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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0625978104828 Label: Ninja Tune Manufacturer: Ninja Tune MPN: 48 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Ninja Tune Release Date: May 16, 2000 Studio: Ninja Tune Editorial Review: Amazon.com's Best of 2000: Amon Tobin's off-kilter rhythms and jazzy samples create a beautiful mess on Supermodified. Feeding off Latin rhythms, downtempo beats, and wildly adventurous musical jumbles, Tobin's manic bliss never allows the songs to wander, working a sense of method into a sea of crazy atmospheres. The result is focused, enticing, and fascinating. --Matthew Cooke Amazon.com: At the junction of jazz and breakbeat science, Amon Tobin is one of the undisputed masters. Instead of drawing on jazz samples and styles as a sort of prepackaged cultural signifier, he's engaged in the cross-fertilization and recontextualizing that many aspire to but not so many achieve. On this release, he casts his net farther afield--the smoky nightclub trumpets and sultry beats of 1998's Permutation are still present, but the hummingly intense electronics and roiling drums on tracks like "Rhino Jockey" leave the jazz references pretty far behind. The track "Precursor" uses what is called "vocal percussion" to emulate the click-and-pop assemblages of some of the farther out German electronic experimentalists and segues neatly into the down-tempo groove of "Saboteur," which is built on a bottle-clinking percussive sample from obscure '60s blues-rock outfit the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation. "Keepin' It Steel" is reminiscent of Stereolab in a way, with a pleasantly lazy tempo that manages the neat trick of sounding like it's in an odd-metre time signature when it's not, punctuated by horns that evoke a '70s reggae record. --Bob Bannister Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Featuring 'Quadraceptor' (!)Laterally, 'Supermodified' is a mood piece, sound-scapes etc, but as a concept, I'm afraid it's off the rails. It doesn't draw the line, it's in over it's head - I get a disturbing feeling that it's something to be scared of. The road Amon Tobin is walking, isn't gonna lead anywhere good. 'Supermodified' is extremely corrupt. Full of decadent ideas and whims all crammed up against each other like lemmings. It conjures up areas of mystery and sultry dynamics, readily striking maddening ... Read More Rating:  - Tobin: Supermodified!Hat Trick! Amon Tobin released 3 equally brilliant but very different albums (Bricolage, Permutation, Supermodified), each a masterpiece in their own ways. This may be the best place to start for Tobin, but it kind of depends what could hook you first (then, obviously, you acquire a taste for Tobin's music and can build up with the others, or something like that). If jazz is your thing, Permutation. Like darkness? This. If you like the sounds of drum and bass, Bricolage is your best bet. If ... Read More Rating: - An electronica masterpieceI must be honest. Before I had heard this album I had heard very little electronica music. So initially I didn't have much to compare it to in its own genre. Yet I am obliged now to at least give it a great review because it was basically responsible for me getting into the wonderfully distinct music of electronica. I have listened (ever since this album) to other great electronica works by bands like the Cinematic Orchestra, Boards of Canada, and others and yet this one still impresses ... Read More Rating: - A CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE!It will jump from your speakers & demand attention! You've been warned... Rating: - Complex and BeautifulIt is hard to overstate how much impact this album had on me. Amon Tobin captured everything I love about electronic music here, composing a dynamic, dark and often surreal sound-scape. "Slowly," my favorite track, is a beautiful, somber experience that effortlessly blends jazzy notes with a down tempo beat. "Four Ton Mantis" is a fantastic and eerie piece with alternately slow and driving beats that you can't help but be enraptured with. "Rhino Jockey" seems to swell with breathless excitement with ... Read More |
