Bleep

The transformative nature of music is a through-line of human civilisation — this is much is a given. For UK producer Ross Tones aka Throwing Snow, it’s a force that has deeply impacted our relationship with technology. Dragons treads that line between the ritualistic and the innovative, signalling breaks from tradition and yet, conversely, cohesion with it. Derived from acoustic and electronic sources and accompanied by neural network-generated visuals, the LP’s weighty inspiration is belied by its remarkable simplicity. A kind of clattering club record at its core, synth patterns and techno-ish rhythms carve out a communal space with the ancients.