This taster of new material contains a song from the forthcoming album, along with an instrumental mix and three other tracks. Assuming that these three others are "leftovers", things bode well for the new album. The remarkable thing about Amon Tobin is that his hyperactive, jazzy style of drum/drill n' bass & downtempo grooves hasn't really been pared down from the mania of early works, although it seems so when you first listen to the music from "Permutation" up to this release. Rather, his samples are more treated and smoothed out, and the rhythms are much more fluid, though just as complex as ever. The jazz and lounge elements are still present, but blurred in motion and integrated into a well-oiled groove apparatus. In addition, some of the angular rhythmic complexities that were previously achieved with hyperfast cut-up breakbeats are deliniated by the brilliant placement of spare percussive accents that punctuate the continued presence of twisted rhythms in the smooth tone-planes that slide about. All in all, this stuff doesn't sound much different than the tracks on the last full-length, but the new album will presumably contain the real cream.