Amon Tobin - ISAM

[huzur]

:wtf: I fucking love Calculate. I'm pretty sure it's a nod to Kraftwerk, with the title and similar melodies. I've never heard an Amon Tobin track with such a playful melody, yet it retains the top notch production of the rest of the album

 

I'm really digging it on first listen - because it has a sense of humor that is refreshing (as opposed to Out From Out Where which was pretty 'serious') I mean there's a freaking 'dubstep' bedtime story track

 

last edit: God damn it, I'm sitting here in studio smiling like a retard, because this is tickling my ears in all the right ways. FAT grin across my face

 

LINK ALL THE LEAKS PLEASE

[huzur]

please someone upload the album on rapidshare or hotfile, please please please please

[Guest hahathhat]

it used to be that one would pay a plumber perfectly good beer money to get rid of a leek. no moar

[Lucas]

Downloading

 

What I read here is exciting because I was disappointed about his last releases and first had the feeling that this one would continue on this "sound design" vibe but your appreciations catch my attention.

 

edit : listening

[Silent Member]

It's definitely a continuation of his "sound design" vibe, but I find it much more interesting this time round.

[Lucas]

Yeah, what I meant was that I find he's lost a bit of the music since he got into this period of his work. I don't know, maybe he just needs the time to fully assimilate the tools that allows him to achieve a so detailed sound, and then he'll have more time back to spend on "the music" (I'm feeling kind of stuck up while writing that :P).

 

But seriously, Bricolage and Permutation were WAY more direct than the last ones.

 

Anyway I'm not sure I like what I'm hearing. It just sounds similar to Foley Room in my ears. But I'm not a professional of the first listening. Also I have three works to finish today and downloading / listening to it was just a way to delay the work time. Not an appropriate moment to listen to it for sure.

 

Wait and see !

[mcbpete]

please someone upload the album on rapidshare or hotfile, please please please please

 

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You naughty scamp .....

[Guest Adam]

My head almost exploded. Fuck. I din't even know that was possible. Mind boggling.

[Silent Member]

reading the rules?

[six]

So disappointed :(

 

Hate to sound like an old fogey but I really miss his old stuff. I just can't find any sort of groove I can get into here.

[markedone]

I really miss his old stuff. I just can't find any sort of groove I can get into here.

I half agree with you - I find it kind of like listening to old Autechre - both artists have enough (and good enough) back catalogue in their original styles that I don't feel like they need to go back. Sometimes I like old (Incunabula/Amber) Autechre more than new Ae, sometimes I like Bricolage and Permutation more than newer Amon Tobin, but I feel like their new directions are at the least very interesting

[MAXIMUS MISCHIEF]

this is like a full album of the song 'gwarek 2'.. its a good showcase of effects and manipulations with great production

 

but it doesnt really go anywhere

[halisray]

this is like a full album of the song 'gwarek 2'.. its a good showcase of effects and manipulations with great production

 

but it doesnt really go anywhere

 

qft

 

great sound but quite static

[jules]

so there are no head bobbing killer grooves on it?

[Guest Enter a new display name]

So disappointed :(

 

Hate to sound like an old fogey but I really miss his old stuff. I just can't find any sort of groove I can get into here.

 

 

this is like a full album of the song 'gwarek 2'.. its a good showcase of effects and manipulations with great production

 

but it doesnt really go anywhere

 

 

I agree.

[markedone]

so there are no head bobbing killer grooves on it?

Lost and Found, though old.. is even more appreciated in the album context - killer head-bobber tune that one. But on the whole, its more ambiance, really good interludes, and "cool" tracks than there is groove.

[skotosa]

Well the album turned out to be a bit of a disappointment for me as well. Fav track was and still is Lost and Found. Some others I forced myself to like and sound kind of dubby (Which isn't bad).

 

Basically I can enjoy the first half of the album, the other half I really just don't like at all.

[Silent Member]

heh, looks like I'm alone in my enjoyment of this then. maybe it's old fart music.

[jeremymacgregor87]

a collection of cool noises; it doesn't really interest me how pain-staking it may have been to produce if the man is unable to write songs.

[ghOsty]

heh, looks like I'm alone in my enjoyment of this then. maybe it's old fart music.

 

Not alone, I've been enjoying it quite a bit, I think perhaps it helped that I was expecting this one to be a lot more ambient and abstract because of the methods used in making it. Also, the fact that it was refered to by Amon Tobin himself as "sound sculpture"

[Guest hahathhat]

poop sculpture

[Guest Adam]

Oh common people. What kind of groove did you expect? It had been obvious that he was taking more and more complicated ways to create more and more complicated music. Of course there's groove, It's just different, far more complex than we are used to, sometimes you can't feel it from the first listening. ISAM is not one of the albums that you can immediately understand. I'm dissapointed with watmm reaction. For me it's one of my three favorite all time albums.

[MAXIMUS MISCHIEF]

THIS IS ON YOUR TOP 3 OF ALL TIME FAVORITE ALBUMS?

[ghOsty]

Oh common people. What kind of groove did you expect? It had been obvious that he was taking more and more complicated ways to create more and more complicated music. Of course there's groove, It's just different, far more complex than we are used to, sometimes you can't feel it from the first listening. ISAM is not one of the albums that you can immediately understand. I'm dissapointed with watmm reaction. For me it's one of my three favorite all time albums.

 

this... though I'm not ready to put it in my fav albums of all time

[Guest hahathhat]

Oh common people. What kind of groove did you expect? It had been obvious that he was taking more and more complicated ways to create more and more complicated music. Of course there's groove, It's just different, far more complex than we are used to, sometimes you can't feel it from the first listening. ISAM is not one of the albums that you can immediately understand. I'm dissapointed with watmm reaction. For me it's one of my three favorite all time albums.