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Tech driven goodness from AD & The Persuader...
AD & The Persuader team up for a wicked release on Kwench Records featuring the additional talents of Bella Hardcover. This is an excellent EP consisting of tech driven house music with delicate elements dotted throughout.
Talking live performance, studio life and new technology with Swiss, Tunisian musician ISH..
Stylish, bright, and slightly eccentric ISH (real name Ismael Zouaoui) might remind you more of a character from a chemical synthesis documentary rather than about anyone you know.
What to catch at Pop-Kultur Berlin this year...
Musicians and acts set to perform include A Certain Ratio, Jaako Eino Kalevi, James K, Mary Ocher, The KVB, Zebra Katz, Priya Ragu and more.
Live At Robert Johnson celebrate 25 years with new compilation..
Longstanding record label and club Live At Robert Johnson celebrates 25 years with a special compilation.
The Maghreban announces new album and alias..
The new record features his vocals for the first time. ‘Maudlin Tales of Grief and Love’.
Ominous bass tones from Studio Natura...
Ominous bass music at its very best.
Tech fuelled heaters from German producer Borghese..
Tech fuelled goodness on Squid Recordings.
Uplifting house music from Detroit with Dj Holographic..
Rooted in the Detroit underground, Dj Holographic is a powerhouse.
The Social celebrates 25 years - we talk to the people who call it home...
As the London venue celebrates an extraordinary anniversary we speak with some of the people who have been there from the start.
We shine a light on the Rome based producer A-Tweed with a mix packed full of slow, lysergic rhythms and tribal breaks..
Italian DJ and producer Ant De Oto brings his palette of Bouncing Springs, Broken Drums and low slung funk to our ears...
Progressive Tech goodness from More Rice..
Proggy, Techy goodness from the More Rice crew.
Becker & Mukai discuss their new album..
"We record a lot of improvised sessions, we then improvise some more on top of that. Usually pretty quickly before thinking too much. And see what comes out."
Beautiful dub house textures for a Monday morning...
Dubbed out tones from the Australian producer.
Velocity Press and Daniel Avery team up on a new book featuring words and photographs from friends..
Techno is Boring is a new book curated by Daniel Avery and his photographer Keffer alongside contributions from John Loveless, Roman Flugel, Avalon Emerson and more.
THE WAREHOUSE PROJECT announces 2024 season with appearances from Orbital, ARMAND VAN HELDEN, Jeff Mills, Nia Archives, TSHA & more...
Details of the upcoming shows have been announced today with Haçienda, Worried About Henry and Up Ya Archives all set for takeovers.
None other than three hours of Surgeon and Speedy J in the mix...
Three hours of absolute power from two of Techno's most important.
Otherworldly sounds on Isla..
Otherworldly sounds and leftfield club experiments from Mexico based producer Primordial Om.
Ukrainian, Syrian & Palestinian artists collaborate on Berlin event..
AGGRESSIVE LANGUAGE will take place on the 2nd of August in Berlin and will create a space for open dialogue, reflection and creation of common messages of communities in risk in the city.
MIX: Floorless Festival resident Meku showcases a flavour of things to come for the small yet perfectly formed “quality but care-free party” in the Wiltshire countryside…
get your ears round it.
Floorless resident steps forward for a flavour of what to expect from the "place for like minded individuals to come together and throw a quality but care-free party."
ELWD releases on Noire & Blanche..
Dusty emotive Deep House for the summer.
Sports Banger to kurate this year's annual Day of Death ceremony from the K Foundation / K2 Plant Hire LTD and undertakers Callender, Phillips and Jimmy Cauty & Bill Drummond formerly of the The KLF...
It's been announced that Sports Banger will be kurating this year's annual Day of the Dead ceremony from the K Foundation / K2 Plant Hire LTD and undertakers Callender, Phillips and Jimmy Cauty & Bill Drummond
"It’s incredible to think that with such a small population of around 50,000 the Faroe Islands has such a progressive approach to music composition."
We sent the good ship Archie out to experience Grotto Music in the Underworld as the Faroe Islands hosted World New Music Days 101 Festival.
Read on for adventures below the surface...
It’s incredible to think that such a small population of around 50,000 has such a progressive approach to music composition.
Dynamic bass music on Left, Right & Centre...
Energetic, riveting bass music from Left, Right & Centre.
"I haven’t stopped smiling for four days now and I’m starting to think that there might be something seriously quite wrong. Life can’t be this good can it?"
A first timer's review of Love International Festival from Ally Tropical.
"This isn’t another brick in the summer festival calendar, it’s the whole damn palace."
I haven’t stopped smiling for four days now and I’m starting to think that there might be something seriously quite wrong. Life can’t be this good can it?
Norwegian Berlin-based electronic composer Jon Eiri Boska aka Hydropsyche guides us through the revelatory highs & lows of his debut album ‘Exhumed & Forgiven’ (Unguarded), revealing the influence of gaming, Burial & Tiësto and sharing tales of rebirth, rave nostalgia and elegies to affluence...
Norwegian composer Hydropsyche guides us through the highs & lows of his debut LP, revealing the influence of gaming, Burial, Tiesto & more
Rave cuts for car speakers and big dancefloors...
Breaker Breaker are back with rampant rave fun from Submerse.
Pop-Kultur Berlin to host A Certain Ratio, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, ZEBRA KATZ, James K & more in Berlin..
https://www.theransomnote.com/art-culture/events/pop-kultur-announces-expansive-2024-line-up/
In the land of Paradise Palms, so bright,
Lived Vyvyan a marvel by night,
With Experiments in Faith, quite the sight, His records spun in circles of light...
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In the land of Paradise Palms, so bright, Lived Vyvyan, a marvel by night.
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Video Premiere: C.A.R. – Anzu out on Ransom Note Records tomorrow. Watch the video in full here: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/video-premiere-c-a-r-anzu-ransom-note-records/
Hyped for C.A.R. to return to R$N Recs with new single, Anzu! Backed with a mighty remix from GLOK (aka Andy Bell) and accompanied by a limited run of 50 clear 7” vinyl, tote, poster & fanzine bundles! Click link in comments below 🔥🔥🔥
Voting closes soooooon! So please go vote for the amazing Richard Sen Dream The Dream compilation at the DJ Mag awards - we will be forever grateful! https://bestofbritish.djmag.com/
HOLY MOLY! We've been nominated for a DJ Mag award!! Specifically, the brilliant Richard Sen compilation we released earlier this year has! Please go vote for us at: https://bestofbritish.djmag.com/ xx
The mighty Bawrut returns to R$N Recs with his incredible new record, Raqs EP, full of weapons grade club behemoths that take aim firmly at the dance floor. Click link in comments below for details! 💪
TODAY! Bawrut returns to R$N Recs with his incredible new single Que Quiere Usted - a weapons grade club behemoth that is already a DJ favourite 🔥 Click link in comments for details 🙌
🔥 Baba Ali performing their brand new single 'Burn me Out', which is doing the rounds on 6Music at the moment! 🔥 They join us on 10th March at The Social for an intimate live set, before residents Matt Cowell and Rosie Ama keep the party going until the wee hours. Come join us! Get your tickets: https://ra.co/events/1662712/
We are back at The Social on October 7th with guests Kate Webb & Blankson providing an evening on unruly music in the centre of London! 🎉 Tickets on sale now: https://ra.co/events/1586351 Ransom Note & Friends with Blankson & Kate Webb
Earlier last year Vito and Druzzi aka members of the era-defining NY post-punkers The Rapture emerged under their Mother of Mars moniker with their psych debut LP 'I Hear' on Ransom Note Records - now, ‘We Hear’ is the work of collaborators Natasha Bai , Nandele and Marco Dray’s alias Cntrl Alt Del, Abby Echiverri, and Borusiade ; all artists who were able to take the best tracks down electronic avenues of psychedelic wonderment. Today we begin this journey with Natasha Bai taking 'Through The' out into the morning light for an ecstatic synth-lead rework. ‘We Hear’ will be out on 17th August on Ransom Note Records. Listen to the first single ‘Through The’ + Pre-order the EP here: https://ransom-note-records.lnk.to/WeHear
OUT NOW: R$N Recs pres Hologram Teen's latest full-length creation 'Day-Glo Chaos', an unabashedly nostalgic musical love letter to the 1980s. With cinematic sounds, 80s French pop, video game vibes, a little DnB and vocoder vocals, this album feels like living in a vintage arcade. Midnite Rogue, invokes Summer love and melancholia, hitting the right spot with its energetic keys of euphoric synths. Limited-edition cassette also available on our Bandcamp. Shipping soon... Don’t snooze on this, the tape is a beauty. Listen + buy the album / cassette here >>> https://ransom-note-records.lnk.to/Day-Glo_Chaos
🎶News from R$N recs.🎶 You might recognise this track from one of our latest premieres on Ransom Note. Little did you know we were preparing to give you more. Today we officially announce the return of a familiar friend on the label; Hologram Teen! Touching on themes of video game soundtracks, life in LA, vintage arcade vibrations, and coffee-fuelled musical experimentation, Hologram Teen presents her upcoming album ‘Day-Glo Chaos’, an unabashedly nostalgic love letter to the 1980s. The album releases on R$N recs. July 19th alongside a jazzy ltd edition cassette which you can pre-order on Bandcamp ✨ The first single, Valley Nights (Burnin’), is out today on all streaming and download platforms. 🔗 Listen to the first single + pre-order the album and the cassette https://ransom-note-records.lnk.to/Day-Glo_Chaos
Ransom Note Recs. stalwart Bawrut strikes again. The Extended version of his debut album is out now and features heavier techno forays and club-friendly interpretations of some of the album tracks from ‘In The Middle’. Club bangers to be played loud outdoors this Summer. There's still a few copies of the original limited vinyl album which includes the amazing limited edition fanzine on Bandcamp and other stores - all links down below. Download ‘In The Middle (Extended)’ + Buy 'In The Middle' [VINYL] >>> https://ransom-note-records.lnk.to/InTheMiddleExtended
R$N Recs pres. @graintable’s ‘The Rain In The Trees’, a contemplative album impregnated with the sonic essence of the Pacific Northwest rainforests. Focus track ‘Vantage’ evolves into a crescendo of meditative sounds and synths wrapped up in cloud-like fleece. The album manifests the “rebirth of the spirit” via Graintable’s signature live analogue synth improvisations. The record is out today. Go immerse yourself. 🔗 in bio to stream to the album 🔗 in bio for digital album and cassette
R$N Recs pres. Graintable's ‘The Rain In The Trees’, a contemplative album impregnated with the sonic essence of the Pacific Northwest rainforests. Focus track ‘Vantage’ evolves into a crescendo of meditative sounds and synths wrapped up in cloud-like fleece. The album manifests the “rebirth of the spirit” via Graintable’s signature live analogue synth improvisations. The record is out today. Go immerse yourself. Stream + Buy the digital Album / Cassette here > https://ransom-note-records.lnk.to/TheRainInTheTrees
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Taken from Graintable's upcoming album ‘The Rain In The Trees’, the second single, ‘Arrow Map’, feels like slow-motion footage of Planet Earth, made of sonic elements that explode like oxygen-filled bodies of matter. And it is out today. Listen to to ‘Arrow Map' & Pre-order the album here >>> https://ransom-note-records.lnk.to/TheRainInTheTrees
✨NEW MUSIC✨ To everyone who has patiently been waiting for the vinyl of ‘In The Middle’ - possibly the longest ever-pressing time for a record ever - we’re happy to let you know that it’s out in stores today! Anyone who bought on Bandcamp, it’ll be through your door anytime very, very soon. There’s a handful of the ltd edition releases with fanzines left if you’re quick too! And this April 22nd, Bawrut returns to R$N with ‘In The Middle (Extended), an extended digital album composed of new material offering alternative and club-friendly interpretations of a selection of album tracks. The first single Sabich is a ‘club-banger’ and is out today for you to stream. Check it! Listen to the first single + Buy ‘In The Middle’ VINYL >>> https://ransom-note-records.lnk.to/InTheMiddleExtended
Making a return to R$N this month, old friend Graintable has concocted a 10-track ambient album due out on April 8th. Title track, ‘The Rain In The Trees’, is a blissful contemplation of nature, recreating the introspection achieved when walking alone in the forest of the Pacific Northwest of the States - where the artist is based. 🔗 Listen to the first single ‘The Rain In The Trees’ and pre-order the album: https://ransom-note-records.lnk.to/TheRainInTheTrees Artwork by Hannah Theiss.
After one month of suspense, Ransom Note Records presents Natasha Bai's ‘Transsib EP’; an oneiric voyage through the world of the Russian DJ, musician, producer and vocalist. Following the popular response from the release of its single ‘Romantiko’ last month, Transsib EP is out now in its completion for you to enjoy. Many thanks to Les Yeux Orange, whypeopledance and 44,100Hz Social Club for the premieres, your support is much appreciated✨ 🔗 Listen & Buy ‘Transsib’ EP now https://ransom-note-records.lnk.to/Transsib-EP
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