Finally — a brand-new release. Some SnowCone MathFest tracks were resurrected from earlier ideas and lovingly remastered for the festival vibe, but “Story Prologue” is no such revenant. This chill, groovin’ tune was written specifically for SCMF and the opening beat of the narrative.

I love its haunting, hypnotic repetition—it floats in that weird pocket between synth and electric wood (that woody, resonant, almost-handmade tone that still hums with electricity). It’s a patient track, a lesson in holding your nerve: with each Volta, it opens just a little more, revealing new glints without breaking the spell. The pulse never shouts; it invites, rewarding listeners who lean in.

And because SnowCone MathFest is a story as much as a sound, the music is doing lore-work, too. In the prologue, there’s a moment when the stand is empty—no cones moving, just dew, neon, and the hum of possibility. Then, out of nowhere, the math ghosts pour in from a late show at the QuickServe Pavilion, buzzing with color cravings and flavor theories. Suddenly you’re not just scooping ice and syrup; you’re scoring a scene where choices matter, timing matters, and the groove is a guide. Each ghost wants something wild—mint squares, moon rings, triangle crests—and the track keeps the window warm while you work.

“Story Prologue” isn’t background—it’s backstory. It sets the tempo for how this whole world moves: patient, curious, a little eerie, and totally alive. Selling snowcones isn’t just a taste-and-color thing anymore; now it’s got a story, a soundtrack, a motion, a prologue—and this track is the door swinging open. 🌌🍧

Story Prologue

From the Crystalline Stricture album, 'Syndrome'.

Vocals by Me and a Box & M. McIntyre.

Out now on TONN Recordings, available from TONN Bandcamp.

Syndrome

Gender

Gender - Crystalline Stricture (from the album 'Syndrome')

Fluid

Fluid - Crystalline Stricture (from the album 'Syndrome')

Zweitbesetzung - All Der Verkehr

desire is proud to announce the release of subtitled debut album by Italian synth-wave masters Newclear Waves. 

Hailing from Rome, exploring droned out electro pop territories with an interest for a refreshing hyperactive 80s New Wave, Newclear Waves’ soundscapes seem to surround a fruitful visual-graphical imaginary which deals with mass consumption, apocalyptic visions, weird machineries, post-modernism and the order of chaos. A promising new coming in the universe of home made electronic avant-gardism.

A3 Blood Moon

OR_58 Sample ≫ "Aleatory Chaos Second Chapter EP"
On preorder next march 15th / Shipping out april 15-20th
Distributed by Oráculo Records / Bordello A Parigi / Diana Charité
Find it at:
oraculorecords.bandcamp.com/
bordelloaparigi.com
redeyerecords.co.uk
juno.co.uk
deejay.de
decks.de
kernkrach.de
discopiu.com
pacifica beach USA
disko union japan
discos paradiso
ultrasound
mecanica records
... and some others lovely vinyl stores

Aleatory Chaos Second Chapter

OR_58 ≫ Etalon & Snem K - Lullabies

Smart Control

Buy on bandcamp

B1 - Hinter Den Bergen

unreleased

featuring the Soundmaster Stix St-305 drum machine
Roland Alpha Juno synthesizer
Moog The Source synthesizer
Roland Boutique JP-08

wrote this after watching the film Xtro 1982

Lifeform

Our gift from TONN to you…

'Always A Future', by Crystalline Stricture (free download)
Vocals by M. McIntyre
Image © Christopher Martin

With events postponed and cancelled and with so many of us self-isolating and trapped indoors, may we find inspiration and pleasure from what remains - music will not be cancelled. It’s needed now more than ever. TONN Recordings has always felt more like a family than a label. And if that’s true, then it’s an extended family that goes far beyond its own artists to all the music makers and fellow labels, artists, audio engineers, DJs, music reviewers and writers, radio show hosts and audiences. So to everyone we interact with, to everyone who is listening, today we send you a gift from Belfast - 10 minutes and 52 seconds of Crystalline Stricture. ‘Always A Future’ the THESOURCE20 mix, free to download now here on TONN Soundcloud, so turn up the volume in your living rooms. Stay safe and stay connected.

Always A Future

Always A Future THESOURCE20 Mix - Crystalline Stricture (free download)

https://titb.bandcamp.com/album/world-without-end

Less Of Me

From the Crystalline Stricture album, 'Petrol'.

Available on TONN Recordings Bandcamp.

Vocals M. McIntyre.

Image © Christopher Martin

Petrol

Daughters of Scorn

Daughters Of Scorn - Crystalline Stricture

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