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Foley Room

Amon Tobin Format: Audio CD

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Electronic beatmaking legend Amon Tobin reinvents himself on Foley Room, an album meticulously created from field recordings and other found sounds. Still very much an Amon record, but with fresh new underlying sounds. Includes bonus DVD documenting the process.

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With Foley Room, Montreal's Amon Tobin throws his torch in with the blazing tradition of full-length works composed in the majority with found sounds. Having formerly made his name as a craftsman of vinyl samples into towering rhythmic dynamos like his fin-de-siècle LP, Supermodified, Tobin tries sampling the world for himself. With microphone in hand and his tape console slung over his shoulder, he captures the timbre of factories, a massive satellite dish, and local avant-garde improvisers with equal zest. One loping highlight comes early in "Big Furry Head," when during a token trip-hop lead-in--all reverb, squiggle, and over-compressed drumbeat--a tiger's hungry growls tears new life across the frequency spectrum, signaling the abyss-deep thump of Tobin's next new groove. Whether he's wandering through lush, meandering string workouts ("Bloodstone") or more aggressive avenues toward beauty ("Ever Falling"), Tobin's gait is ever informed by the beat. But where some contemporary found-sound sculptures like Matthew Herbert's Plat du Jour keep a more strident sampling ethos in the service of musical politics, Tobin's approach clearly reeks with a love of sound manipulation as its own reward: every process an adventure, each completed work a revelation. --Jason Kirk

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Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.55 x 4.97 x 0.54 inches; 3.01 Ounces
Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Ninja Tune
Date First Available ‏ : ‎ February 10, 2007
Label ‏ : ‎ Ninja Tune
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000N0QXHQ
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

Best Sellers Rank: #336,785 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
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- #247 in Drum & Bass Electronic
- #788 in Trip-hop

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Donal Cribb

HIGH DESERT

Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2012

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I met this music while traversing Joshua Tree National Park by car, a Mustang convertible, to be exact, top down, on a sunny day with a curving, vacant road ahead. Skies were brilliant blue and white contrails etched by jets drew lines through heaven. The sun was golden and warm, but a nip of night's chill lingered in shadows, and in the air, fresh from brushing past dustings of snow still trapped in rugged crags and hiding in quiet corners of red mountains. Patches of snow waited under shrubs and bases of cacti as if white shadows. I wanted music the second I turned on a warm current from the heater. After some Wagner, and Philip Glass, Amon Tobin's Foley Room took over! The desert suddenly went from sheer grandeur and prescribed order and focused into full three-dimensional representations of natural jazz! The visual presentation, random and irregular, proud and supernatural, made a curvilinear drive behind a gurgling V-8, with Foley Room playing through multiple speakers, a universal experience! It was a day to remember! I play the CD often, especially in the wee hours and when waiting for sleep to come get me,

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J. Thompson

Amon Tobin does it again

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2007

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I guess it always was going to happen. Amon Tobin's past releases basically took record sampling as far as it could go. With Foley Room he and a team took to the streets with high-sensitivity microphones to capture source sound to use as the main components to process into the 12 tracks here. They include actual instruments like strings, drums, piano but also lion roars, motorcycle engines, agitated wasps and on and on.

His last album proper (I am maybe wrongly hesitant to call the soundtrack he did for Splinter Cell a true album) 'Out From Out Where' sounded just as the title suggested, from outer space and very sci-fci. 'Foley Room' sounds much more organic, surely in large part to his molding sounds from actual instruments and our environment. But believe me, you would have a hard time placing all the sounds on this album to their actual source as he (as in past releases) molds these samples into sound that rarely has any similarity to that of the original.

'Bloodstone' opens slowly building on a subtle piano trill and strings courtesy the Kronos Quartet. It segues into 'Esther's' with the same piano theme before a monster of bass beats and manipulated motorcycle engine revs bludgeon the listener. Esther's become's Bloodstone's mean older brother on steroids and speed and the album really takes off. 'Keep Your Distance' is as disturbing as any of Tobin's past spook-fests. Play this on the headphones and you will catch yourself checking over your shoulder. 'The Killer's Vanilla'-another great track with a superb outro. 'Foley Room' includes the requisite scatter-breaks that are Tobin's signature. 'Big Furry Head' is titled as a reference to a lion, whose roars are sampled and manipulated to such extent they would probably send the actual animal backpeddaling in fear. As with all of Tobin's records, the final tracks bring the listener down from the chaos that preceded.

Thoroughly recommended.

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Greg

2007? Try 2307

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2007

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Foley Room is an industrial breakbeat / drum-n-bass symphony. Amon Tobin not only improves but he vastly raises the bar every single time he releases an album. You know this is the man who made Out from Outwhere and Permutation right away but what you cannot prepare for is the epic nature in which he rings in 2007 with music that is 2307.

I have a deep love for the album format and 'Foley Room' further defines this affection. It allows for structure and limitations to encourage discipline and creativity. The music here is like the intensity of a beautifully emotional 500 lb. beast trapped within a metal cage where he barely fits and has only one small air hole. He is angry and dents the structure while trying to free himself. He becomes hopeless realizing this is impossible. He ponders his life, becomes bitter and angry again. Somehow, we feel like he got himself into this.

Take that for what you will, but the only album I can compare this to is 'Endtroducing...' and that is a stretch because this is much more intense and the songs are mostly shorter in length (my only gripe because these songs could be of brilliantly epic length to match the mood). But the darkness and emotion is evident and delves deeper into actual human psyche than I'd say nearly ALL of, at least, electronic music.

Amon Tobin has officially been ordained into the vanguard of music's elite.

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Theora J

Another gem by the all-time master of sampled-loop manipulation, and this time, he brought his own source material.

Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2015

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A bit less accessible than Tobin's other masterworks, but still an amazing piece of sonic sculpture. I am always baffled at how long it must take for him to construct some of his audioscapes, but maybe he's a virtuoso in that department as well. Recommended if you dig mr. T. : )

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Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2008

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If Ninja Tune was entirely in its own music genre (and I'd like to claim that it is), then it would be hard for its roster to compete with its staple artist, Brazilian born Amon Adonai Santos de Aravjo Tobin, who for over a decade has graced our ears with abstract downtempo trip hop and experimental jazzy breaks. Such is the case with Foley Room, an organic and at times dark album, that swirls and loops through filtered sweeps and broken beats. For his sixth release, Tobin abandoned his perfected technique of sampling from dug up vinyl, and built an ambitious collage of field and studio recordings with the help of The Kronos Quartet, Stefan Schneider (To Rococo Rot) and harpist Sarah Pagé. The elaborately cut up bits and pieces of familiar every day sounds form into an organized chaos of dissonant elastic melodies powdered with bouncy rhythms and dropped into a chamber, which the sound effect designers call "the foley room".

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Amon Tobin , Foley Room

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2011

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I really liked this. Amon Tobin pu these racks together really well. The song "keep your distance" is my favorite. Don't forget to pop over to you tube and heck you videos for the track, and his other work to.

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Matthew W.

I love Amon Tobin

Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2014

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I love Amon Tobin. Great music that is different from your pop music of today. Fun and creative music to listen to.

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el greco

Instant Classic!

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2012

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I love this CD and listened to it non-stop. Probably one of the best in his library since Bricolage! You have to pick this up.. you will not be dissapointed..

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busb

Found sound from Amon Tobin aided by the Kronos Quartet & others

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2014

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I suppose the easiest way to describe Amon's music on this album is that he uses "found sound". By that, I mean he records a lot of incidental everyday or industrial process "noise" (in Montreal) then creates music from it. The tittle here reflects that - a foley room is were sound effects are added to films. You will hear string instruments from the Kronos Quartet so a bit of a cross-over recording!
The standout track for me is "The Killer's Vanilla". "Kitchen Sink" unsurprisingly give a strong sense of manipulated "watery" sound effects but melds a lot of percussive sound as well as fast stereo panning. Horsefish" (great title) includes harp sounds that evokes a strong sense of mystery & can imagine it accompanying scenes from films which strengthens the whole cinematic theme of The Foley Room. Even the cover art reflects the origins.
The recording quality is good, given the constraints of field recording - no hint of nasty amplitude compression artefacts here! Expect your bass cones to get some moderate exercise when playing this!

Mindpower

Fascinating, absorbing, eerie, majestic.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 10, 2007

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The great thing about this album is that most existing fans will love it, yet it offers new directions and angles compared with previous Amon Tobin material. The delicacy and sparsity of some of the samples and instruments reminds me a little of DJ Krush, whilst the incredible percussion and programming is there in all its usual stunning style and imagination. I put this CD on in my car and it sounded like I had a new sound system, the production is so amazing. Whilst I understand the other reviewers' thoughts on the more experimental tracks, after just a few spins I like everything on the CD. It somehow makes you feel like you're living life in a movie, with the music listening to you as much as the other way round: eerie. Tobin's tunes don't just evoke scenes, eras and atmospheres, they actually make you feel as if you've experienced these scenes for real, as if in a previous life. The first two tracks really blew me away on first listen, even though I had high expectations; completely fascinating music. I've also got a DVD with it which I look forward to checking out.. Amen, Amon!

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Mindpower

An absorbing, fascinating, eerie album

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 16, 2007

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M. J. Axtell

Folley room?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 12, 2007

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After having been a devoted Tobin fan for some years now, I still find it difficult to get bored of his music. Once I have finished listening to one album, I will quite happily listen to one of his others until I circulate them all. And then I start again. I do have a favourite, Permutation, but finding a favourite record by Tobin is so trivial as all his work is unbelievably good. There is no other artist that I can do this with. And this one will help extend the loop further.

Its always a special event for me to get his new albums, and here it is, his 7th album (if you include Adventures in Foam and Chaos Theory), and still this man refuses to make a sub-standard record.

Trying to compare this album to any of his other albums, or indeed any other albums full stop, is like comparing chalk to cheese in which one can run the hundred metres fastest, although there will be some people out there that will compare this to Chaos Theory. Maybe it should have been called Chaos Hypothesis.

Tobin is taking us for a different ride with this album. For hardened Tobin fans, a few things will be clear from the start. He's making more of an effort marketing-wise with this record with the new website and the packaging of the album, the tracks are a lot shorter and there are more of them, the album is his shortest to date, and it comes with a nice DVD to give you an insight into how he went about making the album for those that care. Oh, and it has been made in an entirely new way (for him, at least) where he has gone out with a sound engineer and recorded found sound and musicians to construct this record as opposed to creating it from just other records.

Is it any good? Yep. Its a fantastic album. Its quite easily the best thing I have heard this year so far, and I think its unpretentious noise-mongering at its finest, especially for those who like noise. Those that found his music a little innaccesible before should have a (mildly) better experience with this one and those that loved his work before will find something just as unsettlingly brilliant about this album. It will also appeal to those people that are interested by the creative process and want something a little richer in their aural diet and like being challenged by their music.

It is in essence quite a dramatically dark record, but this is what Tobin does best, and I wouldn't ever want him to change this. Its very spooky and confrontational in places, very quiet and subdued in others, and just an all round excellent electronic record period.

Althouh dramatic and dark, just like his prior outings, this record does lack an ingredient that was also missing from the Chaos Theory album (for good reason), and that his his sense of fun and mischief that made Permutation and Supermodified such classics to me. There is nothing as cheeky as Nightlife, or beautifully chilled as Natureland, or immensely daft as 4 Ton Mantis, but what this album does have is a bigger presence than either of those albums and I hope that is reflected in it's other reviews and sales.

So go buy the soundtrack to Amon Tobins mind. Even if it isn't this record you buy, at least check some of his work out. Music will never sound the same to you again.

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Rock-Well

Touchant

Reviewed in France on December 17, 2016

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L'album est très varié. On passe d'une musique à une composition parfaite à une musique brisée et déstructurée. On touche à tout dans cet album.

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