Sounds from Foley Room were re-implemented in ISAM, but the final result was something wildly unlikely. Built from the ground up, each song had its own story, from deep electronic to magnetic dub and haunting industrial; Tobin’s dark progressive way of making music left no one unimpressed.

His most recent live show concept, however, is what got everyone really talking. ISAM is not a live show, it’s an experience. The entire performance is a 3D projection mapping project produced by V Squared Labs and Leviathan. It is essentially an arrangement of cubes and carefully engineered visual projections – the show takes place while the cubes themselves break down, turning into space, smoke and clouds while various hydraulic assembling and disassembling functions take place to the beats of the song. It is a 3D experience without the 3D glasses.

“What the fuuuuuck!”

‘Stunned’ best describes the crowd’s reaction within the first two songs, and there really is no other way to describe it other than perhaps mind-blowing. Heart-stopping bass accompanied by thumping visuals reaching out into the crowd. Those who were not tripping on their choice of drugs were tripping on the visual surrealism.

During the entire show, Tobin, dressed in an astronaut suit, was in one of the cubes, becoming a part of this insane visual and physical patchwork, only to step out before and after the anchor for a timid bow.

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