintage soundtracks himself, had evidently wanted to expand his comfort zone a   [ read more ]

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Yes, not for the feint hearted, as soon as games giants, Ubisoft decided it was time to seriously raise the bar on computer game soundtracks they got on the case and set their sights on our very own Amon Tobin. What you get is an electronic record made almost entirely from acoustic instruments, every sound has been lovingly warped and re-warped, handcrafted and caressed before having thousands of volts shot through it for that trademark Amon adrenalin rush. Possibly the first 'proper' videogame soundtrack t   [ read more ]

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The fourth installment of Solid Steel comes as a live Dj mix from none other than Amon Tobin ~ doing what he does best ~ blistering drum n' bass, monsterously heavy beats, and well placed insertion of classics. Includes several of his own tracks mixed in with the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Velvet Underground, Jurassic 5, Dj Food and more.

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Refining his dense, virtuosic production style with virtually every release, Amon Tobin entered the vanguard of electronic producers by accomplishing one of the truly difficult tasks in modern electronica: developing a distinctive sound. Though Tobin prefers grand orchestral themes over a soup of heavily messed-with samples and cavernous beats that reference turntablist rap, funky breaks, and the hyper-efficient techno of Mouse on Mars, his style ranges much farther afield than any of t   [ read more ]

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Farther away from drum'n'bass and closer to big-beat techno (with a little turntablist mayhem thrown in), Amon Tobin's third album for Ninja Tune breaks out with a devastating opener, "Get Your Snack On." The track turns out to be just one of the highlights on Supermodified, a dense, plunderphonic kaleidoscope of an album with giant, noisy jazz breaks and groovy electronic synthwork. It's got quite a bit of the retro-sounding sampling of Permutation (orchestra strings, jazz combos, groovy psy   [ read more ]

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While the great majority of jazz-junglists look no farther back than the mid-'60s for inspiration (and samples), Tobin took his bag of tricks back into the swing era to come up with more (and more interesting) variations on the form than most anyone else. More Buddy Rich than Roy Ayers, Permutation sees leagues of different drum samples -- all of them found sounds-- with nary an Amen or Apache break in sight. From the detuned vibes and piano loops that drive the opener "Like Regular Chickens"   [ read more ]

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