Recording from the mighty Golden Lion dj set on June 6th 2025

Tronik Youth Golden Lion DJ set

LEATHERETTE #012 - The Hacker & Phil Kieran 06/09/25

This is a special one, a family one.

Rosie Ama (Cain), as I’m sure you all already know, is a London-based DJ, radio host, and founder of Human Endeavour Records. She’s been in the fam a while now, operating on the outer fringes of dance music… which is exactly where you want to be if you're trying to avoid mainstream success and financial stability.

Having cut her teeth as a writer and editor for online music platforms Stamp The Wax and this here Ransom Note, Rosie demonstrated such exemplary dedication to underground culture that we eventually had to take disciplinary action against her. The subsequent court settlement led to the founding of Human Endeavour; sometimes the best label launches emerge from legal disputes, rather than business plans.

Officially launching in 2022 (once the legal paperwork was finalised), it serves as a platform for artists operating in the deep, dark and hypnotic corners of electronic music and has welcomed artists like Anastasia Zems, Justine Forever, Nandele, Medicine 8 and Thomass Jackson over the years.

Before doing her own thing, Rosie made up one half of Kiara Scuro alongside friend Nadia, a DJ and production partnership that released music on Fabric Originals, Ritmo Fatale and Faux Poly, as well as long-standing radio residencies on Rinse FM and Balamii Radio. After a decade together, she’s gone solo turning her full attention to the label and her monthly Noods radio show, Melodic Odds, that showcases her love for sleazy low-slung chuggers, leftfield acid house and synth-driven 3am groovers. 

Whilst I’d never tell her this to her face, it’s actually a delight to welcome her back to the fold - this time without the need for lawyers - for a mix that captures her hypnotic, trippy vision of what dance music can be when nobody's watching the figures…

Let’s get going then, shall we… 

Rosie Ama: The Ransom Note Mix

EPISODE 4
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The Hut on the Chicken Leg — the first revolutions.
She built a house, but the house refused to stand — it rose on narrow chicken legs and began to spin. Baba Yaga taught it to turn, to change course, to seek traces of lost travelers. The hut became her eyes and claws: it spun to catch a whisper on the road, to avoid patrols, to dance with the stars. When she rose and the house pivoted down the rootways, she felt the first taste of freedom — and the first responsibility for the paths that sprung from it.
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credits
released October 30, 2025

Produced by GUND & Overmind
Mastering: MENTØL
Artwork: MysteryNata 

Overgunz - Are u Sure [208]

I promise you, there is energy here. This song consists of two parts. It's a longer journey through sound. This song represents drastic changes that we might experience daily.

Encrypted by Jack Sazonov - The Game

The Game

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Thank you to &on&on for let me remix there song ❤️

Out now on all Platforms

&on&on - De Stijl (DJ Darko's Ethernal High Remix)

One of your top 10 DJs of 2009 pops in for a rare insight into her varied influences.

RA.215 Magda

RA.360 Solomun

Rinse Fm Podcast

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Rinse FM Podcast - Slam Takeover - Andrew Weatherall - 8th April 2017

It came as a shock. I still wish that this is a mistake or a misunderstanding...

Andrew came in to do our 3rd episode, when we had no following and nobody really cared about this project. He loved the concept. A bit shy at first, but then all of the stories started pouring out. I could listen to them for the entire day, really. Some of them are in this recording.

I have taken out my hour, and the old jingles I used to use. Listening back to this brings a lot of memories, and the music he played is definitely timeless. Writing is not my specialty, and I did not know Andrew that well to be honest, to put together a long text about him. I do, however, have this recording of him going through, what he thought at the time, his biggest musical influences. A short autobiography, narrated and soundtracked. I wanted there to be nothing else but him. 

He left three records when leaving the studio. We spoke about trying to arrange a meeting for me to bring them, as well as take a few of his pictures using an old soviet Liubitel camera, which he thought looked great when he saw it. But either he was away, busy, or we did not have the film for the camera or time to do it. I am sorry that I never gave the records back, and also sorry that we did not take any pictures, which you really wanted. 

At times like these you wish there was a world beyond our own, but you can't really know. If none of us ever see you again, at least we have something to remember you from.

Thank you, and rest in peace.

Andrew Weatherall Influence Selection

00] Hole In One - Spiritual Ideas For Virtual Reality
[09] The Primitive Painter - Levitation [Klang Elektronik - KLANG 1]
[18] Dubtribe Sound System - Sunshine's Theme (Sunshine's Remix) [Organico - ORG 004]
[23] State Of Flux - Mercury [Finiflex - FF1009]
[29] The Primitive Painter - Cathedral [Klang Elektronik - KLANG 1]
[36] Ebi - Chuu [Space Teddy - ST 007]
[43] Some Other People - Astralise [Infinite Mass - MASS 018 T]
[52] The Primitive Painter - Invisible Landscapes [Klang Elektronik - KLANG 1]
[58] Squid - Emprisoning Sound On A Piece Of Wax [Apollo - APOLLO 16]
[64] The Keyprocessor - Feary Tales [Eevo Lute Muzique - EEVO 008]
[68] State Of Flux - The News [Bold! Stars - BR 2009-1]
[71] Ian Pooley And Alec Empire - Untitled (Pulse Code E.P. Side A) [Mille Plateaux - MP 3]
[83] Ebi - Sou [Space Teddy - ST 007]

LEATHERETTE #012 - The Hacker & Phil Kieran 06/09/25

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