The Foley Room

happy new year, y'all.

gonna rap about this one, in case you don't know it.
Amon Tobin's The Foley Room.
Honestly, I was pretty lukewarm about this album, until I saw a documentary (that comes on a DVD along with the CD) about how it was made.
I totally respect this guy now. His approach to sound is very unique.
He used to make all of his albums (all of which are on Ninja Tune and are great!) by ripping samples from vinyl. Beats, basslines, melodies, noise, whatever; all sampled. Basically, your standard DJ approach a la Shadow or Rjd2.


But for this one, instead of using samples, he recorded tons of shit in a studio (the Foley room) and even more field recordings. Live drums. Toys. Machines in a manufacturing plant. Lots of weird home-made instruments abound. His buddy helped him record the sound of some insects walking. And for those of you more into the avant-garde, the Kronos Quartet was also recorded live. Then Tobin took all the raw recordings (which went to a reel-to-reel tape, nothing digital here) and worked his magic, creating really interesting stuff.