Oliver & Gilles: 10% looks, 90% spotlights.

BOOKINGS BELGIUM : seppe.maesen@livenation.be
BOOKINGS REST / QUESTIONS & ENQUIRIES : asamoto101@gmail.com


Formed in 2012 by friends Oliver Geerts and Gilles Noë, Asa Moto purvey non-standard body music from their Ghent outpost, Studio Martino. Closely affiliated with famed Soulwax imprint, Deewee, the Belgian duo’s recorded offerings carefully juxtapose expert synth-work with aesthetic imperfection. Charming melodies and throbbing rhythms come courtesy of archaic tone generators and acoustic instrumentation alike, landing Asa Moto in a zone of confident sonic idiosyncrasy. 

Their studio prowess has hardly gone unnoticed and during their breakout year of 2018, Resident Advisor, Redbull and the BBC were quick to take note of the group’s steady ascent. Italo-leaning Kifesh was handpicked off of Paradise, by Resident Advisor, for their coveted Track of the Month feature, while the album as a whole received critical acclaim over at De Morgen, one of Belgium’s finest newspapers. The duo ended their year with an impressive four nominations at the Red Bull Elektropedia Awards, for Best Producer, Album, Remix and Artwork. 

Via their ever-changing live performances, Geerts and Noë have become regular fixtures on the European touring circuit, touching down for club nights and festival appearances across the continent.  As astute selectors, Asa Moto operate a bi-monthly radio show in Brussels, digging into their sprawling collection, ranging from obscure jazz records to contemporary electronic cuts.

Heading into 2019 with a handful of new recorded works, Asa Moto look re-adapt their unmistakable strain of body music into a full band live show, the Belgian duo’s most ambitious project yet.

Behold Finders Keepers, a British record label, 40 years in the making, introducing fans of psychedelic, jazz, folk, funk, avant-garde and whacked-out movie musak to a lost world of undiscovered vinyl artifacts from the annals of alternative pop history.

Catering to record collectors and DJ-producers alike with a huge emphasis on sample friendly soundscapes, rocksteady back-beats and primitive electronic experimentalism. Discerning purveyors of the bizarre and abnormal should expect the Japanese choreography records, space-age Turkish protest songs, Czechoslovakian vampire soundtracks, Welsh rare-beats, bubblegum folk, drugsploitation operatics, banned British crime thrillers and celebrity Gallic Martini adverts... presented on CD, 7" and traditional black plastic discs in authentic packaging.

Following in the very same footsteps as the mind boggling "Music To Watch	Girls Cry" and "Songs In The Key Of Death" mix CDs for Fat City Records and the original 5-star rated Finders Keepers compilation LP in 2001, Manc-based vinyl-vulture, recording artist and record producer Andy Votel enlists the skills of fellow B-Music DJ and Rare Disc Detective Doug Shipton to form a team of psychedelic librarians and cosmic-pop-quiz-elitists to run their new Twisted Nerve distant sister-label, leaving no progressive pebble unturned or record collection un-rifled.

Future compilations and re-issues will feature collaborative curators such as David Holmes, Cherrystones and Bob Stanley and further contributions from mystery A- / B+ pop-celebrity fanatics of outsider music and ultra-rare bakelite discs. Finders Keepers is an 'accidental world music label' with a punk aesthetic and DJ friendly ethos which allows the desperate listener to sit back while we deliver schizoid cultural channel-hopping compilations and rocking-horse-shit & hen's-teeth re-releases to the comfort of your psych-starved living room...

Send promos to DJStareyes@gmail
10/13: Aeffect Radio with Dan Dara
10/16: @warp_mode_ LA with Madam X
10/17: Pranks LA B2B with Wheez-ie
10/18: Chase & Status w/G Jones, Flowdan @ City Market, LA
10/25: Incognito LA B2B with Reid Speed 
12/18: Zebulon with Baseck, White Boy Scream

Star Eyes is synonymous with raw underground bass music. A founding member of the world-renowned Trouble & Bass crew, currently a part of Warp Mode, this bat girl causes mayhem with DJ sets and tracks that swiftly connect the dots between regional American bass sounds and the hardcore continuum. Though her style moves across breakbeat, grime, bassline, electro and beyond, her aesthetic is continually inspired by jungle, old-skool hardcore, and the warehouse parties in which she was raised. 

Star Eyes is originally from Los Angeles, where she began DJing at age 15 – her name soon became synonymous with California jungle scene, and she was a longtime resident at the pioneering female-led drum 'n' bass night Eklectic in San Francisco. Eventually she founded America's first UK garage duo Syrup Girls (with DJ Siren) and moved to NYC, where she became a part of the Trouble & Bass crew & record label, who were the first to bring Skream & Benga, Night Slugs, Rusko, Elijah & Skilliam, Flava D and more to NYC; in 2009, she began releasing her first original productions and remixes. 

Since 2015, she has run her own digital label and party series called Chaos Clan – now residing back in L.A., she is currently a part of renegade rave crew Warp Mode (with Bianca Oblivion & AK Sports) as well as holding down a monthly radio show on Dublab. Over the course of her career, she has played at Outlook Festival, Sonár Festival, Fabric, EDC, Burning Man, Stealth, Bossa Nova, Elsewhere and beyond, and headlined parties in Cape Town, Singapore, Paris, and Krakow, to name a few. She has been written about in the New Yorker, the NY Times, Resident Advisor, DJ Mag, Mixmag, XLR8R, Urb, and the list goes on. 

Star Eyes is also an alumni of Red Bull Music Academy, a former radio host on RBMA/Red Bull Radio and a noted music journalist, with bylines in Pitchfork, NPR, the Dallas Morning News, and beyond. She currently hosts a monthly show on Dublab.com and a podcast called Rave to the Grave. With world-class skills, irreverent attitude, and longtime devotion to the culture of electronic music and the temple of low-end frequencies, Star Eyes has definitely earned the title "Queen of Heavy Bass.”

Contact >> djstareyes at gmail dot com
Listen to Star Eyes' Rave to the Grave podcast >> https://open.spotify.com/show/2N9Y5nvZrBtu1AMPz5zze2?si=l6XU-ivsQ0iVSRjoL0dSNA&dl_branch=1

Producer, DJ, Middle Name Records, Balamii Monthly Show
 
Sam Poggioli, aka Sampology, is a DJ, producer, recording engineer, visual artist and former Worldwide FM host from Brisbane/Meanjin. Over the last fifteen years, Sam has been a key player in the rise of Australia’s burgeoning hip-hop, deep house, future jazz and broken beat scenes. Since 2017, he’s released records through Soul Has No Tempo, his own Middle Name Records label, and crafted uptempo remixes for Quantic, Kerbside Collection, Winston Surfshirt and Myele Manzanza.

In the early days of his career, Sam made his mark by performing acclaimed audiovisual DJ sets at festivals and nightclubs throughout Australia, New Zealand, South Asia, Europe and North America. In more recent years, however, he’s balanced his considered skills in the DJ booth with his personal evolution as a composer, producer and recording engineer. Revelling in lush, atmospheric soundscapes which draw from the grandiose splendour of the natural landscape that surrounds his hometown, Sam’s music embraces ornate melodic beauty, blending with syncopated rhythms, low-end theory and lush vocals.

Before he took his audiovisual DJ sets to the world, Sam sharpened his musical knowledge and skills while working at the iconic Butter Beats record store and spinning a mixture of hip-hop, breaks and drum and bass at nightclubs across Brisbane. The road he walked to that point began in his mid-teens after he was exposed to New York’s Native Tongues collective and The Avalanches from Melbourne/Naarm. 

Fascinated by the sampledelic production techniques that helped take hip-hop to new levels in the 90s, Sam learned the basics of computer music production from his cousins, who were already performing nationally in a live electronica group. However, for the first act of his career, DJing was where Sam really shined. Soon enough, he was gracing stages alongside underground US and UK hip-hop stars like Blackalicious and Roots Manuva.

After proving himself nationally and overseas, Sam felt compelled to reconnect with Brisbane’s musical community and focus on his own growth as a producer and composer. This time around, as opposed to DJs and beatmakers, he was hanging out with a generation of trained instrumentalists and singers like Laneous and Noah Slee, who were reshaping the sounds of neo-soul, RnB, broken beat and jazz in the city. After learning more about recording equipment, he began collaborating with them on the material that made up his debut EP, Natural Selections (Soul Has No Tempo, 2016).

Sam also began to spend more time in the grandiose natural landscape that surrounds Brisbane and found himself reflecting on the formative musical experiences of his childhood, like being exposed to string music ensembles by his father and aunt, who’ve both spent decades as members of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Sam also thought back to his early teens when he sang in a cathedral choir. As he began to carve out his own composition and production sound, choral music, harmony, and string textures became a crucial counterpoint to the rhythmic sensibilities he’d learned from DJing hip-hop and dance music to audiences across the globe.

By 2018, Sam was recording local choirs and string sections and had built a strong community of like-minded musicians around himself. That year, he established his own independent label and recording studio, Middle Name Records. He inaugurated it with the release of his soulful deep house EP Mt Glorious featuring Dudley Perkins, Georgia Anne Muldrow and Jordan Rakei, and Middle Name Dance Tracks Vol 1, a collection of broken beat, disco and house tracks he’d recorded with friends as Middle Name Dance Band.

In 2019, the tastemaker Gilles Peterson invited Sam to host a monthly online radio show on Worldwide FM, giving him a platform to share his ever-expanding musical taste with a global audience. Through his shows, emerging soul, jazz, RnB, hip-hop, and club music from Australia and New Zealand stood shoulder to shoulder with the freshest new cuts and reissues from the global underground.

Two years later, Sam released his debut album, Regrowth, through Middle Name Records. Featuring collaborations with Laneous, Allysha Joy (30/70 Collective), Silent Jay, Seven Davis Jr (US) and James Chatburn, the album showed off his hard-won growth as a composer and producer with inimitable style. Through a heady mixture of live instrumentation, synthesisers, machine beats and soaring voices, Regrowth charted a course through hip-hop, dance, ambient and jazz-funk, earning him comparisons to Bonobo, Jamie XX, Kaytranada and Jon Hopkins along the way.

After the release of Regrowth, Sam realised he’d spent the first half of his career chasing the cutting-edge underground sounds of North America and Europe. When he looked around him, he saw that in the wake of Melbourne/Naarm jazz-funk band Hiatus Kaiyote’s international success, the world was looking at Australia. Since then, he’s been working to document the sound of Brisbane’s underground through Middle Name Records. Sam hopes that in the future, the label’s discography may inspire a new generation of music lovers. Maybe in a decade, someone going through the bins in a record store in London or Manchester will become fascinated by the 2020s Brisbane sound.

Ransom Note is an online music, arts and culture magazine. We provide a home for readers and writers with boundless enthusiasm, esoteric knowledge, fierce opinions and impeccable taste.

With our core team immersed in all aspects of dance music, we publish news, articles, and interviews covering the greatest in innovative, underground culture from across the globe. We offer regular, exclusive music and mixtapes from our favourite artists, and publish features shining a light on everything from the freshest new artists to the untold tales from rave history.

Alongside this we offer musings on film, books, life, and art, generating some context and controversy as an antidote to the reheated PR that clogs up the internet. Our office is fuelled by Tunnock’s Bars, cat memes, hangovers and a ridiculous, never ending love for our culture.

We're always interested in getting new writers on board – feel free to get in touch if you’ve got a story to tell.

With love until the grave.

Disc Jockey / Producer & VJ
Co-owner @otiumdistrict
Created in Switzerland, exploring Berlin
Booking : moritz@npbooking.com

FIRST EP 
28.04.25 on @otiumdistrict

History : 
Sisyphos Berlin 
RSO.Berlin 
Fête de la Musique Lausanne
Else, Berlin b2b Chlär 
Montreux Jazz Festival
Groove, Geneva w/Funk assault
OTIUM Secret spot act II
OTIUM Secret spot act I
Ambassade Sion (CH) w/ Azul & LaPlaja
Motel Campo (CH) w/ Chlär
Ostra Club (FR) w/ Mackerel Club
Podcast The Brvtalist
Rinse (FR)
SAS (CH) w/ KSO12
Aeden, Berlin(GE)
Le Chant du Gros (CH)
Ambientlabel w/ François X - Neuchatel (CH)
LaTerrasse 
Release on Akronym VA
4H Podcast on Bipolar Disorder
Release on Void Records
Le Zoo w/ Carmen Electro - Geneva
La Gravière w/ Felicie - Geneva
Antigel Festival - Geneva - (Curated line up w/ Dissimilis & Alex Nantaya)
M01 w/ Cheka, Caniche, Dj frequency & Dj Speed - Berlin
Case à Choc - Neuchatel
Hacienda w/ Altinbas - Sierre
Le Groove w/ Slin and Borvac - Geneva (Verzus concept w/ Rødig)
Motel Campo - Geneva
Podcast on RAWCAST
Release on Molekul vinyl w/ Chlar, Kenji Hina, Dylan Fogarty, Baugruppe90 etc..
Release on Otium Records - STIPP Tribal Drive Remix
Le Zoo w/ Dylan Fogarty and Cult - Geneva
Mélomane w/ Antigone - Montpellier
La Gravière w/ Zisko - Geneva
Mackerel Festival w/ The Chronics - Metz
Podcast AAJA Music
Glazart w/ Steya - Paris
Release on MaisonClose w/ KVLR, Hyden, Seigg, Ferdinger
Melomane w/ Bours? & Lacchesi - Montpellier
Release on Otium Records - Erik Burka - Cloud 9 Remix
Le Zoo w/ Illnurse - Geneva
Podcast on Akronym
Aeden w/ Baugruppe90 & Carmen Electro - Berlin
La Graviere w/ Mayeul - Geneva
Le Zoo w/ Lyric - Geneva
KZERN All Night Long w/ Rødig - Geneva
Le Zoo w/ Perc, Carla Schmitt
La Gravière w/ Phara, Fireground - Geneva
Glazart After O Clock - Paris
EXIL w/ Nastia, Zisko, Mac Declos @ KM25
OTIUM x EXIL Paris - Secret Spot w/ Cravo & Koboyo
La Gravière w/ Daria Kolosova
Cyclo - Fribourg
Bar 48 w/ Baugruppe90 - Bienne
RAW x OTIUM x BIPOLAR DISORDER w/ MATRIXXMAN - UNDER BLACK HELMET - FELICIE AND MORE @ Le Zoo
MOTEL CAMPO w/ MARIE MONTEXIER - DJ SUN
OTIUM w/ SLIN - RUIZ OSC1 @ La Gravière 
OTIUM w/ Stranger and Deniro @ Le Zoo 
LOCAL HEROES @ Motel Campo
BRUTALISME 016 /// MERCURY 200 - DJ SUN - GIOSKI - ATØNAL @ Folklor
OTIUM RAVE - @ Secret spot 
RAVE - @ Secret warehouse
OTIUM RAVE @ Secret house
REDLIGHT KINO with RØDIG - .WAV_909 - DANSEMACABRE @ Le Bourg (covid cancelled) 
OTIUM RAVE - @ Secret spot
Summer Grav // OTIUM - Ladybruce - Red Hot Sexy Platine (covid cancelled) @ La gravière
REDLIGHT KINO with ATØNAL - NAES -DANSEMACABRE @ LE BOURG
Techno Guernica [001] with SOMEHWEN - THE CHRONICS b2b CHLÄR - The Sixtyshift @ L'industrie
LA REPUBLIKE with HADONE - CHLÄR - THE CHRONICS @ Le Rez
𝕭𝖎𝖕𝖔𝖑𝖆𝖗 𝕯𝖎𝖘𝖔𝖗𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝖃 𝕺𝖙𝖎𝖚𝖒 𝕯𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖈𝖙 with REPRO @ Folklor

Contact: hans@hansglader.com

Native Californian Hans Glader is an electronic music producer and DJ.  Heavily influenced by a jazz drumming background, Hans’ feel good music is rhythmically intricate and seamlessly blends a lush soundscape of jazz and R&B with with infectious grooves. His innovative sound design delivers musical Easter eggs throughout his songs and has garnered the respect and collaboration of British baseline icon DJ Q and Night Bass founder AC Slater.  His two Night Bass EP's, Lumen and Breathe, show off his subtle touches and innovative sound design that are a cornerstone of his production style and a reflection of his ability to invoke something deeper through his music.

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