Amon Tobin
Drum'n'bass deviant Amon Tobin fuses hip-hop and jazz compositional ideas with the bustling rhythms of hip-hop and jungle and the bent sonic mayhem of ambient and dub. Unlike rolling junglists such as Alex Reece and Wax Doctor, however, who draw from a softer, "cooler" brand of jazz, Tobin aims to maintain the heat of bop and free jazz, pairing spry, galloping basslines with complex trapset orchestration and shrill, screaming horns.
A native of Brazil, Tobin moved to the U.K. in the mid-'80s, when hip-hop was beginning to take hol...[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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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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