Ransom Note

Dec 07 2024 437 ep. 62 mins 5.8k

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Ransom Note is an online music, arts and culture magazine. We provide a home for readers and writers with boundless enthusiasm, esoteric knowledge, fierce opinions and impeccable taste. With our core team immersed in all aspects of dance music, we publish news, articles, and interviews covering the greatest in innovative, underground culture from across the globe. We offer regular, exclusive music and mixtapes from our favourite artists, and publish features shining a light on everything from the freshest new artists to the untold tales from rave history. Alongside this we offer musings on film, books, life, and art, generating some context and controversy as an antidote to the reheated PR that clogs up the internet. Our office is fuelled by Tunnock’s Bars, cat memes, hangovers and a ridiculous, never ending love for our culture. We're always interested in getting new writers on board – feel free to get in touch if you’ve got a story to tell. With love until the grave.

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Seeds Mix #1: A Walk In The Woods With Woo

Dec 07 2024 49 mins

Organic exploration with our first Music To Watch Seeds Grow By signings… Some musical journeys begin with a whisper, a gentle rustling of leaves, and a breath of sound. For brothers Clive and Mark, aka the legendary Woo, this journey has been unfolding since the 1970s through a four-decad long sonic odyssey of discovery… Their latest output on our very own Music To Watch See

PREMIERE: BùLù - Silicon-Shepherd (E-Talking Remix) [Nummer Music]

Dec 03 2024 6 mins

The clouds were scattered, a delicate array of colours illuminated in pinks and blues from the late evening haze. The sun was setting in the distance casting strange shapes and shadows on the land below. At times it was hard to assess where the sky began and the fields ended, for they met somewhere in the middle in a myriad of shades. Who knew what sort of god might live above the

Sarahtonin - The 'Shine A Light On' Ransom Note Mix

Nov 30 2024 88 mins

Do!! You!!! radio host and selector steps up for a round of Ransom The great Sarahtonin is a selector who’s not one to fit into boxes. Less about genre boundaries and more about pure, unadulterated feeling – crafting sets that are part emo-odyssey, part dance floor magic built of rare disco through to techno Sarah’s is one for the journey… Her Do!! You!!! radio show has a

Wes Baggeley - The 'Alternate Currents' Ransom Note Mix

Nov 24 2024 84 mins

For those who've been paying attention, Wes Baggaley isn't just another DJ—he's a selector who has meticulously explored the underground electronic landscape across Europe for many years. From the hallowed decks of Panoramabar to Frankfurt’s seminal Robert Johnson and in the sweaty depths of Glastonbury's NYC Downlow, Baggaley has cultivated a reputation as a vinyl obsessive wh

PREMIERE: Woo - Earth Angels [Music To Watch Seeds Grow By]

Nov 20 2024 6 mins

“Like nature, our approach has always been quite random,” Renowned duo Woo on Music To Watch Seeds Grow By There once was a Woo on a musical spree, Who sang to Earth Angels beneath a tall tree. With tunes of delight, they made seedlings grow, Their “Music To Watch Seeds Grow By” did glow! The Woo danced a jig with a cucumber cane, While the Earth Angels hummed a melodious

In Flagranti - The 'Altered Currents' Ransom Note Mix

Nov 19 2024 58 mins

Marking a quarter-century of, Swiss duo In Flagranti present a mix steeped in their patchwork aesthetic, stitching together threads of 70s disco, 80s post-punk, and 90s US house. Full interview here; https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/in-flagranti-the-altered-currents-ransom-note-mix/

PREMIERE: Capes & Adult Hits Feat. Dick Ensalada - Rush [Human Endeavour Records]

Nov 17 2024 6 mins

LA-based artists and Sensory Signal co-founder Capes and Adult Hits join forces for the tenth release on Ransom Note offshoot Human Endeavour Records. Mirroring the sonics that the pair champion at their parties, ‘Stellar Bodies’ explores visceral acid, electro and breakbeats that stimulate the mind, body and soul. The release launches with single ‘Rush’, a collaboration w

Mystery Tiime's 'New Wave' Ransom Note Mix

Nov 11 2024 44 mins

A New Wave mix from jungle pioneer, hip-hop cult figure and dancefloor alchemist, Ayman Rostom aka @maghreban Doctor Zygote and Strange U. under his new alias Mystery Tiime... With latest album, 'Maudlin Tales of Grief and Love, ' he examines lo-fi dance, post-punk, and new wave. With all that hyperbole in mind we asked him to put together a New Wave mix, recorded with the same

YANA - The Monday Is OK Mixtape

Nov 09 2024 73 mins

This week’s Monday Is OK mixtape is an immersive experience into the world of YANA, the alias of Polish composer and multi-instrumentalist Joanna Bieńkowska. YANA’s latest album, Daydreamer, released on Ólafur Arnalds’s OPIA label, continues her journey into emotional landscapes shaped by lush string arrangements and atmospheric electronic textures. A graduate of the Academ

PREMIERE: Auntie Flo - Aker The Lion God (Club Mix)

Oct 28 2024 5 mins

"Think Pachanga Boys’ Time…but with soul." The register chimed loudly. He glanced up at the queue of customers steadily gathering and took a deep breath. It was going to be a long hot day. The shop was small and crowded, outside in the street it was scorching, the block was on fire in the midst of the summer and everyone and everything was looking for relief. He would be thei