A.D. Mana - Body of Glass / Blue Romeo

A.D. Mana is a solo artist and producer from the UK, now based in Berlin. He renders skeletal guitar lines, enmeshed in electronics both dense and pristine. Post punk, shoegaze, synth pop, EBM… yes… but not entirely. Beneath the shifting tension of these disparate strains, there is an underlying iridescence to the sound.

From a punk and then songwriter background, and having grown frustrated with the tonal limitations of acoustic instruments, A.D. Mana had always been experimenting in electronic production. Through working as a graphic designer at a music software company, he gained access to an array of synths, drum machines and other equipment, as well as the knowledge of how to operate them. However, spending days designing software interfaces and long nights in the East London studio experimenting with gear, eventually began taking it’s toll. After declining health gave him the warning signs something needed to change, A.D. Mana relocated to Melbourne, Australia. He wrote and recorded with various artists there, but had still not defined something that felt like his own work.

Relocating again, this time to Berlin, he reconnected with friend and sound engineer, Christian Richardson. Finishing the first eponymous A.D. Mana EP, released on Sentimental Records in 2016. He followed this with the music video for the single ‘Take Hold’, directed by Sally Dige, which took us on a propulsive, paranoid, desaturated Super 8 journey through Berlin.

Digital Album

Posted on July 16th, 2018 under Releases, ,

Galatée - The Last

Here’s the last album from Galatée, a solo artist from Rostov On Don, Russia.

Digital Album

Posted on July 14th, 2018 under Releases, ,

This is the Bridge - More Than Machinery

One of the most important presences in British synth today, This Is The Bridge’s progressive, powerful synth is utterly distinctive and uncompromising in its vision. Every This Is The Bridge release on TONN has been a series of exquisite minimal synth.

Digital Album

Posted on July 12th, 2018 under Releases, ,

Ash Code - Perspektive

Ash Code is the moniker for the meeting of Alessandro’s sensivity and Claudia’s taste. Their music describe a collage of darkwave, noise and electronic music with a solid drum machine. Dark ballads and obsessive beats, deep and melancholic synths, noise and distortions, arpeggiators and delays. Lights and shades. Dances of Death. Visions and theatricality. Coded ash.

LP / Digital Album

Posted on July 10th, 2018 under Releases, ,

D'Arcangelo - Somewhere in Time

An even division of harsh, industrial electronix tracks, and warm, melodic electro/synthpop tracks.

CD / Digital Album

Posted on July 8th, 2018 under Releases, ,