IN THE MIDDLE @Bawrut
Out Now on Ransom Note Records - https://ransom-note-records.lnk.to/IntheMiddle

Our love affair with Ransom Note stalwart BAWRUT  started five years ago with his first stone cold classic EP ‘Ciquita’. Now ‘In the Middle’ his debut LP presents a new sound. A striking eleven-track journey through sunset pop, electronic melancholia and delusive migrations taking place around the Mediterranean. 

5% of the album profits will be donated to Open Arms, a non-profit non-governmental organisation dedicated to protect those who try to reach Europe by sea, fleeing from armed conflict, persecution or poverty https://www.openarms.es/

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Bawrut - In the Middle [Ransom Note Records #29]

INFO: https://www.clubbingspain.com/mp3/2021/macaulay-vs-dj-papi-latinon.html
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Latinon EP

Latinon

PREMIERE: Macaulay Vs DJ Papi - Latinon [Duro]

JE ‘O TTENG E T’O DDÒNG’
New single Out Now - https://ransom-note-records.lnk.to/JE-O-TTENG-E-TO-DDONG

JE ‘O TTENG E T’O DDÒNG'

Bawrut & LIBERATO - JE ‘O TTENG E T’O DDÒNG'

CROSSING FOR A GOLDEN BLANKET
Taken from the debut album 'In the Middle @Bawrut
Out Now on Ransom Note Records - https://ransom-note-records.lnk.to/IntheMiddle

5% of the album profits will be donated to Open Arms, a non-profit non-governmental organisation dedicated to protect those who try to reach Europe by sea, fleeing from armed conflict, persecution or poverty https://www.openarms.es/

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Ransom Note stalwart BAWRUT presents a new sound in his debut album ‘In the Middle’, a striking eleven-track journey through sunset pop, electronic melancholia and delusive migrations taking place around the Mediterranean.

'Crossing for a Golden Blanket' is the first track to be lifted from the album. Perhaps the strongest and hardest hitting track on the LP, its message is reflected in the loops that never quite close, giving a sense of instability, shaping a dark digital sea with a refugee's makeshift dinghy about to capsize at its centre. The morse code S.O.S. announces the end of the struggle before a risky rescue. “The song ends between hope and uncertainty”.

The LP ‘In the Middle’ is a reflection on recent years. A story about movement and migration around the Mediterranean but also the notion of a moving identity. It’s about the luck of the drawer, finding yourself born in the middle of the ‘West’, whilst others strive to get here with the hope of a better life. It’s about being in the middle of music and cultures and the beautiful accidents that this movement has produced over the years. Above all, it’s a celebration of the beauty of the movement to a better life, to create something new, with hope and optimism whatever the circumstances. It’s a celebration of diversity and inclusivity.

“I was born in Gorizia, a city with a centuries-old, multi-ethnic identity literally split in two by a border (Italy and Slovenia) after the Second World War. Perhaps for this reason I have always felt closer and more aligned with the encounters between cultures and people, instead of the rigid idea of nationalism and the notion of a unique identity.
Through my music I try to combine languages and sounds to make a record that celebrates the union, the meeting and crossing of experiences.” – Bawrut

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PREMIERE: Bawrut - Crossing for a Golden Blanket [Ransom Note Records]

FE SAMAA @Bawrut @Glitter00
Taken from Bawrut debut album 'In the Middle'
Out Now on Ransom Note Records - https://ransom-note-records.lnk.to/IntheMiddle

Third single lifted from Bawrut’s upcoming LP ‘In the Middle’, ‘Fe Samaa’ features the Moroccan-born Paris-based DJ and singer گليثر٥٥ Glitter on vocals. The bittersweet track blends a balearic beat with lyrics in Arabic telling a story of movement, emigration, optimism and disappointment.

5% of the album profits will be donated to Open Arms, a non-profit non-governmental organisation dedicated to protect those who try to reach Europe by sea, fleeing from armed conflict, persecution or poverty www.openarms.es/

In the Middle

Bawrut & گليثر٥٥ Glitter -  في السماء (Fe Samaa)

EUROCASBAH @Bawrut @Cosmo-official
Taken from Bawrut debut album 'In the Middle'
Out Now on Ransom Note Records - https://ransom-note-records.lnk.to/IntheMiddle

Penultimate single from Bawrut’s upcoming LP, the Europop banger ‘Eurocasbah’ combines an Arabian beat with the bars of Italian hitmaker Cosmo. 

5% of the album profits will be donated to Open Arms, a non-profit non-governmental organisation dedicated to protect those who try to reach Europe by sea, fleeing from armed conflict, persecution or poverty www.openarms.es/

Bawrut & Cosmo - Eurocasbah

ALFREDO AND RICARDO BROUGHT ME HERE @Bawrut
Taken from Bawrut debut album 'In the Middle'
Out Now on Ransom Note Records - ransom-note-records.lnk.to/IntheMiddle


5% of the album profits will be donated to Open Arms, a non-profit non-governmental organisation dedicated to protect those who try to reach Europe by sea, fleeing from armed conflict, persecution or poverty www.openarms.es/

Bawrut - Alfredo And Ricardo Brought Me Here

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/oblakomaranta
Track:  Tigers Of Java
Label: https://soundcloud.com/phobhorecords
Format: 12" Vinyl, Digital, VA
Release date: 13/12/22
YouTube: https://youtu.be/6nGlDuiPR7M

Pho Bho's 6th release, Inverted Echoes, is a various artist blending different club’s shades.
Nero Zang open the ep with a slow emotional lysergic journey followed up by Oblako Maranta, the new project composed by A-Tweed and Radial Gaze, with a tribal triplets flow scanned by edgy synth, literally a peak time fire gem.
Pletnev close the A side with a trippy electro sequence marked by his voice.
Turn the vinyl to listen Matteo Coffetti in search of a new galaxy, planets are connected to each other through glitchy synths, Camboja draw us a dark scenario with twitchy screaming coming from who?
Closing the various is Hassan Abou Alam the Egyptian emergent artist with triggered voices floating on fattybass.
Edition of 300 copies.

PREMIERE | Oblako Maranta - Tigers Of Java [Pho Bho] 2021

A few months after the release of our first album "Bubbling", we decided to have some of its tracks remixed by artists who have been dear friends and collaborators of Mawimbi for a long time (Pouvoir Magique, Jo Bissa, Marius & Cesar, Daniel Monaco, Mr. Boom, Afro Pupo).

A mix of genres and influences, these reworks give a new dynamic to our tracks, from downtempo acid house to Nigerian-influenced afrobeats

PREMIERE : Mawimbi - Malume (Marius & Cesar Remix)

HNR046: Black Bones  - Nairobi Night Train / F.A.D

7" & Digital

2022-07-28

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Black Bones - Nairobi Night Train

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/chebrunner
Track: Molenbeat
Label: https://soundcloud.com/oddballfantasies
Format: 12" Vinyl, Digital EP
Release date: 15/09/22
YouTube: https://youtu.be/-Okdsa1YTgY

Oddball Fantasies is more than pleased to welcome Cheb Runner for its second release. His Moroccan roots remain omnipresent in this perfectly balanced blend between traditional Raï elements & the irresistible sound of the 80s underground. When old meets new, those who resist to dance, shall be few

PREMIERE | Cheb Runner - Molenbeat [Oddball Fantasies] 2022

BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/lena-platonos-sun-masks-remixes-ep/

Λένα Πλάτωνος (Lena Platonos) is a Greek musician, pianist and music composer. Her debut solo album, ‘Μάσκες Ηλίου’ (‘Sun Masks’) was produced in 1984 and reissued by Dark Entries in 2016. The album featured experiments with different sounds and a new batch of electronic equipment, such as the Roland TR 808 drum machine and Yamaha C60 synthesizer. Lena narrates each song in deadpan fashion, skillfully reciting her surreal Greek poetry. Her lyrics deal with the futility of love, the gap of human relationships, consumerist alienation in the bourgeois lifestyle of the 1980s.

We’ve recruited four of our favorite contemporary producers to remix their favorite tracks from ‘Sun Masks’. First up is “Lego” remixed by triple scorpio supernova Avalon Emerson, who is based in Berlin. Her remix morphs the track into a solid dancefloor twister. Next is “Lego” remixed by Lena Willikens, Cologne based DJ and resident at Salon Des Amateurs in Düsseldorf. She provides a deep and psychedelic journey through the darker shadows of the early night or morning. On the B-side is New Yorker and Firehouse Recordings boss Kim Ann Foxman remixing “Hoping By Shopping”. She transforms the spacey robotic vocoder track into a dynamic deep house workout, tough and dreamy all at once. Closing out the EP is a remix of “Wrong Love” by Berlin via Bucharest producer Borusiade aka Miruna Boruzescu. Enhancing the original melancholic piano ballad to a cosmic processional with poignant bass lines that build and recess like the ocean tides. 

All songs have been mastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The jacket is a reinterpretation of the original ‘Sun Masks’ cover, isolating the photograph of Lena wearing sunglasses designed by Eloise Leigh. Each copy includes a two-sided postcard with a manipulated film still from one of Lena’s music videos.

Sun Masks Remixes

Lena Platonos - Lego (Lena Willikens Remix)

Krokakai aka Kyle Webster is at the controls for the second Invisible Inc's digital-only release. Ranging from tribal sci-fi rave to new wave electro and then powering onwards to almost industrial sounding slo-mo techno, the machines under Krokakai's control are perfectly tuned for Invisible Inc.'s dark side. 

https://soundcloud.com/invisible-inc
https://soundcloud.com/krokakai

Out on April 22nd!

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PRÈMIÉRE: Krokakai - Bodhran Beat [Invisible, Inc.]

Off the forthcoming LP from Iñigo Vontier & Thomas Von Party

Salsa Fingers - Marinado

This is my 80th test, where I tried to channel Berlin's queer party energy. Remembering the good times on @about-blank-berlin 's wooden terrace.
I made the visual with the help of my flatmate Alice.

Feroui - Test 80 (Contrôle)

Relish Compilation VII features tracks and remixes by AHEADACHEADAY, ELIEZER w/ Zillas on Acid and Dangur, M Love, Headman, Mufti feat. Vongold, Franz & Shape and Modular Project.

The Compilation starts off with Alberto de Angeli aka AHEADACHEADAY. A dark slow motion synth laden track with Burundi beat undertones. 
Tel Aviv’s Eliezer collaborated w/ Zillas on Acid on Anna Bella. The vocals are by Isadora. The song is trippy, hypnotic and percussive.
M Love’s Price is his 3rd release on Relish. New World was featured on REPIX. New Wave and Krautrock infused techno for the momentarily absent dancefloors.This time a bit harder and less melodic. Devoleb is a new Headman track. The original idea was to rework an old track, but while working on it something new came out. The track is an example of Post Punk Disco, 808 drummachines and Basslines that reminds one of Motorik retro futurist funk. Crimson is by Eliezer and Dangur with again vocals from Isadora. This version is a bit more uptempo, again with a tribal nearly ethnic feel with guitars and percussion that slide in and out dubbing everything. Mufti feat Vongold contributed already on REPXI. False Guru has a similar  Mexican underground vibe, dark arpeggio synths, driving drums and  mystic vocals by Vongold.
Headman’s Be Loved original version was released in 2011. First remixed by Daniel Avery on the homonymous single. Modular Project remixed the version again and turned it into a high energy dark Giorgio Moroder-esque interpretation keeping loads of sounds and the poppy vocals from the original. Franz & Shape who have been part of Relish since the early days contributed N.u.m.b.. The vocals are by Matt Southall from the UK band Officers. The remix is by Croatian electronica producer Petar Dundov. He added vocoders and gave a nice retro-italo feel to the original version. He added vocoders and gave a nice retro-italo feel to the original version.

RELISH COMP VII

N.u.m.b. (Petar Dundov Remix)

Franz & Shape feat. Matt Southall - N.u.m.b. (Petar Dundov Remix)

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