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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.

  1. 2 days ago

    CHLOÉ: The Ransom Note Mix

    CHLOÉ is a serious DJ. She always has been and we say that with the utmost respect.  For many years CHLOÉ has been a key operator amidst electronic music, steadily releasing her own material, running record labels and pushing the underground forward. Her own imprint Lumière Noire remains pivotal in the evolution of a darker, more rugged side of things drawing upon influences from Post Punk, House, Electroclash and beyond. Her own sets are packed of similar sounds, often weaving and wandering between the spaces which sit on the periphery of the genres, pairing the similarities from each.   Over the years CHLOÉ has performed at just about every trendy 'nightclub' out there. But that's never really been the point. For her it always has been and always will be about the music, the scenes which surround it are simply the accessory to the crime.

    CHLOÉ: The Ransom Note Mix

  2. 2 days ago

    Seeds Mix #12: KiF Production's Dawn to Dusk Mixtape

    “Plants don’t suddenly transform from one state to another; growth is gradual, and a lot of it happens unseen.” Having spent an album taking the passion flower through birth, bloom, and death, KiF Productions turns a plant’s year into a single day. The Seeds Mix is two hours made for doing nothing in particular – garden, common land, park bench, wherever there’s room to potter, stare, and let time pass without checking it. No lifecycle to hang it on this time, just a day. Dawn eases into focus for the first hour, dusk pulls everything inward and quiet for the second. IMG_4869 Sound-wise, it’s the same juxtaposition that ran through Passiflora – birdsong, wind, bells and found nature sitting right up against synthetic tone, warmer where it can be. KiF have form for throwing in fake, synthesised birdsong purely to mess with the spotters, so don’t take anything chirping out of the speakers entirely at face value. As the mix moves from day to night, the sound follows: brighter and busier in the early stretch, sliding towards darker, slower and more dreamlike as the light drops, the shift gradual rather than a hard cut. IMG_2130 It’s not made in a vacuum either. Simon Armstrong from Errant slipped them a couple of tracks that ended up soundtracking dusk. Rob at Be With handed over a Hatchback cut before it even hit his own label. Gardens In The Sky drifted in via a mix from our very own Tia Cousins for Test Pressing. It is less a finished object, more the latest exchange in an ongoing conversation between friends who keep sending each other music. IMG_9267 Our old friend Keith McIvor haunts this one too, gently. His lockdown-era Tranquillity Mixes are where KiF first heard Inoyama Land, who show up in the dawn section, and a Saturday morning set at Watching Trees’ Bush of Ghosts this year fed straight into the whole thing taking shape. Asked what plant they’d be, Will and Tom eventually landed on a coppiced hazel in a holloway – practical, long-lived, on good terms with humans, and sat under centuries of falling leaves (“plenty of samples,” as they point out) – two hours of KiF thinking like that particular tree. Sit down, shut up, watch the light move. Full interview here: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/seeds-mix-12-kif-productions-dawn-to-dusk-mixtape/ Music To Watch Seeds Grow By 010: KiF Productions (Passiflora) here: https://kifproductions.bandcamp.com/album/010-kif-productions-passiflora Tracklist: (Dawn) The Habbiyya – Two Shakuhachis Iasos – Undulating Bell Harmonics Harold Budd – It’s Steeper Near The Roses (For David Sylvian) Raul Lovisoni & Francesco Messina – Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo Laaraji – Essence (Excerpt) Inoyami Land – Bananatron Spacetime Continuum – Ping Pong MDA Analog – Rainful Memories Hatchback – And The Walls Became The World Around Us M&M – Garden In The Sky Dieter – Ecstasy Roedelius – Tempera (Dusk) Bruce Haack – 17 Gifts For Free Children Deux Filles – Birds Old Jared – IV. Forest Pond Priscilla Ermel – Gestos De Equilibrio (Excerpt) Another Fine Day – Life Before Land Paz Sounds – Trees & Birds Hampshire & Foat – Lullaby Jonny Nash – Smoke Rings Green-House – Soft Coral The Black Dog – Chesh Ashra – Deep Distance Underworld – To Heal Virginia Astley – Out On The Lawn I Lie In Bed Orchestra Of The Swan – An Ending (Ascent)[Arr. For Violin, Harp & Orchestra by David Le Page] Brian Eno – Strange Quiet

    Seeds Mix #12: KiF Production's Dawn to Dusk Mixtape

  3. 5 days ago

    Ellie Anderson: The 'Shine A Light On' Mix

    Tracklist - Jörg Kuning - Dripgroove John Tejada & Arian Levista - Word Problems Jay Haze - Boring Acid John Spring - Strange 4424 DMM Daniel Stefani - Move Me (Guido Schneider’s Dark Side of the Moon Remix) PMT - Innuendo (Principled Dub Mix) Rework - You’re So Just Just (Original Mix) Stefan Braatz - Mon Amour feat. Eric D. Clark (Instrumental) Tibi Dabo - Desert Hike Eden Burns - Telephone Terror (Original Mix) Will Hofbauer - Mudpuller (Eden Burns Whistle Beatz Remix Dub) Psychederek - Thinkin’ Bout U, Pt. 3 (Mars) Jon Dasilva & Skyskrapa Feat. Donald Waugh - Sun Brings Joy (Triangulation Dub) Queen Atom - Tributemaki Hilel Lev - Kino DJ Chrysalis - A Place Like A Place Benoit & Sergio - Walk And Talk (Original Mix) Elmass - Shank 03 Urban Sound Lab Presents Miss Yankey - One Less (Main Send)

    Ellie Anderson: The 'Shine A Light On' Mix

  4. 12 Aug

    PREMIERE: Thomass Jackson - Jam (Carlo Sine Remix) [Natural Selections]

    Natural Selections label head strips out Jackson’s looseness and replaces it with gritty disco punk… There was a young Jackson called Thomass, Whose grooves were decidedly bonkers, He twisted his rhythms, And psychedelicisms, And built wonky house out of conkers. Carlo Sine said “I’ll take that Jam, And flip it as hard as I can,” He made it go gritty, A punk disco ditty, For sweaty rooms and also Milan. Natural Selections cried “Ten! We’ll never see grooves like these again!” So they pressed it on wax, Paid the Submarea tax, And Portobello Mafia rode out of its den. Thomass Jackson has been hovering around the Natural Selections orbit for a while now — guest mix here, remix there — but somehow never quite landed on the catalogue proper. That changes today. Portobello Mafia is his first official release on the imprint and it sounds exactly like you’d want it to: wonky, playful, slightly psychedelic house music that tilts just far enough off-axis to keep you guessing. Both originals do that thing where the groove feels wrong until it feels completely right. We’re premiering Carlo Sine’s remix of “Jam” today, which takes the EP somewhere else entirely. The label head strips out the looseness and replaces it with grit – punk disco built for the part of the night when the small talk stops and everyone just gets on with it. Portobello Mafia EP is out August 13. Stream below.

    PREMIERE: Thomass Jackson - Jam (Carlo Sine Remix) [Natural Selections]

  5. 7 Aug

    PREMIERE: Pixel Grip - Moment With God (Perel Remix)

    Chicago darkwave trio Pixel Grip have spent the past year watching Percepticide: The Death of Reality find its people. A self-released, emotionally uncompromising collision of EBM, techno, industrial pop and synthpop built around betrayal, trauma and reconstruction, it arrived as one of the most viscerally charged club records of 2025. Now they're ready to open a new chapter. Percepticide: Remixed lands on July 29, gathering a formidable cast - KAVARI, Perel, Curses, Black Asteroid, Matrixxman, Auragraph, Frazer Ray and more - to pull the album apart and rebuild it in their own image. Glasgow-based producer KAVARI leads the campaign with a harder, more fractured take on "Noise," purpose-built for late-night rooms. Today we get another look inside courtesy of Berlin-based DJ and producer Perel, who takes "Moment With God" somewhere slower and more seductive - letting the original's intensity breathe and pool rather than ignite. Where the source material burns, Perel smoulders. Pixel Grip will also be hitting Hinterland, Just Like Heaven and Bumbershoot this summer before embarking on a European arena tour supporting KoRn in the fall, taking in Berlin, Prague, Krakow and more. Percepticide: Remixed is out now. Stream "Moment With God (Perel Remix)" here

    PREMIERE: Pixel Grip - Moment With God (Perel Remix)

  6. 7 Aug

    Fundido: The Ransom Note Mix

    Founded in Brooklyn in 2016 by longtime friends Latane Hughes and Billy Scher, Fundido are quickly becoming one of New York's most exciting prospects. With releases on the likes of DFA Records and Life and Death they have emerged globally as ones to watch. However, those on the ground in NY will have been familiar for a while with the duo having become cult favourites with appearances at the likes of Good Room, Le Bain and Elsewhere. This mix carries a good vibration throughout. Positive House music with a distinct groove, not too serious and not too fast. A homage to the origins of the sound whilst forward thinking at the same time. We like Fundido - they're good fun.

    Fundido: The Ransom Note Mix

  7. 5 Aug

    PREMIERE: Alphonse - Spirit of the Night (feat. Seraphina Simone) (Main Mix) [Ransom Note Records]

    We’ve known Toby Tobias aka Alphonse for a very long time, longer than he’s been sitting on this creation with Seraphina Simone - 2017 if you’re wondering. The pair first crossed paths at Glastonbury and knocked out a set of lyrics over a single session. Life did what life does - lockdowns, a baby, other projects - and the track went through several incarnations before Toby zeroed in on what it actually was: a late-night acid house record built around the 303 line and Seraphina's unmistakable vocals. The Main Mix is where it started. Raw acid wave, heavy on vocals, the original 2017 idea more or less intact. The message is straightforward: Spirit of the Night. Alphonse has released on Klasse Wrecks, Hypercolour, Emotional Especial and Kalahari Oyster Cult. Seraphina Simone has solo EPs on her own terms (Milk Teeth, Wild), credits with TRILLS, Becky Hill and Robyn, and is currently doing her thing as vocalist and dancer in Self Esteem's live band. FOLLOW ALPHONSE/TOBY TOBIAS: https://linktr.ee/Tobytobias74 / __alphonse_____ / _toby_tobias_ https://tobytobias.bandcamp.com/ / tobytobias / tobytobiasmusic FOLLOW SERAPHINA SIMONE: https://linktr.ee/seraphinasimone https://www.seraphinasimone.com/ / seraphinasimone https://seraphinasimone.bandcamp.com/ / seraphinasimone / seraphinasimone / seraphinasimone FOLLOW R$N RECORDS: www.facebook.com/theransomnote www.instagram.com/thisisransomnote ransomnoterecords.bandcamp.com soundcloud.com/ransom-note-records

    PREMIERE: Alphonse - Spirit of the Night (feat. Seraphina Simone) (Main Mix) [Ransom Note Records]

  8. 4 Aug

    Arrumar: The 'Shine A Light On' Mix

    House music is in a strange place these days. It's all a bit too fast, all a bit too euphoric, all a bit too wiggly, all a bit too rowdy. However, this mix landed in our inbox and we breathed a sigh of relief - this is what it's all about. Arrumar is a South African producer, the moniker of Mlunghisi Chauke. This past week marked the release of a new album on Polygonia's record label QEONE which features a collection of deeper, at times dubbed out tracks, which act as the perfect antidote to everything else going on out there. This mix follows a similar suit, progressive and wandering. This is one to get lost in and find new moments in as you listen again and again.

    Arrumar: The 'Shine A Light On' Mix
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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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    Ransom Note
  • Years Active
    2014 - 2026
  • Episodes
    500
  • Rating
    Clean
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