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Amon Tobin has a pretty wild website that launched with his Foley Room Cd. One of the more interesting electronic artist out there, Amon tobin has a style that is drum & bass meets jazz. He is also from Brazil and incorporates a lot of samba beats into his work. But it is in the way that he mixes and matches samples to create a unique imaginative landscape of sounds that makes him unique. This is great music to close your eyes to and let your mind drift.

From press release:
“…Amon and a team of assistants headed out into the streets with high sensitivity microphones and recorded found sounds from tigers roaring to cats eating rats, from wasps to falling chickpeas, kitchen utensils to motorbikes to water dripping from a tap. Added to this were the sounds of musicians like the Kronos Quartet, Stefan Schneider and Sarah Pagé, Tobin travelling from foley rooms in Montreal to San Francisco to Seattle and back as he collected them (the CD release will be accompanied by a short DVD, “Foley Room: Found Footage”, documenting the recording process). He then took this wealth of source material and twisted it round into the haunting, muscular music you can hear throughout this remarkable album.”

On the website you navigate around underwater to find various alien sea creatures, recording their sounds and then hearing how they fit into a song.

Foley Room will be released on March 6th and can be purchased here.

Along with his new album, he will also be releasing a documentary about the making of Foley Room:

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