Amon Tobin

Music Producer

Amon Tobin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 7th, 1972 and is the Music Producer. At the age of 52, Amon Tobin biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Amon Adonai Santos de Araújo Tobin
Date of Birth
February 7, 1972
Nationality
Brazil
Place of Birth
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Age
52 years old
Zodiac Sign
Aquarius
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Composer, Disc Jockey, Musician, Record Producer
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Amon Tobin Life

Amon Adonai Santos de Aragon Tobin (born February 7, 1972), better known as Amon Tobin, is a Brazilian singer, composer, and producer of experimental music.

He is known for his unusual approach to sound design and music production.

He has released eight major studio albums under the London-based Ninja Tune record label.

With collaborator Doubleclick (musician), he has also released two albums under the name Two Fingers (musician).

Long Stories, his latest book, was released on October 25th, 2019. His music has appeared in several big motion pictures, including The Italian Job and 21.

Tobin has written songs for several independent films, including the 2006 Cannes Palme d'Or nominated Divine Intervention.

A collection of his tracks were included in commercial bumps on Toonami and in the 2005 anime IGPX, and Sucker Punch's Infamous in 2009.

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Amon Tobin Career

Early career (1995–1997)

Tobin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Tobin's father is an Irishman. He and his family left Brazil to live in Morocco, the Netherlands, London, Portugal, and Madeira at the age of 2. As a youth, Tobin stayed in Brighton, England, which was his permanent home until 2002. He began making electronic music in his bedroom with samplers and other audio devices, including an Amstrad Studio 100 4-track, but at the time, he was "not really interested in the [music] scene." He responded to a magazine advertisement for the London-based Ninebar record label, asking artists to send in demos of their songs while taking an editorial photography course at a university in Brighton. After hearing his early art, Ninebar welcomed Tobin to the brand in 1996, and he travelled between Brighton and London to produce his first official works.

He released a line of original compositions on 12-inch vinyl under his moniker Cujo (in Portuguese, the word for whose). In a review, AllMusic called them "head-turning." Many of those tracks were later released on his first full-length album Adventures in Foam, which was originally released in 1996 by Ninebar to a limited edition of 5,000 copies.

With support from artists DJ Food, Funki Porcini, The Herbalizer, and Coldcut, the bigger Ninja Tune record label was expanding in the United Kingdom at the time. Tobin's appearance on Adventures in Foam inspired DJ Food and Funki Porcini, who invited the label to meet him. In late 1996, Ninja Tune signed Tobin, this time under the abbreviated name "Amon Tobin." Adventures in Foam had been re-released without permission by the US-based Shadow Records the same year, and that this unauthorized version, dubbed "US release," contained only 7 of the original songs, different cover art, and that some tracks were titled incorrectly, according to the official Ninja Tune website. Ninja Tune acquired the appropriate licenses from Ninebar and re-released the album themselves in 1997. This version featured the original album in its entirety as well as a second disc containing previously unreleased information. Amazon.com has sold Shadow Record's "US version" as of 2008. Adventures in Foam has been lauded throughout its history of production. Pitchfork Media's Ryan Scherz said that its break-beat style "got completely out of hand," but that "never fails to inform the listener who is in charge." In 2002, Ninja Tune's album was released for the fourth time.

Tobin's three albums have been released over the past three years. Bricolage, which was released in 1997, was the culmination of two projects that Tobin had started after his debut album earlier this year. Perpetration was his third album that was released in 1998. During the summer of 1998, independent radio stations broadcast Tobin's works, a classic jazz aficionados who identified with the computer-generated drums and composition. Sample-based music had become increasingly popular in a variety of emerging and developing genres in the late 1990s, but Tobin himself was still relatively unknown. Tobin's style of music was not seen as clearly belonging to one or another genre. They were often praised by reviewers and interviewers who characterized them as the best albums of the time. Pitchfork praised the use of jazz instrument samples, comparing him to famous composers Quincy Jones and Miles Davis. They gave Bricolage a very rare 10/10 in a 1999 report, saying that it was "one of the decade's most innovative findings."

In 2000, Tobin released his fourth album, Supermodified. The album is considered to be the most commercial album to date. Critical feedback was generally positive, with Pitchfork rated the album 9.1/10 and Stylus Magazine stating, "Not many studio-bound electronic musicians could make it as entertaining and funky as Supermodified has managed to do."

Tobin moved to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he had worked at Ninja Tune's North American Headquarters before. Tobin lived in Old Montreal's industrial district to minimize noise complaints after dark. Out From Out Where first appeared in the same year. This was his first album, which was mainly created in a commercial studio. He later posted a single verbal taken from Out From Out Where. Tobin's manufacturing style had come into its own, according to Otis Hart of Dusted Magazine. Tobin's "refined sense of tempo" was lauded by the narrator.

Tobin was hired by video game firm Ubisoft Montreal in January 2004 to produce the soundtrack for their third installment of Tom Clancy's critically acclaimed Splinter Cell series, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. Each track was broken down by Tobin into four distinct but similar sections based on their intensity in order to facilitate using the music in a video game, where the degree of action or plot can change in real-time. Each section could be used to play music based on the player's behavior. Despite not being a official album in Tobin's catalog, it was regarded as "an entirely new age of media" by Tiny Mix Tapes, who called it "a completely new age of media."

Since Tobin began with Out From Out Where It Comes, the album continued the trend, although he used more field recordings during recording. Ninja Tune also included the game in a series, called Chaos Theory – Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack, a 2005 compilation of Chaos Theory – Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack, which was released several months before the game was released. It was well-received, drawing in a larger audience of reviewers from both the music and gaming industries. Tobin's use of melody and texture was lauded by Ben Hogwood of MusicOMH.com, who said he orchestrated the sounds with "clarity of a classical orchestrator." In a dedicated Solid State Logic studio in Los Angeles, Bobby Azinsky produced a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound version of the album with audio engineer Bobby Azinsky.

Foley Room, Tobin's sixth studio album, was released in 2007. The name refers to the "foley rooms" used by recording engineers and foley artists to record sound effects in film. Tobin began his transition away from prerecorded source material that began with Out From Out Where on this album. All of the samples used for manufacturing were recorded by him using an omnidirectional microphone. The samples were collected mainly in Montreal, San Francisco, and Seattle, and Seattle, and came from a variety of sources, including motorbikes, tigers, spiders, and rain falling from a tap. The string quartet Kronos Quartet, drummer Stefan Schneider, and Harpist Sarah Pagé were among the album's contributors. The Foley Room's use of field-recordings was used to help promote the album, which included two official pre-release trailers that were posted on YouTube. PopMatters.com's Nate Dorr said it was a "smooth, natural progression" from his work on Supermodified. "Bloodstone," the first single from iTunes Music Store months before the rest of the album was released. Foley Room: Found Footage, Ninja Tune's second film that chronicled the recording process.

Tobin began working on a hip-hop-inspired project with British drum-and-bass producer Doubleclick and a number of guest vocalists in 2006. The pair have released several singles as Two Fingers, as well as their self-titled debut album in 2009. In 2009, the eponymous launch of Paper Bag Records in North America and Big Dada, United Kingdom, was announced. The two performers, who first met in Brighton, United Kingdom, came together in Montreal in 2007 over a number of tracks that were partially a continuation of their previous collaborations, exemplified by the heavy, pummeling 2003 track "Ownage" — but in general, a fundamentally new and vibrant direction that incorporates visceral elements of dancehall, dubstep, and grime. The group's self-titled debut in spring 2009 featured vocals from dancehall singer Ce'Cile, Ms. Jade, and British rapper Sway, a follower of the singles "That Girl" and "What You Know." Tobin also collaborated with Dom & Roland, a UK drum-and-bass musician, on a track called "Sylo" for the album No Strings Attached in 2009.

Tobin revealed in 2008 that he was working on a new video game soundtrack for a "undisclosed PS3 console." In 2010, Tobin revealed that he was going to be working on the soundtrack for Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction. "Hey Mr. Tree" as a 'Bonus Joint' collection by the artist's younger brother, a 'Monthly Joint' collection with remixes by 16 Bit and Spor, and a collaboration with ESKMO dubbed Eskamon are among his recent creations. Eskamon has created a single "Fine Object" variant. A new AT record has also been set by www.amontobin.com for which he is "researching and creating new manufacturing methods and techniques" as well as "using a whole new range of gadgets from the past and future."

His artist page on Ninja Tune's website was updated in January 2011, announcing a new album named ISAM as well as a Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory remix album. ISAM was released on April 20, 2011, after being leaked by a journalist. Tobin unveiled the Boxset in May 2012, the first of its kind of a mechanical press. It includes remixes, cover versions, and reinterpretations of ISAM songs, as well as deleted bootlegs from various retailers, as well as Tobin's earliest audio recordings, film, and television scores.

Amon Tobin's second album, Stunt Rhythms, was released by Big Dada Recordings in 2012.

Dark Jovian, an EP, was his first appearance under his name in four years on April 18, 2015.

Fear in a Handful of Dust, Amon Tobin's website, revealed a new album in February 2019 on a new label, Nomark Records. The album's release on April 26, 2019, brought an eight-year absence in new studio LP album launches under Tobin's name (his previous release being ISAM in 2011). Tobin's remaining 2019 will include three singles under his Two Fingers alias: You Ain't Down, 296 Rhythm, and LED Moon Rhythm.

The Long Stories, which appeared in October 2019, were published in parallel with Fear in a Handful of Dust and made use of a broken Omnichord.

Tobin unveiled the Nomination Club, a monthly subscription service that gives access to all of Tobin's content as it is announced, as well as some exclusive content (the service is provided via Bandcamp's subscription program). Fine Strips of Violence, a supporter-exclusive extended play album, was released in tandem with the announcement. Tobin released Nine Bars Back, a two-track No. 34 on the alias of Cujo, in December 2019, one that hadn't been used since the launch of Adventures in Foam in 1996.

Tobin released the album Time to Run under the alias Only Child Tyrant, on July 26, 2019.

Tobin's debut of The World As We Know It in July 2020 marked a change in Tobin's signature instrumental style, as it was his first big release to feature notable vocal work. Tobin himself provided technical assistance, according to producer Sylvia Massy, who supervised the album's lyrics. In an interview, Tobin describes the lyrics as being rather ambiguous, saying that "I want the feeling of the songs to take precedence over the literal meaning."

"Celebrates the connection between voice and machine from a totally different perspective - humans and electronics pooling funds to investigate topics of passion and being none the wiser for it," the debut album by Stone Giants on the first album.

How Does That Life, a "cinematic and apocalyptic" book, first appeared in September 2021.

Amon Tobin's sounds and samples are often used in Top Gear's British car-based television show Top Gear, and his song "Four Ton Mantis" has been used in advertisements for Nissan Qashqai and Juke. Tobin's music appeared in several major motion pictures, including The Italian Job and 21. He has also produced music for a number of independent films, including The Last Minute, and has produced production music for the BMG Zomba commercial library, which is used in various films. He produced the soundtrack for the Hungarian horror film Taxidermia, which was made available on his website in 2006. He also wrote the score for the 2009 film Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space.

Tobin produced and produced a small body of work for the video game Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, which was available on his website in April 2010. Two Fingers produced the theme music for the BBC America/Space original series Orphan Black in 2013.

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