quoted 4 lines As far as I know Tobin plays the saxophone, tenor I think. I
> As far as I know Tobin plays the saxophone, tenor I think. I
> read some interviews in
> which he said he worked as a street musician playing jazz
> saxophone before making electronic stuff.
I did a little hotbot search for Amon Tobin info:
http://www.stainedproductions.com/feedback/othprint/amontobin.htm
http://newyork.citysearch.com/E/G/NYCNY/0010/01/01/
http://motion.state51.co.uk/reviews/347.html
http://motion.state51.co.uk/reviews/619.html
http://www.musicbase.co.uk/catalogue/artist.jsp?id=775
Hmm, lots of talk about how he uses samples, and a bit of a confession about
how he's "not very musical" or something. I couldn't seem to dig up anything
about him knowing how to play any traditional instruments -- or him having
any experience in Jazz performance. Well, no, wait, there're these two which
appear to be cut-n-pasted from the same press release:
http://www.ninjatune.net/ninja/releases/ninjasingles/zen1256/
http://www.realgroove.xtra.co.nz/53-897/reviews/897-amon_tobin-bricolage.htm
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In fact, I even found a recent confession about how he didn't really know
how to DJ, something that was painfully evident to me two years ago when I
paid $15 to see him "live".
One of the interviews revealed that he hasn't even lived in Brazil since he
was a teenager. How many of you knew that? I was under the impression that
he was some wacked out drum and bass kid from the favela. Oh well.
Despite all this, I do love his records, but I just don't get how there's
all this misinformation surrounding him. Is he an interview-fabricator like
Aphex? Perhaps the Ninja Tune folks on the list can set the record straight?
- Cf
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