Deep in the fantasy he found himself buried between books and parliamentary papers. He was attempting to solve a riddle as to the whereabouts of the guns of rixdorf but little insight was to be gathered upon this evening it seemed. The little candle flickered abruptly on the mantlepiece and sizzled into the abyss upon the breath of wind. He was surrounded by little but the night and the cold crackle of a stereo. All of a sudden a great voice beckoned down the corridor. 

Franz Matthews returns to release a new EP on the much loved Days Of Being Wild record label.

PREMIERE: Franz Matthews - Guns Of Rixdorf [Days Of Being Wild]

Days Of Being Wild is an electronic music label based in London. 

Buy Days Of Being Wild music:
http://daysofbeingwildcorp.bandcamp.com/

Email Days Of Being Wild: daysofbeingwild.corp*at*gmail.com

@Discoquette Artistic Director
Founder of LGBTQI+ label : @lesdisquesdulobby
He/Him

Contact : ixpemusic@gmail.com

Adrián Peña Sánchez (Calystarr) is a DJ, producer and electronic researcher from Chiclana de la Frontera (Cádiz). His style could be compared to night and day, on the one hand, dynamism and depth and on the other, elegance and freshness.
His sounds are full of psychedelic atmospheres full of harmony using nuances and resources, in most cases, of a retrospective nature. Calystarr usually works under many musical influences, betting mainly on retro and underground indie sounds. In his sets and productions it is common to hear Nudisco, Italo, Classic House, New Beat, Indie Dance, Acid, Electro, EBM and Dark Disco styles.

He has worked musically with a multitude of national and international artists such as James Rod, Parissior, Moo Monster, Neurotiker, Pumuki, CMIND, Gameboyz, ROTCIV, Ilya Santana, Tronik Youth, Kay-Chi, Chinosynth and Astore working for music labels such as Golden Soul, Espacio Cielo, When Disco Goes Wrong, Melómana Records, Channel Six, Burning Synths, Nein Records, Club Mackan, Astrolead Records, Logical Records and Emerald & Doreen.
As for performances, Calystarr has been in many venues, events and festivals sharing the bill with many artists of great projection such as Avant_Y, Chagar, Lollypop, Rick Golden, Nubaen, Vinny Carmona, Bonny Stuche, Dalila, Göo!, Sedjat and many more.
Worthy of mention is his performance at Electrolunch, Edición Sevilla XXL where he shared the bill with Reka and Jennifer Cardini and Interestelar Sevilla 2025 where he shared the line up with Marta Flores, Undo and Blondex.
Currently, Calystarr is working on a parallel project in full adaptation to the performance format through the Live Set and Hybrid Set, introducing the alternation through digital and analog systems.
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Releases & remixes:
- Culto Recordings
- Bolonia Recordings
- Golden Soul Records
- Dacusan Music Records
- Sustain Music
- Channel Six
- Asane Records
- Espacio Cielo
- When Disco Goes Wrong
- Nein Records
- Emerald & Doreen
- Club Mackan
- Astrolead Recordings
- Melómana Records
- Burning Synths
- Logical Records 
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Contact/Info: calystarr@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/calystarrmusic

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.

Alongside this we offer musings on film, books, life, and art, generating some context and controversy as an antidote to the reheated PR that clogs up the internet. Our office is fuelled by Tunnock’s Bars, cat memes, hangovers and a ridiculous, never ending love for our culture.

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BOOKINGS: 
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>> Next stops >>
30.08.25 | Mistress Mary | Cambridgeshire, UK
31.10.25 | Planet Caravan | London, UK
29.11.25 | Usual Suspects | Wiltshire, UK

<< Past gigs <<
02.08.25 | Wilderness Festival | Oxfordshire, UK
26.07.25 | Energy Fields | Cotswolds, UK
12.07.25 | Noisily Festival | Leicestershire, UK
28.03.25 | Mimi Disco | CDMX, Mexico
01.02.25 | Disco Bizarre @ KitKat Club | Berlin
20.12.24 | Tegel Boys LIVE @ NAHC | London, UK
15.11.24 | Private party @ Unit 58 | London, UK
09.11.24 | Melopee Records @ Terminal Club | Lyon
07.09.24 | Pickle Juice @ Olso Hackney | London
10.08.24 | Heartwood Festival 2024 | Wiltshire, UK
14.07.24 | Noisily Festival 2024 | Leicestershire, UK
31.05.24 | Dombrance LIVE @ Bush Hall | London
11.05.24 | QUEST | London, UK
24.09.23 | Format Festival 2023 | Bentonville, USA
22.07.23 | Secret Garden Party 2023 | UK
10.07.23 | Noisily Festival 2023 | Leicestershire, UK
25.06.23 | Rabbit Hole @ Glastonbury Festival 2022
16.06.23 | Summer Solstice @ KOKO | London, UK
20.05.23 | Orb LIVE @ Electric Brixton | London, UK
06.05.23 | Ukukhapha | Cambridgeshire, UK
05.05.23 | Parable Vitalic LIVE @ VA | London, UK
15.04.23 | Discolypso @ Nell's | London, UK
04.08.22 | Heartwood Festival 2022 | Wiltshire, UK
22.07.22 | Secret Garden Party 2022 | UK
10.07.22 | Noisily Festival 2022 | Leicestershire, UK
26.06.22 | Rabbit Hole @ Glastonbury Festival 2022 
22.05.22 | Little People Party | Oxfordshire, UK
25.03.22 | Stil Vor Talent @ Steelyard | London
31.07.21 | Unusual @ Horse & Groom | London, UK

BIO:
Beyond The Struttopshere is a sonic collaboration between two DJs channelling their considerable musical production experience and boundless love of cosmic chugging dark disco. Their debut EP ‘New Frontier’ was released on Discolypso Recordings in 2020 and found much acclaim among Andrew Weatherall and Sean Johnston’s A Love From Outer Space online fraternity, also appearing on Juan Mclean’s (DFA Records) contribution to Tim Sweeney’s Beats In Space mix series. This propelled the duo to new heights, leading to highly lauded releases on esteemed labels such as Mélopée Records, Astrolead Recordings, Discolypso, In Dark We Trust, Emerald & Doreen and X-PRESSINGS, and DJ gigs at Glastonbury’s Rabbit Hole, Secret Garden Party, Noisily Festival and Berlin’s infamous KitKat Club among many others. Beyond The Struttosphere’s music is now making sonic reverberations around the globe, hitting the dancefloors of Burning Man, House of Yes NYC, ADE, Fusion Festival, Sisyphos Berlin, and notching up remixes from notable legends of the scene including Shubostar, Rebolledo, Rigopolar, Tegel Boys, Vongold, Badknife, James Rod, Julian Sanza, Roliva, K-Effect and Mufti. The cosmonauts are frequently immersed in the studio, with live guitar now a mainstay of their productions. Their trademark sound combines fat chugging basslines with reverbed guitar riffs, syncopated arpeggiators, cosmic synths, vintage vocal samples, Italo drum fills and psychedelic 303 sequences. Check out their guest mixes on Gouranga, Mélopée, SXDNS, In Dark We Trust, Counterrasim and Something Spaecial and catch them DJ’ing this summer on the UK festival circuit. Strap in for an interstellar journey Beyond The Struttosphere! 

SUPPORT: 
Shubostar, Curses, Algy Strutt, Nick Warren, Roliva, The Juan Maclean, Alvaro Cabana, Duncan Gray, The Two Mamarrachos, Tony Y Not, Mufti, Did Virgo, Richard Sen, Strapontin, Jennifer Cardini, Juan Soto, Peza, Poulper, Kate Stein, Rigopolar, Tiempo de Maldad, Juve, Rebolledo, Ilya Santana, Chloe, Sean Johnston, Severino, Bill Brewster, Justin Robertson, Teniente Castillo, Tronik Youth, Jaye Ward, You Man, M.A.N.D.Y, Andrew Claristidge, The Soviet Union, Flash Atkins, Golden Bug, LUCiD, Danny Rampling, Red Axes, Phred Noir, Megan Leo, Theus Mago, Alan Dixon, Vongold, Justin Robertson, Franz Scala, Perel, DJ T., Bonnie Spacey, Bottin, Teniente Castillo, Badknife, Middle Sky Boom & more.

After years working behind the scenes as a talent agent, Nackley returned to music production as a way to process life’s chaos, anxiety, and the awkward beauty of being human. His debut EP, Anger Management (Bordello A Parigi, 2025), emerged from this transitional period – part catharsis, part tongue-in-cheek commentary on trying (and often failing) to keep it together.

A classical and jazz-trained bass player with a passion (bordering on obsession) for patch cables and modular antics, Nackley creates music that blends dark, cinematic synth textures with playful, punchy rhythms. Imagine coldwave and synthpop having an existential crisis at a club, but with a sense of humour about it. There’s tension and drama in his sonic palette, yet it’s never fully bleak – there’s always a cheeky twist, a groove that makes you smirk while you dance. It’s music for foggy dance floors, late-night reflections, and anyone who likes their emotional depth served with a side of goofy charm.