It gives us great pleasure to present to you the latest release on Alt Recordings, featuring three brand new tracks by none other than Tom Ellis! Having given us a blinding remix for the Daniel Schneider EP last year, he now returns with the 'Done In EP', featuring his trademark funked out style and a further extension of the path Alt chooses to tread through electronic music.

In just four years of releasing material, Tom has forged a sound so distinctive as to give him worldwide recognition, for both his own productions and the releases put out on the Trimsound label that he runs with partner in crime Leif. With a style that comes on quirky at times, groovy at others, often deep but always funky, there's nothing else out there that sounds quite like the Trimsound family.

As well as his releases on Trimsound, Tom has notched up EPs for a staggering number of labels, from Morris Audio and Floppy Funk to Logistic and Frankie. As if that wasn’t enough he also has releases impending for Musique Risquee, Akufen's highly regarded label, Minibar, another Floppy Funk and Hartchef Discos, the label run by Audio Werner.

That's not even mentioning Ekkis, his downtempo side-project releasing on the Minordust netlabel, or Trimsound Live, his live project with Leif, featuring Tom on live bass. With his fingers in all manner of jazz-filled pies, it’s a treat to be able to share some of his tasty morsels with you.

We are very pleased to present the latest release on Alt, from Swiss producer Storlon. The 'Drill of Silver Fir' EP continues the minimal aesthetic carried by our first three collections, but pushes the experimental tendencies further towards the outer limits of 4/4 music.

Drawing on the free party and techno happenings in Geneva, Storlon's early encounters with the likes of Jeff Mills, Basic Channel, Cristian Vogel and the Warp stable all forged a passion for electronic music deep within, but it wasn't until escaping the frenetic pace of the city's party scene for the mountains of his youth that he moulded this passion into his own productions.

Listening to the tracks he has given us you can hear an organic heart throbbing at the core, woven into the layers of processed sounds, where the micro-house blueprint marries itself to the soul of jazz. Suffice it to say we are impressed and you will be too. Label boss Tone Def has turned out a killer remix, taking the framework of the original and honing it for dancefloor consumption.

Enjoy.

Here we have the first dedicated artist release on Alt Recordings, which comes shrouded in mystery directly out of our inbox. We received a sparse email from one Daniel Schneider offering 3 tracks, 2 vague photographs, a batch of samples and a message along the lines of 'Like your label, here are three tracks for you. Take them or leave them! Peace - Daniel Schneider.' We have since tried getting in touch with this rogue producer but to no avail, but we wouldn't let that stop us putting out these tracks.

The Not Another Schneider EP, as we have affectionately titled it, contains some of the finest micro-sampling insanity we've heard in a long time. These tracks have an organic heart thumping at the core, eschewing industry standard beats and formulaic approaches to deliver a totally new listening experience.

So impressed were we by the tracks that we persuaded our good friend Tom Ellis (Joe's brother and the man behind Trimsound) to take the samples we were sent and turn in a remix for us, and the results are blinding. Completed in a matter of hours, Mr Ellis has turned Miesekatze into a bleepy, bumping freak out of dancefloor-destroying proportions.

So tuck in and enjoy the new musical nuggets, and if anyone knows who Daniel Schneider is or how we can reach him, let us know!