Solid Steel presents Amon Tobin: Recorded Live

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Product Description For yea and verily, the fourth episode of the world famous and much trusted Solid Steel mix series is here and this times it comes from the Silent Brazilian, Amon Tobin. After a year and half of performing, tweaking and perfecting his DJ set, Amon found himself in Australia in the final stages of a long but rewarding tour. Every night of this antipodean leg was recorded, and it was decided that this memorable and sweaty night in Melbourne, with Amon under the distracting influences of drugs, alcohol and Ozzy girls, would be the perfect opportunity to add to the Solid Steel series. Amazon.com Amon Tobin's manic, jungle/jazz-driven records have presented a challenge for him in a live setting, but Solid Steel manages the feat with a combination of technology and Tobin's own unique stylistic approach. It's not easy going on the road to support something like Supermodified or Permutation--albums born almost entirely in the memory banks of a computer--with the usual DJ turntables. Happily, with the advent of "Final Scratch" software, computer files can now be mixed, scratched, and blended just like vinyl. Thus, armed with a virtual record crate filled with bytes instead of wax, Tobin blows the crowd's hair back, barraging them (and us) with a relentless dose of out-there hip-hop, dub, and ambient. Time signatures are realigned, stretched, and broken apart on songs like "Chronic Tronic" (from 2002's Out From Out Where) and "Sittin Here" (from Dizzee Rascal's amazing Boy In Da Corner). As you might expect, this is challenging stuff and Tobin doesn't slow his dark sonics down long enough for the uninitiated to catch on easily. However, for the already converted and others who like their electronic music on the avant-garde edge, Solid Steel captures a tech-wizard in his element, casting rhythmic spells with 1s and 0s. -- Matthew Cooke