My next release comes with a bit of history. It was in 2016, when younger me was deeply inspired by the music Permanent Vacarion was putting out on their label. My friends and i listened to John Talabots ‘Voices’ and Koze’s remix for Mano Le Tough with almost spiritual amazement.

Since i live in Munich, i decided to give them a letter with a link to some demos i had written but i wasn’t able to find their letter box right away and felt increasingly stupid about the idea & went home.

Earlier this year Benji and i met for the first time at about:blank during an event i was playing at, which was set up by the agency we both just joined. We had a great talk and at the end i asked him if he was interested in hearing some demos that i had ready. He said yes and now here we are.

Being able to release my music on one of my all-time favourite labels fills me with a lot of joy and pride is the least i can say.

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Sam Goku - Flowery Rave Tales [PERMVAC 241-1]

This place was unlike anything she'd ever seen before. Small white houses lined the winding streets, glimmering beneath the sun, and the city's inhabitants exuded joy, welcoming everyone with open arms. It was like something from a postcard or a fairy tale story. She'd envisaged somewhere like this in her mind, in many of her dreams too, but she never thought she could reach out and touch it. It had always been housed in her imagination; an invisible entity but now it was tangible - it truly existed.

As a founding member of Bourbonese Qualk, Simon Crab has long explored sounds from the fringes, whether that's in the electronic world or the spaces between new wave, industrial, electro, dub and post-rock, among others. After the disbanding of the group and a couple of long players under his own name, Crab took some time away from releasing music, until now.

Invisible Cities marks his third solo album and finds its home in the safe hands of Leeds imprint Space Ritual. Recorded last year at his studio in Hastings, with extra percussion and vocals from Fritz Catlin, David J Smith and Ksenia Sadovski, the compositions echo his formative influences and explorations from ambient, dub, experimental, soundtrack, new wave and more.

PREMIERE: Simon Crab - Invisible City [Space Ritual]

Full stream of Benedikt Frey's "Trencher," taken from 1987 EP on R.i.O., out November 18.

Watch the Official Video: https://youtu.be/QGUBlYg5H6Y
More: www.orbmag.com/music

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1987

Official Video

Premiere: Benedikt Frey - Trencher

https://pleasure-pool.bandcamp.com/album/love-without-illusion-dub-without-illusion?label=249009462&tab=music

Ahead of their Love Without Illusion album, Pleasure Pool release the title track as a digital single along with a dub version which is exclusive to this release. Love Without Illusion is a highlight of any Pleasure Pool live sets and while it is not a cover version, it does channel the vibrations of Imagination’s classic 80’s hit Just An Illusion. 100% hypno deepness for both club and non club use.

https://www.youtube.com/c/OptimoMusic/videos
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100039176114488
https://twitter.com/OptimoMusic
https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/pleasurepool
https://pleasure-pool.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/pleasure_pool/

OM LP 24 S1 - Pleasure Pool - Love Without Illusion / Dub Without Illusion

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

— Frederick Sanger

https://soundcloud.com/ynvynv
https://soundcloud.com/electric_shapes

Premiere : YNV - Bowerbird [Electric Shapes]

Niklas Wandt - WAR1207 (Out April 28th)

A1 Die Glocke
A2 Die Glocke (Fantastic Twins Remix)
B1 Bodyzeit 
B2 Bodyzeit (Borusiade Remix) 

Tongue-in-cheek as usual, belleter Niklas Wandt melts up pianos, acid lines and bass heavy breaks as raw material for Die Glocke (The Bell). When the hunchback pours the lead of three decades of rave culture onto your lost souls, it’s too late for shelter. Fantastic Twins evaporates not just the bell but the whole bell tower into particles of peak time madness for the mental cases.

On the flip Bodyzeit heats up on an even more old schoolish tip with breaks that definitely win the bumper car dancefloor. Very sorry for the spilt drinks, thrown fags, popped pills, ripped shirts and funny faces trying to sing along these german vocoder phrases. Borusiade doing some serious bodywork, shifting gears down in her lowrider manner, modding this burner into a dreamish but deep wee-hour masterride.

Preorder: https://warningberlin.bandcamp.com/album/war1207

WAR1207

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PREVIEW: Niklas Wandt - WAR1207 (Incl. Fantastic Twins & Borusiade Remixes)

Reda Saiarh aka @redasa concocts a trippy take on Belgian new beat for @humanendeavourrecs

More info: https://djmag.com/listen/premiere-reda-saiarh-tele-music

Premiere: Reda Saiarh ‘Tele Music’

Enjoy this floaty sketch for International Women's Day <3
 
Made up of old synth and vocal layers from ZaaZaa (Kiara Scuro) and a cute beat from Kincaid.

Textures Of The Moon - Kiara Scuro (ZaaZaa + Kincaid Free DL)

https://soundcloud.com/hoshina
https://soundcloud.com/musar-recordings
🛒 https://hoshinaanniversary.bandcamp.com/album/guru-guru
🔊 https://youtu.be/kzhGfezYPW4

In Japanese, the word “guru-guru” refers to the state of spinning, whirling.  This state is captured in the work of Japanese artist Hoshina Anniversary, who makes his third appearance on MUSAR with his EP Guru Guru and marks the return of the label after an extended break.

Hoshina’s self-titled brand of ‘watechno’ has appeared on well-loved dance music labels like ESP Institute, Volvox’s Jack Dept and Young Marco’s Safe Trip, alongside MUSAR where he also appeared as Shifting Gears back in 2022; an electronic-jazz-centered moniker.

His Guru Guru EP captures the latest snapshot of Hoshina’s sound and sees him draw from Japanese language as a through-line. The title track is the clearest representation of his ‘watechno’, where he uses Japanese instrumentation on top of a menacing EBM-style march. The track's slowly whirling momentum is the “guru-guru”.

On tracks like “Banri”, which means far away in Japanese, we see new shades to Hoshina’s work as he mixes a Japanese Wadaiko drum groove with acidic elements and piano melodies to make a track of contradictions which pairs roughness with elegance.
Whereas on “Usagi”, Japanese for rabbit, Hoshina fires up the BPM.
Piano melodies remain here but their effect is more drifting and emotive than on “Banri”.
“Kaga” is named after a place in the southernmost part of Ishikawa Prefecture, between Kanazawa City and Fukui City. On this track, Hoshina’s love for jazz comes through and even mirrors the work we heard from him under Shifting Gears. 

Tracklist:

A1 Guru Guru
A2 Banri
B1 Kaga
B2 Usagi

PREMIERE: Hoshina Anniversary - Kaga [MUSAR]

We are very pleased to share this track from the latest release on R.i.O. - def one of Berlin's most forward thinking labels. While regularly showcasing the works of their own creative community, build around label heads Menqui, Nadia D'Alo and of course Benedikt Frey, they also keep introducing new exciting talents via their platform. This time it's KXB!

A dynamic configuration of rhythms plus melodies, overlaid with musings on repetitive neverlands: R.i.O. welcomes KXB, aka Sam Gill and Wes Holland, a duo that, as they put it, “was born and baptised on the balcony at Robert Johnson in 2019, while Wes lived in London and Sam in Melbourne.” 

“Areas of Uncertainty” is their first musical outcome. It carries a rhythmic show bag, that circumnavigates streamlined track architecture. From Can-ish live drumming submitted by guest rhythmist Graeme Pogson to sequenced synth spheres, the three multilayered groove landscapes of the Australian duo punch severely arcane.

NEW HIT: KXB - Breach [R.i.O.]

This is The Whisper of Fata Morgana :)

Released by:
Trust The Machine

Release date:
14 June 2024

The Whisper Of Fata Morgana

The Whisper of Fata Morgana [Trust The Machine]

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: Simon Crab - Invisible City [Space Ritual]

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