Bonobo's Dinosaurs

Is it me or does this song sound exactly like an Amon Tobin track like Supermodified / Permutations era?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBD4z2BeYQg

Did he write this song or something? seriously?!?!

Like all the details of it - like the beats - the horns - the melodies - screams Amon to me.

I'm not too familiar with Bonobo but does he have other tracks like this?

they were released in the same year, both albums are staples of the trip hop genre. tobin's first album (as cujo) was much more of a ripoff of existing albums, and he's gradually ventured off into other music. bonobo has been doing his thing more consistently.

  On 8/5/2011 at 4:17 AM, chimera slot mom said:

tobin's first album (as cujo) was much more of a ripoff of existing albums

What sort of albums was this ripping off? I'm genuinely curious, I'd love to explore the artists that inspired this kind of music.

for good measure, one of my favorite tracks ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiH7Qktlf-g

  On 8/5/2011 at 4:26 AM, Marked x 0ne said:

  On 8/5/2011 at 4:17 AM, chimera slot mom said:

tobin's first album (as cujo) was much more of a ripoff of existing albums

What sort of albums was this ripping off? I'm genuinely curious, I'd love to explore the artists that inspired this kind of music.

 

for good measure, one of my favorite tracks ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiH7Qktlf-g

not ripping off per se but rather typical of the general turntablism/trip hop sound of the time, like dj krush, shadow, dj cam, dj food + ninjatune artists like visit venus and funki porcini, he just blended the sound with ambient drum and bass rolls which i'm sure were plentiful by then. i should give you some examples but i never kept good track of specifical uptempo triphop music. whatever traces of triphop there are left by supermodified are hardly original (but nevertheless quite excellent) and bonobo is still a bigshot in the genre (though i dislike his later vocal collaborations and such). it just isn't fair comparing the two.

Not exactly the same but as Chimera said, it's not surprising to find two mid 90s Ninja Tune artists with very similar sounds. Hell, I play some ninja cuts comps and find a lot of the artists interchangeable

  On 8/5/2011 at 2:13 AM, Homestar Runner said:

Is it me or does this song sound exactly like an Amon Tobin track like Supermodified / Permutations era?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBD4z2BeYQg

 

Did he write this song or something? seriously?!?!

Like all the details of it - like the beats - the horns - the melodies - screams Amon to me.

I'm not too familiar with Bonobo but does he have other tracks like this?

that album is full of similar stuff. and days to come is similarly tobinesque. jazz tinged instrumental hip-hop...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tXFA6jTulk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGD6I8usrT4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy8qWIvk-Ws&feature=related

For my fellow bonobo fans here, ninja tune posted the 2-hour unedited version of his Solid Steel mix (originally aired in 2005) on their mailing list a few weeks ago. great stuff!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7WUWTXXD

Literally this thread only made it dawn on me that Bonobo have other albums than Black Sands.

It actually never occurred to that they were around before. Fuck me I love Black Sands.

  On 8/6/2011 at 4:53 AM, chassis said:

Literally this thread only made it dawn on me that Bonobo have other albums than Black Sands.

 

It actually never occurred to that they were around before. Fuck me I love Black Sands.

While he plays with a band live, the entity 'Bonobo' is just one guy, Simon Green. And his earlier albums are AMAZIN, start off with Animal Magic and let it blow your mind:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0U_yqcNqR8

he totally ripped off the kingston trio as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VMSGrY-IlU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VMSGrY-IlU

  On 8/8/2011 at 8:29 PM, Marked x 0ne said:

  On 8/6/2011 at 4:53 AM, chassis said:

Literally this thread only made it dawn on me that Bonobo have other albums than Black Sands.

 

It actually never occurred to that they were around before. Fuck me I love Black Sands.

While he plays with a band live, the entity 'Bonobo' is just one guy, Simon Green. And his earlier albums are AMAZIN, start off with Animal Magic and let it blow your mind:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0U_yqcNqR8

Nice one.

I saw him play with Andreya Triana. That women is hot as fuck, on so many levels.

my take is Ninja Tune used to be a very homogenous sounding label where the artists where almost meant to echo the same style.

  On 8/8/2011 at 10:26 PM, Awepittance said:

my take is Ninja Tune used to be a very homogenous sounding label where the artists where almost meant to echo the same style.

Totally. Not sure what they're up to now though.