Ransom Note

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

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.

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.

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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.

Stacey Pullen has been a figurehead for House music for a long time now.

He remains one of the very best and most discerning in the scene having contributed some of the most important records, mixes and albums out there. 

From Detroit, his origins go deep. 

Throughout his career, Pullen has earned international recognition for his innovative productions and captivating DJ performances. Unlike many artists who focus solely on one genre, he is celebrated for seamlessly mixing a wide variety of electronic styles into energetic, unpredictable sets.

This mix comes to us off the back of a new record for Defected. You can catch that in there.