Amon Tobin

Isam Amon Tobin

With “ISAM” Amon started with field recordings but then synthesised the sounds and built them

into actual playable instruments. With these instruments he then created the album. The vocals

are Amon Tobin's for the first time, synthesised and gender modified. “It’s by far the most exciting

development in my personal quest for some control over nature,” Tobin explains.

“Anything from a grain of found sound to my own voice can be transformed into something

new.”

The result is a record of uncharacteristic depth and richness (intellectual, emotional and aural),

one which sets your synapses crackling with dread and beauty, reminiscence and speculation,

or just the pure apprehension of sound, accomplishing most of the hopes and dreams of dubstep,

for instance, without even bothering to limit itself to having to be dubstep (which isn’t to

say it doesn’t have some of the most terrifying bass rumbles your sternum will feel this side of

Hell). Rarely has a piece of music made the listener feel so completely immersed in a new

world, with all the strangeness, excitement and, occasionally, fear that entails. Once you begin

listening to “ISAM,” anything written about it becomes redundant. A truly outstanding piece of

work, it should establish once and for all Amon Tobin’s well-earned right to sit at the very top

table of electronic music making.