Old Amon Tobin was just the best. At the end of the day, Slowly, Journeyman...some of the best music I have ever heard.<p>His stuff with the London Symphony Orchestra is bonkers (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggl_pWkbEoc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggl_pWkbEoc</a>).<p>All of his recent stuff isn't quite my cup of tea, but that's just the nostalgia factor speaking.
I guess anyone who discovers a musician during one of their eras may not necessarily like their other eras...which is more of a condemnation of the listener, rather than the musician, perhaps :)
I don't know about you all but I miss the websites of 2007. There was so much variation and unbridled creativity. I remembered stumbling upon this page in 2007 while looking up Amon Tobin's soundtrack to Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. I can't remember the last time I saw a musician launch such a beautiful interactive site for their album release. And here it is in 2024, lovingly preserved and still functional on Internet Archive.
Amon Tobin on HN? Wow<p>His music is great (Long Stories, Out From Out Where, Supermodified)<p>The website experience is neat.<p>This is the second musician I see making an ambitious computer project.<p>The other being that game Neil Cicierega made.<p>I jokingly pick Slowly by Amon Tobin to be the soundtrack for when they do the lethal injection thing to me.
Amon Tobin might be on here even, who knows.<p>I don’t want to say I’m disappointed with his output, because I’m not. His creative and artistic self is far beyond what most people are willing to invest and endure of their life force into, and I appreciate knowing a person like him is out there.<p>I suppose I’m mostly heartbroken that we’ve had a golden decade of some incredible music from this person and he has essentially disappeared into an abyss of soundscaping. I think Foley Room was the transition period and then ISAM really went all out.<p>Parallels can be made with bands like Autechre, but that’s a different discussion.<p>I just want Amon Tobin back.
All hail Ninja Tune!<p>If you don't know, go listen to Mr. Scruff, The Herbaliser, Fink, Coldcut, Kid Koala, Bonobo, Blockhead, Talvin Singh, and almost countless more.<p>Truly a case in point for the value of record labels, imo.
Weird, I saw this article about Pitchfork being merged into GQ [0], which points to this stats page on Pitchfork [1] only to see Amon Tobin is one of the select few to receive a perfect 10 for Bricolage in 1997 to then having him reaching the front page of HN. All that in the span of 30 minutes.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.platformer.news/why-pitchfork-died/?ref=platformer-newsletter" rel="nofollow">https://www.platformer.news/why-pitchfork-died/?ref=platform...</a>
[1] <a href="https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/25-years-of-pitchfork-reviews-by-the-numbers/?ref=platformer.news" rel="nofollow">https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/25-years-of-...</a>
There was a TV commercial for the Wii that had Amon Tobin's "Verbal" as the song while the player flipped their couch and jumped around their living room while playing Metroid. The song fit so well and was so cool and different, it kind of stuck with me. I don't remember how, but some time later I heard it again with the keywords "ninja tune" attached to it, and I thought that was the name. Took quite a number of years until I found out what the song and artist's names actually were.<p>Way way later, I found the commercial's footage on archive.org, but it didn't feature the song, which was a shame.
I'll never forget working at skateboard.com back in 2000 and watching éS: Menikmati and Slowly was the opening track. I didn't even care about the video, I just wanted to know what the music was...<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQnXa2rg58Y" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQnXa2rg58Y</a>
"Chocolate Lovely" (from Supermodified) is one of my favorite tracks in this or any genre: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1vBoAGHCyteNYVnODrBuLK?si=ksz8llt8QkaF0_Ch1DfxFA" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/track/1vBoAGHCyteNYVnODrBuLK?si=ksz...</a>
Amon Tobin does great stuff.<p>His more recent stuff is interesting as well.<p>I love Long Stories, made on a broken Omnichord (see: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38563627">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38563627</a> )
Amon Tobin was also an early adopter of Final Scratch on Linux. His "Recorded Live" album on Ninja Tune's Solid Steel series included liner notes about the challenges of touring with a Linux laptop instead of records in 2003.
Amon Tobin has lots of great music. Another one to check out by him is the <i>Adventures in Foam</i> album that he did under the Cujo moniker. Very heavy on jazz samples.<p>Easy Muffin has to be my favorite song of his as well as Get Your Snack On.
I tried 3 browsers and didnt get audio in any of them. Only occasional fractions of a second of audio. I tried the high quality and low quality options.
He's been posting some really interesting 3d art and composition on Instagram, where he also announced he was retiring from DJing. Glad to see him explore his art the way he sees fit instead of turning into a music factory.
I came across this guy doing a Bridge drum cover the other day - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gChXOOqA8gg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gChXOOqA8gg</a>
OOO we are doing Tobin on HN:<p><a href="https://youtu.be/XqyEZ0GwS3E?feature=shared&t=2491" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/XqyEZ0GwS3E?feature=shared&t=2491</a>