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BMSR | 2 years ago

Amon 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.

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captn3m0|2 years ago

He 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.

luluthefirst|2 years ago

This 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.

cityzen|2 years ago

Def one of the top VG soundtracks ever!

andrewmutz|2 years ago

I 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?

105424|2 years ago

Plaid. Every album so far has been on the edge of the music landscape as it released. The last album, among other things, combining real and physical modelled instruments in electronic soundscapes against a AI/generative backdrop, The previous one incorporating gamalan structures and rythems among advances in sound design. Back in the day they where also using generative rytems, virtual voices, all kind of digital sythesis techniques when they just became aviable.

It's one of the few artist in the electronic frontier that imho manages to consistently make musical songs with state of the art tech. In contract to newer stuff from for example Clark or Amon Tobin where it feels the intresting sounds are the song instead of intresting sounds making the song.

donutpepperoni|2 years ago

Little People - Mickey Mouse Operation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSIbpqNB5Fo

Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJj24t6nOn4

Emancipator - Soon It Will Be Cold Enough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXaeQw96Fx4

Tycho - Sunrise Projector https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Ycsu_yvFk&list=PLPaztBWnat...

Beats Antique - Beauty Beats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJcU3NjovKg

And then that all lead me to Saafi Brothers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb4JFsfOkLk

And then Carbon Life forms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9pgIVcB3rk

All started by Amon. I know this because I downloaded a backup of my grooveshark db before it shut down :) RIP

camtarn|2 years ago

Have a listen to Hidden Orchestra. They do (did?) a great live show with sequenced tracks plus live cello and twin drumkits. Night Walks is a wonderful album.

tclancy|2 years ago

Interesting 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=caf... as a replacement, wholly instrumental or foreign-language albums that won't distract me from flow state.

saint_yossarian|2 years ago

I'm still really enjoying most of his recent work, check out all the aliases on Nomark Records if you haven't yet.

Through his DJ mixes I discovered Tipper, Noisia, Frank Riggio.

+1 to Hidden Orchestra which someone else mentioned. I also really love what Stimming is doing.

Besides electronic music, I listen to a lot of jazz these days, and jam bands like Vulfpeck. I mention this because Amon Tobin's early records are what originally got me into jazz.

tessellated|2 years ago

Autechre, they produce the most complex and intriguing music. Since ca. 35 years. Cannot put into words, it's massive. No need to thank me later.

kkapelon|2 years ago

Yoshi Horikawwa, TOKiMONSTA (her old stuff), ESKMO and maybe Metaform and Komodo

giraffe_lady|2 years ago

mononeon, death grips, robert glasper, thundercat, 100 gecs, kamasi washington