Monday is OK

5.12

“I am a mildly confused individual not trying to fake like he knows what is going on, with relatively mild existential qualms, a dabbler, an aspiring jack-of-all-trades:

This week's mixtape for a Monday has been put together by Mr Patrick Larkin:
https://www.theransomnote.com/music/p-larkin-the-monday-is-ok-mixtape/

INTERVIEW

P. Larkin - The Ransom Note 'Monday Is OK' Mixtape

Little something something to get you in the mood.

Make A Mix

If you know... you know.

Lucky to have me lucky to have you, lucky to have Jonny rock with us in one of the most memorable red sofa sessions so far. Something unique that only someone so full of energy and vitality can show. Complete your journey by meeting people who will make you experience these lively sensations and teach you.

Come back soon Captain,

Red Sofa Radio by Pachanga brings together inspirational and enthusiastic musicians to take a seat on the vibrant red sofa to show their material to the world so a complex ecosystem of rhythms is built.

If you have a Red Sofa near you, sit down too, It can be by yourself, with your loved ones, or just with a random neighbor. In any case, enjoy.

Follow us on instagram: @pachangadjs

RSR Mix - 010: Jonny Rock

We all remember the time that Powder stepped up on stage at Equation last year. , her psychedelic, brain-melting, trippy sound set left us glued to the dance floor. The pulsating beats and hypnotic rhythms created an otherworldly atmosphere, transcending the boundaries of conventional sound. Each track seamlessly blended into the next, carrying us on a journey through the depths of electronic euphoria. Powder's intuitive mixing and ethereal selections transformed the night into a sensory experience, where time seemed to bend and reality melted away,   As the rainbow lighting illuminated the cave orchestrated by human spectrum left an image that lingered in our minds long after the music faded .

Follow Powder @thinner_groove

Photo : Tonya Dzyubenko

Powder, The Cave [Equation 2023]

Recording of Millos Kaiser's set at Dekmantel Selectors 2023.

Millos Kaiser at Dekmantel Selectors 2023

IDA Folder - Kuba'97 30.11.23

Ambient melancholia and dream-like states for a December Monday.

Last month, our old friend Daneil Herrmann aka Flug 8 made a triumphant return to Ransom Note Records with his new album, Bermuda LP, his first release with us since 2020’s Electric Fields. Comprising nine ethereal tracks evoking the serene beauty of space, each piece sparkled like distant stars and cosmic ambiance. “A weightless experience akin to witnessing a celestial phenomenon,” propeling listeners beyond the asteroid belt, emerging through cosmic gas clouds.  Flug 8’s most ambitious and timeless work to date, we couldn’t not ask for his take on a ‘Monday Is OK’ mix for 2023.

Flug 8 - Monday Is OK Mixtape

A sonic adventure in the outer reaches through electronic, funk, new wave, and R&B with Ghana’s Delasi:

https://www.theransomnote.com/music/delasi-the-monday-is-ok-mixtape/]

@brownswood @delasi

Delasi - The Monday Is OK Mixtape

Debut album The Golden Age Of Self-Snitching draws “inspiration from hip-hop pioneers and preserving the spirit of Southern hip-hop’s golden era”, so with that in mind we thought it right to ask Joan for a mix of that golden era for this Monday.
Interview here: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/revival-season-the-monday-is-ok-mixtape/

Revival Season - The Monday Is OK mixtape

The first permanent installation of a soundscape like this,  Thomsen’s Faroese Eysturoyartunnil subsea tunnel composition broadcasts continuously on FM radio within the tunnel.
Full interview here: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/jens-l-thomsen-the-monday-is-ok-mixtape/

Jens L. Thomsen - The Monday Is OK Mixtape

Rough digi-dub and bass-heavy pulsations. Love Song's Thomas Korf and Sebastian Kokus and the prolific Ulf Schütte aka Cloud Management bring forth a ray of sunlight through the February clouds.
https://www.theransomnote.com/music/cloud-management-the-monday-is-ok-mixtape/

Cloud Management - The Monday Is OK Mixtape

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