Snap Ant presents The Silver Selva (MP3 podcast on www.parisdjs.com) Snap Ant, 2009-04-23 Snap Ant, bass player from Super Numeri, granted us with one of our most downloaded mixes two years ago, a psychedelic mashed-up mix called 'In Dark Threes'. We're proud to say he's now back on ParisDJs.com with a new full tripping megathing of 58 tracks in 38 minutes that goes from psychedelic rock to new-wave, from library music to blues, from jazz to soundtracks, pop and hip pop... Expect an amazing construct of sounds and colors and plan some heavy tripping for your speakers! [comment faire?/how to?]...

Snap Ant - In Dark Three's... (MP3 podcast on www.parisdjs.com) Snap Ant, 2007-03-11 Info : Ever heard of Snap Ant? He plays bass and kalimba with Ninja Tune's UK psychedelic masters Super Numeri, with Pop Levi and Karl Webb from Loka (check their discography). If you haven't heard them yet it's still high time! Snap Ant also released a very cool sample-free psychedelic pop album, "This Is Jut!" on Invicta Hi-Fi Records in October 2005 (read my review). He remixed Ladytron and Coldcut. He started a pop band called Maude, with Lynsey Packman and Linus Jackson (download their free...

Coldcut - Sound Mirrors Videos + Remixes
(DVD/CD) Ninja Tune, 2006-10-30

Tracklisting CD :
01. True Skool (Spank Rock BBC Soundsystem remix)
02. Everything is Under Control (Coldcut Theory 0.1)
03. Everything is Under Control (Qemists remix)
04. True Skool (Sway Remix)
05. Man In A Garage (Snap Ant version)
06. Everything Is Under Contol (DJ Kentaro remix)
07. True Skool (Switch remix)
08. People Hold On (Casuals remix)
09. Walk a Mile in My Shoes (Tiga remix)
10. Everything is Under Control (Solid Groove Dub Mix)
11. The State We're In (Coldcut Bassass mix)
12. Man In A Garage (Nick Franglen Lemon Jelly remix)
13. Man In A Garage (Daedelus Hydraulic remix)
14. Walk a Mile in My Shoes (Henrik Schwarz remix)

Note: Fans of Coldcut can also make their own versions of 'Whistle & A Prayer' and 'Walk A Mile' on YourSpins.com.
It's free, you don't have to download anything and its more fun than writing on the sole of your slipper with a biro.

Chris L.

Coldcut - Man In A Garage
(7"/12"/CDS) Ninja Tune ZEN12176, 2006-01-09

Tracklisting 7" :
A1. Man In A Garage (album version)
B1. Man In A Garage (Snap Ant Version)

Tracklisting 12" :
A1. Man In A Garage (Nick Franglen [Lemon Jelly] Remix)
B1. Man In A Garage (Bonobo Remix)
B2. Man In A Garage (Daedelus' Hydraulic Remix)

Tracklisting CDS :
01. Man In A Garage (Album Version)
02. Man In A Garage (Snap Ant Version)
03. Man In A Garage (Bonobo Remix)
04. Man In A Garage (Daedelus' Hydraulic Remix)
05. Man In A Garage (Nick Franglen [Lemon Jelly] Remix)

Super Numeri - The Welcome Table
(2xLP/CD) Ninja Tune ZEN97/ZENCD97, 2005-11-28

Info :
Super Numeri est un collectif de Liverpool dirigé par 3 membres fondateurs: Pop Levi, Snap Ant & Karl Webb (ce dernier formant chez Ninja Tune le duo Loka avec Mark Kyriacou). Pop Levi joue des claviers (piano électrique, farfisa), du vibraphone, de la sitar, de la clarinette et des percussions. Karl Webb (Loka) joue de la guitare, du sax soprano, de la viole et du clavier (Digitone). Snap Ant joue de la basse et de la kalimba. Ajoutez-y une farandole d'amis musiciens qui apportent guitare, batteries, percussions, harpe celtique, violons, viole et contrebasse et vous obtenez un groupe de 13 personnes complètement dingue. Dingue? Oui dingue, frappé, habité, taré, incroyable... en d'autres termes psychédélique! Leurs influences vont en effet de Can à Miles Davis, en passant par Pink Floyd, Tortoise, le Fleetwood Mac de Peter Green ou bien Soft Machine (première époque), et ça s'entend! Prenez le track d'ouverture, par exemple, presque 25 minutes de transe psyché-rock explosive: voilà de la jam instrumentale, du mélange de rock psyché, de free jazz, de post-rock, de folk de l'école de Canterbury (psyché-folk anglais 60's et 70's), comme on en fait plus en Europe depuis une trentaine d'années! Certains objecteront qu'aux États-Unis on peut trouver depuis quelques années un groupe exactement dans le même esprit musical: j'ai nommé Mushroom (à San Francisco), bien sûr, encore plus inconnus que Super Numeri en nos terres ignares. Le parallèle avec la formation américaine est pourtant tellement évident... Daevid Allen avec son University Of Errors ou John Medeski avec Medeski, Martin & Wood (sur scène!) poursuivent eux aussi le même genre de paysages ultra-trippés mais le lien est beaucoup moins immédiat. En tous cas, vous l'aurez compris: on peut considérer la musique de Super Numeri aujourd'hui comme unique. Essentielle, oui, aux amateurs de jazz et de rock très psyché en premier lieu. Les fans de prog-rock pourront passer leur chemin, il ne s'agit pas ici de faire preuve de dextérité extra-terrestre mais surtout d'ouvrir la porte à l'auditeur vers un ailleurs tout en fluides et en gaz, de lui faire vivre une expérience au-delà de son corps, de l'emmener loin... loin... très loin. Pour résumer l'histoire, disons simplement que la consommation de champis, de champipis, de champignons ne pourrait pas profiter d'une meilleure illustration sonore que celle proposée par cet album, ce CD rempli à ras-bord (78 minutes et quelques), cet Olympe de la musique psychédélique du vingt-et-unième siècle. - Djouls

Super Numeri is a collective from Liverpool directed by 3 founder members: Pop Levi, Snap Ant & Karl Webb (who forms at Tune Ninja the duet Loka with Mark Kyriacou). Pop Levi plays keyboards (electric piano, farfisa), vibraphone, sitar, clarinet and percussions. Karl Webb (Loka) plays guitar, soprano saxophone, viola and keys (Digitone). Snap Ant plays bass and kalimba. Add there a parade of musician friends who bring guitar, drums, percussions, celtic harp, violins, viola and cello and you get a band of 13 nutcases. Nutcases? Yes nutcases, people who'd been hit on the head, inhabited, crazy, incredible... in other words psychedelic! Their influences go indeed from Can to Miles Davis, while passing by Pink Floyd, Tortoise, Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac or Soft Machine (first period), and you can hear it! Take the opening track, for example, almost 25 minutes of psyched-up explosive trance-rock: that's what I call an instrumental jam, a mixture of psychedelic rock, free jazz, post-rock, Canterbury folk, like it hasn't been done in Europe for about thirty years! Some will object that in the United States for a few years already you could find a band in the exact same musical spirit: Mushroom (in San Francisco), of course, who are even more unknowns than Super Numeri on our uncivilized grounds. The parallel with the American formation is yet so obvious... Daevid Allen with its University Of Errors or John Medeski with Medeski, Martin & Wood (on stage!) are on the same scale of over-tripped-out landscapes but the link is much less immediate. Anyway, you'll have understood by yourselves: you can consider music of Super Numeri today as unique. Essential, yes, to jazz and very-psychedelic-rock lovers in the first place. Fans of prog-rock can look somewhere else, it's not a question of extra-terrestrial dexterity here, but especially to open the listener's doors of perception towards an elsewhere all in fluids and gas, to make him live an out-of-body experience, to take him far... far... very far away. In short, let's simply say that the consumption of mush, mushrr, mushrooms could not benefit from a better sound illustration than the one proposed by this album, this CD filled up to the limit (78 minutes and some), this Olympus of psychedelic music of the 20th century. - Djouls

Snap Ant - iThis Is Jut!
(CD) Invicta Hi-Fi LIQ030, 2005-10-10

Review :
Oh my what a strange album. It took me quite a while to get into, maybe because of the first misleading tracks...
Opener "!Jut!" is a melodic dirty analogue thingie, quite a cool introduction to a lo-fi home-produced electro-pop psychedelic album. Then come "Shock Control" and "Function Room", leaning towards current glam-electro-pop hype.
You pass that false-leading introduction, you'll get transported into a marvelous world of wonder, filled with Brazilified-Beatles psychedelia ("Larva Ball"), Beta Band-ish trippy pop ("Berewind"), Super Numeri-esque ethereality ("She Makes All Sense", "Better One In The Hand Than Two In The Bush"), Cornelius-like dreamy electronics ("Savour Piece", "You Make Me Basic"), out-there post-punk by Muppets ("Grumpy Nymph"), with layers and layers of LSD-friendly little sounds ("Inner Red Daze") and Ween-ified alien pop ("Truning Ugly").
Whoa that's one hell of a ride into the mind of Super Numeri's and Ladytron's bass player. Are you ready for this?
Djouls

Note : Snap Ant plays electric bass guitar & kalimba in Super Numeri.

Tracklisting :
01. iJut!
02. Shock Control
03. Function Room
04. Larva Stall
05. Berewind
06. She Makes All Sense
07. Saviour Piece
08. Better One In The Hand Than Two In The Bush
09. You Make Me Basic
10. Grumpy Nymph
11. Inner Red Daze
12. Turning Ugly

Links :
snapant.com
myspace.com/snapant
invictahifi.co.uk/snapant.htm

Snap Ant - Grumpy Nymph
(7") Invicta Hi-Fi LIQ028, 2005-09-26

Snap Ant plays electric bass guitar & kalimba in Super Numeri.

Tracklisting :
A1. Grumpy Nymph
B1. The Cavaliers
...

Super Numeri - The Enochian Way
(Mixed CD) Counter Records (Japan), 2005-09-15

Tracklisting :
01. Sonny - Sharrock Black Woman
02. Silver Apples - Lovefingers
03. Yoko Ono - Greenfield Morning I Pushed An Empty Baby Carriage All Over The City
04. Brigitte Bardot - Contact
05. Little Richard - God Is Real
06. Pop Levi - Skip Ghetto
07. Fairport Convention - Autopsy
08. Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies - Moonsong
09. The Velvet Underground - Lady Godiva's Operation
10. The Beach Boys - Cool Cool Water
11. Snap Ant - Gunsticker
12. The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You
13. Biltone - Humming Bird
14. Bruce Haak - Word Game
15. Loka - Meet Dad
16. The Shocking Blue - Love Buzz
17. Tonto's Expanding Head Band - Riversong
18. Esa Shields - Frolicsome On Last Road
19. Super Numeri - The Red Lady/Lunar Mansions
20. John Lee Hooker - Moanin' The Blues

[Pop Levi, Snap Ant & Loka are all members of the Super Numeri collective]

Pop Levi - Rude Kind Of Love
Snap Ant - Give Up The Juice
on Various - Rallye cloak 01
(CD) Rallye Records RYECD007, 2004-12-22

Pop Levi plays electric piano, farfisa, vibraphone, sitar, clarinet & percussion in Super Numeri.
Snap Ant plays electric bass guitar & kalimba in Super Numeri.

Tracklisting :
01. E*Rock - Living, Breathing, etc.
02. Normal Position - Ashtray
03. Wren - Drive Down Lines
04. Languis - Nothing I Will Do
05. Airiel - Stratosphere
06. Neeve - Stop Laughing
07. Signer - I Was Dressed As The Ant
08. Akt Apart - Lazy
09. Arne Zank - El Rey Gravitas
10. Pop Levi - Rude Kind Of Love
11. Snap Ant - Give Up The Juice
12. Au Revoir Simone - Through the Backyards
13. Textile Ranch - Vince Clarke Holidaye Parke
14. Pandatone - Wondering (feat. Midori Hamada)
15. Black Moth Super Rainbow - I Think It Is Beautiful That You Are 256 Colors Too
16. I Monster - Heaven
...

Snap Ant - You Make Me Basic
(7") Invicta Hi-Fi LIQ024, 2004-11-22

Snap Ant plays electric bass guitar & kalimba in Super Numeri.

Tracklisting :
A1. You Make Me Basic (2:41)
B1. Turning Ugly (3:01)
...