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Old Amon Tobin was just the best. At the end of the day, Slowly, Journeyman...some of the best music I have ever heard.

His stuff with the London Symphony Orchestra is bonkers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggl_pWkbEoc).

All of his recent stuff isn't quite my cup of tea, but that's just the nostalgia factor speaking. I guess anyone who discovers a musician during one of their eras may not necessarily like their other eras...which is more of a condemnation of the listener, rather than the musician, perhaps :)

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Foley Room is my #1. I don't mind some of his more recent stuff, even the bass-ey Two Fingers stuff, but I do prefer the early stuff too. Though it's not as much up my alley I'm kind of intrigued by the album he put out under the Figueroa name, which is kind of psychedelic-folk or something. Take a quick listen before reading the next part (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWiXC_O_EVo). Here's the crazy part: Other than his voice, _every_ sound you hear in that song is synthesized and programmed with midi, including the "acoustic" guitar. He said in an interview if you were starting from scratch it would have been easier to learn to play the guitar, but I guess if you've spent your life devoted to mastering electronic production...

I saw him tour in the ISAM era and it was a pretty wild cubic setup and light show he had going on. Quite entertaining

Oh man, that's exactly the song I was thinking of (though I had the original, electronically-produced version in mind). The glissando string part, which comes in at 2:28 in your recording, is this cinematic, unapologetic, swaggering thing, like a sweeping helicopter shot of an Aston Martin zooming across Tunisia.

I do prefer the original, electronically-produced version, because I think Amon Tobin is more talented as a producer than as a composer per-se, and I think a lot of the non-"classical" sounds in At the End of the Day are really well selected, like the electric guitar. It adds to the "James Bond"-ness of it all. This is the original, AIUI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mjnHPFS-qw

The most striking thing about At the End of the Day is just... how much it actually feels like the end of the day. At least to me. I've been playing it for years now, off and on, when I need to wind down and my day needs to end, and it still does the trick, every time. (Though sometimes I might want^H need to listen to it two or three times....)

That song is a gem - deep in rotation back in the day. Never knew London Met did it. Grazie.

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