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Cat No: SNFL001 
Artist: Throwing Snow 
Title: Clamor EP 
Label: Snowfall 
Format: 12" & Digital 
Release Date: 13th August 2012
Preorder: http://boomkat.com/vinyl/552633-throwing-snow-clamor-ep

A1 Clamor
A2 Brook
B1 Perca
B2 Brook (Gold Panda Remix)

Ross Tones aka Throwing Snow here launches his own new label with the Clamor EP. Across three tracks and one remix from Gold Panda, the release continues to explore the simultaneously frosty yet comforting sonic landscapes that have won him plenty of plaudits (including the likes of Giles Peterson and Thom Yorke) since first emerging in 2010.

As for the new label itself, Snowfall will be something solely curated by Ross; something free from the usual A&R constraints of working for other labels. It will be tied together only by his unique tastes, meaning anything goes from noise to techno to juke to bass to way beyond all of the above. Furthermore, the label will also offer more than just music, be it different release formats, clothes lines and more.

The inaugural EP, Clamor (a Latin word meaning 'loud outcry’ or ‘shout') sees Ross travel yet further outside his usual sphere without straying too far from his trademark textures, drawing on rock-like arrangements whilst at the same time fusing elements of electronica at all available opportunities.

The title track sounds set in some huge open church for the way it echoes and resonates with an untold spirituality. A clatter of tumbling drums bring darkness down below whilst glissando keys and brutish percussion bring a delightfully staccato rhythm up top. ‘Perca’ is alive with busy strings and mutant voices, underlapping claps and plenty of texture adding found sounds: challenging and complex music, it still somehow manages to strike a very human chord.

‘Brook’ meanwhile, glistens like water at the seaside; plucked strings and muffled voices lurk in the shadows and the whole thing sounds like Shlohmo and Fly Lo taking a beach holiday in the Caribbean. Closing out the EP Gold Panda returns a remix favour and strips back ‘Brook’ to a lurching, syncopated and lo-fi hip-house groove that rings out into the night.

Not only another great EP from Throwing Snow, but this release also likely marks the start of something great in Snowfall...

Clamor EP Preview (Snowfall)

The original version of Fuck Buttons - Olympians is taken from the album Tarot Sport, out now on ATP Recordings. Olympians is available as a ltd 12" single in 5 colours of vinyl: http://www.atpfestival.com/recordings/release/olympians/view.php

Fuck Buttons - Olympians (Radio Edit)

There will always be a bass drum making people dance, but it will rarely sound the same. Techno and House are in continuous flux. There will always be people celebrating. And each year new kids join the scene, hungry for pleasure, for beauty, for ecstasy – for life. Over the last few years, Ibiza has established itself as one of the centres of advanced electronic music. A key figure in Ibiza's electronic awakening is Sven Väth. He and the Mediterranean island have come a long way. As a youth, he experienced the flamboyant nightlife on the island, having been introduced to dimensions of pleasure that were not imaginable in his hometown of Frankfurt. In 1999, Väth decided to return some of the energy and inspiration he had received from the rocky island with the unique atmosphere. Focusing on quality music, Väth established a new type of party experience by summoning a tribe of passionate musicians and activists, and in 2012, Cocoon's Ibiza adventure was created for the 13th time. Being the master of ceremony, Väth invites a unique mix of long-time companions and upcoming talent. As a DJ, he is scanning through the unmanageable amount of new music with somnambulistic security, having excavated aural treasures and shaping the ideal environment to release their full potential. 

The 13th Season opens with Thomas Hoffding's auspicious voice, subtly arranged by Terranova and reworked by Adam Port. Young producer wAFF's grooves are more stable and demanding, the erotic female vocal luring us even deeper into the Cocoon, establishing the emotional density of classic New York House. Nobody manages to unleash the forces of the bass so wholeheartedly like Berlin's WK7, pushing the set into a more technoid direction. The turmoil that will take place on the dancefloor is anticipated by Margot's meandering acid track. The Tuff City Kids are pushing even further with striking, demanding chords. Octave One's unique, soulful grooves highlight the unrestrained force of the synthesizers. Ben Sims' slick groove is subduing the excitement, with enigmatic bleeps hovering over the dancefloor like an acoustic sculpture. Sam Paganini is moving even further in this direction, startling the dancers with sound from another galaxy. The obvious thing to do is now to push the crowd over the edge with a huge breakdown. But this is not what Väth does. By merging tracks from Sawlin, P.A.S. and Exercise One, he composes a powerful sequence: highly climactic and absolutely collected at the same time, it reaches beyond the vocabulary of peak time Techno. Dissolving into a tribal groove by Silent Servant and poetic sounds of Ray Kajioka, the first set is coming to its end. 

The second CD starts off at an entirely different note. A sweet House sound is established by Makam. It's innocent, yet full of suggestion. The crowd is captured by the allure and grace of Dixon's edit of Romanthony's classical anthem, “The Wanderer”, and with &ME's vexing alien sounds, the ideal counterpoint is created. Julien Bracht is challenging the dancers with broken beats and seducing them with a longing vocal at the same time. The simplicity of Alejandro Mosso's mesmerizing melody finally disarms the crowd. Lawrence's intangible electronic sounds are pouring down on the dancers like rain in the midst of summer. Romanian Cocoon Hero Rhadoo is applying the brakes to the dancefloor's movement and controversially creates an irresistible motion. Unlike very few artists, Frankfurt's Roman Flügel manages to challenge the language of dance music. He merges the history and the future of House music in the most humorous way possible. Moving away from that playful sound, British electronic music maverick Four Tet strikes a rather demanding note. The heavy, bassy chords of Four Tet's turn into Uner's multi-layered diaphanous House sound, bursting with sun and light. Gathaspar is unifying the diverging energies with a pervasive soundscape. And Soy Mustafa and John Tejada have the final word: the dancefloor is taken away by their otherworldly serenity. In the end, the music is only a part of the adventure. Sven Väth creates a unique relationship with his crowd, leading us through experience like no one else.


Four Tet – Ocoras

Kaleidoscope

Throwing Snow
‘Aspera’
December 3rd 2012
Snowfall

Having minted his Snowfall imprint with the acclaimed ‘Clamor’ EP earlier this year, Ross Tones aka Throwing Snow returns on December 3rd for his second EP of 2012, the eagerly awaited ‘Aspera’. As with its predecessor, the title comes laced with Latin rhetoric: “Aspera” translating as “to make rough”, providing an apt description for the aesthetic of the four original tracks on offer. 

From the title track Tones' creative direction is clearly displayed. Hinging round a warming bass, coarse stripped back drums accompany frosty arpeggios and washed out synths atop a bed of hidden strings, whilst on ‘Melum’ flickering percussion, ethereal guitars and throbbing melodic jabs combine with Throwing Snow’s trademark distortion, culminating in an unexpected segment of footwork punctuating the track’s expansive growth.

‘Lingerwell’ sees four knackered piano chords wrapped in warm crackles and hypnotic atmospherics blooming into life with a burst of pulsating stabs, before ‘Behest’ closes the EP with a climactic slugging match of drowned drums, throbbing bass and ecclesiastical synths, and a drop to make even the most atheistic of us think again.

Snowfall is now two releases strong, and having set out with an honest mission statement we are left highly anticipating what will surface next.

For all press enquiries please contact jack@toastpress.com (print) / noam@toastpress.com (online) / 020 7326 1200

Aspera

Available to purchase on 12" limited run vinyl  - https://losttriberecords.bandcamp.com/album/m-o-p-e-ep

Buy this on 12"

Second Thought

'Macro' is the second single from the Contact LP by RxGibbs, due out April 2 on Cascine.

Preorder Contact: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/contact/id600672723

Buy on iTunes

RxGibbs - Macro

Cartograph

An oldie but goodie by our very own young gun @niceguyxvinny

Pay attention to what's to come in 2013.




NiceguyxVinny - Walls

Written by Kieran Hebden, Ben Page and Tom Page
Recorded and mixed by Sam Shepherd on 15th July 2012

From TEXT023
Roseland/Metropolis 12"

RocketNumberNine and Four Tet - Metropolis

The Waiting Room in The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/collections/music/products/lusine-the-waiting-room

Lusine - Lucky (Jeremy Greenspan Remix)

available on VERSIONS EP here... https://antonionian.bandcamp.com/album/versions-ep

Atoms For Peace - Default (Antonionian Version)

Download the Rubies EP for free: http://www.ghostly.com/releases/rubies-ep

Lord RAJA - Dipteres Pt. 2

Remix of http://soundcloud.com/soosh 'Uncertain' by NYC producer http://soundcloud.com/evenings. Line of Best Fit has the leak.
http://thelineofbestfit.com/new-music/blog/listen-soosh-uncertain-evenings-remixbest-fit-premiere-123033

Cop the vinyl edition of 'Colour is Breathe Remixes' including versions of The Cyclist, Dam Mantle, DELS, Evenings, Slugabed, and others.
http://errorbroadcast.bigcartel.com/product/soosh-colour-is-breathe-remixes

Don't sleep on Evenings' LP 'Yore' out now on Friends of Friends
http://fofmusic.bandcamp.com/album/yore-lp

PRE-ORDER

Soosh - Uncertain (Evenings Remix)

Sisy Ey - Ain't Got Nobody (Ragnar Dagur bootleg)

Tracks 'Macro' and 'Contact' remixed by Glenn Jackson and Kid Smpl. Original versions of these songs appear on the Contact LP.

RxGibbs - Macro (Glenn Jackson Remix)

Pyramid (Atoms For Peace rmx 1)

Hand stamped vinyl and sleeve - The 'In Brackets' EP on Mister Saturday Night is now available to purchase from all good record shops

Mister Saturday Night store: http://bit.ly/10Z87JZ
Rubabdub : http://bit.ly/17y7srB
Phonica: http://bit.ly/YLhoJ0
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Picadilly: http://bit.ly/12d1ndT
Juno: http://bit.ly/12d0P7R
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Rush Hour: http://bit.ly/18MTWPQ
Clone: http://bit.ly/16Bhmbx

In Brackets

idm, psych, instrumental hip-hop, and garage-rock fan-boy. 

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