Los Angeles's Tom Larsson, DJs and produces colorful, and unconventional house music in addition to helping run Surface Area Records out of Los Angeles. Tom's music embodies the surrealism of Hollywood, Haze of Southern California, and the warmth of Swedish house music. Growing up in Topanga Canyon, a small hippie town known for its surf and 70s classic rock history, Tom has always been surrounded by the bohemian parts of society. In his teenage years, he became obsessed with creating DJ mixes that quickly grew from an obsession into a career, earning his place to play at respected clubs like Riche in Stockholm and Shore Bar in Los Angeles. Growing up with Swedes as parents, Tom was exposed to Swedish classics and more specifically the nostalgic sounds coming from Sweden. Tom's interest in Swedish music grew and eventually landed his full attention in the current Swedish house scene. Today, Tom’s music is a combination of all his exposures, and many would pinpoint it as something that would be released by Studio Barnhus, a record Label in Stockholm Sweden. Tom now resides in Berlin, enrolled at the university, Catalyst, where he is studying Electronic music in the notorious halls of Funkhaus. Tom sounds represent the life of having a Swedish upbringing in Los Angeles, and now the experimental and boundary-pushing nature of Berlin.
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Born and raised in Los Angeles, currently based in Berlin/ Los Angeles

Music from the other side of the fence...

The new album Walken400 album - Kindness, Jazz and a Bit of Tidying Up is available now https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/album/kindness-jazz-and-a-bit-of-tidying-up

Walken400 is a side project of the independent British DIY recording artist Johnno Casson (aka Snippet) and it has been an absolute joy to engage with so many new friends here on Soundcloud, thank you for your support.

Kindness, Jazz and a bit of Tidying Up is an album of tall tales and itchy beats, all wrapped in a cheeky, freaky & quite unique-y ball of love.

Walken400 sprung from an active imagination, from listening to tons of glorious jazz, early Bow Wow Wow, Talking Heads, French Pop Music and awkward synthy sounds from around the world, from too much cheap red wine, from taking a vow to always choose kindness wherever possible and from watching Christopher Walken do his wonderfully unique thing in film.

Sounds like a big chunky man (as I am) falling over in a synth superstore, trying to be inconspicuous whilst the drummer keeps time and the singer writes about it.

Johnno was recently described by the wonderfully supportive Tom Robinson as a pioneer of Wonky Pop and was an interview guest on Tom's show on BBC 6 Music back in the heady days of March 2020 (BC).

Johnno has also been described as a pioneer of the Trip-Hop scene of the early 1990's with his band Deep Joy and their association with labels like Mo' Wax and in working with James Lavelle, and legends of their own scenes - (the late great) Andrew Weatherall and Adrian Sherwood.

More recently Johnno has been working with Luke Barwell aka Bitmap and Tim Jones from Brynovsky, whilst running a special social club called The Warm and Toasty Club. This is Johnno's 10th album.

Here's some more back story flavour from Johnno if you want to know more.

The idea of trying to write new songs whilst the world was gripped by Covid-19 was initially very far from my mind and for a good chunk of lockdown it stayed that way.
But music has always been there for me during times of good or times of bad in my life and it was inevitable that I would turn to making music music and writing songs as a way of making sense of things. So I sparked up the synth and tbh it was initially a barren time for me creatively, nothing was happening songwriting wise for weeks.

The blight of mental health issues were gripping me strong and shooting holes in my confidence and telling me that maybe I couldn't do it anymore, i was washed up and I couldn't produce anything of any worth.
So I just wanted to see if anything happened when I got on the computer every day, could I still write and create songs during these crazy times?

Would it still be a relaxing and joyous thing to do around all the worry and concern of just getting through this pandemic and the fight for social justice?Well a little while after that new songs starting to bubble to the surface and what you hear on this page are the results of my endeavours, hope you enjoy

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