Ransom Note

Manchester-based producer Lily Mumby, the creative force behind Lapalace, has chosen Lavender as her botanical muse for this sixth instalment. The standout track ‘new age night’ – a stunning love child of William Basinski's decaying tape loops and Aphex Twin's intricate programming—carries subtle lavender-inspired tones, balancing the plant's calming essence with hypnotic rhythms. Just as lavender requires thoughtful tending before rewarding the gardener with its distinctive aroma, Lapalace's landscapes reveal deeper complexities with each listen.

Illinois-based producer Zvrra expands her discography with the four-track EP “Mica,” released on Munich’s ever reliable QEONE label. There once was a Zvrra so rare, Who lived on a techno-swept prairie with care, With her Wooden Rain Tool, So bizarre and so cool, That made rhythms beyond all compare! She tumbled her beats like a shower, On dry wood for hour after hour, While butterfly wings Made glistening things, As beetles turned gold by her power! The musical Zvrra would play Her hypnotic percussion all day, In QEONE’s domain, Through sunshine and rain, While breakbeats and melodies sway! Oh wonderful, strange little Zvrra, From Illinois, not from Sierra, Her ambient chirps And kaleidoscope blips, Made listeners feel so much clearer! Following her 2020 techno belter “Dress” and 2021’s LP “Bizzaroland,” this new collection spans techno, breakbeat, ambient, and electronica across all its 4 tracks. We’re premiering the percussive, intricately textured roller “Wooden Rain” https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premieres/premiere-zvrra-wooden-rain-tool-qeone/ @zvrra @qeone

80’s NYC NRG loft party vibes from CC:DISCO! on remix duty for Daisybelle. There once was a DJ named Daisybelle, Who played records fantastically well, With Tasty Lopez she’d shout, “Eyes Wide Shut” all about, Till the dancefloor was caught in their spell! They journeyed from London to Puerto, With CCDISCO’s remixes in tow, On HE.SHE.THEY. RECORDS they’d bounce, With high-energy sounds to announce, Making sunrise sessions brilliantly glow! The vinyl-driven Daisybellian beat, Made fabric and Pikes quite replete, With eclectic selection, And musical connection, The Printworks crowd stamped with their feet! Oh! The shimmer and ravey tension! And dancefloors too many to mention! With euphoria slow-burning bright, Till the darkness turned into light, A melodic house music invention! London-via-Puerto Rico DJ/producer Daisybelle is a regular at fabric and Pike. Eyes Wide Shut features vocals from Tasty Lopez. We’re premiering the 80’s bounce of CC:DISCO!’s rework… Get it on, let’s go. https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premieres/premiere-daisybelle-ft-tasty-lopez-eyes-wide-shut-ccdisco-remix/ @daisybelledj / @cc-disco

Established in 2018, Suffragette City is a not-for-profit Manchester-based club night held annually to mark International Women’s Day. They raise funds for local grassroots charities supporting women and gender expansive people while creating events for all genders that are full of positivity, solidarity and mischief. This May 10th, they’re bringing their friendly Manchester vibes to London for an afternoon of excellent music and community at our friends The Social, 5 Little Portland Street where Suffragette City residents Kath McDermott (Flesh at The Haçienda/Homo Electric), Ghost Assembly (Abigail Ward), and Ladybeige (The Social Service) are joined by Sounds of the Universe’s Vandorta. Lancashire-born. Acid-damaged. 909-obsessed. Abigail Ward aka Ghost Assembly, runs a one-woman op from the dark end of the dancefloor. Raw machine funk, dipped in dub, NY garage, post-punk and the snare fills of Stock, Aitken & Waterman. INTERVIEW: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/ghost-assembly-the-altered-currents-ransom-note-mix/

The car moved slowly, weaving between the traffic and the flickering lights up ahead. The myriad of colours whizzed by as they entered the rollerstate – the city encompassed everything and swallowed it whole. There was silence in the backseat. The driver made little motion but for the occasional twist of the wheel. Outside there was noise, outside there was madness. Inside there was peace. A subtle warmth to the bubble in which he sat. The city was his home. Mosley Jr. releases an excellent collection of deep, dubbed out house music with delicate moods and nostalgic references. This one sounds as good on a lonely bus ride home as it would in the club. Heads down.

Time doesn't pass the same when shjva’s behind the decks. It folds in on itself like a bad trip or a perfect sunrise. Born in Lutsk, now deeply rooted in Warsaw’s underground, she’s been building her sound through Penumbrum (her label label & party), as co-owner of Qualia Records and through holding a long-standing residency at the city’s beloved Jasna Club. Across past releases for Viscera Transmissions, Brutaż, Warning, People & Places and Common Ancestors, shjva's sound is always developing and always morphing. Her live sets and collabs with Volodymyr Gnatenko and Stereometrix stretch that sound even further, which sits somewhere between dub techno, dream states, and the kind of melancholic jazz you’d hear drifting out of a broken speaker at the afters. It’s hypnotic and deep. Today's Wednesday Alternative mix is a love letter to minimalism, recorded using a prototype rotary mixer built by shjva's Polish friend Kamilescu, the mixer is raw, tactile and beautiful, just like this set which contains deep cuts and spaced out percussion. This is vinyl only recording that touches the ear on the softest pressure points, all day listening to create a brisk morning atmosphere.

Following Ed Rain’s debut solo album ‘Met Him on a Wednesday’ (Ed is one of Andrei Rusu’s – aka half of Khidja – solo projects,), Malka Tuti Records release two aces remixes of the title track’s collaboration with Fantastic Twins. We’re premiering Superpitcher’s MAD DECENT 10 minute signature opus of a remix. Cor listen to that bassline on some good cans… On the flip Pilooski’s turned in a “big room IDM” belter. But you’ll have to buy the release to get hold of that. Pre Order on Malka Tuti https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premieres/premiere-ed-rain-ft-fantastic-twins-met-him-on-a-wednesday-superpitcher-lovers-mix/ @malkatuti

Maltese producer Rebecca Theuma’s project That bb gets a makeover from Yetsuby Manda, one of half of salamanda’s solo project on Wrong Island communications. There once was a creature called That BB, Who lived on the shores of Wrong Island, you see. “I Wish I Had Something To Say But I Don’t,” Was the phrase that this creature would constantly flaunt. The Yetsuby came with remixes so strange, While Wrong Island Communication deranged All the messages sent by the creatures around, Resulting in quite an peculiar sound. “Oh fiddle-dee-fumble!” That BB would cry, As it danced ‘neath the purple-green spots in the sky. “My Communication is terribly wrong, I can’t seem to finish this nonsensical song!” So they pranced and they prangled through dew-dabbled dawn, With Communication so curiously drawn. That BB and Yetsuby on Wrong Island stayed, In gloriously gibberish games that they played. We’re premiering Yetsuby’s remix of “I Wish I Had Something To Say But I Don’t” from Maltese producer Rebecca Theuma’s project That bb. The track comes from her upcoming EP “The Words Are Stuck In My Throat” on Wrong Island Communications, with Yetsuby (one half of Korean act Salamanda) maintaining the dreamlike original but transforming it into a skittering, drum-laden, handclap madness, wig out. One for the sunrise methinks, whether that’s the end of a very long night or the start of a beautiful new day. “I wrote these songs while going through a prolonged writer’s block. I had moved to another country and found myself feeling very alone and lost,” explains Theuma. “At this particular point in my life, sounds were better at explaining my inner landscape than words.” The EP will be released on the ACE Scottish-born, now Lisbon-based label Wrong Island, with artwork by Polish artist Jo Sekieta. @wrongisland

The day was brand new, it were as if the past had been scrubbed and the world had been reset with some sort of miraculous grace and bright delight. There was a shine, a glimmer to it all. As he wandered through the city streets he wondered and pondered the magic which had allowed for it all to be undone. All the chaos, all the madness, all the pain. How could it simply shine? This was how it should be, the sound of a piano danced atop the breeze in the distance. Milton Jackson and Brian Kage team up with Detroit pioneer Jon Dixon to collaborate on an exquisite deep house cut on Freerange Records. A beautiful, honest track which brings hope and light.

https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premieres/premiere-diamond-haze-the-source-ct-kidobo-remix/ Transboundary Haze II is three heavyweight remixes of Diamond Haze tracks. There once was a Diamond Haze quite sublime, Who danced on the Tapes Sublimating in time, With a Source so profound, That it spun round and round, While the CT Kidobó made a fabulous Remix divine! “Oh, wonderful Source!” cried the Diamond Haze, “Your Remixing skills have me quite in a daze! You sublimate tapes, Into curious shapes, And transform all my nonsense to musical praise!” They traveled to Crumbly-come-Tumble by sea, In a sieve that was leaky as leaky could be, With a spoon for a sail, And a thimble for pail, And a bottle of nothing to drink with their tea. And this is the end of my nonsense today, About Diamond Haze Source in its remixing play, With Tapes Sublimating, And CT Kidobó creating, A rhythmical jumble in Lear’s silly way! We’re premiering the CT Kidobó rework of The Source. A deep, dark bubbler… let’s go. Buy HERE on Tapes Sublimating