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The master is back. Amon Tobin continues his adventures with the breakbeat on this, his fourth album. Darker, more complex,even more rhythmically driving and intense than ever before, this huge record will cement Tobin’s reputation as one of the most innovative and important names in dance music today.

"Out From Out Where" differs from its predecessor in that "Supermodified" was made using only found sound (most of them generated by Amon himself) while here he steps back to some slightly more traditional sources (displaying in particular, a love of guitar licks). But when Tobin takes a sample source he is never happy until he has warped, filtered and messed with it until it sounds like something straight from his head. And not just anywhere in his head, but that dingy, cobwebbed corner where no one should go…

"Chronic Tronic" sounds like martial music for giants, listening to "Searchers" you’re gripped by a terrible sense of foreboding. "Back From Space" and the intro to "Hey Blondie" have a genuine alien sense of wonder about them. Meanwhile, the beats, as exemplified on "Triple Science," sound like an entire bloco band having a bad trip in the dirt under your fingernail. And as for "El Wraith". Well, let’s not even go there…

In fact, this has to be the most straight-up nasty album that Tobin has yet made – music with the power to genuinely disturb. Shut the door, close the windows. Be afraid…

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Part breakbeat sorcerer, part imaginary soundtrack composer and part jazz scientist, Amon Tobin has expanded on this latest LP, Out of Nowhere, his ability to create universes full of infinite sonic possibilities and thrill-seeking surprises. The key to listening, as with all of Tobin's work, is to try and expect the unexpected. One minute this album is lifting your soul with insouciant clouds of elf-dust; the next it's violently firing sharp darts of menacing brutalism at your head. Tobin's attention to detail shines through as he weaves finely clipped vocals and swirling soundtracks with beats so stuttering and sharp you could cut your ears on them. Overall this is yet another stunning combination of artistic reverie and breakbeat-fuelled revelry from one of the UK's most erudite post-drum 'n' bass producers. --Paul Sullivan