Amon Tobin - Permutation
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Artist: Amon TobinEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-06-02
Music Label: Ninja Tune
Soundtracks:
- Like Regular Chickens
- Bridge
- Reanimator
- Sordid
- Nightlife
- Escape
- Switch
- People Like Frank
- Sultan Drops
- Fast Eddie
- Toys
- Nova
Free Music Notes for Permutation
Free Music Review: Tobin is indeed amazing
Hit: 5 Stars
Amazing is right (this may be the first time I use this adjective). It's hard to believe that amazing music like this comes from the electronic genre. Tobin makes music that conjures up images in the mind, can even make you groove, and emotions on the side. This music is so dense and made that it only deserves to be played on some of the best kinds of speakers. Those damn bass heavy headphones that badly wash out treble really can't do this stuff justice. Some music is just higher class. I still can get emotional effects after digesting the sounds, so once noticed through awesome soundsytems, you can easier pick it up in cheaper headphones. So the accusations of me as one who cares more about how it's coming out of the speakers than what's coming out are clear to shut up.
These are great soundscapes that will capture and emotionalize you. Those who are comparing this to DJ Shadow's Entroducing... are coming on to something. At least in some senses. Entroducing... is laid back, haunting, beautiful, and relaxingly mesmerizing. Permutation is edgy, rather tense, the antonym of relaxing. Entroducing... conjures up images of the soul, the brain, sunsets, peace, the sky, and rainy, peaceful, urban streets. Permutation conjures up High speed urban street racing (complete with crashes), Centipede colonies watching the escape of prisoners, reanimation of the dead, and chickens running around with their heads off. Let your imagination run wild with this one. Who needs books when music like this exists.
Permutation may be his best so far, as I have been able to hear his other albums through (_________ you amazon!). Bridge and Switch are dark as ______ and jazzy. These are as black as any downtown gangster area you can conjure. You got totally twisted songs like Reanimator (that I set to the works of a necromancer who dies, goes to hell, and sets the apocalypse) and Escape (Escape can really twist your mind if you got a sick imagination). Even some of the songs that I can't quite put my finger on still appeal, such as People Like Frank. Maybe knowing what the line means (I know it refers to Frank Booth from Blue Velvet) could help, but I can't help but focus on the creepy ambiance and weirdly jazzy bass line.
Fast Eddie and Sordid remind me of cars, with chases, cruises and races, complete with slowdowns, jumps, guns, mood setters, and more! Sultan Drops reminds me of the invading of an empire in an aladdin land. Heck, you could take everything in this album and create so many scenarios it's not funny (my take on Like Regular Chickens is quite fearful, dark and disturbing). Truly, this guy's music is a work of art. And he even can make you dance, actually a lot. I have trouble sitting still.
For those who will stubbornly insist electronic music is non-talented at all, this album will, sadly, not change your mind. But for those who know that electronic music will be more interesting and pure than all of the _______ that people gloat over (Nickelback? HA HA!), this album is for you. Don't wait any longer to check out the music of Amon Tobin.
10/10
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Amon Tobin's mixing of jazz noir with breakbeats on Permutation resulted in one of the most infectious electronica discs of 1998. Using hard-bop drum samples, extended horn passages, and a constant groove, Tobin succeeded where others have fallen short: he captured the essence of jazz and made it ready for the dance floor. Thoroughly enjoyable and swinging. --Jason VerlindeWith its lush strings; its deep, snaking bass tremors; and its odd patches of percussive irritants, Amon Tobin's latest album sounds at times like the kind of noir-ish drum & bass that Luke Vibert (a.k.a. Wagon Christ) has left behind. Such torch passing seems fitting since Permutation's focus on jazz sample sources grew out of Tobin's own career switch: dropping, if only for now, the Brazilian percussion and pop flavors that have long infused his home-brewed electronica. A languorous dollop of bossa nova closes this album, but otherwise it almost exclusively explores jazz: hard-bop drum solos, luscious horn lines, and mellifluous fusoid guitar. Tobin programs all this expressly analog material into his small battery of synthesizers and produces one of the strongest albums of 1998. --Marc Weidenbaum
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