Amon Tobin — Chaos Theory

Creating an original soundtrack for a wildly popular video game is, in most cases, an exercise in futility. Forced to make his sounds subservient to the game, Brazil’s Amon Tobin comes up with a score that, while perfectly serviceable as an accompaniment to the action, isn’t much to listen to on its own. Tobin is known for his genre-mashing sensibility and a knack for finding good homes for live instrumentation, but here every track sounds muted and interchangeable. Though it does have a convincingly paranoid atmosphere, Chaos Theory is not nearly chaotic enough to transcend its video game inspiration.  

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