Amon Tobin....crud or cool

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.