In shadowy Arch Groves where the Stranded did dwell, With sub-bass that rumbled like a low midnight bell, The guitars they did scrape at the edges and hover, While dusty beats floated from one side to the other.

Laurent Garnier, A Love From Outer Space, Decius, Tia Cousins, Pete Herbert's Music for Swimming Pools and many more join Heidi Lawden, Luke Una, Jimpster and Greg Wilson for this year's Campo Sancho edition... www.theransomnote.com/music/events...

Deep in the woods at the Bush of Ghosts stage @ Watching Trees, Scottish producer Brian d’Souza, aka Auntie Flo brought his ‘Plants Can Dance’ project to life in a 5-hour ambient set. Brian’s ode to the Sunflower is out on the 19th Feb, launch party on the 21st www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/...

Craven Faults, North Yorkshire's enigmatic answer to Tangerine Dream, favourite of 'the gothfather' Robert Smith + remixer of The Cure curates a special playlist ft. Can, Laurie Spiegel, The Velvets & more ⚙️ 🎛️ @cravenfaults.bsky.social @theleaflabel.com

Between innocence and anger, Ghazi Barakat’s Pharoah Chromium project delivers a devastating meditation on Gaza on his latest work, Chronicles on Discrepant www.theransomnote.com/music/news/p...

The Berlin University of the Arts' Master’s program in Sound Studies & Sonic Arts, faces elimination amid budget crisis for Berlin’s only university-level degree program in a field where the city has international renown. www.theransomnote.com/music/news/b...

When two generations of Lisbon’s underground collide, the result is visceral, raw & uncompromising. Scam Dust is Tiago Lux Fragil resident and ‘DJ’s DJ’) and Shcuro of Discos Paraiso channel Detroit filtered through Sheffield with a distinctly Lisbon sensibility www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/...

Since founding Plus Instruments in Eindhoven in 1978, Truus de Groot has carved an uncompromising path through the experimental underground. Five decades into her restless creative journey, her 9th album as Plus Instruments, ‘Unnoticed,' lands on Feb 11th. www.theransomnote.com/music/news/d...

Raw, rhythmic, intricate percussion and off-kilter melodic ideas woven into proper post-punk territory from the Bogotá producer. The opening salvo from Dance On The Volcano, a mini-album for Natural Selections. www.theransomnote.com/music/premie...

Scottish producer Brian d’Souza aka Auntie Flo is launching Season Two of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By ambient/seed series. The release explores recent botanical research revealing how sunflowers navigate cooperation and competition through their root systems. www.theransomnote.com/art-culture/...

Madrid-based Italian producer @bawrut.bsky.social is relaunching his SILENCIO imprint nearly a decade after it delivered the underground hit “Ciquita,” this time with a deeply personal project, bridging electronic music and social activism.

Matthias Kremsreiter and Christian Schoppik combine for a new collaborative album exploring the liminal space between waking and sleep on @quindirecords.bsky.social

After more than a decade of mainly navigating instrumental territory, Kristian Craig Robinson aka Capitol K has circled back to where it all began... He talks us through his 10th album track by track... www.theransomnote.com/music/playli...

Taking a sharp detour from the dancefloor, Bozzwell returns with something altogether more mysterious...

'Like Holy Tongue playing a marathon set in the enveloping Königsforst of Wolfgang Voigt’s GAS project' Audio-visual trio Plants Heal recently released their new album 'Forest Dwellers'. Check out their enlightening playlist of music inspired by healing plants 🌿 @quindirecords.bsky.social

Jonathan Kusuma strips the excellent Strange Fruit’s original back to its essence and rebuilds it as something altogether more hypnotic. Listen: www.theransomnote.com/.../premiere...

Gone To A Rave: @phatmedia.bsky.social pres UK Rave Flyers 88/89 Before the algorithms, before the Instagram flyers, there were photocopies. Crude, urgent, immediate. Flyers thrust into sweaty palms outside record shops, stuffed into pockets of the initiated www.theransomnote.com/music/interv...

Post-punk provocateur Autumns has been catapulting angular weapons over the ramparts since 2014. As he joins R$N with the ferocious EP ‘Through the Construction of Grace’ EP the “lanky, ginger man from Derry” offers up a mix for us... www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/...

A surreal, darkly luminescent world 🎛️ 🔬 🌌 @marionettelabel.bsky.social

OUT NOW! Underground hero, Autumns brings us a selection of rhythm and bass work outs on his latest EP, Through the Construction of Grace! 🌀😵‍💫 Out now exclusively via our Beatport / BandCamp - link below! ransom-note-records.lnk.to/ThroughtheCo...

FLAVOUR OF THE LABEL MIX Anna Logue Records has been a beacon for those who understand that the early 1980s represented a golden age of electronic music – a brief, brilliant window when artists armed with synthesisers, drum machines, and raw creative vision crafted something genuinely revolutionary

Seeds Mix #5: Openmind's "Leave your phone at home & discover paradise after a forage in the forest" Telepathic Fish co-founder DJ Food aka one part of Openmind takes us on a trip into the world of 90s chill out. www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/...

Recorded in a small village on the Costa Brava – surrounded by seagulls, tramontana winds, and sea urchin-covered rocks – this mix comes from Parisian-born Antoine Harispuru, better known as Golden Bug.... www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/...

This Sunday Shaho Qadir, a Kurdish Londoner and double amputee, will embark on a heroic journey. Starting in Glasgow and propelled by his immense upper body strength, he will travel by wheelchair all the way to Gaza. www.theransomnote.com/music/events...

'Space can be crumpled like paper into an infinitesimal dot. Time can be extinguished like a blown-out flame. And the laws of physics, which we regard as sacred and immutable, are anything but' A Journey Beneath the Surface William Basinski @ The Rectory Lisbon www.theransomnote.com/music/review...

And whilst you know all this balance & wellbeing is the ‘right thing’ to do, and admittedly you do feel quite good, but with all these reclaimed weekends that once belonged to beautiful reckless abandon, what do you do now? Turns out, you go to Salto Festival. www.theransomnote.com/art-culture/...

Watching Trees announces dates for 2025 Further sonic rambling in the North Wiltshire countryside with Optimo (Espacio) will take place between 29-31st May 2026. Sign up details here: www.theransomnote.com/art-culture/...

Sitting in the space between digital dub and synth-pop with nods to Spectral Display with Primal Scream's @simonemarie4.bsky.social on vocal duty. “NoLo” is from the upcoming anniversary edition of Golden Bug’s Piscolabis II out Oct 3rd on La Belle Records www.theransomnote.com/music/premie...

West London’s Tutu Ta returns with their most haunting work yet on “Violence Or Violets” via the ever excellent Long Gone Are The Old Traditions www.theransomnote.com/music/premie...

"In the current climate where you can’t enjoy your music without knowing what corporate companies are profiting, it’s a truly refreshing experience, how music should be. This really is a festival like no other." @nadiaksaiba.bsky.social reviews We Out Here 25 www.theransomnote.com/music/events...

It should come as no surprise that someone as single-minded as Keith McIvor aka JD Twitch ran a great record label Optimo Music Here's a list of some favourite songs, tracks, releases as picked by Keith’s friends, peers & admirers www.theransomnote.com/music/news/a... @optimo-espacio.bsky.social

Thank you to the very lovely Ransom Note for having me do a two and a half hour musical ramble round my garden - which features quite a few highlights from the Once In A Blue Moon session at We Out Here....

Joe Muggs has lived and breathed electronic music culture for many, many years… So it is with some excitement that he's agreed to don his ambient trousers again for part 4 of our 'Seeds mix'. www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/... @joemuggs.bsky.social

From The Lock Tavern via The Gun to spoons… Family Silver are Mr Nick ‘The Gun’ Stephens and Casper ‘Volte Face' Clark. Handily, via the wonder of a recording from this year’s Field Maneuvers, from The Gun’s stage, you can hear what they sound like... www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/...

Parts W.H. Lung and The 2 Bears; Tom Sharkett and Raf Rundell discuss collaborating, live set-ups, and other randomness... www.theransomnote.com/music/interv...

Ata Kak returns after 30 Years with new album ‘Batakari’ on Awesome Tapes From Africa.

The ever prolific Brian d’Souza readies a new album under his Auntie Flo guise. "Birds of Paradise is about finding beauty and rhythm in a chaotic world, listening to nature, to our bodies and what's real." www.theransomnote.com/music/news/a...

Fashion house Rabanne has announced a collaboration with the renowned Miraval Studios in Provence to remaster and relaunch music from founder Paco Rabanne’s 1980s catalogue, launching with the July 9 re-release of “Listen To The Music” by Judy Carter. www.theransomnote.com/music/news/r...

Soaring, majestic ambient explorations from Yoan Pistermann as he unveils the first taster from his second album on Hologram Teen's newly minted Holographic Opera label... www.theransomnote.com/music/premie...

You’re either a black cat or a golden retriever Back by popular demand, R$N totes return in feline & canine editions, modelled by R$N’s black cat & golden retriever. Screen printed on 100% cotton heavy-weight canvas bags with a nice long handle length ransomnoterecords.bandcamp.com/merch/r-n-bl...

Tears Maker Chant Remix package is now out via all your favourite platforms! 🙌🔊 The acclaimed LP by Froid Dub has been twisted and turned by the talented: Richard Fearless, Lena Willikens, Rufdug, Tia Cousins, Zillas on Acid, Tolouse Low Trax and Timothy Clerkin Link to listen / buy below! 🌟❤️

A First Timer & A Disco Mum’s Return - A Review of Love International 2025. After a decade at the top, the festival is still finding ways to evolve, whilst keeping its community intact. View the full article below👇

Overmono announce return to The Warehouse Project alongside Skee Mask, Helena Hauff, Joy O and more.. www.theransomnote.com/music/events...

"Genesys is scheduling MMA fights at their raves — have underground spaces become so sanitised that violence feels like the only way to be authentic?" Amber Wellings "At the rave where violence gets a time slot" www.theransomnote.com/music/interv...

It’s finally out everywhere! Raf Rundell (2 Bears) and Tom Sharkett (W.H Lung) have joined forces for their debut collaboration, “Where’s It All Go?”🌟🙌 Available now on all streaming services alongside our BandCamp - link below!

Monday is OK thanks to producer, DJ and dweller behind the counter at @phonicarecords.bsky.social "If you’re not excited about life you should probably make some changes” www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/...

Hot on the heels of the acclaimed Tears Maker Chant LP, the French electronic duo Froid Dub are back with an interstellar remix package! 🙌 Featuring: Death In Vegas, Lena Willikens, Ruf Dug + Tia Cousins, Zillas On Acid, Tolouse Low Trax, Timothy Clerkin + Vacant Heads! 🤩 Listen / buy below ! 🌟❤️

Back to the Adriatic mothership that is Love International this week to celebrate 10-years ❤️ Swing by the Olive Grove on Monday, where you can find us with The Gun fam having a knees up w/ C.A.R. Ally Tropical, Matt Cowell, Tia Cousins, Nick Stephens, Hardway Bros, Vladimir Ivkovic & Decius Trax

Music and Psychedelics Listen to a 5 hour music mix from Auntie Flo Live from The Bush of Ghosts stage at this year's @watchingtrees.bsky.social, inspired by music curated for psychedelic therapy trials. www.astateofflo.com/p/music-and-...