About Us - Ransom Note
WEBRansom Note is a digital music, arts and culture publication. We provide a home for readers and writers with boundless enthusiasm, esoteric knowledge, fierce opinions and impeccable taste. Having been in operation for over ten years we seek to showcase and represent the creative and artistic attributes of a diverse and progressive society.
Premiere: Terraflow – Pick up the Slack - Ransom Note
WEB10 hours ago · Up on deck there were only a handful of men left watching over the course of the boat. They were the ones that had to pick up the slack as the storm hit. Together they were responsible for driving things onward and steadily through the bleak, darkness of the night to come. It was a wicked dance this. One ship upon the wildest of waters.
Reviews - Ransom Note
WEBReviews. Review: Kahn and Neek – (Having A Sick Time) In The Mansions Of Bliss It’s been an eventful few decades on the post-UK Garage frontier. From the initial rise of grime and dubstep, with seminal British releases garnering both critical and commercial appeal to being cast into the shadows by the likes of its distant American cousins ...
Mixes - Ransom Note
WEBMixes. Air Max ’97: ‘Production Dossier’ Mix A 100% original mixtape featuring nothing but Air Max '97 material. Mixes. Ineffekt: The Ransom Note Mix Fast paced and fun from the Amsterdam based producer. Mixes. 2 Fa 2 Furious: The Ransom Note Mix A pinball wizard of a mix from two siblings.
dreamcastmoe announces new EP 'After All This' - Ransom Note
WEBdreamcastmoe has dropped the first single ‘L Foot, Right’ from his forthcoming EP ‘After All This’, set for release on 15th June. The first track off the Washington DC-based producer’s release is a slice of bionic G-Funk produced by NYC’s Will DiMaggio, which is an “ode to the house party, the kitchen chatter with your favourite bop pervading through the room to drag you to the ...
Commentary - Ransom Note
WEBMusic To Sit on The Sidelines To Sharon interviews longstanding Ransom Note contributor and friend Victoria 'Drama' Saunders ahead of a special fundraiser in her name after a diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis. On the 3rd of December London’s club scene comes together for ‘Dance For Drama’, an event to drive the fundraiser to raise 60K for ...
House Hunting #1 - Ransom Note
WEBHouse Hunting #1. Music. With house back in vogue and the emergence of database behemoth Discogs it’s increasingly harder to unearth long lost house records at bargain basement prices (though check Ransom Note’s ‘Discogs Bargain Bin’ column for remedial recommendations) – what happened to the days when you couldn’t give away an old ...
The Electro Compendium - Ransom Note
WEBMusicians and acts set to perform include A Certain Ratio, Jaako Eino Kalevi, James K, Mary Ocher, The KVB, Zebra Katz, Priya Ragu and more. AIAIAI are cutting cables with their latest set of wireless headphones. Revered Danish electronic producer Kasper Bjørke has quietly been about doing his thing over the past few decades...
News - Ransom Note
WEBMinotaur Shock to release music on Bytes. On April 5, the Bristolian producer Minotaur Shock aka David Edwards returns with his first album under the much-loved moniker for seven years. MINO is the first release on Bytes, a new heterogeneous cassette label and offshoot of our very own Ransom Note Records. The album was mastered by the mighty ...
Gone To A Rave: The Genius Of Bleep Techno - Ransom Note
WEBThe loop is spiked with seasick strings and sparse chipset bleep stabs before, after over a minute of kick drum-less intro – the breakbeats kick in. It’s such an unusual piece of music; determinedly alien, thrillingly futuristic. It’s skewed, militant jazz has more in common with the stripped discord of grime than any of the soulful ...