we started from the bottom now we're here

The glimmer in our eyes gallops as a wild stallion toward infinity,
and in a screaming silence, wears the cape of innocent understanding.
Our love is grave danger, which doesn't shy away from its fate.
There is nothing to be afraid of tonight.
Love is the bastard child of the Heavens and the pits of Hell, it encompasses the entirety of human suffering.
what if we isolate it to a singular moment?
Quick and wonderful moments, without trying to hold on to it and wanting it to stay forever?

Between the concrete to the woods to the sea
We will be quiet until we understand
That this, this is momentary and unfathomable
We will take this in, with a deep breath
Until we plunge in and scatter
For out of particles wast thou taken
and unto particles shalt thou return
Walking the line drawn exactly between chaos
and symbiotic harmony.

Artwork by Hadar Barak
Mastering by Alden Tyrell
Distributed by One Eye Witness
Words by Mikey Horesh
Poetically Translated by Golan De Groot
Edited by Blame Honey

Hyper Love,

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Hyper Love

TFSTK009 : V/A - Hyper Love (snippets)

R.A.N.D Muzik Recordings seems to never stand still. Release after release pushing the boundaries of what the term house, techno and electro really means.

Hover floats through a moody, warm yet spooky ambience. Chugging its intergalactic clogs through a muddy modern dystopian future. 

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Premiere: Qnete - Hover (RM12013)

Space Lab 004 • Rambal Cochet • Galatians Syndrome EP
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[PREMIERE] Spa Down - Rambal Cochet | Space Lab [2022]

[PREMIERE] Polymorphic Magic - Anderson | On Rotation [2022]

ORDER: https://dualitytrax.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-replicant-ep

Re-imagining vintage club sounds through a contemporary lens, Tifra is no stranger to stretching the electronic music template into new forms and ideas. His left-field house and old-school breaks have found their way onto Gestalt Records and Rough Recordings, and here the producer turns in three cuts of blissed-out electronica, hedonistic progressive and jungle-run club with its sights firmly fixated front left, complete with a wicked remix from one of modern dance music's most reliable names - Roza Terenzi.

‘Plastic Replicant’ is a vocal-laced electro-house roller that takes inspiration from the golden-era of 90s electronic music and fuses it with the organic, multi-genre blends of the current gen. The ravey continuum is laced with high-frequency vocal stabs and deep basslines designed for a heads-down approach on the dancefloor, before ‘Entomology’ captures the playful side of the club with its shape-shifting acid-lines, trance-licked melodies and kaleidoscopic blend of colour, feeling and mood.

Out of the club and onto the beach, ‘International Waters’ is a trip-hop inspired, downtempo dub that will delight ambient and laid-back electronic-revelers with its chirpsing birds and aqua-like aesthetic, before Roza keeps the dualism alive with a stripped-back jungle flip of the original; the perfect score for the perfect daydream.

A1 Tifra - Plastic Replicant
A2 Tifra - Entomology
B1 Tifra - International Waters
B2 Tifra - International Waters (Roza Terenzi Remix)

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DUALITY3 - Tifra - Plastic Replicant EP (ft Roza Terenzi Remix)

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🛒 https://xkalay.com/album/liquid-night
🔊 https://youtu.be/8yeGNxwWmHo

Maruwa bows at the altar of ‘90s prog house and IDM. Classically trained as a pianist, the St. Petersburg born Frankfurt based artist has made it her mission to join the dots between big room rave and a decidedly off-planet approach to melody. Now, making a debut for X-Kalay, that journey continues…

‘Liquid Night’ genuinely sounds like something you might have heard during Love Parade’s golden era. Meshing noirish sci-fi atmosphere with trance synths and EBM flex, the shadowy territory it occupies also carries through to A2’s ‘Midnight Caller’. That said, the followup cut evokes an essence of ‘90s dancefloor utopia, balancing euphoric melodrama with tough, propulsive NRG.

Taking inspiration from mid-‘90s acid prog, ‘Tricky Question’ summons the divine wide-eyed and sublime – less urgent, but still imbued with that '90s halcyon daze. Rudolf C then rounds things off with a fathoms-deep remix. Ushering ’Tricky Question’ into that techy space he navigates so well, the Salt Mines co-founder provides his own spin without losing the essence of the original.

Tracklist: 

Maruwa - Liquid Night
Maruwa - Midnight Caller
Maruwa - Tricky Question
Maruwa - Tricky Question (Rudolf C Remix)

PREMIERE: Maruwa - Tricky Question [X-Kalay]

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Next up on City Bowl Wax Network is JHB born, Cape Town based producer and DJ, Saunter with a euphoric 5 tracker that features a slamming, old school remix from Biodive. Drawing inspiration from rave, proto-trance, progressive, and the golden days of tech house, Saunter creates transcendental dancefloor bombs with the right balance between groove, atmosphere, and melody - an ode to the glory of the late 90s and early 2000s.

PREMIERE: Saunter - Timebomb Technology (Biodive Remix)

Artists: Pletnev
Track Title: And You Never Come Back
Album Title: And You Never Come Back EP
Label: R.A.N.D. Muzik Recordings / Echocentric Records
Cat #: RMECR001
Release date: 13.01.2023
Format: vinyl, digital

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Four heady cuts, mind-bending and bold.
For curious dancers, their stories to unfold.
From Lithuanian maestro, Pletnev his name.
Modular beats, a rhythmic refrain...

Echocentric Records & R.A.N.D. Muzik Recordings team up to bring you, ‚And You Never Come Back EP‘ by Pletnev.

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Premiere | Pletnev - And You Never Come Back (RMECR001)

The alarm clock buzzed loudly for the fifth time, as usual the snooze button had been exhausted for as long as she could get away with it. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes, squinting in the morning light that bathed her room. A familiar feeling of dread washed over her; one that didn’t seem to hit her on any other day of the week. The start of the week was always like this - uneventful and unproductive, a time for wallowing and indulging… all in all, just another average Monday.

Helsinki imprint Echocentric and Leipzig’s R.A.N.D. are joining forces for their next release, a dose of rhythmic proggy goodness from Lithuania-based producer Pletnev. Both labels know their onions - between them they’ve put out plenty of dance floor gems over the last few years from the likes of Abdul Raeva, DJ Life, Reflex Blue and Gnork. With And You Never Come Back, it’s more of the same: over four tracks Pletnev serves up squelchy, hypnotic breaks and trance-inspired rhythms, all primed and ready to bless club sound systems the world over.

And You Never Come Back EP (RMECR001)

PREMIERE: Pletnev - Average Monday [Echocentric/R.A.N.D.]

Leaving the digital-only realm and materialising as a physical release, space•lab 006 sees Reflex Blue’s sought-after Digital Dreams EP finally out on vinyl. Remastered and complete with a previously unreleased bonus track, as well as a sizzling remix from space•lab favourite, Lisene.

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PREMIERE : Reflex Blue - Space Rock (Lisene Remix)

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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.

With love until the grave.

PREMIERE: Pletnev - Average Monday [Echocentric/R.A.N.D.]

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