Editing Amon Tobin (section)

===Early career (1995–1997)===
Tobin was born in [[Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil. Tobin's father is Irish. At the age of 2, he and his family left Brazil to live in [[Morocco]], the [[Netherlands]], London, [[Portugal]] and [[Madeira]].<ref name=allbrazint /> Tobin settled in [[Brighton]], England as a teenager which remained his permanent residence until 2002.<ref name=official_site>{{cite web |url=http://www.ninjatune.net/ninja/artist.php?id=1#biography |title=Ninjatune Artists – Amon Tobin Biography |access-date=2008-09-27 |publisher=[[Ninja Tune]] |year=2008}}</ref> There he began producing electronic music in his bedroom with [[Sampler (musical instrument)|samplers]] and other audio equipment including an Amstrad Studio 100 4-track,<ref name="solipsisticnation">{{cite video |people=Solipsistic Nation (Interviewer), Amon Tobin (Subject) |title=solipsistic NATION No. 82: Amon Tobin |url=http://m.podshow.com/media/9683/episodes/104853/nation-104853-03-20-2008.mp3 |format=Mp3 |publisher=SolipsisticNation.com |access-date=2008-09-29 |date=March 21, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016142457/http://m.podshow.com/media/9683/episodes/104853/nation-104853-03-20-2008.mp3 |archive-date=October 16, 2015 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>{{rp|at=00:14:05}} although he was "not really involved in the [music] scene" at that time.<ref name="solipsisticnation"/>{{rp|at=00:07:20}} While taking an [[Photojournalism|editorial photography]] class at a university in Brighton, he responded to a magazine promotion for the London-based Ninebar record label asking artists to send in [[Demo (music)|demos]] of their songs. Ninebar signed Tobin to the label in 1996 after hearing his early work, and he traveled between his home in Brighton and the studios in London to produce his first official works.

Under his original [[moniker]] Cujo (after the [[Stephen King]] novel of the [[Cujo|same name]]), he released a series of original compositions on 12-inch [[Gramophone record|vinyl]].<ref name="solipsisticnation"/>{{rp|at=00:05:40}} [[AllMusic]] called them "head-turning" in a review.<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web |url={{AllMusic |class=album |id=r248658|pure_url=yes}} | title=Adventures in Foam Review | access-date=2008-09-27 | website=[[AllMusic]] | author=Cooper, Sean}}</ref> Many of those tracks were later included on his first full-length album ''[[Adventures in Foam]]'', originally released in 1996 by Ninebar to a limited release of 5,000 copies.<ref name="solipsisticnation"/>{{rp|at=00:07:50}}

The larger Ninja Tune record label had been growing in the United Kingdom at the time with help from artists [[DJ Food]], [[Funki Porcini]], [[The Herbaliser]], and [[Coldcut]].<ref name=forkoutwhere>{{cite web |url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22603-amon-tobin-out-from-out-where |title=Amon Tobin Out From Out Where |access-date=2008-10-02 |publisher=[[Pitchfork Media]] |date=October 24, 2002 |author=Dare, Christopher |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207061103/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22603-amon-tobin-out-from-out-where |archive-date=December 7, 2008}}</ref> DJ Food and Funki Porcini noticed Tobin's work on ''Adventures in Foam'' and prompted the label to approach him. Ninja Tune signed Tobin in late 1996, this time under his abbreviated name "Amon Tobin".<ref name=soundsound>{{cite web |url=http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Apr03/articles/amontobin.asp |title=Amon Tobin |access-date=2008-10-12 |author=Young, Simon |publisher=SoundOnSound.com |date=April 1, 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121084210/http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Apr03/articles/amontobin.asp |archive-date=November 21, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> The official Ninja Tune website has said that ''Adventures in Foam'' had been re-released without permission by the US-based Shadow Records that same year and that this unauthorized version, labeled the "US release", included only 7 of the original songs, different cover art, and that some tracks were titled incorrectly. In 1997 Ninja Tune acquired the proper licenses from Ninebar and re-released the album themselves. This version included the original album in its entirety, and a second disc containing previously unreleased material. {{as of|2008}}, copies of Shadow Record's "US version" are sold by online retailer [[Amazon.com]]. Over the course of its production, ''Adventures in Foam'' has been reviewed favorably. Ryan Schreiber of [[Pitchfork Media]] said that its [[break-beat]] style "got totally out of hand", but that it "never fails to let the listener know who's in charge."<ref name=pitchfork_foam /> The album was released for a fourth time in 2002, again by Ninja Tune.