1. Amon Adonai Santos de Araujo Tobin is a Brazilian electronic musician, composer and producer.
40 Facts About Amon Tobin
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Amon Tobin is noted for his unusual methodology in sound design and music production.
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Amon Tobin has released eight major studio albums under the London-based Ninja Tune record label.
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Amon Tobin has released two albums under the alias Two Fingers with collaborator Doubleclick.
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Amon Tobin's music has been used in numerous major motion pictures including The Italian Job and 21.
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Amon Tobin settled in Brighton, England as a teenager which remained his permanent residence until 2002.
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Bricolage, released in 1997, was the culmination of two projects Amon Tobin had started after his debut album earlier that year.
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In 2002, Amon Tobin relocated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada where he had spent time previously at Ninja Tune's North American Headquarters.
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Amon Tobin lived in the industrial area of Old Montreal to avoid noise complaints from neighbors after dark.
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Amon Tobin later released a single, Verbal, taken from Out From Out Where.
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In January 2004, Amon Tobin was contracted by video game company Ubisoft Montreal to compose the soundtrack for the third installment of their critically successful Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell series, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.
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The album continued the trend Amon Tobin started with Out From Out Where, as he used more field recordings during production.
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On this album, Amon Tobin concluded his transition away from prerecorded source material that started with Out From Out Where.
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In 2006, Amon Tobin began collaborating on a hip-hop oriented project with British drum-and-bass producer Doubleclick and a number of guest vocalists.
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In 2008, Amon Tobin announced he was working on a new video game soundtrack for an "undisclosed PS3 title".
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The second album under Two Fingers, Stunt Rhythms, was a solo effort by Amon Tobin and was designed by Inventory Studio and released worldwide by Big Dada Recordings in 2012.
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In February 2019, Amon Tobin's website announced a new album, Fear in a Handful of Dust, to be released in April 2019 on a new label, Nomark Records.
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On July 26,2019, Amon Tobin released the album Time to Run under a new alias known as Only Child Tyrant.
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In September 2019, Amon Tobin announced the Nomark Club, an annual subscription service that grants access to all of Amon Tobin's material as it is released, including some member-exclusive content.
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Amon Tobin released The World As We Know It in July 2020 under the alias Figueroa, which marked a departure in Amon Tobin's usual instrumental style, as it was his first major release to feature prominent vocal work.
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The "cinematic and apocalyptic" How Do You Live, released under Amon Tobin's name, arrived in September 2021.
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In February 2021, Amon Tobin was announced to be involved in the soundtracking of the Meow Wolf Omega Mart installation, along with Beach House, Brian Eno, Santigold, and others.
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Amon Tobin is best known for his use of audio manipulation techniques, where any given source material is transformed to produce a new sound.
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On his original singles under Ninebar and his first three albums, Amon Tobin acquired all of the sound sources to produce music from his personal collection of vinyl records.
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Amon Tobin manipulates the sounds with a combination of audio hardware and software including Cubase, often leaving the original source unrecognizable in its new context.
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Amon Tobin's techniques began branching into technical sound design, taking break beats or single instruments, modifying specific frequencies, and producing new sounds.
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About his music in general, Amon Tobin says that he sees it as a "genuine" expression of the time he lives in, as he says that by contrast, blues, jazz, and Brazilian genres were "genuine" expressions of the 1960s.
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Amon Tobin's albums are often compared to soundtracks, and he says that movies by David Lynch have influenced him.
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Amon Tobin began performing live shows in clubs with other Ninja Tune artists after releasing his second album, Bricolage.
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Amon Tobin instead used turntables which he felt had more in common with his approach to music production.
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Amon Tobin is known for building Dolby Digital 7.1 surround sound speaker systems for his performances.
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In 2011, Amon Tobin developed a live show in support of the album ISAM, fitting his criteria for a performance that is both live and purely electronic.
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Amon Tobin told Wired Magazine "The idea was to integrate myself, quite literally, into an audio and visual presentation of the album,".
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Amon Tobin has performed individual shows in many countries including tours in Europe, Australia, Japan, and the United States.
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Amon Tobin's sounds and samples are frequently used in the British car-based TV show Top Gear, and his song "Four Ton Mantis" has been used in advertisements for Nissan Qashqai and Juke.
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Amon Tobin's music appeared in several major motion pictures including The Italian Job, Tideline and 21.
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Amon Tobin has produced tracks for a number of independent films, including The Last Minute, and has created production music for the BMG Zomba commercial library which is used in various films.
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Amon Tobin produced the score for the 2009 documentary Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space.
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Amon Tobin has released seventeen major studio albums under his name and various aliases.
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Since 2019, Amon Tobin has been releasing music through an online subscription service Nomark Club based on Bandcamp.