Bricolage became the first release for Amon Tobin

Amon Tobin

Amon Adonai Santos de Araújo Tobin , known as Amon Tobin, is a Brazilian musician, composer and producer of electronic music. He is described as a virtuoso sound designer and is considered to be one of the most influential electronic music artists in the world...

 under his own name and on the label Ninja Tune

Ninja Tune

Ninja Tune is a London-based independent record label started by DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut and managed by Peter Quicke. The label has a strong leaning towards mostly Electronic Music...

 in 1997. The album was a departure from his previous effort, Adventures in Foam

Adventures in Foam

Adventures in Foam is the only album by Amon Tobin under the name Cujo. It was first released in September 1996 on the small south London label Ninebar records...

(as Cujo), incorporating a heavier blend of jazz

Jazz

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 melodies and intense jungle

Oldschool jungle

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 rhythms. The album became a success overseas and was followed by Permutation

Permutation (album)

Permutation is the third album by Amon Tobin and second under his own name. It was released in 1998, just over a year after Bricolage. The album was a success for Tobin and found him playing sold-out shows at the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Knitting Factory in New York and the Coachella Valley...

in 1998.

The track "Easy Muffin" was used in Toonami

Toonami

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 advertisements for Gundam SEED

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as well as an episode of IGPX

Immortal Grand Prix

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. It is also featured in the Elie Suleiman film Divine Intervention

Divine Intervention (film)

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. It is also featured in many episodes of Top Gear

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.

The album art for Bricolage depicts part of Alexander Liberman

Alexander Liberman

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's Olympic Iliad sculpture, located at the base of the Space Needle

Space Needle

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 in Seattle, Washington.

Track listing

1. "Stoney Street" – 5:53
2. "Easy Muffin" – 5:01
3. "Yasawas" – 5:24
4. "Creatures" – 5:21
5. "Chomp Samba" – 6:07
6. "New York Editor" – 4:56
7. "Defocus" – 5:10
8. "The Nasty" – 4:35
9. "Bitter & Twisted" – 5:05
10. "Wires & Snakes" – 5:27
11. "One Day In My Garden" – 5:43
12. "Dream Sequence" – 7:19
13. "One Small Step" – 6:11
14. "Mission" – 7:08

The LP version of Bricolage does not include "Chomp Samba". The order of tracks is different, also:

1. "Easy Muffin" – 5:01
2. "Yasawas" – 5:24
3. "Dream Sequence" – 7:19
4. "New York Editor" – 4:56
5. "Defocus" – 5:10
6. "The Nasty" – 4:35
7. "Bitter & Twisted" – 5:05
8. "Mission" – 7:08
9. "Wires & Snakes" – 5:27
10. "Creatures" – 5:21
11. "Stoney Street" – 5:53
12. "One Small Step" – 6:11
13. "One Day In My Garden" – 5:43

External links

• Listen to Bricolage on amontobin.com

• Bricolage at the Ninja Tune
  Ninja Tune
  Ninja Tune is a London-based independent record label started by DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut and managed by Peter Quicke. The label has a strong leaning towards mostly Electronic Music...
  
  discography (features audio clips).