Ratskin Records

08/01/2025

POV you run into these two in a misty, dark alley what you doing? (You better have a blade tbh)

Big announcement concerning x coming soon. Stay tuned. ALERT ALERT ALERT

Go follow and her mobile for updates on our upcoming announcement 😜

hoodie by and rocking the “THRIVE” tee available from

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08/01/2025

As a multi-dimensional, trans femme artist now based in Akron, Ohio, Mona Demone’s work has always been a nurturing cocoon of love and healing.'' -Bandcamp Daily on MONA DEMONE's "S3RP3NT" - Andi Harriman for Bandcamp Daily.

Anthemic songs designed to uplift and to celebrate.

06/01/2025

“How many geniuses are born anyway? Not so many”

Alice Coltrane in a 1987 interview with Jazz Jamboree talking about playing alongside her husband John.

Alice Coltrane and her son Ravi Coltrane being interviewed at international jazz music festival Jazz Jamboree in Warsaw, Poland in 1987. (c) TVP - Telewizja ...

02/01/2025

01/01/2025

There will never be words for what your friendship trust and love meant to me . My guiding light and mortal compass and mentor for so many things that cannot be put into words has passed onto another dimension- I love you so much man I am so sorry but this world did not deserve your light but you fought every second of every day to give as much of yourself as physically and mentally possible and yet we still could never touch your light we still could never match your passion . I am just grateful you shared so much of it with me and so many people I love.

Dax Wentworrh Pierson ♾️

25/12/2024

Hello friends on this holiday were asking you to support one of our artists and her family aka as they seek to move out of OHIO to be able to access safe trans healthcare for the family. We will be sending any sales or Mona’s album “S3RP3NT” to Mona and for this unexpected financial setback and life change. They are such a beautiful family who we love so much and want Mona and Gabriel to feel safe in their community so we can help them do that. You can head to Mona demone.bandcamp.com and order merch direct or order it through us and we will send all the $ to Mona in her artist payout ahead of time.

If you’re moved by Mona’s amazing art and music or just want to support a family in immediate relocation needs - please support! Also you can send Venmo directly to Mona I believe is that correct!?

23/12/2024

"Shapes" lyric video from Yama Uba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3uqQ-QVDVI

make sure to sub to their Youtube channel for upcoming lyric videos. from the album "Silhouettes" (2024)

Lyrics video for Yama Uba - ShapesFrom the album 'Silhouettes'Available for purchase from:https://yamauba.bandcamp.com/album/silhouettes-2© & ℗ 2024 Yama Uba...

07/10/2024

This Thursday at - the mighty .nest takes the stage opening the show with and KAMRA - PULL UP - not to be missed for all the deep zoners and dancing freakers!

06/10/2024

BONUS BEAST “Mental Decay” LP. Absolutely beautiful blown out zoned out industrial dance craze. In our bandcamp store and webpage for just $10 this week only. Expect a new Bonus Beast dropping Ratskin style for 2025 but don’t leave without tapping into that store 🎤🎤

Cover artwork by

27/09/2024

hey, so the first Ratskin Records IRL show in over four years is tonight. It. would mean alot if you came out. Michael T Ruiz and Stevie Richards are pulling up on the back end of their epic tour.

I don't know if it's worth going into a 2300 word rant about why I want you to come or just trust that you will, but I'm gonna trust that you will. Love yall

27/09/2024

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT- the return of Ratskin Explastical Series - first event since 2020. Hope@you can out 7:30 PM - UNIMATRIX ZERO the + tour crashes oakland tonight at UNIMATRIX ZERO in North Oakland (DM for address)
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gift bags for the first 25 paid attendees 🕸️🕸️🕸️

Local support from ….





Mike Meanstreetz is a Los Angeles based multimedia artist whose non-tradtional craft seeds new genres while reaping the fallen fruit of old. Auditory, visual, and word rarely appear in the singular, most often materializing in a tangle of synaesthesia. His rigorerd wabi-sabi invites the daydream and its ushering of both resonant and dissonant perspectives/perceptions in an inclusive synthesis betweenst. Most of his work focuses on the improvised, situational and shared, and is rooted in the belief that collaboration is a practical divination of that fount pushing all. Sonically his practice primarily explores and expands upon both more metrical genre adjacent sensibilities and more fluid extended techniques via drum kit/percussion, musique concrete/electronic manipulation, and harmonically loaded electro-acoustic nylon MIDI triggered guitar. In these various modes he has performed throughout the US, Mexico and Europe. 

Stevie Richards is a DIY electronics and woodwind player and performer currently based in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia. Stevie has performed in Europe, United States, Mexico and Japan and is an active participant in the avant-garde / improvisation environment of Naarm / Melbourne. Stevie has performed in many past and ongoing ensembles worldwide playing noise, free jazz, ambient and electroacoustic music both as a soloist and through deliberate international collaboration.

26/09/2024

This Friday at UNIMATRIX ZERO in Oakland. The first IRL RATSKIN show since COVID happens this Friday and we are honored to have a special A/V performance from GOLDEN CHAMPAGNE FLAVORED SWEATSHIRT.
Image courtesy of the artist.

From bandcamp:
GCFC synthesizes a masterful blend Of radically informed post industrial mayhem , heavy dance music, drone, and thrashing pummeling beats to create dense, psychedelic and complex compositions utilizing analog and digital synths, drum machines, and software as well as field recordings.

goldenchampagneflavoredsweatshirt.com

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27th - NORTH OAKLAND / DM FOR ADDRESS /
DOORS 7:30 MUSIC STARTS 8PM / $5-20 / MASKS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED/






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25/09/2024

This Friday!!!!!!! The return of live show! HOPE YOU WILL PULL UP TO UNIMATRIX ZERO. North oakland. DM for address. Wheelchair accessible, masks encouraged strongly!

Ratskin Records Explastical Series returns this Friday doors 7:30 Music 8PM sharp. $5-20 NOTAFLOF
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MIKE MEANSTREETZ & STEVIE RICHARDS


GOLDEN CHAMPAGNE FLAVORED SWEATSHIRT


ZACHARY JAMES WATKINS


LA MACACOA



MALOCCULSION opening 10 min set. 8PM SHARPPPP

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Zachary James Watkins studied composition with Janice Giteck, Jarrad Powell, Robin Holcomb and Jovino Santos Neto at Cornish College. In 2006, Zachary received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College where he studied with Chris Brown, Fred Frith, Alvin Curran and Pauline Oliveros. Zachary has received commissions from Cornish College of The Arts, The Microscores Project, the Beam Foundation, Somnubutone Radio Series free103point9.org, sfsound and the Seattle Chamber Players. His 2006 composition Suite for String Quartetwas awarded the Paul Merritt Henry Prize for Composition and has subsequently been performed at the Labs 25th Anniversary Celebration, the Labor Sonor Series at Kule in Berlin Germany and in Seattle Wa, as part of the 2nd Annual Town Hall New Music Marathon featuring violist Eyvind Kang.

21/09/2024

Go watch the new Yama Uba “Shapes” video nowwwwww!

12/09/2024

Ok folks big news - the first in person Ratskin show in over four years is happening THIS MONTH - September 27th at Unimatrix Zero in North Oakland, CA. $5-20 for artists. First 25 through the door get a special Ratskin gift basket for real.

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ZACHARY JAMES WATKINS


MEANSTREETZ + RICHARDS


GOLDEN CHAMPAGNE FLAVORED SWEATSHIRT


LA MACACOA


MALOCCULSION


Other artist spotlight posts to follow here’s the incredible

La Macacoa
La Macacoa is Puerto Rican Bay Area experimental sound artist Alexandra Buschman-Román (she/they). As a singer and improviser, they use multiple microphones, electronic hardware, and body gestures/movement to expand the voice. As a composer and electronic percussionist, they draw from Afro-Caribbean music and Taino (indigenous Caribbean) stories. Performances are mystical rituals.

Part of Alexandra’s roots are in the Puerto Rican classical and electronic music vanguard studying composition at the Music Conservatory with Manuel Ceide (Berio student), and Rafael Aponte Ledée (Ginastera student). They moved to Oakland in 2007 to study Composition and Improvisation with Fred Frith, Chris Brown, and Maggie Payne, and Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros at Mills College.

Alexandra is half of avant-tropical duo Las Sucias, with Danishta Rivero. They also perform and tour under monicker Demonsleeper, singing songs about nightmares and lucid dreams using dark ambient, drone noise, and heavy somnambulist pulses.

Photo: Adam Neal Gochnauer.

28/08/2024

BEAST NEAT NEWS!!!
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Sharmi Basu is on fire 🔥 at High Five, Edge’s upcoming contemporary art festival!

About the Artist:
Sharmi Basu .nest will be presenting Brute Force, a sonic exploration of the confusion of hope in a moment of chronic systemic gaslighting. From our governmental systems to our interpersonal networks, from the denial of the Palestinian genocide to the weaponization of local policies around our unhoused neighbors, our attempts at collective liberation are stymied by the untethering of our realities and our experiences. Trust has become an ever-scarce luxury misaligned with our actions and our values. We, alternatively, look to hope as a false refuge from our day-to-day struggle to survive.​​
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In the I Ching, and many other practices, fire shifts kinetic or electrical energy into physical energy, much like speakers on a sound system. Brute force is the response to the need for willpower, presence, and action to create change. Brute force is the decision to do, to push, to allow, to change.

Brute Force offers an opportunity to give ourselves to the power of our will, creativity, and action. We ask our audience to indulge in their own creative power to rediscover love, trust, and liberation.

See full program, artists, and curators on our website:
Edgeonthesquare.org/high-five

About the festival:
This year’s theme centers on the five elements: Earth土, Fire火, Metal金, Water水, and Air气. The one-day event will spotlight API artists and their multimedia artworks, installations, activations and performances throughout the neighborhood. A collective voice will amplify unity and sing solidarity all over the streets of our beloved Chinatown with art, music, food, performances and much more!

High Five Festival
Saturday, September 7, 2024 | 3:00-10:00 PM
Grant Avenue and throughout Chinatown
Always free and open to the public