Amon Tobin has been producing electronic music since the mid-'90s, and was a key figure in the rise of drum-and-bass. He's also written some of the genre's most compelling tracks, in the process delving into jazzy breakbeats and bass lines. With each new album, though, Tobin's penchant for jazz-sampling electronica faded, and a love for darker sounds grew. By the release of 2007's Foley Room, experimentation and atmosphere reigned.
ISAM is the Brazilian producer's latest batch of tracks, and it goes even further down the rabbit hole. The rhythms that backed his last album are gone, and clear song structures seem to have been phased out altogether. Instead, Tobin focuses primarily on painting mind-bending sound murals that sound a mile high and wide. In "Goto 10," the sounds are heavier, sharper, and more indescribable than they have been on any release from Tobin so far. It's nearly impossible to categorize, list and even explain every buzz, rumble and low-end bass hit that flies by in the song's four-minute lifespan, except to say that it sounds like nothing of this world.
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