Omnium, Bo Diddley, Serge Gainsbourg, Super Numeri, Os Mutantes, John Lee Hooker, JJ Cale, Lee Perry, Led Zeppelin, Prince, Tom Tom Club
Sounds Like
"Genuinely weird stuff as Snap Ant makes Thomas Dolby look like Doris Day. Hesitation beats, voices off, sublime guitar lines casually tossed off and into a mix that manages to combine acres of space and what appears to be a note or two from every record ever released are some of the things that made me love it very much."
Unpeeled.co.uk
"..a journey through a land full of surprises, every turn throwing open either a spectacular vista or a new summit to test the resolve of the hardened traveller."
Gigwise.com
Super Numeri member Snap Ant busts the third single from his
soon-come album, ‘This Is Jut.’ Imagine, if you will, The Specials where Terry Hall has been replaced by Justin Hawkins from The Darkness and you’d be halfway to a sound which is both heart-stoppingly epic as well as loaded with street smarts. I believe in a thing called Ant. Join me.
iDJ
..wouldn't sound out of place in between Air and My Bloody Valentine..
Mixmag
By the sound of 'You Make Me Basic', (Snap Ant) clearly believes that any Prozac-addled aliens who land on earth will need something to frug to.
NME
Air and The Beach Boys double-team Tom Tom Club. Snap Ant comes out..
Flux
A nutty blend of influences with some very pleasing results. Lee Scratch
Perry's Enter The Dragon fused with Cornelius' Point fused with The Bees' Hello Sunshine fused with Pink Floyd's Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. All mashed together..
Touch
..it's like a tiny beat Yellow magic Orchestra; it's Beach Boys trip into to skiffle hop.
7/8
M8
'THIS IS JUT!' AVAILABLE NOW ON INVICTA HI-FI RECORDS!
Snap Ant
was born in a crash outside a small English parish and after a small insurance payout. Having previously recorded with a partner under the 'Omnium' moniker for Ntone records, Snap Ant decided to go solo and subsequently lose his marbles by creating bizarre instrumental electronic music for various releases and remixes.
Slightly nauseous and sick to the teeth of an Atari screen, he moved to Liverpool, met Pop Levi and together formed the free cosmic pond group 'Super Numeri' with Karl Webb. Signing to Ninja Tune in 2000, Super Numeri went on to record and release the critically acclaimed Great Aviaries album but not before Snap Ant had laid the foundations for his own debut record.
'This Is Jut' was recorded whilst living in Adlington House, a hub of crazed individuals, artists and a variety of exceedingly dubious characters. The album toys with various sounds and influences from experimental electronica to rock to bossanova whilst still retaining it's own distinctive jutting style. Signing to
Invicta Hi-Fi, Snap Ant's first single was the 'Execute The Ping EP'
in 2003 released on transparent yellow vinyl. The EP contained 'Saviour Piece' which went on to be included on the Ladytron compilation 'Softcore Jukebox' on Emperor Norton (prior to this Snap Ant had also remixed the seminal Ladytron single 'Playgirl'). Execute The Ping also included the country tinged 'Give Up The Juice' that was included on the Cloak01 compilation released in Japan on the Rallye label.
The second single 'You Make me Basic' was a '..car crash of Teutonic efficiency and softly spoken vocal harmonies' (DJ Magazine). The final single before the release of 'This Is Jut' is 'Grumpy Nymph', a song about diseased minds.
You make me Basic. Genius lad, as with all your stuff! Hope you're good la. Could do with seeing you soon, it's been ages. Bryantstock on 30 / 31 August. Later than normal. You betta come, you've a plus 1 ticket. xxx
reet james! hows it going. cant seem to send you a message which is strange so heres a comment instead! what you up to?! are you in london?! you should be!x
