This one as well... Dude, havent heard from you in a while!

A Split Second


Written by Ch. Chayell, M. Ickx

Performed and produced by Rich Lane

In the UK Midlands of late 1988, shortly after the second Summer of Love, a 15 year old schoolboy, already immersed in Acid House and Detroit Techno, reads in one of the pretentious London-centric mags he devours each month about a new sound which could be the next big genre.  It's called New Beat, and it comes, of all places, from Belgium. This makes him pay attention -  he spent every summer holiday of his youth in one of the country's resorts, and had vague memories of stark, pounding electronic music emanating from club doorways late at night.

He makes a trip from his suburban home into the city centre determined to find some examples of this new music. After a lot of searching he comes up trumps: a compilation album called 'New Beat - Take 1'. He buys it on the spot and takes it home to listen to. As with most albums he's ever bought, he feels slightly cheated, after a couple of good tracks there's a fair bit of filler, and certainly no overriding 'sound' other than a somewhat slow and Euro Pop centric approach to House. Nothing like the aural fingerprint of Acid or Techno. But...

Some of the tracks pique his interest. They have a dark, early 80s synth heavy sound which reminds him of both the Synth Pop of his youth, and the mysterious music filtering out of those Belgian clubs as a child...

He has to wait till the very end of the album for the best of these - a track called 'Flesh' by A Split Second. The fascinating sleeve notes of the L.P. tell the story of how an already banging tune in the established Belgian style of 'Electronic Body Music' was played at the wrong speed (33 1/3 and +8 on the Technics deck) by an Antwerp DJ called Fat Ronny. The club went wild, and a new genre was born - Belgian producers trying to replicate the slower groove and dark timbres of this fateful bit of serendipity. The UK schoolboy gets more than a little obsessed by the tune...

The lad in question went on to form a career in dance music production, and after 25 years has decided to revisit this important and very personal piece of nostalgia, fashioning a complete, respectful and sample free rework of the track based on it's 'go slow' speed. 

This one is for the music mad schoolkid in all of us...

R.L.

Rich Lane - Flesh (Remake)

A Split Second - FLESH - Goryx Edit

‘Ghost of Arms’, the dark synth-pop jewel from @cursesforever & @terr_music is about to get the remix treatment thanks to an exciting line up!

Italian born, Florence-based @matisaxx is injecting a more than efficient trancy and bumping prog house energy into the original, while staying true to its emotional side. A glorious version tailored made for euphoric hands-in-the-air, get-lost-in-the-moment scenes in the clubs.

Paris-born composer, orchestrator and Musique Concretist @wladimirschall delivers a beautiful and fascinating stripped-down interpretation.
Built around an infectious hazy melody and ethereal guitar chords, in that melancholic setting, Terr's reflections on lost love resonates even deeper.

South Korean producer and dj @shubostar speeds up the pace a bit with her synth-driven, Italo inspired remix. Now draped in her signature cosmic sound, Terr vocals are more moving than ever, Curses soothing guitar action are floating all around, all of it invoking the bitter-sweet melancholy of a reflective night ride.

Out november 11 on Dischi Autunno.

Artwork by Last Veil
Mastered at The Wall

PREMIERE: Curses feat. Terr - Ghost Of Arms (Shubostar Remix) [DISCHI AUTUNNO]

Roe Deers’ debut full-length album “Salt Town Boy” filled with dusky moods and punk attitude was released last November on Good Skills and we probably all agree that it’s great. Unique storytelling vocal contributors worldwide and six years of Deers’ studio work were mixed into a unique left-field collection. But enough of that. The time has come to do some proper dancing – Good Skills presents to you the first remix EP for “Salt Town Boy”.

READ MORE and ORDER HERE:

@shubostar @roedeers

Read Here

PREMIERE: Roe Deers Feat. Niv Ast - Late Night Story [ Shubostar Remix ]

Tour De Infinite is a new label run by the legend who is Rigopolar. A newly built spaceship where dreams, analog synths, cosmos, mental journeys and everything in between are in command. The first release on the imprint comes with four original tracks featuring some indie dance and dark disco flavours to finally complete the circle of his last 'Inversus Totalis'.

Rigopolar - Situs EP [Tour De Infinite]

PREMIERE: Rigopolar - Teachers [Tour De Infinite]

Situs

Rigoplar - Memories [Tour De Infinite]

Next up on Paradise Palms Records, two remixes of Ukrainian artist ID_UA’s “Dyakui”.
https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premiere-id_ua-dyakui-fausto-remix-paradise-palms/

ID_UA and Dyakui, in a wild parade, Fausto’s Remix, where dreams cascade, On Paradise Palms, the music’s crusade, A nonsensical groove, our senses persuade.

Dancing through the night, in a cosmic trance, ID_UA’s beats make our bodies dance, Fausto’s remix takes a chance, With electronic rhythms, we all enhance.

In this surreal world, we’ll forever dwell, In a realm of sound where time can’t quell, ID_UA and Fausto, the stories they tell, On Paradise Palms, our spirits swell.
 

Next up on Paradise Palms Records, two remixes of Ukrainian artist ID_UA’s  “Dyakui”. We’re premiering Los Mochis’s Fausto who’s had releases on Turbo Recording and Tom Tom Disco.

Swirling, distorted synth lines give way to innocent melodies bringing it out into the light.

Out Nov 10. Listen below and pre-order here:https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premiere-id_ua-dyakui-fausto-remix-paradise-palms/

PREMIERE: ID_UA - Dyakui (Fausto Remix) [Paradise Palms]

Replicants (Rigopolar Remix)

INCOMING : Beyond The Struttosphere - Planet Ogo (Shubostar Remix) #Discolypso

Release date : 2024-03-21
Buy : https://discolypso.bandcamp.com/album/planet-ogo


Beyond The Struttosphere blast back into orbit with the release of ‘Planet Ogo’ on Discolypso. The title track is inspired by progressive trance and fuses a driving chug bassline with a hypnotic 303 sequence, distorted techno stabs and a trifecta of meandering arpeggiators, creating a wormhole through space and time. Thunderous power chords and nuanced percussion layering guide the track towards a cosmic void, echoing with mind-bending vocal samples from the cult sci-fi film ’12 Monkeys’, before a high-voltage crescendo transports you to the Planet Ogo. Remixes are provided by two masters of the scene: South Korean cosmic disco royalty, Shubostar, applies her trademark sound, introducing playful melodies, kinetic arps and retro-futuristic synths that elevate its seismic breakdown into outer space. Spanish new wave maestro, K-Effect, provides a more psychedelic contribution, weaving in tripped-out FX, clinical drum arrangements and low-end synths that propel the tune towards its ominous conclusion.

‘Cosmic Stuntman’, the second offering, is as intrepid as its name suggests. The first half is a minimalist soundscape defined by crunchy guitar riffs, energetic tambourines, cowbells and an array of spacey FX, before the second opens in throttle with a ferocious mid-range bass, cutting snares and cosmic pads that build in magnitude as the track reaches its spellbinding climax. Dionigi, alumnus of Italian cosmic sound movement, remixes the track into a low-slung chugger complete with glitchy vocoders that resemble scrambled UFO transmissions.

The EP concludes with bonus remixes of BTS back catalogue hits. ‘Replicants’, originally released on Mélopée Records in 2021, is resurrected by Berlin-based electronic rock n’ roll band, Tegel Boys, who transform the track into a krautrock-infused kosmiche space odyssey perfect for tuned-in psychic travellers. Mexican dark wave legend, Rigopolar, follows with a tranced-out remix bolstered by robotic arpeggiators and mechanical guitars that propel you to Mach-10. Completing the package are reinterpretations of ‘Storming Heaven’ which first appeared on Emerald & Doreen Recordings and pays homage to Jay Steven’s eponymous book on LSD and the American dream. Argentinian dark disco producer and member of Ralph Lawson’s 2020 Soundsystem, Julian Sanza, cranks up the funk and reconfigures the track into a Balearic sunset trip. UK godfather of chug Rich Lane isolates the original’s soaring guitar solo and reimagines the track into a mesmerising downtempo chugger tinged with psychedelia. 

☎️ Connect ☎️
https://soundcloud.com/beyond-the-struttosphere
https://soundcloud.com/shubostar
https://soundcloud.com/discolypsomusic

INCOMING : Beyond The Struttosphere - Planet Ogo (Shubostar Remix) #Discolypso

Beyond The Struttosphere blast back into orbit with the release of ‘Planet Ogo’ on Discolypso. The title track is inspired by progressive trance and fuses a driving chug bassline with a hypnotic 303 sequence, distorted techno stabs and a trifecta of meandering arpeggiators, creating a wormhole through space and time. Thunderous power chords and nuanced percussion layering guide the track towards a cosmic void, echoing with mind-bending vocal samples from the cult sci-fi film ’12 Monkeys’, before a high-voltage crescendo transports you to the Planet Ogo. Remixes are provided by two masters of the scene: South Korean cosmic disco royalty, Shubostar, applies her trademark sound, introducing playful melodies, kinetic arps and retro-futuristic synths that elevate its seismic breakdown into outer space. Spanish new wave maestro, K-Effect, provides a more psychedelic contribution, weaving in tripped-out FX, clinical drum arrangements and low-end synths that propel the tune towards its ominous conclusion.

‘Cosmic Stuntman’, the second offering, is as intrepid as its name suggests. The first half is a minimalist soundscape defined by crunchy guitar riffs, energetic tambourines, cowbells and an array of spacey FX, before the second opens in throttle with a ferocious mid-range bass, cutting snares and cosmic pads that build in magnitude as the track reaches its spellbinding climax. Dionigi, alumnus of Italian cosmic sound movement, remixes the track into a low-slung chugger complete with glitchy vocoders that resemble scrambled UFO transmissions.

The EP concludes with bonus remixes of BTS back catalogue hits. ‘Replicants’, originally released on Mélopée Records in 2021, is resurrected by Berlin-based electronic rock n’ roll band, Tegel Boys, who transform the track into a krautrock-infused kosmiche space odyssey perfect for tuned-in psychic travellers. Mexican dark wave legend, Rigopolar, follows with a tranced-out remix bolstered by robotic arpeggiators and mechanical guitars that propel you to Mach-10. Completing the package are reinterpretations of ‘Storming Heaven’ which first appeared on Emerald & Doreen Recordings and pays homage to Jay Steven’s eponymous book on LSD and the American dream. Argentinian dark disco producer and member of Ralph Lawson’s 2020 Soundsystem, Julian Sanza, cranks up the funk and reconfigures the track into a Balearic sunset trip. UK godfather of chug Rich Lane isolates the original’s soaring guitar solo and reimagines the track into a mesmerising downtempo chugger tinged with psychedelia.

🛒: https://discolypso.bandcamp.com/album/planet-ogo
youtube: https://youtu.be/yeDtGQGFoQI

https://soundcloud.com/rigopolar
https://soundcloud.com/discolypsomusic
https://soundcloud.com/beyond-the-struttosphere

PREMIERE | Beyond The Struttosphere - Replicants (Rigopolar Remix)

Iron Pulse” is raw mechanical power in motion. ØLYNDRØM combines metallic textures, hypnotic rhythms, and cinematic force to create a relentless techno anthem pulsing like steel under pressure.

Iron Pulse

Between love, loss, and self-forgiveness.

Video out now on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/1FU_eEfI49A

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Your chains still bind me
your silence cuts, it breaks my skin
I seek for freedom and can‘t see 
your fire burns and pulls me in

Wherever I stay, I stay as sinner

I cross the line and feed a hidden flame
your shadow follows where I hide
I whisper love, but not your name
my sins are carved on either side

Wherever I go, I go as sinner

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Music and Words by FloW., 2025
Generated vocals, shaped by hand. All vocals are synthetically generated. No real voices were used or imitated. The voices serve artistic expression only. 
Cover image: FloW.
All samples used are royalty-free and/or properly licensed – including material from Logic Pro and Landr.com.

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More about FloW.: www.iamflow.de
Follow me on Instagram: www.instagram.com/tflow0711

A sinner

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