DIctator - Hide And Seek (Liam Doc Edit)

A dreamy piano laden journey back to the rave music of the 90s.

Featured on BBC Radio Bristol, North Manchester FM, NCCR Radio and Amazing Radio UK.

Dreams

Float (Radio Edit)

Here Come The Freaks - Out - 1.10.21 from all good online retailers.

But available NOW for supporters as a Bandcamp exclusive,
You can purchase the single and see Jonny Drop's ace video for it too https://snippetcuts.bandcamp.com/track/here-come-the-freaks

Website - https://www.johnnocasson.co.uk/

Cover art and video by Jonny Drop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS3PE84WIxM
Jonny sites
https://www.instagram.com/jonnydrops/
https://www.facebook.com/jonnydrops

Hackney born and Colchester based he returns with a cheeky new single Here Come The Freaks. 

Written, recorded and self-produced by Johnno in the middle of recording a new Snippet album, this song just didn't seem comfortable being sat between two tracks on an album, so it busted out in its own right. 

Here Come The Freaks is in celebration of the picked upon, the bullied and the under-appreciated members of society.

Former caretaker, London Underground railman and relationship manager Johnno Casson aka Snippet started out writing songs at 15 in his bedroom on a Hackney council estate with a tennis racket for a guitar and a soap-on-a-rope microphone.

Johnno juggled being in a band with holding down a normal job (playing a packed Astoria at night and washing out s**t stained lifts in the morning).

Johnno played for Adrian Sherwood’s (On-U-Sound) 5-a-side football team (silky smooth striker), gloriously beating The Sun’s newspaper’s team at a championship for charity at Arsenal’s old Highbury stadium and for the last 12 years he has been perfecting his coleslaw making skills whilst getting M.E and becoming a well-respected figurehead on the British D.I.Y./Wonky Pop scene by making excellent songs that may come from the borders and margins, but kiss you in the sweet spot as good as more mainstream songs do. 

Oh and Johnno has recorded and toured extensively with all sorts of bands including as lead singer with Deep Joy who were born out of the early 90’s London acid house/club scene - via Shoom nightclub and being named as Danny
Rampling’s favourite band, working with David Harrow and Andrew Weatherall who produced and remixed their debut single on Brainiak Records - onto the early years of trip-hop on James Lavelle’s Mo ‘Wax label and being championed by Gilles Peterson on Kiss FM. 

They dented the charts in New York, Tokyo and London and also worked
with the aforementioned legendary On-U-Sound label founder and producer Adrian Sherwood on their Ray Hayden produced material.

For the last 12 years Johnno has been releasing independent music under his own name, as Snippet, Old Tramp and Walken400, creating a unique catalogue of recordings and performances and has been named by Tom Robinson as the most played BBC Introducing artist ever on his BBC 6 Music show. 

He also the founder/producer of the Warm and Toasty Club, an innovative  and award winning club that uses delightful live events to make older folk feel cherished and less lonely. Of late the club has kept people connected throughout lockdown with 70 online chat shows with fun features and live singing guests (called Online Memory Afternoons), a monthly Warm and Toasty Newsletter and a daily telephone befriending service to help keep loneliness and isolation at bay and keep people connected.

“I feel about Snippet much like John Peel felt about The Fall - Snippet: A National Indie treasure”
– Tom Robinson

“An East End Brian Wilson on a budget” Americana UK

“Pop genius” – Louder Than War

Web http://johnnocasson.co.uk/
Twitter @Snippetcuts
Instagram @snippetcuts

Here Come The Freaks

"Fenderr" by Kyoto Kyoto out on the 23rd of November via Blitzcat Records

music by Kyoto Kyoto
mixing by Gus White
mastering by Nick Powell
cover by Malgorzata Socha

Fenderr

A slightly different track compared to my first two releases.  Although this was originally started back in June 2021.  This is less hip hop but still has some of the flavours that I like to use in terms of a good beat and strings.  Had lots of trouble naming this track, I wanted to try and covey in one word the sense of dread, foreboding, apprehension that this track makes me feel like.

Fearful

'PEAR LAB' the brand new project where me & my mate Peter Baldwin seek out synth engineering anomalies + probe past lives on palm-fringed islands.
Live improvised session written on the fly utilising strictly hardware synths & samplers.

PearLab Live Session 290422

Secondary Objective

Stone Noise is the voice of the earth, ancient echoes carved in silence and weight.

Stone Noise

Athenea [Nocturnia Records]

System Sunrise

Daring, dynamic and devastating–West Lothian’s Dictator aren’t here to mess about, at least when it comes to creating non-stop indie-pop anthems anyway. Stepping out of their shell with a substantial stomp in their stride, the four-piece–consisting of vocalist Micheal Campbell, guitarist Zach Tarimo Goodhur, bassist Joe Murty, and drummer Allan Ramsay–refuse to be pigeonholed, as they emphatically strut through a sonic landscape of inventive indie licks, electrifying electronics, and perfectly prodigious pop grooves. 

Forming as a group of musicians from similar circuits simply seeking solace in jam sessions, what first blossomed in a small studio room represented recreational creative release, before blooming into a band of boundary-bulldozers producing colossal sing-alongs for the masses.With inspiration drawn from fellow genre-defiers Gorrilaz, Glass Animals and Alt-J among others,Dictator’s musical boundaries know no limits–instead conveying their collectively charismatic personalities via the medium of originality and experimentation and channelled through a series of sumptuous synths, bone-shaking basslines, brash beats and playful-cum-tender lyricism.Make no mistake, everything you hear is intentional, dictating notes to their needs purposefully to deliver euphoric, upbeat choruses with just a dollop of heartbreak in between.

Such is their bold and audacious style, they’ve caught the ear of many, growing a loyal, loving fanbase on their journey, and gaining celebrity endorsement too, with A-list actor Robert Carlyle, bestselling author Ian Rankin, and former Radio 1 DJ Phil Taggart all showing some love for the boys. Since their formation, the heights continue to get more and more dizzying for the quartet –from supporting Scottish icons, The Fratelli's, Glasvegas and The Reytons to bringing home accolades such as Best Rock/Alternative Band at the SAMA (Scottish Alternative Music Awards), The Weekender Magazine's Song of the Year in both 2020 and 2021 and reaching the final four of BBC Introducing's prestigious Scottish Act of the Year. Needless to say, Dictator are band with a big future and an open road paved in gold. 

Now, having signed to Edinburgh - based indie label Blackhall Records in 2021 and spent the best part of multiple lockdowns shut away at 7West Studios alongside producers Jamie Holmes (Gerry Cinnamon, The Lapelles and Declan Welsh & The Decadent West) and Johnny Madden(Gallus, Spyres, The Dunts) to record their latest set of bangers, the band gear up to release their dazzling debut EP Rubik’s Cube in September 2022, where they will truly stand tall to rule over the Scottish and UK music scene once and for all.


Contact: dictvtor@outlook.com

DIctator - Hide And Seek (Liam Doc Edit)

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