BEARDED GIG THIS FRIDAY, CAFE OTO

BEARDED GIG THIS FRIDAY, CAFE OTO

Our third Fleeing from Pigeons show is this Friday at the exquisite Cafe Oto in Dalston, London. If you were somewhat deafened by our last show, the soothing tones here will come as something of a relief.

On the bill we have:

John Fairhurst: www.myspace.com/johnfairhurst
"A one man explosion of blues, Indian ragas and English baroque folk"
"New Age guitar Superstar."

Holton's Opulent Oog: www.myspace.com/holtonsopulentoog
"Holton’s Opulent Oog’s sound is all wistful sighs, whisky slugs and alt.country brilliance."
Minimalistic just above the extreme... absolutely brilliant."

Olivia Chaney: www.myspace.com/oliviachaney
Haunting, majestic and truly stunning, London's Olivia Chaney brings traditional folk back into a world of alt. folk. With her celestial voice filling any space she finds herself in, it will be like The Wicker Man is being soundtracked all over again, bring your torches!

Andy Price: www.myspace.com/digforfiremusic
Something of a staple on the alternative Bristol music circuit, Andy Price is better known for his role in alt. punk rockers Dig for Fire, twee folk band The AFB Band and as a part of Joshua Banks' underground series of obtuse pop nonsense. For this show he'll be acoustically showcasing tracks from his previous projects.

Tickets, priced a measly £5, can be bought from We Got Tickets

Faktion - The Most forward thinking night in Manchester

Check out out friends in Manchester. Providing quality new music to the masses. Big up!

Hidden Gems...Diarmo appears on French Downhill Video!

Throwing Snow Remix of Deep Sound Channel on the Daily Dose...

Deep Sound Channel - The Redneck Effect (Throwing Snow Remix) by AFutureWithout

Well today is an exciting day, we have a remix of a track by the new additions to the AFW roster.....Deep Sound Channel!

They are possibly the most together band I've heard and the production is out of this world.
The originate from Nottingham and have a stunningly weird yet perfectly coherent mix of Dub, Prog, Manc style vocals, and Math(esque) technicalities.
Check out the unreleased original (the break down at the very very end is just poetry) on their site oh and watch out also for their blinding live sets too!

The Throwing Snow remix takes the a foals(y) kind of route into a surprising mesh of interlocking rhythmic melodies and danceable breaks. It appears on the player due to a request by Hannah Cartwright, a sync agent and the brains behind some beautiful music under the guise of Augustus Ghost

I hope you enjoy...

Abandondrugs and his Tenori-on

Hidden Gems

Nice to see our music turning up in unexpected places....

Philadelphia 2008 from Josh on Vimeo.

and on Amazon Listmania too!

Kinglines Sound Track

The King Lines Soundtrack is now available as a downloadable purchase. Big Up Productions had the soundtrack professionally mastered by Jonathan Deans, who also appears as an artist on the OST. Our music supervisor, Daniel Cross, organized all the licensing and had a big hand in putting all this together. We've selected 15 of the hottest tracks from the film which you can purchase as a downloadable package for $12.95 from:bigupproductions.com

Track list:

1. "Glitter Clatter" - Throwing Snow
2. "Partners in Progress" - Ryan Szarko
3. "Dance Your Troubles Away" - Up, Bustle & Out
4. "Musica De Paz" - Papa Shanty
5. "Tout L'art De Rouler" - Broken Sound Collective
6. "Under the Counter" - Custom Blue
7. "Midnight Running" - Will It Snow
8. "The Itch" - Bussetti
9. "Claisson" - Jonathan Deans
10. "Death Ain't Nothing" - Broken Sound Collective
11. "DaBooDaBee" - Sander Pick
12. "Revisiting the Tomb in Miami" - iPascal
13. "Hours" - The Late Greats
14. "Stormbreaker" - Vasco & Paul
15. "All Out King featuring Romanowsky" - Up, Bustle & Out

Matthew Ellwood AFW Artist in Residence

Matthew Ellwood is our resident artist. He has done the artwork for the Scissors Compilation and the up and coming designs for the Paper and Stone Complilations. He also did the artwork for Throwing Snow's first EP (AFW001). He is undoubtedly a top chap!

The Tower of Newcastle' is the third in a series of paintings. Inspired by the Tower of Babel and the tale it has to tell. A Metropolis of colossus stature and reputation, a wonder of the world, and yet still it fell. Worn down by the sands of time to little more than a myth. The use of Babylon as a metaphor for all that is denied, repressed, and feared in Western culture. Mankind’s primal fears of slavery, sex, violence, and madness are expressed in its horror of the city as a place of sin and tyranny. Confronting the myth of the “metropolis of eternal apocalypse” exposes the psychology of urban culture and civilization's deep shadows.

However if the painting was to depict its true meaning then its appreciation by the public would surely be diminished. Its sale would be impossible and therefore its appearance remains pleasing. In this way the artist perpetuated the story of babylon. If this mean nothing to you and you fail to grasp the meaning yet still like the finish painting, then the artist has accomplished his objective.

BeardAid and Throwing Snow

Bearded Magazine presents: A Beardaid Selection 2008
A selection of tracks taken from the six records Beardaid has released online monthly since launching in July 2008. Including exclusive samplers from cult indie labels such as Jezus Factory and Peski as well as unreleased EPs from Ratface, Tandy Hard and Throwing Snow.

Beardaid members have been given a new EP every month, and currently have an exclusive EP from Ratface and Bearded’s very special Christmas album to download. For just £2 a month you can join Beardaid and receive free magazines, free records and gain free entry to selected Bearded shows. Join at www.beardaid.co.uk

To download this special free sampler of what Beardaid has offered supporters in 2008, click the link beneath the tracklisting.

1. Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences - Every Word I Say To You Today Will be a Lie
2. Cate le Bon - Hwylio Mewn Cyfog
3. Ratface - Ratface Got Soul
4. Throwing Snow - Meadows and Haytime
5. Tandy Hard - Smoke
6. Throwing Snow - Amadae Fran Cocoface
7. David Mysterious - Dr. Manhattan
8. Radio Luxembourg - Down by the Sand
9. Ratface - Goodbye Blue Monday / What the World Needs Now
10. i H8 Camera - Airball the Second (Live)

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Petter Worland EP

Petter Worlands desire for creating music came out of his school days in Norway where he discovered the sounds of Jaga Jazzist, Kare and The Caveman. After playing in instrumental prog/rock bands for a short period of time his tastes drifted towards more sample based music. With his influences now coming from artists such as Xploding Plastix, Amon Tobin, four tet, and the cinematic orchestra, he borrowed an old laptop loaded it up with old jazz samples started work on this wonderfully creative three track Ep.

EMU features on the amazing Dosage V DVD

EMU - Eye in the Sky

Jash - Eternal Garden

Andrin - Svif Flug EP

Andrín is a Holland based electronic and jazz outfit. The project was born when Þorgrímur Andri Einarsson met up with Philipp Göts and started building sounds and grooves. Later they joined up with Tristan Hupe (piano) and Alexander Bernath (drums). The mix between live instrumental ideas and produced electronics started to shape Andríns sound.
Other band members are Rodrigo Parejo (flute), Rita Zipora (vocal), and Daniel Lottersberger (bass).

EMU - White Kites & Cannonballs

Much like the bird species in their hunt to find food, EMU has travelled far and wide but not for food, for inspiration in his music. 
The paving blocks for Dan were first laid when he was at school. Gaining big inspiration from DJ Shadow’s album ‘The Private Press’, he spent most of his break times and after school in the studio honing his style. Some of his football playing mates called him a ‘gay-wad’ for this, but Dan knew that they were just jealous of his side-sweep mop hairstyle. After realising he was adding too much room reverb to all of his tracks, and combined with a great desire to explore the realms of music production he decided music college was the next step. 
College enlightened him to many more forms of music and now going under the artist name of ‘Minus Xerox’ he began to produce Drum and Bass and continued to do so for 2 years, even winning the Radio 1, 1xtra ‘Cutting Room’. 
As he became more and more frustrated with the restrictions in writing Drum and Bass Dan went back to his roots of downtempo. Inspired by sample based musicians such as Blackalicious, UNKLE, Bent and Royksopp he took his hand to the art of crate digging. In search for loops and drum breaks to incorporate into his music, the local charity shops soon became his new found stomping ground. Things started to look up for Dan, the side-sweep mop had gone and he finally felt comfortable and happy with the material he was writing. He also decided on the new artist name to put to his new found style...............’EMU’
With the aid of MySpace Dan met many artists and even the odd fan. Those included were Las Vegas based hip hop group N1nth Cloud, who he went onto produce 3 tracks for; ‘Ash Wednesday’, ‘Fall of The Neanderthal’ & a remix of their track ‘All The Days’. All 3 of these tracks featured on N1nth Cloud’s album ‘dos.’. Under his pseudonym ‘EMU’, he also mixed the album which was later released through N1nth Cloud’s own label ‘Ghost in the Machine’. Other motivators & collaborators included Jools Slater and his daughter who both appeared on his song ‘Katie’s Umbrella’, and Caitlyn Hessell with whom he produced the “Massive Attack’ esque” vocal track ‘Rusty Halo’. 
EMU’s first release came on aspiring electronic label ‘Benchbeat’. With his ‘b-side’ remix of Oceanique’s ‘Cathedrale Sainte Marie’ being compared to works of Bonobo Dan felt very flattered. Of course at a young age all is to prove in his debut EP titled ‘White Kites & Cannonballs’.

Moabi - Craving the Clouds LP

Moabi crosses the desert of his mind to understand the inextricable maze of his brain. he creates in emotion, if necessary creating the emotion himself to supply his musical conception.  ...quiet sometimes...

Voodooetnies - Unfinished Works EP

Throwing Snow on Sony Viral

Mr Rolly goes to London
by AFutureWithout

Rumorse - Waves for Rumours

Rumorse, since 2006, is Jorge Sasera’s project. Born in Valencia (Spain) and currently living in Melbourne (Australia), Jorge finds rumorse as a consequence of an individual need for sound expression.

More than a new approach to current electronic trends, rumorse is a joined venture of personal experiences and diverse sonic influences crafted for the perception of new emotions based on experimental and electronic sound.

Before rumorse, Jorge Sasera was an active component of the spanish experimental rock band La Muñeca de Sal (1994 - 2003), with contributions based on synthesizers manipulation, electronic sequencing and remixing.

The tracklist of “waves for rumours” brings to your ears a wide spread of melodic oriented down-tempo electronica, from minimal landscapes to retro backgrounds, much influenced by electronic, shoegaze and post-rock sound.

rumorse albums to the date are:
- “waves for rumours” released by A Future Without (2008),
- “pulse” released by the net-label Dog Eared Records (2008).

rumorse has also released the following remixes:
- Flunk - “Diet of water and love (rumorse remix)” released in “Democracy: Personal Stereo Versions” by Beatservice (2007),
- Tony Latenz - “Go beyond (rumorse remix)” released in “Schall Mauer 2.0” by Schall-Netlabel (2008), 
- Phasen - “915 am 1162008 (rumorse’s Retroadaptor remix)” released in “Phasen – Selected Remixes 2007-2008” by U-cover (2008),
and has remixed other artists like Moabi, Melorman and Magnitophono.

Rumorse has also been remixed by Moabi, Koen Park, Vibbtuan, Melorman, Boc Scadet, Sintetic-Collage, Lake of Sleep and others.

StUpor - Wrong Moonside EP

Moabi - Going West Video

Going west from moabi on Vimeo.

Hiatus - Tombs Video

Hiatus 'Nobody' dir. Paul Stevenson - visual-hybrid from visual-hybrid on Vimeo.

Niqo - Mojibake EP

Born in Greece, Niqo holds dual Greek and outer-space citizenship. Niqo studied Interactive Molecular Informatics, holds a Master’s degree in Cooking, and a PhD in Scenarios of Financial Disaster; he has also attended extensive seminars of Just Having a Good Time. He possesses a fierce sound-wave gun and mostly uses it to kill silence using emotional groundbreaking musical mood-swings, combining colourful jazzy sauce recipes accompanying a delightful meal of breaks and beats (messy job). He has been into music production several years now, influenced by the whole musical spectrum.

Will It Snow - Debut EP

Will Plowman and Ross Tones aka Throwing Snow bring you a blend of there unique styles, with special guest vocals from Greta Hennessy and Olly Webb.

Will It Snow's epic track midnight running features on Chris Sharma's 'KING LINES' which is an beautiful and spectacular insight in to one of the world's greatest climbers.

Pilote - Mudah Pecah EP

Born in the Congo,to Dutch parentage, Stuart Cullen was a musical prodigy. He ripped through the Waltz,Samba and Cha Cha Cha as if they were pages in a child's first spelling book, and in the late 70's was regarded by many as the natural successor to Stevie Wonder, although that later turned out to be Prince. His adult career started as second rhythm in legendary Louisville outfit The Long Pot Strollers, though the band's career was cut short by political in-fighting and a lack of focus or ambition.Stuart then moved to England to get involved in the burgeoning electronic dance music scene, ditched his trusty acoustic, and became a fully paid up member of the "Hanover Nu Breaks Massive" in Brighton. After a couple of low key releases in the late 90's, Stuart's 'Pilote' project was signed up by legendary South London label Certificate 18 for whom he went on to record three albums and some other stuff, garnering much critical acclaim and some meagre record sales, helped in no small measure by fellow "HNBM" member Bonobo's remix of his classic track "Tortoise". Bored by England's small mindedness and petty thievery, Stuart then moved out to Catalunya and quickly became a fully paid up member of the "Badalona Nu Breaks Massive" in Barcelona, though the lure of the scene was lessening and in 2004, Stuart even went so far as to describe all dance music producers as "idiots,except Juan Atkins", and promptly spent 18 months "dicking about" in the foothills of the Pyrenees. Once more back in England,2007 saw the release of the fourth Pilote album "Pop Will Make Us Free" and 2008 has borne witness to the birth of a new musical adventure, Cosmos and Sands, with former Long Pot Stroller JT "Books" Tweddell.

Optica Festival

Optica is an International Audio/Video Festival run by literally the nicest people on the planet.

They have such a love of community and creative endevours.

Last year Throwing Snow played in the Madrid event alongside Ultre (of Audiobulb fame) and he was welcomed and looked after by Lar Petterson and Jose Ramon Gonzalez Saiz and the rest of the Optica crew, friendships were born instantly.

I'd love to start an Optica in the UK as there is such a shared ethos. Any offers of help out there?

www.opticafestival.com 

Wiki Labels

The great thing about the internet is that you can make things happen. There seems to be a conflict fought between two waring factions, top down/force fed marketing and bottom up/word of mouth ways of finding out about new things.
This seems ridiculous to me, harnessing the collective tastes and opinions of people can massively influence the output of a label and therefore it's marketing strategy. It can act like a feedback loop, constantly refining itself until everybody is exposed to quality music which is mutually beneficial for both parties.

So in that spirit of collaboration and community, we would like to openly invite anybody interested in the future of music to help us out. It doesn't matter whether it's big or small or even if it's a throw away comment to a friend about a new band you heard on AFW.

So here's something for starters:
1. Is there a musician you know out there that deserves to be heard? Tell us about them
2. Do you know a venue that might want to put on one of our artists?
3. Let us know if there is an interesting new music site or application
4. Tell us what you'd like to hear
5. Help us out with new ideas for the industry
6. Tell your friends about us and check us out once in a while
7. Get collaborating!

It's a wiki label world...

A Future Without artists on Emmy winning Film

Diarmo - Circadian

Hsaw Reknow - One Thousand and Ten LP

This is the illusive 'hsaw reknow's debut album 'one thousand and ten'. He draws his influences from vintage analogue synthesis manipulating and mastering that classic mono synth sound. 

Previously releasing material under a different name on labels such as 'white label music' and 'moodgadget records' hsaw reknow takes a leap in a different direction for this 'one thousand and ten' release.

RadioClouds - The map of music evolution?

Matas Petrikas has written a visual radio application that shows a users social graph while listening to tracks from her network. Try it out and read up on how easy it is to write apps like RadioClouds. The source is available.http://radioclouds.com

Twittering

We've just got a brand spanking new Twitter account and we are encouraging all the artists to use it so everyone can follow the comings and goings in their musical spheres.

Only good can come out of open communication as it acts as a truer reflection of how things should change. And if by harnessing this we happen to allow, inadvertently, a little bit of good music in to peoples' lives, can that be a bad thing?

There is an RSS feed of the current twitter on the side bar. Let us know what you are up too!