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Amon Tobin - Isam Licensing Edition - Hard to find on Ninja Tune!!

Friday 17 June 2011, 17:14

Amon Tobin Isam Licensing Edition
Amon Tobin - Isam Licensing Edition
(promo CD only) Ninja Tune ZENCD168, 2011-06

Ninja Tune collectors and Amon Tobin fans will have to hunt this rare, promo-only, 2CD set. It's made for licensing purposes, so don't even think about getting one for reviewing... Thankfully the friendly people at Ping Pong (Ninja Tune's promo agency in France) have let me give it a listen and scanned the artwork just for Paris DJs readers. It's a double digipack CD, collecting on the second disc the b-sides from the Surge single, a few edited or instrumental versions of tracks from the Isam album, the two bonus tracks to be found on the digital version or on the limited CD package... and two exclusive, unreleased tracks, the grimey and oniric Carry On Marmaduke and the nearly ambient, very trippy Ode To Morricone. Good luck hunting this one!!

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Amon Tobin - Surge - EP out on Ninja Tune

Saturday 11 June 2011, 19:16

Amon Tobin Surge
Amon Tobin - Surge EP
(12"/Digital Single) Ninja Tune ZEN12292/ZENCDS292P, 2011-07-11

Although it feels almost sacregilious to take a track out of ISAM and release it as a single, we're going to have a go. Surge is one of the short, sweet, standout moments of a remarkable record. Beautiful and mournful, it sounds a little like two lovers being strafed with dark matter. First up on the remix tip is none other than… Amon Tobin himself, who in his more Two Fingers guise, ups the beats and the sub-bass for a satisfyingly heavy experience. Labelmate Emika, a long-time admirer of Amon's work, reinvents the tune as a fragile, almost churchlike experience, her Czech singing delicate but strangely powerful. 16bit take up the last place on the EP turning in a raw, bass-heavy dubstepper which takes us a long way from where we started but in a very satisying way!

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Ninja Tune XX - The Twelve Inches

Saturday 27 November 2010, 13:40 1

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Ninja Tune XX - 20 Years Of Beats 'n' Pieces - The twelve inches

Those who bought the incredible Ninja Tune XX boxset and registered their promo code on the Ninja Tune XX site were sent two exclusive Ninja Tune 12 inches. Four more 12 inches have just been released. Here's the lowdown on which tracks are exclusive to those vinyls and which are taken from the boxset CDs...

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Two Fingers - Instrumentals

Monday 07 September 2009, 01:18 1

Two Fingers Instrumental Album
Two Fingers - Instrumentals
(CD/Download) Big Dada BDCD155/BDDNL155, 2009-09-07

Bearing in mind the producers involved, it was inevitable that Two Fingers would produce an instrumental version of their critically-acclaimed eponymous debut. What was perhaps less inevitable is that a twelve track album would become a twenty-two track instrumental album. Amon Tobin and Joe "Doubleclick" Chapman have provided instrumentals to the ten vocal tracks on the original record and then doubled up with another ten new instrumentals, all as glacial, exhilarating and hard as the beats on the original release. Two Fingers is a project unlike anything that any of the three main players has ever made before, a unique, utterly uncompromising, brutal and beautiful record that could only have grown out of the UK and the internationalism of those involved. If it's not hip hop as we know it, then nor is it drum & bass or grime. Like all the best music it transcends genre to stand on its own - icy, transcendent, brilliant.
ALAS TWO FINGERS INSTRUMENTALS WILL NOT HAPPEN IN FRANCE. NO PROMO COPIES. NOTHING. DEAD BEFORE RELEASE.

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Two Fingers - Bad Girl (feat. Ce'Cile & Sway)

Monday 31 August 2009, 10:19

Two Fingers Bad Girl
Two Fingers - Bad Girl (feat. Ce'Cile & Sway)
(Download) Big Dada BDDNL154, 2009-08-31

Two Fingers return with Bad Girl, one of the standout tracks from their eponymous album. The original version of the track was a showcase for Jamaican star Ce'cile's unique dancehall flow. Here, Sway has been invited to add his own take on the theme of bad girls, which he does with his usual wit and poise. Remixes come courtesy of Ninja's two resident stars of dark, King Cannibal and The Bug. King Cannibal turns the original into proto-jungle, cut through with vicious bass-stabs. The Bug, on the other hand, combines dubbed out ghost-dancehall with rudimentary rave bass.

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