Foley Room is the sixth studio album

Studio album

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 by Brazil

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ian artist 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...

. It was released on March 5, 2007 by Ninja Tune

Ninja Tune

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In the past, Tobin had created music through the sampling

Sampling (music)

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 of old vinyl records. However, Foley Room is a marked departure from his traditional technique. Inspired by the foley rooms where sound effect

Sound effect

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s are recorded for film

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s, Tobin decided to record and work with original samples for the record. According to 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...

 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

Kronos Quartet

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, Stefan Schneider

Stefan Schneider

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, and Sarah Pagé to record samples for the record.
The first single

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, "Bloodstone", was released on iTunes

ITunes

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 on January 9, 2007. The song was later released as a single proper on January 21, 2007, with "Esther's" and the B-side

B-Sides

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 "Here Comes the Moon Man" also included on the disc.

In promotion of the record, 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...

 has released two YouTube

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 "trailers". A DVD

DVD

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 documentary

Documentary film

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 detailing the album's recording process was released with the album.

Track listing

All tracks written by 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...

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1. "Bloodstone" – 4:13
2. "Esther's" – 3:21
3. "Keep Your Distance" – 4:48
4. "The Killer's Vanilla" – 4:14
5. "Kitchen Sink" – 4:49
6. "Horsefish" – 5:07
7. "Foley Room" – 3:37
8. "Big Furry Head" – 3:22
9. "Ever Falling" – 3:49
10. "Always" – 3:39
11. "Straight Psyche" – 6:49
12. "At the End of the Day" – 3:18