To belatedly answer your question:
Amon Tobin’s tough to describe. At his most basic he’s a mix of Trip Hop and Big Beat, but his later albums rely more and more on “real world” foley samples that he messes with, rather than sampling other songs for music. His earlier works have a lot of swing era samples going on.
Listening to two of his tracks back to back from those two different eras almost makes him sound like a completely different artist. I just happen to love it all, so I’ve got almost his entire discography.
Traffic- one from his first album, “Adventures in Foam.” At this point he recorded under the psudonym “Cujo.”
Four Ton Mantis - A more recent song, but still a ways into his back catalog. You can sort of see the transition to more sample-heavy music from here. This one is from “Supermodified.”
El Cargo - If you’ve played “Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory” this should sound quite familiar. In fact, this track and just about every other part of Chaos Theory’s music is what turned me on to Tobin in the first place. This is farther torwards the sampling end of his music style.
Goto 10 - From his most recent album “Isam.” And if you aren’t sufficiently prepared for his huge departure in style from his earlier work, this can sound like incoherent noise. But holy shit is it creative and innovative in how it’s almost entirely sampling based.
The reason I love Tobin’s work so much is because each album further evolves and changes his general sound, to the point where it’s nigh-unrecognizable, and yet it still sounds like a Tobin record. Few people manage to pull that off.
