Amon Tobin....crud or cool

I agree. He's never going back to samples, c'mon.

At the time I felt like ISAM didn't have any hooks, but it's also amazing and ahead of its time. Feels prescient wrt some of the cinematic, sound design-heavy, high-impact music that's followed. Looking forward to a new one.

I never claimed it was a reasonable request, but it's what I want. Two Fingers is great ISAM was ... eh maybe I should listen again.

https://soundcloud.com/amon-tobin/on-a-hilltop-sat-the-moon/s-IxxhD

we are satisfied

Anybody know why Four Ton Mantis and Easy Muffin vanished from Spotify, iTunes etc? Must be sample clearance, but I can't even get that confirmed. Kinda weird that a fairly prominent artist has had some of their best work disappeared and no peep about it.

I guess it’s been a long time since I’ve listened tonAmon Tobin because I was not expecting such an abstract record from him. I like the new record.

cool

there is some good stuff on the new one, don't know if I'll come back to it much but glad he's still there doing his thing.

Amon Tobin meets T. S. Eliot, huh. I didn't much like ISAM but I adore Amon Tobin at his best, so here's to cautiously hoping.

Oh yeah I've been meaning to check this out.

I have seen Amon Tobin in three different places today (on my iPod shuffle, on a list of the best Canadian artists (though he's Brazilian or Brightonian ikr), on ilxor). Sign I should buy the new one in any case.

Enjoying this album more than I remember. Wasn't really what I was looking for at the time, but for some reason an album titled "fear in a handful of dust" sounds better in 2020.

Did anyone check out his folktronica alias, Figueroa?

...more like crowdfunded Brazilian psych-folk, actually. It’s way better than I expected it to be.

Thanks for the recommendation! This is very different, but very good. Amon Tobin was one of my favorite artists of the early 2000s, but I drifted away after Supermodified.

The vinyl of this just popped up on his bandcamp overnight, if anyone's interested.

https://figueroacali.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-as-we-know-it

Man, I just heard this album and it's super, super rad.

Listened to Permutation today and it sounded amazing. I totally respect all the directions he went post-sampling, but it's pretty incredible what he was able to with just a sampler and an old DAW. When people talk about the in awed tones about the sample collages on Endtroducing, that's how I feel about this one. Maybe there are fewer layers, but so many elements coming in and out. And more than anything it feels like a love letter to jazz drumming, the way he uses bebop solos as beats just speaks to my soul.

I checked out Supermodified and it didn't hit as hard as I remembered -- turns out that's because 4 Ton Mantis isn't on the streaming version (presumably because of that Apollo 100 sample?). That track really held the whole thing together.

i feel like the more downtempo tracks have help up better... Slowly, Chocolate Lovely, Natureland; I can still go and enjoy immensely without feeling like time has taken away anything from them.

4 Ton Mantis being memory-holed is a crime against art, yes, but c'mon, Get Your Snack On? Slowly??? great album. I remember the first time I put this album on, just being mystified by how it sounded like a dense thicket compared to the openness and clarity of Permutation. Top-tier sound design on all his stuff.

Each was better than the last: Out From Out Where was my favorite... and then I just completely lost interest.

I played Permutation the other day and was floored by how well it held up. I then dove into some DJ Vadim.

Ninja Tune at that time ruled so hard.

the first DJ Vadim album is so brilliant. It’s like the inverse of endtroducing’s cinematic thing, dark corners in cluttered rooms, creaking chairs, spooky liturgical chanting, all those weird voicemails, great bitcrushed jazz funk samples, such a trip

Another album I still love from that era was Journeyman's National Hijinx.

NEOTROPIC

Did someone say Journeyman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRAgfffI0lY

I haven't heard that song in ages. Was always a big fan of Frankland's main project Woob as well, which is still very active.

I like how a lot of the Ninja Tune aesthetic in those early years included a lot of field samples, discordant loops, and drum chaos over expansive beautiful ambient drones and/or cozy jazz loops. Unlike a lot of stuff released in that era they didn't seem to be out to relax the listener. Neotropic is also a favorite of that time.

Nova from Permutation saved my life one night not long ago. i was spiraling hard and it just made everything ok for about twenty minutes. it was pretty incredible.

so a local indie theater was showing a film from the 80s that i checkout, not knowing a lot about it; and it has this score - specifically this kind repeating of guitar riff that instantly jumped out at me as something I'd heard before. took me maybe 15 mins once i got home to figure out what it was - Cujo's Paris Streatham had used the soundtrack from Paris, Texas for the man riff. i'd sort of forgot about that Cujo album, but it still holds up pretty well despite it's age/simplicity.

Nova from Permutation saved my life one night not long ago. i was spiraling hard and it just made everything ok for about twenty minutes. it was pretty incredible.