I love Amon Tobin. About 10 years ago, I bought all of his albums and listened to them almost exlusively for at least 9 months. As a sample based artist, he was pushing the artform away from loops, making some of the most progressive and intricate music made in any modern genre. Then he dropped a few dud albums and I lost interest. I would still check out every release he dropped but outside of his amazing live shows, his work ceased to excite me like it used to...
For his last album ISAM, he put together one of the most groundbreaking audio-visual shows ever seen:
It's refreshing to see artists pushing the cinematic experience in to the future. With massive budgets being squandered on mediocre films every day, these are the kind of projects I'd like to see more of...
