R$N Premieres: October 2016

As a little extra to celebrate our 10-year anniversary, Betonkust made a 90s house remix of Hit or Miss.The original track by indie pop singer Gisèle features the iconic KORG M1 piano – practically begging for a dancefloor rework. It’s been 10 years since 9300 Records kicked things off with Innershades ' What About Us EP – a four-track release made entirely with the same KORG M1 synthesizer.This remix brings things full circle.

Track available via Bandcamp and Beatport. 
BC: https://9300records.bandcamp.com/track/gis-le-hit-or-miss-betonkust-remix
BP:https://www.beatport.com/nl/release/hit-or-miss-betonkust-remix/5294892

Gisèle - Hit or Miss (Betonkust remix)

V/A - 3 Years Of Samovar
BUY LINK: https://samovarmoscow.bandcamp.com/album/3-years-of-samovar
Label: Samovar (https://soundcloud.com/samovarmoscow
https://www.instagram.com/samovarmoscow/
> Max Mirraw (https://soundcloud.com/maxmirraw)
https://www.instagram.com/maxmirraw/

Moscow-based producer Max Mirraw, previously released on labels PEM and Welofi, contributes to the 3 Years of Samovar compilation with his striking breaks track Red Lights. Built around a delicate sampled vocal and an exquisite atmosphere, the track feels both fragile and deeply danceable.

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PREMIERE : Max Mirraw - Red Lights

Tangible Dreams (Lawrence Remix)

Moody McIvor is a Darkwave/Synthwave act fronted by Christopher McIvor from the Gold Coast, Australia, with production support from Felipe Bortoloti (Nørus), originally from Brazil and now based in Portugal.

Formed in 2021, the project blends ethereal soundscapes with pulsating rhythms, weaving together electronic textures and organic depth for a sound that is both intimate and expansive.

The debut release on McIvor’s new sublabel Ronnie’s Records, Shadow Frequencies, is a deeply personal body of work developed over four years and dedicated to the memory of close friend Benaiah Fiu. Each track channels love, loss, and memory through haunting melodies, evocative vocals, and emotionally rich atmospheres.

Pre-order vinyl now: inchbyinch.eu/release/46736028

Instagram: @moodymcivor_fka_djwhiprsnipr

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PREMIERE : Moody Mcivor - Benaiah Fiu

BUY LINK: https://orcd.co/tvistropical
Label: Stratasonic (https://soundcloud.com/stratasonic)
https://www.instagram.com/stratasonic_records/
> Tom Vek (https://soundcloud.com/tomvek)
https://www.instagram.com/tom_vek/
> Is Tropical (https://soundcloud.com/istropical)
https://www.instagram.com/istropicalofficial

Today, Tom Vek shares the latest single from We Have Sound Remixed—the 20th anniversary reimagining of his cult debut album, arriving October 2 via StrataSonic Records.

Following Dave Glass Animals’ remix of “C-C (You Set the Fire in Me)” and Everything Everything’s rework of “Nothing But Green Lights,” London-based indie-electronic outfit Is Tropical takes the reins with a fresh interpretation of “I Ain’t Saying My Goodbyes.” Known for their genre-blurring sound throughout the 2010s, the group infuses the track with propulsive rhythms, raw textures, and a dancefloor-ready edge that casts the original in a new light.

“This song was on my soundtrack of leaving my hometown and moving up to London. Great memories of Shoreditch when it was full of squats and club line-ups were so eclectic. When there were still clubs in central London, this track was always played at FROG by the iconic DJs Danny Varley & Tom Frog! I remember the time fondly with a filter of K cider, brogues kept together with duct tape and no socks, regretamine and of course strobes. Shame that the camera phone was at early development as we’d have more archives to cringe through; as the glow sticks fade into lower back problems. But it be a seed that turns into the dancetree our children will rave under!”  — IS TROPICAL

Emerging from South London squats in 2009, IS TROPICAL carved out a cult following with their jagged and euphoric, sharp-edged pop with a nomadic sensibility. Tagged at different times as indie, electronic, punk, and “doss-pop,” IS TROPICAL signed early on to beloved French brand/record label Kitsuné and quickly became international adventurers, touring everywhere from Ghana to Mongolia, Russia to Peru, and sharing stages with LCD Soundsystem, Sonic Youth, Hole, and Klaxons.

We Have Sound Remixed is a rare kind of tribute, curated by Vek himself, with each artist handpicked and invited to reinterpret the record that helped shape their creative DNA. The result is a celebration of We Have Sound not only as a pivotal album of the 2000s, but as a blueprint for the fusion of guitar music, DIY electronica, and sharp-edged pop that now defines a generation of UK and alternative acts.


With contributions from alt-J’s Gus Unger-Hamilton, Everything Everything, Porij, Is Tropical, Anna Prior, Dutch Uncles, Baths, Vivid Fever Dreams, and Coby Sey, this project cements Tom Vek’s role as a cult figure whose music remains eerily current — and deeply influential — two decades on.




PREMIERE : Tom Vek - I Ain't Saying My Goodbyes (Is Tropical Remix)

Following the debut album Only Skies Stay Eternal, the Remixes EP takes a bold step forward. These reinterpretations reshape Fille’s introspective sound into more club-oriented territories, signaling a new phase in her sonic evolution. 

Rico Casazza opens the release with a standout electro remix - fluid rhythms, a wavy bassline, and catchy vocal hooks push Fille’s sound into elevated, high-energy territory. 



PREMIERE : Fille - Reach the Nucleus (Rico Casazza Remix)

Super Tuﬀ 💪 is back on the scene with some drippy tech house deliciousness for you. Introducing… Warden 🚨

Two lovers of all things techy, minimal, and weird—Warden is a collaboration between M. Vaughan and Ireland’s Whoisben. Borne from weekly ritual sessions in Lisbon throughout 2025, Learning Curve is a grass-stained love letter to early 2000’s tech-house. For fans of Swayzak, Loidis, Central, and Herbert.

Prioritizing simplicity, these tracks were made from a heap of samples, a tangle of dropbox folders, and a stack of videos on FM synthesis. This is the sound of two friends nerding out.

"Moonlight" is a synth workout featuring Basic Channel-infused stabs, underpinned by deep tech. "Pensamentos" is a dubby chugger, filled with echo-drenched introspection. "You & I" recalls dreaming while the SSX Tricky 🏂 loading screen plays in the background, thick low-end muscle and cheeky vocals. "Liftoﬀ" sends you on a spacewalk, drifting weightless through syncopated downtempo.

Warden is here, Super Tuﬀ is back, and oh boy does it feel good. 💪
Ahhhhhhhh!

PREMIERE : Warden - Moonlight

R.E.M.M.I.E 'Sunset Dub' self release
Metropolitan Soul Museum 'Market Intrigues' Echocentric
Rai Scott Inside The Mind Of A Nebula' Ohm Series 014
The Vast Profound 'Singularity' (Derek Carr RMX) Fourier Transform
Niko Jay 'Ascending' Batti Batti
4:32 am 'Air' Dream State
Haventepe 'Overcast' Verdant Recordings
DJ Slush 'Chromgenetic' Polytechnic
Arsene 'The Breeze Of Your Shirt' Star Creature
Biz 'Worlds Collide' Subjekt
Gratts 'Sweep Me Off My Feet' (Terry Farley Wade Teo Dub) BSBF
Pegasvs 'Groove theory' Burning Music
Arimat 'Blank Spaces' Rekab
ReKaB 'Soulful Season' Yore Recordings
ReKaB 'Cyborg Romance' Acquit
ReKaB 'We May Have Something' Intellitronic Bubble
Al Smith 'Digital Ghetto Master' Chateau Chepere
Böhm 'Train Ride' Morris Audio
Adham Zahran 'Brass Talk' Dealt With Records
Adham Zahran 'Some Way Out' Dealt With Records
Marcus Paulson 'Pure Days' Junction 4
Genius Of Time 'Magnified' Aniara
Gauss 'Z1' Gaus LTD
MOY 'DREAMCOAST' EMOTEC




Outta Limits Radio Show 5th September 2025

Michael son of Michael returns with the third and final instalment in his unintentional Margate trilogy - following in the proud tradition of trilogies like “The Godfather”, “Three Colours”, “Toy Story”, “The Lord of the Rings”, and Bowie’s “Berlin”.
The first EP reflected very loosely on the move to Margate - a UK coastal town once compared (unkindly) to Beirut, now more often compared (still unkindly) to Hackney. The second was shaped by lockdown life and a local community that was either elusive or illusory.
The third? A reluctant sign-off, inspired by the growing trend among nouveau locals to quietly abandon their seaside dream - not quite fleeing, but drifting inland in search of something else. More rural, more urban, or just… different.

Full track list presented without comment, context, or connective tissue:

Cowbell Concerto
Sonido del Sureste
Del Boy
*New Signs of Life

🛒: https://msom.bandcamp.com/album/drifting-inland
youtube: https://youtu.be/g8z1Sh8xEzo

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PREMIERE | Michael son of Michael - New Signs of Life

Canopy is a Portuguese based label now in its fourth year, run by New Zealand born Emmanuel Dalton aka Sumosui. Reissuing forgotten tropical gems of synth infused 70s, 80s & 90s funk, disco, boogie and derivatives of these genres that emerged from the creative meeting pots of West Africa & The Caribbean. The other side of the label presents remixes of these vintage works, in an Afro-disco direction, through to contemporary house stylings as well as original works inspired by these motifs. Canopy artists include Captain Planet, Opolopo, Bosq, Aroop Roy, Kiko Navarro, Joi N’Juno and a host of colourful creative talent

Welcoming Lontra to the Canopy family, this release is the first in a number of exciting projects. Lontra is Brazilian born, Colombian based producer, and musician, Guille Katorzi. The inspiration and influences for this project were drawn from diverse sources, including disco, house, Nigerian boogie and Afrobeat. The instrumentals were written and produced in Bogotá with Guille laying down the guitar and bass parts which the songs were built upon. After sending the demos to vocalist Sir Jean (Voilaaa/Sir Jean & NMB Afrobeat Experience), he was thrilled to receive a warm response and travelled to France in 2023 to record vocals in the singers' hometown of Lyon. Returning to Bogotá, a selection of top brass musicians contributed their blazing horns to the project. 

Opening up, ‘Money, Money’ serves up a lively disco beat with percussive Afrobeat highlights, funky guitar licks and Afrobeat inspired horn parts, backed by an irresistible bassline, setting the scene for  Sir Jean's lyrical warning "money cannot buy your soul". Dropping some of the Afrobeat accents and staying closer to the centre line, ‘Life Is Movement’ is a dancefloor focused track where Katorzi's guitar hook pairs with a restless bassline over which Sir Jean's vocal delivery shines. 

The flipside begins with a sensuous overture on ‘Mysterious’. A loose Afro-beat and guitar syncopation provides an inviting space for the horn section's refrains and solos. The arrangement allows plenty of room for the listener to become intoxicated by the groove, before Sir Jean opens his heart with the emotive ode to someone we learn of only as..."Mysterious". Closing out proceedings with ‘The Lyon & The Hunter’, Sir Jean sings a warning wrapped in metaphors while Lontra throws down a club focused punch that dances between funk, house and Afro while the scorching horns set the lot aflame. The culmination of different inspirations and intonations imbues the project with a vivacity and richness in colour that reflects the multi-cultural assembly of players. 

PREMIERE : Lontra feat Sir Jean - Mysterious

Club life would never be the same again now that he had left the building. He was gone and so too would this place be very soon. The world mourned the last dancer, out the door he had walked never to return to a floor in which he had spent many a night lost under the glowing lights and disco balls. His movement had been legendary, the talk of the town. Now all that was left was an eerie shadow and an empty space where he had used to stand. This night was for him, they would move in honour. The night had only just begun. Let's ride. 

UK pioneers, rave fanatics and living legends 2 Bad Mice return with a bang. Social Sneaker Club release the first EP from the three since 2004 in what marks a landmark occasion for UK rave culture.

Gone Too Soon

PREMIERE: 2 Bad Mice - Gone Too Soon [Sneaker Social Club]

The warmth of the summer season had begun to fade. Soon the plains would be full of lush green grass and flying birds. Rainy season approached and the hardship of the drought was almost over. The struggle of a community stranded amidst the desert was not deemed important on the global scene. They were a forgotten people. As she watched the clouds move slowly across the sky she wondered when the first drop might fall from above. She longed for the feel of the cold damp upon her skin, she longed to come into rain. It would be any day now, but for tonight the people would have to wait. 

Arnheim is set to release a two track EP on the newly launched label, Baptismo Alpinismo. The label is an offshoot of Isaiah Tapes and sees Arnheim take an eclectic approach with percussive drums and subtle padding.

PREMIERE: Arnheim - Come Into Rain [Baptismo Alpinismo]

The opening month was always the most difficult time of year. The cold wind howled down the misty morning streets and ice lay glazed upon the concrete. As he watched from his bedroom window he looked down upon the people walking to work. Their lives were so busy, so rushed, so hectic, so tense. Some January this would be, the coldest yet they'd said. Up here in the far north it was hard to find work, or the energy to survive, let alone prosper during the winter season. Some January this would be indeed. 

Nekhsa delivers Spinning Plates' third release. The highly anticipated record follows two well received EP's which first appeared on the label back in 2015. The release sees the talents of New York's DJ Spider who ramps up the pace in his own trademark style. This one is packed with weird fuzz and sludgey undertones.

SP003

PREMIERE: Nekhsa - Some Jan (DJ Spider Remix)[Spinning Plates]

Deep beneath the sea swam the vessel. They were well beyond enemy territory now, they were fishing in the waters of the villain and if they were to be caught then peril would soon follow. They knew they should not have travelled this far but the sea can do funny things to peaceful men. They were looking to engage, to interact, to breach the peace. Many aboard the submarine had been divided upon the plan of attack but they all agreed upon one thing: the regime must be broken and its wickedness halted. The murky waters offered them an opportunity which ceased to exist elsewhere. This was the time. 

Gonima is the first artist to appear on a new vinyl based record label titled Slam City Jams. Operating out of Munich the label has been founded by the duo more commonly known as Rhode & Brown who have most notably released on Toy Tonics. The release itself is deep and elegant

Grids

PREMIERE: Gonima - Subdivided [Slam City Jams]

The weight was difficult to fathom. It made no sense, the collateral damage would be excessive and the result would be one of impending doom. The concrete glimmered grey under the floodlights, they sat perched upon a park bench simply watching the world go by. The pressure of such a decision weighed heavy upon his shoulders but she sat peacefully by his side as though nothing was wrong. Looking out into the distance they watched the flickering glow of the city lights, they seemed a million miles away from them now. Up out here in the distant blocks nothing seemed real, not under the weight. 

Malka Tuti return with a new EP from The Kloom. Remixes are aplenty on this one with the likes of Khidja and Die Wilde Jagd both featuring.

PREMIERE: The Kloom - 40 Gram Beton (Khidja Remix) [Malka Tuti]

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.

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PREMIERE: Arnheim - Come Into Rain [Baptismo Alpinismo]

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