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Amon Tobin – Foley Room site (2007)
- worldsayshi 3y agoNo sound though :( Or is it just me?
- alexdunmow 3y agoI've got no sound either. :( Works in Firefox though.
- aidenn0 3y agoNo sound for me either; Firefox 120.
- schmeichel 3y agoI honestly had to do a double take when I saw this make the front page. Never thought I'd see Amon Tobin top HN!
- tobinfekkes 3y agoNeat! I don't see Tobins everyday, especially not on HN.
- ricardobayes 3y agoNeat. Had some of his stuff on vinyl. At some point he was almost mainstream, even composed the OST for a Splinter Cell video game.
- BMSR 3y agoAmon Tobin on HN? Wow His music is great (Long Stories, Out From Out Where, Supermodified) The website experience is neat. This is the second musician I see making an ambitious computer project. The other being that game Neil Cicierega made. I jokingly pick Slowly by Amon Tobin to be the soundtrack for when they do the lethal injection thing to me.
- captn3m0 3y agoHe also did the soundtrack for one of the Tom Clancy games (Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory). While I’ve never played the game, I really enjoyed the music.
- cityzen 3y agoDef one of the top VG soundtracks ever!
- luluthefirst 3y agoThis is how I discovered Amon Tobin! I remember when the 'Theme From Battery' kicked in, I put the controller down and listened to the whole track before going on Google to find out who did this.
- andrewmutz 3y agoI was a big fan fifteen years ago. I'd love to hear from other fans of Amon Tobin back in the day, what are you listening to these days? What contemporary music should I check out if I was an amon tobin fan 15 years ago?
- kkapelon 3y agoYoshi Horikawwa, TOKiMONSTA (her old stuff), ESKMO and maybe Metaform and Komodo
- mtlmtlmtlmtl 3y agoI can't answer your question, but music-map has helped me find similar stuff to my favourite artists before. https://music-map.com https://music-map.com
- giraffe_lady 3y agomononeon, death grips, robert glasper, thundercat, 100 gecs, kamasi washington
- tclancy 3y agoInteresting question. I only recently went back to listening to stuff like that during work and am struggling to find stuff from post 2010 or so. I think I've kind of used things like https://open.spotify.com/album/2bu7BrEuunURavjRY9qkyR?si=caf37a5eb66e45e7 https://open.spotify.com/album/2bu7BrEuunURavjRY9qkyR?si=caf... as a replacement, wholly instrumental or foreign-language albums that won't distract me from flow state.
- zer00eyz 3y agoAmon Tobin does great stuff. His more recent stuff is interesting as well. I love Long Stories, made on a broken Omnichord (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38563627 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38563627 )
- throwaway77384 3y agoOld Amon Tobin was just the best. At the end of the day, Slowly, Journeyman...some of the best music I have ever heard. His stuff with the London Symphony Orchestra is bonkers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggl_pWkbEoc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggl_pWkbEoc). 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 :)
- boringg 3y agoThat song is a gem - deep in rotation back in the day. Never knew London Met did it. Grazie.
- FooBarBizBazz 3y agoOh man, that's exactly the song I was thinking of (though I had the original, electronically-produced version in mind). The glissando string part, which comes in at 2:28 in your recording, is this cinematic, unapologetic, swaggering thing, like a sweeping helicopter shot of an Aston Martin zooming across Tunisia. I do prefer the original, electronically-produced version, because I think Amon Tobin is more talented as a producer than as a composer per-se, and I think a lot of the non-"classical" sounds in At the End of the Day are really well selected, like the electric guitar. It adds to the "James Bond"-ness of it all. This is the original, AIUI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mjnHPFS-qw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mjnHPFS-qw
- agency 3y agoFoley Room is my #1. I don't mind some of his more recent stuff, even the bass-ey Two Fingers stuff, but I do prefer the early stuff too. Though it's not as much up my alley I'm kind of intrigued by the album he put out under the Figueroa name, which is kind of psychedelic-folk or something. Take a quick listen before reading the next part (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWiXC_O_EVo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWiXC_O_EVo). Here's the crazy part: Other than his voice, _every_ sound you hear in that song is synthesized and programmed with midi, including the "acoustic" guitar. He said in an interview if you were starting from scratch it would have been easier to learn to play the guitar, but I guess if you've spent your life devoted to mastering electronic production...
- what-the-grump 3y agoOOO we are doing Tobin on HN: https://youtu.be/XqyEZ0GwS3E?feature=shared&t=2491 https://youtu.be/XqyEZ0GwS3E?feature=shared&t=2491
- hyperific 3y agoBeautiful projection map! I wonder if they're using TouchDesigner for this.
- soylentcola 3y agoYep! They actually feature photos of this setup on their site.
- cityzen 3y agoI'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... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQnXa2rg58Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQnXa2rg58Y
- chrisweekly 3y ago"Chocolate Lovely" (from Supermodified) is one of my favorite tracks in this or any genre: https://open.spotify.com/track/1vBoAGHCyteNYVnODrBuLK?si=ksz8llt8QkaF0_Ch1DfxFA https://open.spotify.com/track/1vBoAGHCyteNYVnODrBuLK?si=ksz...
- octagons 3y agoI wonder if there are any MonkeyRadio fans lurking around HN?
- p0w3n3d 3y agoShould there be any music? I only can hear a starting sound. It's hard to get anything of it?
- tclancy 3y agoI had to drop to the low-res version. Guessing whatever they used for detecting high-bandwidth connections is failing to grasp the values a decade-and-a-half later.
- p0w3n3d 3y agoI tried the HQ too. Need to re-check
- hyperific 3y agoYou have to navigate around to find different critters that play music clips. The minimap in the top left tell you where they are in your vicinity.
- 666666666 3y agoNinja Tune record label used to have pretty good stuff
- sitzkrieg 3y agoninja tune, warp records and somafm struggling on dialup, take me back
- giraffe_lady 3y agoStill does. Kamasi washington, thundercat, louis cole, kadhja bonet, laurel, haitus kaiyote are all at the top of their game and signed to ninja tune. It's a really different sound from "back in the day" and likely to be rejected by a lot of the people who grew up on like, bonobo and dj vadim. But the label plays the same role, favoring experimental & alternative groove-based musicians. The "original" ninja tune artists were so influential that key elements of their sound just became part of the main stream of pop and hip hop today. The current crew is similarly disproportionately influential on other musicians, and I'm nearly certain it will play out the same way.
- finnh 3y agoI didn't realize Kamasi Washington is on Ninja Tune! They had a predilection for releasing zillions of compilation albums with heavily overlapping track lists, which kind of fatigued me on the label, but I'm still fond of the early releases of theirs that I bought. Funkjazztical Tricknology FTW!
- giraffe_lady 3y agoActually I think he's on flying lotus's label, which ninja tune distributes or something like that, which may be the case with some of these others too. The alt-electronic/jazz/hip-hop/fusion label situation right now is way beyond my ability to comprehend. But I still see the ninja tune logo on a lot of vinyl that I like.
- ggrelet 3y agoWeird, 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. [0] https://www.platformer.news/why-pitchfork-died/?ref=platformer-newsletter https://www.platformer.news/why-pitchfork-died/?ref=platform... [1] https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/25-years-of-pitchfork-reviews-by-the-numbers/?ref=platformer.news https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/25-years-of-...
- jayrot 3y agoAll hail Ninja Tune! If you don't know, go listen to Mr. Scruff, The Herbaliser, Fink, Coldcut, Kid Koala, Bonobo, Blockhead, Talvin Singh, and almost countless more. Truly a case in point for the value of record labels, imo.
- psd1 3y agoTalvin Singh's album "OK" is jaw-dropping sober. With ketamine, it's apotheotic. Also: footless, and fancy-free, think how happy mom'll be...
- whoswho 3y agoAmon Tobin might be on here even, who knows. 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. 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. Parallels can be made with bands like Autechre, but that’s a different discussion. I just want Amon Tobin back.
- colordrops 3y agoI went to his Two Fingers show a couple years back, it was mind blowing.
- throwaway77384 3y agoYup, I couldn't agree more. His music from back in the day is so incredibly unique and nobody has made anything like it before or since. It's impossible to find anything like it. Unfortunately he seems to no longer want to make music like that. If I was a billionaire I'd write him a blank cheque to make more music like his old stuff. But, I'm no musician, maybe he literally can't anymore. I don't know how it works, or how insulting the mere notion would be to him.
- Solvency 3y agoThe Knife - Raging Lung.
- ElCapitanMarkla 3y agoI came across this guy doing a Bridge drum cover the other day - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gChXOOqA8gg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gChXOOqA8gg
- joshu 3y agofyi Two Fingers == Amon Tobin https://ninjatune.net/artist/two-fingers https://ninjatune.net/artist/two-fingers
- locusofself 3y agoBricolage is my personal favorite. Been a fan forever
- edkennedy 3y agoHe'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.
- everyone 3y agoI 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.
- hyggetrold 3y agoAmon Tobin has lots of great music. Another one to check out by him is the Adventures in Foam album that he did under the Cujo moniker. Very heavy on jazz samples. Easy Muffin has to be my favorite song of his as well as Get Your Snack On.
- jolmg 3y agoThere 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. Way way later, I found the commercial's footage on archive.org, but it didn't feature the song, which was a shame.
- paulzerkel 3y agoAmon 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.
- jrflowers 3y agoFascinating that the actor from the Saw movies is so talented outside of designing elaborate death machines
- hyperific 3y agoI 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.
- misterS 3y agoI was amazed that the site still runs, apparently still using the same engine. But it seems that it was a flash site (of course), and archive.org seems to replace Flash Player with "Ruffle" [1]. Either that, or someone of Tobin's team replaced Flash with Ruffle >= 2019. [1] https://ruffle.rs/ https://ruffle.rs/
- vitalurk 3y agoCanibus had a cool web player! You could make your own version of his music (Mentioned in https://theoutline.com/post/6977/canibus-internet-mic-club https://theoutline.com/post/6977/canibus-internet-mic-club) Doja Cat has a programmable music video: https://dojacode.com/ https://dojacode.com/
- nullify88 3y agoSpliter Cell: Chaos Theory introduced me to Amon Tobin. Top Gear also heavily played Amon Tobin when showcasing cars, until the BBC had enough of Jeremy Clarkson. Whoever picked the music for the show was a big fan.
- cbau 3y agoYes! Chaos Theory was my introduction to Tobin as well. As a teenager, I had no interest in music before then, being exposed only to my mom's soft rock CD collections and whatever pop music used to play on the radio. I was surprised to discover later that his music was used for the Toonami intros on Cartoon Network so maybe I was primed to like him before then. [1] That took me down an entire rabbithole of "intelligent dance music" (Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, etc.) and today I mostly enjoy PC Music / Hyperpop which is similarly avant-garde with the way it uses samples or completely synthetic sounds (e.g. SOPHIE, Cashmere Cat, 100 Gecs, AG Cook). Tobin did a really wonderful interview in 2008 that made me really appreciate electronic music more when I read it regarding how drum and bass is truly avant garde given its manipulative use of samples rather than simply looping beats or lifting long samples because they need a saxophone somewhere: [2] > Rusty: It seems like now, your more recent music has been more synthetic, more digital and less samples? Is that correct? Or are you just tweaking the samples so much? > Amon Tobin: It's really just about manipulation now. Like I said, back in the early nineties, it was interesting just to take samples as they were and see what you could do with them. And now, the technology has advanced so much more and there's a lot more room for maneuvers between synthesizers and synthetic processes applied to recorded material and sampled material. So there's much more of a hybrid going on now as far as I'm concerned and so my music is maybe now a little bit less easy to define in terms of is it sampled best or is it synthesized or is it just, you know, I guess, electronic, really. > ... > Rusty: I know. I was going back through some of my older CD's from that period, which I hadn't listened to in a while, and I was like "That was really good." I mean, it's super stylistic, so you tend to burn out if you hear a little too much of it. > Amon Tobin: Well, the interesting thing about drum and bass is that it was, to me it felt like it was a genuinely forward-thinking type of music. People were really trying to do new things. They weren't trying to be nostalgic or relive some golden era of music in the seventies. It was all about 'Let's try and make something truly futuristic and do things with production that had never been possible before.' And that spirit still remains, as small as the genre is. It's influenced a lot of other types of music which are much more in the forefront now. So, you know, I think it's normal. These things go in cycles. Things become, you know, they become very much in the spotlight. A very modernist take, pushing boundaries for its own sake. Contrast with pop music which is exactly the opposite, being rearrangements of standards. Somehow I find his music is perfect for working with code. It feels like it really meshes with my mind in a way I've never found with other artists. Also was sad to see he recently retired from live shows, but am glad I got to see him live several times several times in San Franciso. He shows were always mind-blowing and it's such a pleasure to see a master at work. Plus I respected how humble he was; his talent is far far beyond artists who are more financially successful, and he avoids the spotlight. I wish there was more available about how his mind works, because it must be very unique. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SShS5Xpatlo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SShS5Xpatlo [2]: https://somafm.com/articles/ti-amontobin.html https://somafm.com/articles/ti-amontobin.html
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