Two Fingers - Stunt Rhythms Album Review
Maybe it's the number of shots of Bombay Sapphire he likes straight up, or it might even be a symbolic temporary wave towards his past career, but on the basis of Stunt Rhythms, Amon Tobin's alter ego Two Fingers is capable of being much more than a casual distraction.
Whilst the Brazilian's forays into electronic music were crowned recently with an encyclopaedic feeling, retrospective box set, his latest departure proves to be an unlikely renaissance in the fare more urban fields of dirty, ultra low-end bass and elastic, snake-like breaks. It's hard to convey the effect without the music to listen to, but probably the best allegorical effort we can make here at Contact Towers is by asking you to imagine a space hopper blown up by a pair of predatory sub woofers. There. Now you have it.
A project which Tobin first surfaced under the auspices of an eponymous track contributed to 2010's now almost legendary Ninja Tunes 20th Anniversary compilation, the premise remains as cunningly simple now as then. With a return to making club orientated music for people who like to spend their weekends having their internal organs re-arranged, the emphasis is on bending shades of dubstep, techno and even juke into "dance" tunes that are something still proudly a little off centre.
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