Album · 2007

Foley Room

by Amon Tobin

Foley Room is a 2007 electronic album by Amon Tobin. It runs 12 tracks across 51 minutes.

Electronic · Idm · Trip Hop

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Tracks: 51 min
Runtime: 144 bpm
Tempo: A# major
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Foley Room is the sixth studio album by the Brazilian artist Amon Tobin. It was recorded in the Foley effects room at Ubisoft Montreal and released on March 5, 2007, by Ninja Tune. In the past, Tobin had created music through the sampling of old vinyl records. However, Foley Room is a marked departure from his traditional technique. Inspired by the Foley rooms where sound effects are recorded for films, Tobin decided to record and work with original samples for the record. According to the Ninja Tune website, "Amon and a team of assistants headed out into the streets with high sensitivity microphones and recorded found sounds from tigers roaring to cats eating rats, neighbours singing in the bath to ants eating grass". Tobin also called upon The Kronos Quartet, Stefan Schneider and Sarah Pagé to record samples for the record.

“ There's nothing new about field recordings of course. It's obviously been the traditional source material in sampling since the early days, so I'm really going "back to school" on this one. On the other hand, I always saw a divide between music that was based purely on sound design and tunes that were written to physically move people. A challenge for me has been to try and make 'tunes' using aspects of sound design normally associated with highbrow academic studies in this area. I don't know how successful I've been but that was a goal anyway. ” — Amon Tobin, in his MySpace blog. The first single, "Bloodstone", was released on iTunes on January 9, 2007. The song was later released as a single proper on January 21, 2007, with "Esther's" and the B-side "Here Comes the Moon Man" also included on the disc. In promotion of the record, Ninja Tune released two YouTube "trailers". A DVD documentary detailing the album's recording process was released with the album.

In brief

When was Foley Room released?: Foley Room was released in 2007.
How many tracks are on Foley Room?: Foley Room has 12 tracks, with a runtime of 51 minutes.
What genre is Foley Room?: Foley Room is catalogued under Electronic, Idm, Trip Hop.
What BPM is Foley Room?: Foley Room runs at a median tempo of 144 BPM across its tracks, most often in A# major, measured from audio analysis.
What albums are similar to Foley Room?: Listeners of Foley Room also rate Selected Ambient Works 85–92 by Aphex Twin, Black Sands by Bonobo, Mezzanine by Massive Attack.

Foley Room at a glance

Label: Ninja Tune
Produced by: Amon Tobin

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