Amon Tobin is a more current electronic musician who likes to produce dark environmental drum n' bass pieces. His music is often theme based and he achieves the mood in his songs through the use of heavy sampling. He has changed the way artists think about electronic music today. Instead of trying to make purely electronic sounds similar to real instruments, he attempts to effect sounds we hear in our everyday live to create a different, yet familiar sound in his music. Amon started his career remixing drum n' bass tracks and these remixes gained the attention of big music critics. He was signed by Ninebar and started to create albums soon after. (Amon Tobin)
In addition to drum n' bass, Amon also worked on music for several games and movies including, The Italian Job, Infamous, and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. His work in the game and movie industry inspired some of the creativity in his later albums. (Amon Tobin)
Amon Tobin's music is unique and innovative because he takes non-musical elements and makes them musical, then does the opposite and takes musical instruments and makes non-musical sounds with them. Amon was also known for taking samples of old movie dialogue or soundtracks and incorporating it into his songs. This is often done in pop music today. (Amon Tobin and the Music of Infamous)
Though Amon Tobin is an underground artist, he has a clear understanding of the creative potential needed to attract listeners. His use of samples and non musical instrumentation makes his songs memorable, which is a characteristic that can often be more effective in music than good production value and marketing.
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