Track Listing

1. Adventures in Foam Intro
2. Traffic
3. Light
4. Cat People
5. Paris Streatham
6. Vida
7. Fat Ass Joint
8. Brazilianaire
9. North Star
10. Break Charmer
11. Sequel
12. Reefs Edge (Interval)
13. Sighting
14. Cruzer

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #207293 in Music
• Released on: 1997-05-27
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

The beginning
My first exposure to drum n' bass came in 1995 and 96 by way of Goldie, 4hero, and LTJ Bukem. I was immediately into the sound, something about the complexity of the breaks, the dubby basslines, and the otherworldly atmosphere...it was to me...the revolution. The music was great, however, I was unaware of it's capabilities until a friend in college who I traded music with stumbled across the Cujo album and introduced it to me in 1997. My world had changed. I had never heard anything this intricate, I thought Miles and Hancock were the last to know how deep music could go. It gave me a new hope for my generation. A few months later I brought Bricolage and the love affair grew into an obsession. I remember riding the subway playing it so loud in my headphones that a guy stopped me and asked me what I was listening to, it sounded so interesting to him. After the release of Permutation, other people seemed to become aware of Amon Tobin and his greatness, even more so after Supermodified. All of a sudden I knew several people who were dedicated fans. I started to become jealous, halfway happy that Amon Tobin was gaining the respect he deserved, but jealous that his music was being molested by untrained ears. I wished for the days when I would play it and feel like I was one of the few in New York who had it, it was just me and Amon Tobin...and the most incredible music I'd ever heard.

a jungle playground
I just recently bought my copy of Adventures in Foam after finding out Cujo is actually Amon Tobin. I've been a longtime fan of the three albums AT put out under his own name and was reeling when I find out about this little beauty. I must say that I am glad to have cut my teeth on Amon's releases before listening to Cujo. I appreciate the stylistic growth from Bricolage to Supermodified. Adventures In Foam is Tobin's more playful electronic persona (evidenced by the silly album cover art.) From the free form opening to the slinky 'Cat People' through a dissonant closing following 'Cruzer,' this album is all about desterilizing D'n'B. I think this release has a slightly more forboding feel than Permutation and Supermodified, and perhaps even Bricolage. Favorite moment of the album is the first 20-odd seconds of 'Cruzer,' a stunning piano trill sample (that reminds me of strolling melancholy through NYC city streets at 4am) that falls into a bumping drum and bass break with odd samples dispersed throughout. I think Amon Tobin can do no wrong and as it turns out, his earliest effort is on both feet, skipping to a sound all his own.

Amon Tobin
From absolutlely mind searing jungle(Traffic), to down tempo hip hop groove (Cat People), to Miles Davis, ala Bitches Brew (Northstar), Amon Tobin creates one of the most eclectic jungle albums to date under the moniker of CUJO.

departing from his usual style of drum n bass and jungle, Amon Tobin flaps his avant-garde wings, still keeping some of his usual elements (the jazz, swing influence), this one shows he is just as experimental as squarepusher and photek, even delving into the just plain weird.

this one is not for the uninitiated or the narrow of musical scope.