"...A shadow never falls upon a wall without leaving a permanent trace – the umbra draws forth the visible through our forgotten wisdom.

Lost in the sands of time, all of us… We feel the movement, we fathom the rhythm of the unknown..."

Polish-Belgian artist Kreshik kicks off his Huveshta Rituals label in style with a compilation that brings together artists from across the world that he's met over the years. Clairvoyance Is The Dance features 18 tracks which cover all corners of the musical spectrum and showcases the power that music can have in creating long-lasting friendships, no matter where you are in the globe.

Covering dub, breaks, leftfield electronics, ambient, broken beat and psychedelic sounds, to name but a few, the sprawling compilation has contributions from Cheb Runner, Munir, Spooky J, Yuto Takei, Anika, Obeka and many more, who connect the dots between the likes of Brazil, Japan, Indonesia, Melbourne, Mexico and Iran.

PREMIERE: Obeka - Huandoy Dub [Huveshta Rituals]

Emotions were running high, it was to the point of danger. She was experiencing a sensory overload as her heart began to beat fast against her chest - it was racing, pacing and left her short of breath. 

This had all been so unexpected for it wasn't supposed to happen here, amidst all this. A new love? No? Not now... 

It wasn't the right time nor the right place yet as the world unfolded rapidly in a kaleidoscopic mirage of colours and wild flashing lights she began to lose herself to the touch of another. 

Perhaps this is what 'real love' felt like? 

Chaotic, manic and out of control. All she could do was dance to the beat of its drum...

Afrodeutsche releases a track called 'A New Love' as part of a compilation from the Black Artist Database. This one feels nostalgic yet new - rave energy which takes us back to a simpler time all the while leaving us thinking of a better future. This is what dance music is all about...

PREMIERE: Afrodeutsche - A New Love [Black Artist Database]

https://soundcloud.com/philmoffa
https://soundcloud.com/acemo
https://soundcloud.com/loveinjection
🛒 https://loveinjection.bandcamp.com/album/second-foundation
🔊 https://youtu.be/hvwinQXvb2U

A central figure within New York City’s electronic music community, Phil Moffa brandishes many hats: go-to mixing and mastering engineer for house and techno luminaries, studio owner of the beloved hub Butcha Sound Studios, and revered artist/producer in his own right fluent in a range of club-oriented and texturally ethereal sonic languages, as exemplified by remarkable releases like Elevation (2014) and Rare Forms (2016).
 
Maybe most uncanny, however, is Phil’s role as an educator and mentor. Now in his twentieth year as an instructor and lecturer in the studio production program at SUNY Purchase’s Conservatory of Music, as well as teaching in the Sonic Arts MFA program at Brooklyn College, he’s long emphasized the importance of experimentation and collaboration. So it’s only fitting that his latest project should connect all of the aforementioned in perhaps the most organic way imaginable. The “Second Foundation” Remixes EP features Phil’s own music as re-imagined by four remixers several years his junior - AceMo, Photay, Alredna and Zianni Orange - all of whom also happen to be former or current attendees of his production masterclass. 

Culled from material originally released on Elevation and Rare Forms, the 4-track digital release represents a uniquely intergenerational creative exchange. Renowned as mainstays of NYC’s dance music scene, AceMo and Photay were students of Phil’s in the mid-2010s when, as Phil has recalled, they were already making “the most futuristic stuff I ever heard.” Tapped to remix Phil’s furiously atmospheric “Elevation,” AceMo’s treatment remains true to his one-time teacher’s appraisal, intensifying the track’s rhythmic elements to their punishing limits while expertly interweaving mesmerizing synth textures as counterpoint over the course of its nearly ten exhilarating minutes. By contrast, Photay’s reinvention of Phil’s “Alma Del Mundo” is a more pronouncedly playful affair. Building off the core of Phil’s original minimalist samba-tinged percussion, Photay perfectly places synth accents, rubbery bass, and layers of hooky, wordless vocals in an infectious arrangement that evokes Carnival in the cosmos. 
 
Burgeoning artist/producer Alredna also attended Phil’s class, graduating two years ago. Based on his contribution herein - a remix of Phil’s “Roiling Boil” finely orchestrated with a dramatic ebb and flow before settling into a plaintive piano coda - he possesses a command for merging relentless tracks and ambient sensitivity reminiscent of his mentor. Currently an enrollee in Phil’s masterclass, artist/producer/instrumentalist Zianni Orange forgoes the formalities of lengthy build-ups on their remix of Phil’s “Vertigo” (their first commercial release) and transforms the original’s cinematic tension into a super-tight, frenzied flurry of drum & bass. 
 
New York City’s Love Injection Records will be releasing Phil’s “Second Foundation” Remixes EP in tandem with reissues of Phil’s Elevation and Rare Forms EPs - both of which have been out of print for years. In addition, a short documentary film about Phil’s mentorship will accompany the release. Taken together, the composite picture not only tells Phil’s story, and charts the impressive paths of his former students and the promise of his current ones, but leaves us with at least one lingering truism: that learning in its purest form is an act of reciprocity.

Tracklist: 

1.	Phil Moffa - Elevation (AceMo Remix)
2.	Phil Moffa - Alma Del Mundo (Photay Remix)
3.	Phil Moffa - Rolling Boil (Alredna Remix)
4.	Phil Moffa - Vertigo (Zianni Orange Remix)

PREMIERE: Phil Moffa - Elevation (AceMo Remix) [Love Injection Records]

https://soundcloud.com/jonnyfromspace
https://soundcloud.com/grid-records
🛒 https://gridrecords.bandcamp.com/album/sans-rel-che
🔊 https://youtu.be/7HyeTi-_bpY

To celebrate Grid 2nd anniversary, we gathered together thirteen earth-shattering tracks from the bass scene’s most promising creators, all aimed to move you in the most primordial way. Evoking images of vast landscapes and deep underground catacombs.

This compilation takes the listener deep into the earth with twisted percussion workouts from the likes of Jabes, Piezo, Ronan and Sister Zo… and back into the light with serene compositions from E-unity, Tammo Hesselink and A Psychic Yes, whilst Jay Duncan, Basile3 y Clara!, Jonny From Space, Flaty, Seekersinternational, and blu-e join the dots with their genre-defying creations.

As was the case with Grid’s previous compilations 'Improvisations' and 'Da Capo Al Coda', the label once again puts its stamp on a moment in the underground by collecting together productions of the highest quality that push the boundaries but undeniably make you want to move.

PREMIERE: Jonny From Space - Never The Right Time [GRID Records]

V/A - Hypersea
BUY LINK: https://rhz000.bandcamp.com/album/hypersea
Label: Rhizome (https://soundcloud.com/rhz000)
https://www.instagram.com/rhz000/
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https://soundcloud.com/lyravalenza
https://www.instagram.com/lyraval_insta/

Rhizome releases the compilation album Hypersea inspired by hydro feminism and becoming a body of water.

The Copenhagen/Berlin based label Rhizome releases a compilation album inspired by the writer Astrida Neimanis. On the album you’ll be presented to a wide range of the Copenhagen underground from artists such as Messell to Varnrable.

Friday September 1st 2023 Rhizome releases and celebrates the compilation album Hypersea. The compilation album takes its point of departure with the text ‘Hydrofeminism - Or, On Becoming a Body of Water’ by Astrida Neimanis and contains 18 tracks from the Copenhagen underground scene apart from a track from New York namely Laenz who earlier this year released a double single on the label. In each way the artists have interpreted the text by Neimanis and worked with its topics such as water, fluid borders and feminism.

Alto Aria about the album: “With the current threat of a watering ban in Denmark, increasing pollution and lack of water all over the world, we zoom in on water with this album. We wish to follow Neimanis’ thread about water and feminism – she teaches us that we and our identity, like the fluid borders of the oceans, always are negotiable and never fixed. With the compilation we celebrate water and its essential role in our lives. Whether it is through the lens of clean drinking water, an identity in flux, dying fish, the western pollution level or something completely different, we wish this album to be a reflection over and a get together around what we all depend on.”

The album has become a sonic collage of a watery quest, fast footsteps, shifting and fragmented choir pieces, broken beats and hearts, soothing synthesisers, harsh wind, caring bodies, uplifting beats, polyphonic saxophones and long reverbs. Hypersea is curated by Alto Aria and presents works by Hôy la, ilinx, Saltmother, Julia Becker, ill, Angel Wei, Lyra Valenza, Faber, Jason Lee, Bysund, Holger Seidelin, Astrid Nørgaard, KRY, Laenz, Varnrable, Messell, Skarv and Alto Aria.

Rhizome is a Copenhagen/Berlin based label started in 2020 by Aria Leth Schütze and Mads Krue Bugge. The primary focus of the label is experimental electronic music and alternative release formats. Rhizome has released music by artists such as Alto Aria, Skarv, Swell, Polly, Nemo, ioulus, Laenz, Ida Urd, and ill as well as the compilation album bag/belly/box. So far Rhizome has presented music and artists in Copenhagen at Øen, Alice, Mayhem, and Christianshavns BUY LINK: https://rhz000.bandcamp.com/album/hyperseaBeboerhus.

Hypersea

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PREMIERE : Lyra Valenza - Workmode

https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premiere-vell-floating-mists-warm-vistas/

Bangkok-based artist @musicvell releases debut EP “Floating Mists, Warm Vistas,” on the @boiledwonderlandrecords banner.

In a vell of floating mists so fine, Warm vistas danced in a twisty line. Boiled Wonderland records played a tune, Singing a song to the glowing moon.

Mists giggled and twirled with glee, Vistas whispered secrets to the sea. Boiled Wonderland laughed along, Records skipped, oh what a song!

Through the vell, a whimsical flight, Floating dreams took their height. Warm vistas hugged the sky so tight, Boiled Wonderland spun day to night.

Records danced on the starry floor, A nonsense rhyme forevermore. In this world where imagination exists, Vell, vistas, records – a dreamer’s tryst!
 

An expansive sonic journey of an EP, we’re premiering the title track; “Floating Mists, Warm Vistas,” packed full of skipping drum breaks, rolling basslines and bubbling synths.

The full EP’s out on September 22nd, 2023.

Floating Mists, Warm Vistas

PREMIERE: Vell - Floating Mists, Warm Vistas [Boiled Wonderland Records]

The room was full, swat dripped from the ceiling and the fans were on full power spinning and whirring doing everything in their power to lift the warmth, even just for a moment.

Outside the sun beat down heavy on the streets – there were few wanderers out and about. Instead they’d taken refuge in the bars and clubs nearby, looking to seek refuge from the baking sun. That didn’t mean that there was no fun to be had…

No, quite the opposite.

The music blasted loudly from the hand crafted old speakers, it banged and boomed as whoops and delirious cheers echoed from room to room. It were as if the sun was some kind of witchcraft…

Maxwell Simmons is set to release a new EP on Beat Machine Records – a raucous affair set to bang in small rooms and test soundsystems. This one is for the energy crew.

WELL 01:00 AM

PREMIERE: Maxwell Simons - Well 1 [Beat Machine Records]

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-echo-juliet-life-on-trains 

Birmingham-based producer, percussionist and activist @echojulietdj lines up her debut album on her own Invisible IDs imprint, blending deep house cuts, garage stompers and jazz.

Abandon Reality

Echo Juliet - Life On Trains [Invisible IDs]

Stream / Download: https://hypeddit.com/tpqnri

Homesick

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String

LKX004

Local Knowledge

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A1 Will Hofbauer - Giraffes

From 'A Hole In The Sky' EP, releasing on 16.12.20

Pre-order: https://ceadcead.bandcamp.com/album/impurity-a-hole-in-the-sky

Impurity - Havana Laffe

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.

We're always interested in getting new writers on board – feel free to get in touch if you’ve got a story to tell.

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PREMIERE: Maxwell Simons - Well 1 [Beat Machine Records]

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