Music from this release  Stunt Rhythms, the latest full-length
from noted boundary-pushing experimental electronic musician
Amon Tobin (working here under the pseudonym Two Fingers), opens
with a throbbing sawtooth bassline, breakneck rhythmic
turnarounds, and a wobbling midrange synth lead; a baffling move
considering that those are the unmistakable trademarks of
Americanized dubstep. Tobin has made his name on nearly two
decades of highly technical sound manipulation, like the
intricately tweaked field recordings that have made up most of
his recent output, so a listener initially confronted with
"Stripe Rhythm" might suspect that the brainy, meticulous knob-
twiddler might be having a laugh at the expense of his own
reputation as a brainy, meticulous knob-twiddler. Further
exploration of the record confirms this suspicion.  Stunt
Rhythms is less a fully realized album than a collection of
experiments where Tobin messes around with pop music idioms that
his snobbier fans might find beneath him: arena EDM, gr