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Amon Tobin | Out From Out Where

A bizarre ride to the successor of Supermodified.
CD, Ninja Tune/Zomba

Tekst: Dave Roozendaal

Publicatiedatum: 13 september 2002

Amon Tobin, the boy from Brazil who came to Brighton UK and stunned the world first with his works under the Cujo moniker and then with his stunning debut on Ninja Tune, Bricolage, is back with his fifth album. Out From Out Where sounds dirtier, scarier and trippier than anything he's ever done so far. It's a dark and bizarre ride through the theme park of Tobin's mind with, as usual, so many different types of music thrown together that it makes one's head spin.

The album starts off with the gentle and spacey intro to the stormy drum&bass track Back From Space. The mothership has landed, and off we go with an uptempo hiphop stomper, Verbal. It's the first track featuring guitars (the Spanish variety in this case), something we will find plenty of on the rest of the album. Decimal R.'s raps are heavily processed, making him sound like some kind of Astrosmurf. More acoustic guitars in Chronic Tronic, over an industrial breakbeat and a couple of well-placed strings, vocal samples and other scary sounds. Searching sounds ominous — the strings sound sweet, which makes the Arab flute sounds and tabla-like percussion all the more frightening. Hey Blondie is an oasis of calm after the hectic sounds of the first four tracks with its echoing keyboards and sweet downtempo beat. Another sweet intro heralds the start of Rosies, but it doesn't stay that sweet for long. soon a midtempo brealbeat starts stomping, accompanied by haunted strings and a melancholic surf guitar lick. Somewhere towards the end of the track a girl asks where you want to go. Someone shouts "Rosies!", after which she howls her approval just before an incredibly big bass wave comes up and takes everything with it. Time for Cosmo Retro Intro Outro. A nervous uptempo breakbeat and all kinds of (modified) guitar sounds make for another pretty wild ride that continues in Triple Science. In fact, Triple Science is even more nerve-wrecking than its predecessor. Sounds of space guns firing and an unintelligible voice just keeps talking. El Wraith starts with another guitar intro, then a slo-mo hip hop beat drops. With the Spanish guitar and strings and the scary sounds in the background, it sounds like the soundtracks of Blue Velvet, Night of the Hunter and 2001: A Space Odyssey playing at the same time. Another slow beat enters with Proper Hoodidge. Again there's that soothing but at the same time sinister Eastern vibe, with flutes and strings. The voyage ends with Mighty Micro People. Lots of guitars, tablas, keyboards and some brass sounds seem to try to ease our minds after the pretty rough ride we just experienced. As if it were saying that it was all just a dream, and there's nothing to be afraid of.

Or is there?

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