Foley Room

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Foley Room
Studio album by Amon Tobin
Released March 5, 2007 (UK)
March 6, 2007 (U.S.)
Genre Breakbeat
Length 50:33
Label Ninja Tune
Producer Amon Tobin
Amon Tobin chronology

Chaos Theory - Splinter Cell 3 Soundtrack
(2005)
Foley Room
(2007)
ISAM
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Beatbots link
Crawdaddy 75% link
Drowned in Sound (8/10) link
NOW link
Pitchfork Media (8.1/10) link
PopMatters link
Three Imaginary Girls (8/10) link
Tiny Mix Tapes link

Foley Room is the sixth studio album by Brazilian artist Amon Tobin. It was recorded in the Foley effects room at Ubisoft Montreal [2] and released on March 5, 2007 by Ninja Tune.

In the past, Tobin had created music through the sampling of old vinyl records. However, Foley Room is a marked departure from his traditional technique. Inspired by the foley rooms where sound effects are recorded for films, Tobin decided to record and work with original samples for the record. According to the Ninja Tune website, "Amon and a team of assistants headed out into the streets with high sensitivity microphones and recorded found sounds from tigers roaring to cats eating rats, neighbours singing in the bath to ants eating grass".[3] Tobin also called upon The Kronos Quartet, Stefan Schneider, and Sarah Pagé to record samples for the record.[4]

There's nothing new about field recordings of course. It's obviously been the traditional source material in sampling since the early days, so I'm really going "back to school" on this one. On the other hand, I always saw a divide between music that was based purely on sound design and tunes that were written to physically move people. A challenge for me has been to try and make 'tunes' using aspects of sound design normally associated with highbrow academic studies in this area. I don't know how successful I've been but that was a goal anyway.

—Amon Tobin, in his MySpace blog.

The first single, "Bloodstone", was released on iTunes on January 9, 2007. The song was later released as a single proper on January 21, 2007, with "Esther's" and the B-side "Here Comes the Moon Man" also included on the disc.

In promotion of the record, Ninja Tune has released two YouTube "trailers".[5][6] A DVD documentary detailing the album's recording process was released with the album.

Track listing

All tracks written by Amon Tobin.

  1. "Bloodstone" – 4:13
  2. "Esther's" – 3:21
  3. "Keep Your Distance" – 4:48
  4. "The Killer's Vanilla" – 4:14
  5. "Kitchen Sink" – 4:49
  6. "Horsefish" – 5:07
  7. "Foley Room" – 3:37
  8. "Big Furry Head" – 3:22
  9. "Ever Falling" – 3:49
  10. "Always" – 3:39
  11. "Straight Psyche" – 6:49
  12. "At the End of the Day" – 3:18

References

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