About

Innovative electronic music Amon Tobin is widely praised for his studio recordings, which utilize production techniques more common to motion picture sound design than music, as well as his immersive audiovisual concert experiences. He was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1972. His family relocated to several countries throughout Europe and North Africa before settling in Brighton, England, when Tobin was a teenager. He began making sample-based music in his bedroom, drawing from his personal vinyl collection. While studying editorial photography at a university in Brighton, he sent a demo to a London-based label called Ninebar, which signed Tobin under the name Cujo in 1995. Debut EP Curfew appeared that year, followed by three more EPs and the full-length Adventures in Foam in 1996. The album's unconventional, jazz-infused version of drum'n'bass and trip-hop earned notice from throughout the U.K. electronic scene, and Cujo tracks appeared on dozens of compilations.

His impressive full-length debut for the London-based Ninebar label followed a series of head-turning 12" releases mixing drum'n'bass arrangements with obvious jazz, hip-hop, and Latin and Brazilian influences. Some of those early tracks make it onto Adventures in Foam, but the best of the album resides in glimpse-giving moments of genre-mingling such as "The Light" and "Northstar," which spin splintering breaks through shards of '70s fusion and '90s ambient and tech similar in eclecticism to Luke Vibert/Plug, Mung, and the less cheeky side of Squarepusher. Now it gets a proper reissued release for the first time on vinyl. — via AllMusic

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Label: Ninja Tune
Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, 140g, White
Reissued: 2025 / Original Release: 1996
Genre: Electronic
Style: Breakbeat, Future Jazz, Drum n Bass, Trip Hop, Jungle, IDM

File under: Leftfield
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