Ransom Note

For Phil Kieran – DJ, producer, film composer and the Belfast-based mind behind Le Carousel – it was closer to twelve years, the span it took to bring The Humans Will Destroy Us to life. The follow-up to his cult debut lands on 13th March via Phil Kieran Recordings, and it arrives fully formed: part shoegaze-inflected electronics, part Kosmische drift, part dancefloor catharsis – a record that feels like it was built for sweaty rooms and wistful 4am journeys home in equal measure.

‘The Good One’ sits near the top of that journey, all sparkling synths, gauzy vocals and hypnotic languid beats – the kind of track that calls to mind Andrew Weatherall at his most blissed-out, coaxing Primal Scream into something simultaneously weightless and urgent. It’s radio-friendly in the best possible sense: a pop song with depth behind its eyes.

https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premieres/premiere-le-carousel-the-good-one/

A transmission from deep within the French underground.

Sarcus Soundsystem, the trio of Ubik, Jacky Jeane and Olga B, have been quietly doing something right in Paris for a while now. Their various endeavours around the capital have drawn attention through noise, care and curiosity. A genuine investment in the spaces they use and the people who fill them.

As a collective, their extended sets are built on patience and a restless instinct. Fast-moving rhythms colliding with strange, slippery melodies that work their way into your head before your feet have even caught up.

This is a dancefloor with a mind of its own. Follow it somewhere.

https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/sarcus-soundsystem-the-shine-a-light-on-mix

AHardway dancefloor throb injected into Strange Fruit’s shoegaze-inflected original…

There was a Strange Fruit from Jakarta who said, “I shall go on Tuesday, iridescent and red!
With a hypnodub shimmer and kosmische delight, I shall drip upon Wednesday and dance through the night!”

The Hardway Bros heard it and let out a shout: “We’ll remix your polarness inside and about!
We’ll chug through the shoegaze and acid the house, Till the SSL dubs frighten even the mouse!”

So the Fruit and the Bros on a Gentle Tuesday Went sailing on Monopolar waves far away,
With a Pouvoi Moteur and a Tom Furse dub too, And they dripped and they gleamed in iridescent blue.

“O Fruit!” said the Bros, “O remarkable thing! You are dreamy and poppy and you know how to sing!
You are krautrock and electronica, strange as can be, And we’ll live on the SSL for ever,” said he.


Jakarta’s Strange Fruit occupy an unusual space: a band whose shoegaze-inflected live sound sits in a completely different world from the underground electronic circuits their members move through as producers and DJs.

It’s that dual existence that makes the remix package around their forthcoming Drips EP so compelling – dispatches from a shared musical universe.

For the Monopolar remix, Sean Johnston, under his Hardway Bros moniker, does what he very much does best: find the load-bearing elements of a track and build something new around them. Where the original carries its kosmische momentum intact, this version leans into the slowed-down throb, peeling back the layers and letting the groove do the work.

Drips arrives via Gentle Tuesday Recordings soon. With remixes still to come from Tom Furse among others, Strange Fruit are making a quietly persuasive case for themselves as one of the more interesting propositions to emerge from Jakarta’s electronic underground.

Listen below:

A cosmic transmission from Manchester-based musician and artist Ana K Miller, just shy of 2 and a half hours, weaving together psychedelia, acid, kraut, dub and techno.

Full interview here: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/ana-k-miller-shine-a-light-on-mix/
Tracklist:
Nathan Dawidowicz - Deep Fluff (feat. Leo Börger)
Sula Bassana & The Nasoni Pop Art Experimental Band - Emmerting Spring
銀色の波 - Whispers Of Chikurin
Nidiot – World of Nids
Jimi Tenor Band - Shine All Night (feat. Florence Adooni)
TINA – Vacation
Minami Deutsch - Can't Get There (Jamie Paton Remix)
Teledubgnosis – Echolocation
Hawkwind - Electric Tepee
Kris Baha - You Told Yourself This Would Get Worse
Anatolian Weapons - Process (Original)
Coil - Protection III
Maart – Noma
Sinusoidal – Half Closed Eyes
Sula Bassana – Stella Star
U-Ziq – Melancho
Mr TC & Lo Kindre – The Waving Bridge
The Soft Moon – Black
Davy Kehoe – The Pilot (Part 1)
Mr TC – Zeuglodon
Pancho Piedra – Servio
Dr. Strange - Tripode de Diode (Pt1 & Pt2)
Blurred Boy - No Time For Tears
Moody Boyz - Destination Africa (Electric Forest Version)
Khidja - Never Seen The Dunes
Identified Patient & Sophie du Palais - Peaceful Panic
Autumns - Cruising (Black Bones & Autumns)
Cabaret Nocturne - Voodoo Spunk (Original Mix)
KOB 101 - Beat Depressed
Zaliva-D - Long Journey
O Yuki Conjugate - The Chasmic
Abdulla Rashim - Path Inwards
Azu Tiwaline - Ethereal Tribes
Hawkwind - Death of War
Black Merlin - Stalky Tarkovsky
Von Grall - Vanquish the Disparities
Acronym - River Red Gum
Azu Tiwaline & Al Wootton - Nine Points
Tres Demented - Demented (Or Just Crazy) (Original Version)
Tres Demented – Brainfreeze (Carl Craig 'Sessions' Mix)
Death in Vegas – Arise
Dalo – Woodpecker
Von Deyen / Schütz - Valley Of The Monsters

Deep in the Yorkshire woods, multi-disciplinary artist and producer Jamie House – aka Hamie Jouse – has been quietly splitting light into a thousand tiny rainbows.

Best known for his hypnotic visual installations and art direction across DIY music spaces from Old Red Bus Station to Resonance, House found himself at last year’s Watching Trees festival doing something beautifully meta: filming daytime trees to project back onto their evening counterparts through a cascade of prisms.

The “arty bullshit” behind it, as he puts it, was about bridging gaps of time and space and memory – creating past tense ghosts of daylight. But really, “it just looked pretty, and the trees and sun had it all covered.”

Whilst setting up his spectral light show on the Bush of Ghosts stage, Tia and Wil (that’s us) caught wind of the music he was playing. What unfolded in those early morning hours was something special – patient, ambient-soundscapes with a deep understanding of the fractal nature of the forest, where every process is made up of countless sub-processes doing their best impression of one solid bit.

This mix captures that philosophy; energised yet gently held, pulsing yet ambient. Mirroring both the slow, steady rhythm of plant growth and the constant, quick reactions within the cells. There are rarely right angles in the forest, just lots of individual leaves doing their thing- a benevolent collusion with the kodama, those forest sprites that House channelled through his psychogeographic, hauntological light work.

From the Rhubarb Triangle of West Yorkshire, where he dabbles in ambient matters with his long time friend Aaron during hazy Sunday afternoon straggler zones, overlooking different vistas, House has created something that feels like plugging into the mainframe with beings deep in the woods, under a very full moon.

Always bring a memory stick, indeed.

Interview here: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/hamie-jouses-mixtape-for-benevolent-collusion-kodama/

Tracklist -
Ironic Hill - Chorus
Kuzich - Morning Sun
John Haycock ft Rob Dunford - Dapple Shade
Palta - Tabt optagelse
ssssoftpatch - Bowling for Loops
Agron - Should I feel bad for doing This
Wizold Sage - Comfort Heater
Christian Kleine - Beyond Repair (Version)
Golden Bug & In Fields - Blind
Ex-Terrestrial - Everybody Dreams
Takao - Bird Ensemble
David Versace - Heart to Heart
Barker - Fluid Mechanics
Shhhhh - Pond Natter
420 aka Galcher Lustwerk - Untitled 6
Motoko & Myers - Plover
Zammuto - It Can Feel So Good

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