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Bought the Chomp Samba ep by Amon Tobin - its excellent. Like a drum n bass Weathermen! The first two are great d n b workouts, the third is more jazz based and the furth is just gorgeous - seriously emotive jazz with a stoned guitar being plucked and an uplifting sax piece. Superb bass as well. It is better than the Cujo stuff to my mind - more advanced. top stuff still awaiting the new Biosphere....

anyone out there know where amon tobin lives? not street adress.. just wondering the locale, I think I know this guy... american? british? Icelandic? cujo? bpm0@interport.net Peter Becker, Promotions: Retail, DJ Pool Asphodel Records, NYC PO Box 51, Chelsea Station, NY NY 10113 Phone # (212) 965-0265 FAX # (212) 965-0959 http://www.asphodel.com

Peter Becker wrote:

quoted 5 lines anyone out there know where amon tobin lives?

> anyone out there know where amon tobin lives? > not street adress.. > > just wondering the locale, I think I know this guy... > american? british? Icelandic?

(from the Cujo bio) "A native of Rio de Janeiro, Cujo (ne Amon Tobin) is currently based in London." Yadda yadda..... Aaron

Just picked up the new Amon Tobin 2x12" on ninjatune and I am impressed. It an amazing eclectic mix of downtempo, trip hop and drum&bass. At times its jazzy, funky, hardstep, even samba. Thge breaks are very strained and tight. At times disappearing and coming subtly back. The bass is low and loud. Not a single bad cut on the whole thing. If you liked hard normal daddy you'll love this. It doesn't have the extreme cut up breaks but it certainly is moving in new directions. Any one who thinks breaks is dead should buy this and eat their words. -- Mark Edward Bowen Warmed Breakdown mb@gettins.bche.uic.edu

On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Mark Bowen wrote:

quoted 1 line Any one who thinks breaks is dead should buy this and eat their words.

> Any one who thinks breaks is dead should buy this and eat their words.

And if there's any change, Tobin's debut full-length for Ninjatune is pretty hot too.... "Bricolage." Clocks in at just under 80 minutes :) Aaron

hello, how does one go about making an mp3 into a regular audio CD (as opposed to having to use Winamp)? is it anything like T.S. Eliot's description of the "fusion process"? also, what's the release date on that new Amon Tobin? e-mail me privately if you want, it's free, thank you, Dullard Mearo. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The biscuit was as hard as brass, And the beef as salt as Lot's wife's arse ... What is home without Plumtree's Potted Meat? Incomplete. With it an abode of bliss. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

On Wed, 20 May 1998, Dullard Mearo wrote:

quoted 1 line also, what's the release date on that new Amon Tobin?

> also, what's the release date on that new Amon Tobin?

June 2nd. And it swings like a motherfucker! Greg ps: for future reference - http://www.brainwashed.com/releases will satisfy all of your IDM new release info needs

Dullard Mearo wrote:

quoted 1 line also, what's the release date on that new Amon Tobin?

> also, what's the release date on that new Amon Tobin?

Not too sure about the LP. The book that came in the 'FunKungFusion' comp lists: ZEN 36 : Amon Tobin - Permutation (june '98) The first single off the LP, 'Like Regular Chickens', is out but is remix only slab of wax. One side is Dillinja and the flip is Danny Breaks. I didn't find either of these remixes exceptional and would rather have had a few new Tobin tracks instead. (and this is coming from a BIG Dillinja and Danny Breaks fan). word to the mothership, brock.

quoted 4 lines The book that came in the 'FunKungFusion' comp lists:

>The book that came in the 'FunKungFusion' comp lists: > >ZEN 36 : Amon Tobin - Permutation (june '98) >

I heard June 02 is the release date....

"permutation", the very short review: sound like "bricolage", only more so. it's brilliant, although "bricolage" was even more brilliant - maybe it's bcause they're so similar, i had hoped he would have progressed more, as it is now it's a bit of a corbon copy. q: how is "permutation" different from your last album? amon: um, i made it after... (from a RATHER laidback interview in gothenburg a few weeks ago) 20ies jazz with some REALLY fast/mad breaks and some brazilian influences. btw, amon is definitely not playing live, he feels that there's no point: since the music is made electronically it wouldn't be much of a show (watching him twiddling knobs). he doesn't want to bring in live musicians, he feels that would be a step in another direction from where he's going "i see it as a bit of a contradiction, doing it live, getting musicians on stage - if you're making music electronically you're doing it out of choice, and you're not doing it out of compromise because you haven't got any musicians" and he goes on to say that to at the last minute bring in live musicians just to create a good show wouldn't be true to what he's about. hs ________________________________________________ never underestimate the power of human stupidity

One more thing - does anyone know the name of the park in Seattle where the picture on the cover of Bricolage was taken? (Yeah, I know, a real trainspotter question if there ever was one) no but i drove past it the other day and was wondering whether it was actually the thing on the front of the cover it's downtown somewhere near the science museum

At 08:13 AM 6/3/98 -0700, David Hodgson wrote:

quoted 9 lines One more thing - does anyone know the name of the park in Seattle

> One more thing - does anyone know the name of the park in Seattle >where > the picture on the cover of Bricolage was taken? (Yeah, I know, a >real > trainspotter question if there ever was one) > >no but i drove past it the other day and was wondering whether it was >actually the thing on the front of the cover >it's downtown somewhere near the science museum

It's just below the Space Needle in the park around the base. I actually have a picture of myself somewhere standing inside one of those tubes. -Brian _____________________________________________________________________________ brian gingold:::university of california davis sound:::kdvs 90.3 fm:::tues @ midnight:::experimental/intelligent electronics http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~gingold

David Hodgson wrote:

quoted 2 lines One more thing - does anyone know the name of the park in Seattle

> One more thing - does anyone know the name of the park in Seattle > >where the picture on the cover of Bricolage was taken?

Brian Gingold wrote re: Re: (idm) amon tobin:

quoted 2 lines It's just below the Space Needle in the park around the base. I actually

> It's just below the Space Needle in the park around the base. I actually > have a picture of myself somewhere standing inside one of those tubes.

Good grief!!! And all this time I thought it was a whole lot of lipsticks taken real close up.... must be the female perspective :-) (blush) I *

quoted 2 lines At 08:13 AM 6/3/98 -0700, David Hodgson wrote:

>At 08:13 AM 6/3/98 -0700, David Hodgson wrote: >> One more thing - does anyone know the name of the park in

Seattle

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>>where >> the picture on the cover of Bricolage was taken? (Yeah, I know,

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>>real >> trainspotter question if there ever was one) >>

Would it be the Soundgarden, perhaps? John *****Haujobb mailing list***** usa-haujobb@juno.com _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

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been feeling a bit let down by the ninja's since the coldcut let us play release... didn't get into it like i'd hoped i would, then there was the bad comp (not bad sounding, just troublesome), and a series of other releases which didn't really get me moving... but after reading both che and cg's views on the premutation cd, i went down and picked it up today... right on! this is really nice! the drum samples do have a very live sound to them, which really adds to the whole atmosphere of the release. just enough ninja in there to make you have to get up and swing. this is easily my favorite ninja release since the funki porcini lets see what carmen can do... buy buy buy anyone compare this to the other ninja tobin? i've never heard it and for reasons unknown always avoided it... this has made me seriously rethink this... brap@sonic.net[icq: 12645306] http://www.sonic.net/~brap/ sfwd prod | noisesoundnoise chris g. 1547 boston court #7, santa rosa, ca 95405

"permutation" is i think somewhat more varied in sound, w/ a more electronic edge than the overall live jazzy feel of his earlier releases on ninja. that said i'd recommend them all. if anything the percussion patterns on "bricolage" and the eps "chomp samba" and "pirahna beats" are more complex and varied, w/ fewer straight ahead stormers. the squeaky track on "pirahna beats" (can't remember title, track 3 i think), is one of the more 'militaristic' thumpers but still manages to be v/ swingin, w/ lots of lovely surface noise crackle. the hidden agenda remix on "chomp samba" is pretty cool, too. sounding like an upgraded starker tackhead, w/ its stuttering rythmn stabs. "bricolage" is consistantly dark, but not never static or doomy. v/ deep bass swells, live sounding jazz samples, fluid rhythms and bouncing percussion. 70 min at a domestic price, buy, buy. hoping to catch him on the ninja tour w/ mixmaster morris in boston. -martin

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> -----Original Message----- > From: sfwd productions > To: idm@hyperreal.org > Subject: (idm) amon tobin > > been feeling a bit let down by the ninja's since the > coldcut let us play release... didn't get into it like i'd > hoped i would, then there was the bad comp (not bad > sounding, just troublesome), and a series of other > releases which didn't really get me moving... but after > reading both che and cg's views on the premutation cd, > i went down and picked it up today... > > right on! > > this is really nice! the drum samples do have a very live sound > to them, which really adds to the whole atmosphere of the > release. just enough ninja in there to make you have to get up > and swing. this is easily my favorite ninja release since the > funki porcini lets see what carmen can do... buy buy buy > > anyone compare this to the other ninja tobin? i've never heard it > and for reasons unknown always avoided it... this has made me > seriously rethink this... > > > brap@sonic.net[icq: 12645306] > http://www.sonic.net/~brap/ > sfwd prod | noisesoundnoise > chris g. 1547 boston court #7, santa rosa, ca 95405 >

At 04:10 PM 9/20/98 -0700, sfwd productions wrote:

quoted 8 lines been feeling a bit let down by the ninja's since the

>been feeling a bit let down by the ninja's since the >coldcut let us play release... didn't get into it like i'd >hoped i would, then there was the bad comp (not bad >sounding, just troublesome), and a series of other >releases which didn't really get me moving... but after >reading both che and cg's views on the premutation cd, >i went down and picked it up today... >

About fucking time! ;)

quoted 5 lines this is really nice! the drum samples do have a very live sound

>this is really nice! the drum samples do have a very live sound >to them, which really adds to the whole atmosphere of the >release. just enough ninja in there to make you have to get up >and swing. this is easily my favorite ninja release since the >funki porcini lets see what carmen can do... buy buy buy

quoted 3 lines anyone compare this to the other ninja tobin? i've never heard it

>anyone compare this to the other ninja tobin? i've never heard it >and for reasons unknown always avoided it... this has made me >seriously rethink this...

If you're into funki porcini, then I think you'll like all of Amon's stuff. I think it's very, very good, but that still pales next to Permutation. As far as Permutation goes, my only problem with it is that it's so good, I had trouble listening to anything else for weeks on end. I was listening to it several times a day (something I NEVER do). I finally quit listening to it for fear of getting too familiar with it. It's one of the most brilliant examples of sampling I've ever heard. With other sampling auteurs like Coldcut & The Orb, it's always obvious that it's a sample, and there's a certain cleverness about it. Not so w/ Permutations. It's so seamless, you forget it's made of samples. Permutations has recontextualized all those 25 cent thrift store records I've bought over the years (you know, Martin Denny, Ray Coniff, that sort of stuff) and fit them into the continuum of drum and bass. For me, this is a landmark album, one I know I'll be coming back to for years to come. Che rock - rok (v.) - having a conventional and/or boring nature. ex: "Khakis rock". "That Rolling Stones show rocked". syn: suck.