Where's Amon Tobin?

Apart from releasing all kinds of free shit on his website (a live recording of the foley room album and a brilliant hendrix/velvet underground mashup amongst other things) Amon Tobin has been working on a project with Doubleclick called 'Two Fingers'.

The first release, What you know (feat. Sway), is out this week on Big Dada and has been humourously described by the press release as sounding like 'Blade Runner re-enacted in Tottenham'. On the flipside is an Emalkay remix which surely indicates the direction this project is set for is somewhere near Grime and Dubstep on the compass. A full length album, largely featuring Sway on the vocals, follows this first 12" and is set for a March release. This is the tracklist:

1.Straw Men feat. Sway
2. What You Know feat. Sway
3. Better Get That feat. Ms Jade
4. Two Fingers feat. Sway
5. That Girl feat. Sway
6. Keman Rhythm
7. Jewels and Gems feat. Sway
8. Bad Girl feat. Ce'Cile
9. High Life feat. Sway
10. Doing my Job feat. Ms Jade
11. Not Perfect feat. Sway
12. Math Rhythm

Apparently not included on the album, and arguably the best of the lot, is a track they did with Durrty Goodz on the vocal which can be found here. Nice to hear a big dubstep influence on that one, not sure if it's getting it's own release as it was featured on the latest Ninja Cuts CD almost a year ago now.

mr chop

Last week I accidently found mr chop. His tunes remind me a bit of early Diplo productions that sourced from crazy psych, funk and prog rock material (chop uses session musicians rather than digging through thousands of old records, however). It's good shit, and although it seems he has been around for a good few years with very little output, in 2008 he stepped up with two pretty solid releases on Stones Throw subsidiary Now-Again Records and German label Jazz & Milk Recordings.

The Caveman!