Amon Tobin - Supermodified
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Artist: Amon TobinEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-05-16
Music Label: Ninja Tune
Soundtracks:
- Get Your Snack On
- Four Ton Mantis
- Slowly
- Marine Machines
- Golfer vrs Boxer
- Deo
- Precursor
- Saboteur
- Chocolate Lovely
- Rhino Jockey
- Keepin' It Steel
- Natureland
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Free Music Review: Tobin: Supermodified!
Hit: 5 Stars
Hat Trick! Amon Tobin released 3 equally brilliant but very different albums (Bricolage, Permutation, Supermodified), each a masterpiece in their own ways. This may be the best place to start for Tobin, but it kind of depends what could hook you first (then, obviously, you acquire a taste for Tobin's music and can build up with the others, or something like that). If jazz is your thing, Permutation. Like darkness? This. If you like the sounds of drum and bass, Bricolage is your best bet. If you like the soundtrack to Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, the soundtrack to that. (I really don't recommend Adventures in Foam or The Foley Room first). Of course, that's only a suggestion.
Amon Tobin modified his sound beyond belief with this album. The Drum and Bass has been deftly toned down. It's packed with even more change. There are less obviously notable loops. And he further takes the ____load of textures the guy uses and melds them. I like the way he plays with the sultry textures of Chocolate Lovely, pairing it up after different sounds, creating patterns. It's fun to listen to, and it helps get old. While Tobin's loops will irritate most people who don't want to see why it's loops are there (especially with Keepin It' Steel, which is fascinating), figure it out. Don't limit your imagination with this.
Once all digested, you get a brilliant album. You can let your mind wander (or have method to your madness) with no relief and even break into a groove. And Supermodified will take you across many areas. The Sultry Chocolate Lovely with it's chill-out vibe that's organic and puts Thievery Corporation to shame. Songs that can creep you out a bit like Golfer Vs. Boxer and Saboteur (the latter sounds like an ancient tomb). Groove to the MONSTER breakbeats of Four Ton Mantis. Listen to factory music in Rhino Jockey. Take a mile drive on the freeway to Get Your Snack On. And don't forget to relax in Natureland and Deo. The moods this guy creates, electronic music has soul, case closed. These are reasons why Tobin is my favorite electronic artist, ever. Mary Anne Hobbs is right. There is no artist out there who has achieved sonically what he is doing. Not just sonically though. I say cut sonically out. There is no artist out there who has achieved what he is doing.
I realize I may be a bit biased, and this review sounds like hyperbole, but Amon Tobin really owns my head. This guy, in my opinion, makes than 99 percent of electronic artists look lazy.
10/10
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Amon Tobin's off-kilter rhythms and jazzy samples create a beautiful mess on Supermodified. Feeding off Latin rhythms, downtempo beats, and wildly adventurous musical jumbles, Tobin's manic bliss never allows the songs to wander, working a sense of method into a sea of crazy atmospheres. The result is focused, enticing, and fascinating. --Matthew CookeAt the junction of jazz and breakbeat science, Amon Tobin is one of the undisputed masters. Instead of drawing on jazz samples and styles as a sort of prepackaged cultural signifier, he's engaged in the cross-fertilization and recontextualizing that many aspire to but not so many achieve. On this release, he casts his net farther afield--the smoky nightclub trumpets and sultry beats of 1998's Permutation are still present, but the hummingly intense electronics and roiling drums on tracks like "Rhino Jockey" leave the jazz references pretty far behind. The track "Precursor" uses what is called "vocal percussion" to emulate the click-and-pop assemblages of some of the farther out German electronic experimentalists and segues neatly into the down-tempo groove of "Saboteur," which is built on a bottle-clinking percussive sample from obscure '60s blues-rock outfit the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation. "Keepin' It Steel" is reminiscent of Stereolab in a way, with a pleasantly lazy tempo that manages the neat trick of sounding like it's in an odd-metre time signature when it's not, punctuated by horns that evoke a '70s reggae record. --Bob Bannister
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