Amon is doing two shows back to back at Sydney’s Opera House in a few hours (Sat June 2nd) and both of them are being streamed here…
http://www.youtube.com/sohfestival
Sydney time the shows are 9pm & 10:45pm.
UK time the shows kick off 12 noon and 1:45.
If you’re free in a few hours pop some headphones on and sit back as these shows are incredible stuff.
And for the Melbourne boardies grab yourself a ticket for his 5th Of June show!!! It’s probably already sold out though?
this is freakin awesome. he’s coming back to NYC/NJ this year, I can’t miss it this time…
Both those shows were brilliant. My brother attended both. I was lucky enough to catch Isam in Brixton a few weeks back and man…it was the BOMB!!!
The stream idea was genius!!!
was it good? was it saved? i heard good and bad things.
was it good? was it saved? i heard good and bad things.
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Bad things??? Whoever had bad things to say is mad as a cut snake.
It was incredible…I caught the stream and re-lived my live experience from London a few weeks back. My brother flew down from Cairns for the Sydney Opera shows…he caught both of them back to back and had multiple orgasms. A few other pals also went along for one of the shows and were completely and utterly blown away.
I first saw Amon Tobin back in 2002 and that show was one of the heaviest and deadliest things I’d seen at that point. Even his mellow tracks from Bricolage sounded menacing?! Isam a few weeks back wiped the floor with every live experience I’ve had. Tobin with or without the Isam set up is simpy a million miles ahead of the competition…to understand this you simply have to witness him live. It’s kind of like Swans…yeah their albums can be interesting but they simply have to be seen live to realise how special they are.
Here is the only Sydney Opera House review I’ve found so far…
Amon Tobin
Sydney Opera House - Concert Hall
2 June, 2012
"ISAM Live: Beyond 3D was more than just the playing of Amon Tobin’s latest album with some obligatory trippy visuals added. It was a clearly well-planned, deeply though-out project that intended to make ISAM an experience (even on subsequent listens at home without the stage setup) rather than simply an album. And it definitely achieved that. Every single layer of sound, from the crushing kick drums to the eye-wobbling sub bass and crisp, clean, processed field recordings came to life through the Opera House’s crystal clear system, while the giant “Tetris-game-on-acid-multiple-cubes-cage-of-death” had mind-bending visuals projected onto every surface of it, with even the most minute of details syncing up with some aspect of the music.
Most of ISAM was played in the order it appears on the album, occasionally interspersed with older material, but regardless of its age, pretty much every track was heavily edited and reworked so as to give the performance a unique feeling. Journeyman opened the show beautifully, with a series of electrical sparks snaking up from the floor, simulating the show “powering up”, while Horsefish (Live Mix) rounded out the second encore in a flurry of plucked strings and cubes forming and collapsing until they crumbled and blew off stage, engulfed in blue flames. The whole set peaked and dipped at exactly the right moments, with lush, emotive pieces such as Lost And Found, which featured an uber-cool pulsing wave emanating across pools of lava each time there was a clap in the track, providing downtime between heavy monsters like Mass And Spring, complete with visuals of pounding hydraulic machinery every time the bass thundered through the speakers.
And if that wasn’t enough, two encores, one of which was entirely comprised of Tobin DJing hard drum’n’bass (ten points for Limewax’s One Of Them), meant nobody left feeling they didn’t get their money’s worth. The bar has been set for combined audio-visual shows."
Written by Andrew Wowk
Vivid interview with Amon Tobin about Isam…
http://www.youtube.com/user/sohfestival?feature=results_main
Damn. Sounds like I shoulda been at the Opera house,…
Doesn’t matter where he plays EVERYONE hs to be there.
Next level shit.
First PM to me gets a free MP3 download code for Amon Tobin’s Isam.
