Cujo

Documenting as Cujo for London’s Ninebar label, drum’n’bass deviant Amon Tobin fuses hip-hop and jazz compositional suggestions using the bustling rhythms of hip-hop and jungle as well as the bent sonic mayhem of ambient and dub. Unlike moving junglists such as for example Alex Reece and Polish Doctor, nevertheless, who pull from a softer, “cooler” make of jazz, Tobin goals to maintain heat of bop and free of charge, pairing spry, galloping basslines with complicated trapset orchestration and shrill, screaming horns. A indigenous of Brazil, Tobin transferred to the U.K. within the mid-’80s, when hip-hop was starting to consider hold as well as the rhythms of breakbeat electro-funk had been changing reggae and punk because the underground youngsters music of preference. Currently surviving in Brighton, Tobin didn’t start seriously producing music until university, but his interest for the sampler, along with the support and encouragement of believe it or not of breakbeat researchers than Ninebar and Ninja Melody immediately persuaded him to forgo a school career to spotlight music (he was a couple of years into a picture taking level when he place the whole task on keep). He’s since released a trio of EPs (some for Ninebar, along with the Creatures EP for Ninja Melody) so when many full-lengths (Travels in Foam as Cujo, plus Bricolage and Permutation as Amon Tobin). [Find Also: Amon Tobin]