Artist: https://soundcloud.com/aaallliiiccceee
Track:  La Fête Nulle
Label: https://soundcloud.com/bongojoerecordshop
Format: 12" Vinyl, CD, Digital LP
Release date: 03/03/23
YouTube: https://youtu.be/mk5YreXx-Vs

Les Disques Bongo Joe are pleased to announce the new album of Alice ! After a first release on tape with Ripopée, the Geneva-based trio strikes back with L'Oiseau Magnifique, a playful and poignant blend of intricate harmony and storytelling lyricism. The project is awaited February 3rd, but you can already download the full album. Follow the link bellow !
Armed with a thrift-store synth, bizarre wit and arresting vocals, the intergenerational, all-female micro-choir Alice releases a mammoth 23 track album. Alice’s music subverts French and Occitan folk music to create a unique sound that combines art-pop, folk song vocals and synth experiments.
Formed in 2018, Alice is the brainchild of artists Lisa Harder, Yvonne Harder, and Sarah André. The group draws on their experience of intuitive singing at home and with friends and family, as well as Yvonne and Lisa’s history of performance in choirs and Sarah’s storytelling career as an author of graphic novels. With mother and daughter Yvonne and Lisa playing the keyboard in unison and all three of them singing along with intuitively harmonised words, Alice’s music produces a choral polyphony from just three voices, while sharp lyrics reflect on universal emotions and the poignant moments of their everyday lives alike.
Each track on the record is a document of a moment or experience in the past year of Alice’s lives, traversing the humourous story of ending up at a disappointing party on La Fête Nulle, to the foot-stomping hand claps of La Décapotable, which drily comments on people who cruise the highway in a convertible and try to pretend they are having fun, and the multiplying word associations of Fil à Recoudre, which plays as a tribute to the unfailingly optimistic people who will let you know there’s no such thing as bad weather.
Exploring the new spaces that this shared creativity has unearthed, Alice creates beguiling music from the humble origins of just voice and keys. In their minimal combination, the trio produces everything from the neoclassical funereal dirge of Petit et Gris, to the soaring melodic melancholia of Oiseaux Magnifique, and the 20-second chanted crescendo of La Lune. Theirs is a singular sound that momentary experiences and their stays with you – songs that you of their crystalline vocal power and delves deep into the beauty of underlying emotions. It is one that will want to play again and again.

PREMIERE | Alice - La Fête Nulle [Les Disques Bongo Joe] 2023

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/blackbonesreims
Track: B.E.E.F
Label: https://soundcloud.com/duca-bianco
Format: 12" Vinyl, Digital EP
YouTube: https://youtu.be/lvx7wT3wgNA

Duca meets Black Bones. Compagni who deliver la migliore edits and now make the meraviglioso percussives for Touch Sensitive and Hoga Nord labels.
Deutsch post punk kicks, kicks, kicks off the jams mother sucker.
Chicago jack house, twists, melts, bends and is remade.
Flip flip flop, Library fun, looped, funky, teutonic, bella bella.
AOR wonder pop, smiles, strums, croons and finire.
Bingo Bongo Black Bones !!

PREMIERE | Black Bones - B.E.E.F [Duca Bianco] 2023

https://soundcloud.com/bencowper
🛒 https://c0wper.bandcamp.com/album/i-can-see-you-can-you-see-me
🔊 https://youtu.be/JxH2t6DRV-A

Tracklist:

1. Hazer On
2. Aching Bones
3. Face
4. Love Light

Face

PREMIERE: Cowper - Face [Self-Released]

He was stood on the corner by himself, minding his business as the traffic went swiftly on by. He didn’t have anywhere to go that day so it seemed right and fit to set up shop on the corner with little else but the shoes on his feet and the bang of a drum which echoed from a dusty old speaker that he’d brought alongside.

He took a sip of his drink, lit up a cigarette and began to shuffle slowly in time with the drums. He’d come here quite often, from time to time folk might come watch before they began hustling and bustling on again with their days. He cared little if they stared or not.

This was is happy place and as the music began to grow louder so too did his pace. This was the Sanskrit Body Rock and that’s what he’d give em’.

Marcellus Pittman is set to release a new EP on Acid Test – a raucous record which aligns perfectly with the rough and ready sensibilities best associated with the House music of Detroit and Marcellus’ own roots. This one bumps loud in the club and Marcellus Pittman’s music fits well alongside the heritage of Acid Test as a record label.

Facid Trunktion

PREMIERE: Marcellus Pittman - Sanskrit Body Rock. [Acid Test]

https://soundcloud.com/cel-music
https://soundcloud.com/bureau-b
🛒 orcd.co/cel-kubin-zemler
🔊 https://youtu.be/5nF3ff-kJJc

Gegenwelt (Parallel World) is the second LP by CEL, a duo Kubin and Zemler formed. More melodically-evolved than their eponymous 2020 debut, it is an even more explicit example of the syncretic impulse that impelled these guys to form the band. Their basic notion was to explore the juncture between two streams of German underground sounds -- the Motorik 4/4 rhythms first posited by Can's Jaki Liebezeit and Kraftwerk's Klaus Dinger, and the sequencer-driven brain loops of early, experimental pioneers of the NDW, such as der Plan.

Tracklist:

01. Tokamak
02. Rompecristales
03. Eiweißangriff
04. Gegenwelt
05. Trippeltanz
06. Flucht zum Mars
07. Geometrischer Glanz
08. Transformator Matki Polki

Trippeltanz

PREMIERE: CEL (Felix Kubin & Hubert Zemler) - Trippeltanz [Bureau B]

https://soundcloud.com/softriot
https://soundcloud.com/user-628750708
🛒 https://bfan.link/siders
🔊 https://youtu.be/WIliU5CdPYE

After the release of his first album MOONPARK last fall, NEWEM (Sebastien Chenut of Scratch Massive) is already back with a new single FEELS LIKE HOME with Prudence, Olivia Merilahti of The Dø. 
This is the second collaboration between NEWEM and Prudence, since the 2 artists had already met on the fabulous and powerful THE THRILL I NEED present on NEWEM's first album.
Here, this new collaboration takes us into a more dancing and hypnotic world, while keeping this touch of melancholy and space so specific to NEWEM productions.

FEELS LIKE HOME is the first extract from SIDERS album of remixes and unreleased tracks to be released on April 28 with artists Heidi HOVEN (Dj Heidi Lawden + Hein Hoven (Duran Duran, Stay Cats))BLAACON, DAVE AJU, SOFT RIOT...

Tracklist:

01 -NEWEM - Feels like Home ft Prudence [Heidi Hoven Remix] 
02 -NEWEM - BLACKMOON - BLACOON REMIX 
03 -NEWEM - IKKO - Soft Riot Remix
04 -NEWEM - Feels like Home ft Prudence - [Lost on the dancefloor by Heidi Hoven] 
05 -NEWEM - Feels like Home ft Prudence 
06 -NEWEM - Feels Like Home -Dave Aju’s Dub 
07 -NEWEM - IKKO - Soft Riot Remix Short
08 -NEWEM - Feels like Home ft Prudence [Broken Version]

PREMIERE: Newem - Ikko (Soft Riot Remix) [bORDEL]

R$N Records are hyped to launch new sub-label, Dance Music From Planet Earth, with a compilation of rave heritage: Richard Sen presents Dream The Dream: UK Techno, House and Breakbeat 1990-1994. First single, Amaranth - Love Lies Bleeding - Bandulu, was first released on Infonet in ’92: Italo synth samples, vibes and ambient techno all thrown into the mix. Bandulu were 90s UK techno pioneers who collaborated with Carl Craig & alongside Detroit producers, their vision of techno music was influenced by UK reggae soundsystem culture combined with NYC Zulu Nation Hip-Hop & graffiti culture.

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Dream The Dream - Richard Sen Presents Dream The Dream DMFPE01

Bandulu - Amaranth - Love Lies Bleeding

What initially began as a weekend break had snowballed into a three month extended stay and a whole new world of unforgettable experiences and close friendships. She couldn't put her finger on what exactly drew her to this place, made her not want to leave and return to her old boring life, it was more a feeling than something you could put into words. It felt like home here, it was as simple as that. 

Following a full long player on his own bORDEL imprint last year, Sebastien Chenut returns under his NEWEM guide for a brand new track featuring the vocal stylings of Prudence. The French producer, who also makes up one half of Scratch Massive alongside fellow bORDEL boss Maud Geffray, fashions an indie dance cut that's packed with emotion and cosmic touches, before passing the mantle to a roster of his contemporaries who put their own spin on the original. There's two reworks from the partnership of DJ Heidi Lawden and producer Hein Hoven under the moniker Heidi Höven, a trippy, crunchy dub from Dave Aju, a celestial remix from Blaacon, rounded off with a retro take from Glasgow’s Soft Riot.

Siders

PREMIERE: NEWEM - Feels Like Home ft Prudence (Dave Aju’s Dub) [bORDEL Records]

Operatic synth-pop - like Grace Jones singing minimal wave in a Chicago house.

Once upon a time, in a mystical land, there existed a hidden realm known as Eine Welt. This enchanting realm was home to extraordinary beings with magical abilities. Among them was a legendary group called 700WET, renowned for their music and captivating performances.

One fateful evening, the moonlit sky above Eine Welt shimmered with an ethereal glow as the members of 700WET prepared for their most daring endeavour yet. Their latest creation, titled “Dare You” held the promise of unleashing a power unlike anything ever witnessed before.
 

Led by their visionary leader, Marja Christians, and accompanied by the musical prowess of Cid Hohner, the group embarked on a quest to capture the essence of courage and challenge the limits of their own creativity. The song would be a tribute to the unyielding spirit of adventure.
 

700WET is an art-pop project by Marja Christians and Cid Hohner – the perfect blend of synth-pop and operatic vocals. Their ‘Lovers-Dance’ sound combines elements of80s, dub and house, reminiscent of Grace Jones singing minimal wave in a Chicago house.

Inspired by the feminist power of erotica, their latest release “Gimme Love” which houses this beauty we premiere here is out on May 15, 2023, under the Eine Welt label.

einewelt.bandcamp.com

PREMIERE: 700WET - Dare You [Eine Welt]

https://soundcloud.com/montessorimusicmx
https://soundcloud.com/jaroska
https://soundcloud.com/anatolianweapons
🛒 https://whypeopledance.bandcamp.com/album/smelling-a-new-flavor

After his first release on Why People War Compilation in March 2022, Montessori is back on the Lithuania-based label Why People Dance with his brand new EP "Smelling a New Flavor." Leftfield-leaning acid, techno, and indie dance mixed as the futuristic and reborn sound of a progressive vibe. Label A&R Jaroška invites Athens' very best, Anatolian Weapons, to make two remixes and complete the whole collection of new and dancefloor-ready flavors.

Montessori is Alfredo Cardenas' project inspired by alternative and post-rock energy, new wave & post-modern techno vibe, and production techniques. Add gnarly Mexican Suburb life where artists seek to find meaning in the arts to this unique mixture and share this vision with the rest of the world.

Tracklist: 

1. Infusion 
2. Handplant 
3. Smelling a New Flavor
4. Cell Wall
5. Cell Wall (Jaroska Remix) 
6. Handplant (Anatolian Weapons Remix)

Pre-Order

WPD006: Montessori - Smelling A New Flavor EP inc. Jaroška & Anatolian Weapons Remixes (Snippets)

I picked up Fors' new creation, Dyad, and filled in the gaps in my library of their tools. SO DAMN GOOD. This is the result of 30mins of flippin around some random exploration in Dyad and Chiral powered by Roulette, then a few hours of resampling, chopping, arranging, adding effects and mixing.

untitled (2024-11-13 fors roulette chiral dyad)

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: NEWEM - Feels Like Home ft Prudence (Dave Aju’s Dub) [bORDEL Records]

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