Jason 'Solvent' Amm has been active since the late 90s, creating numerous indefinable mutations of dance, rich with the pulsing warmth and chaos of analogue circuitry. Recent years have seen Amm serving as producer, co-writer and interviewer for the independent documentary epic I Dream Of Wires exploring the history, demise and resurgence of the ultimate electronic music machine, the Modular Synthesizer. All the while Solvent has pursued the industrial, acidic sounds that have always lain dormant in his work, and this mix for R$N offers an emotional gut punch, with slow, stately machine music giving way to chunks of bristling techno and bursts of quivering, tentatively euphoric melody. We caught up with Amm to discuss just how a producer who doesn't "put a lot of stock into recording mixes" goes about making a mixtape...
Full interview here: http://www.theransomnote.co.uk/music/mixes/solvent-the-ransom-note-mixtape/

Alessandro Cortini - Stella 
Lowfish - Knives 
Alain Kepler - Radio Wave Tracker 
Clouds - Blood Skating 
Varg - Norrlandsbrigad 69R 
Cylob - Durftal 
Strider.B. - [Bradley's Robot A1] 
Gescom - Viral Rival (Rmxd By Ae) 
[UNKNOWN ARTIST] - [Papers001-B1] 
Cloudface - On None 
Blacknecks - Don't Dream It Be It 


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Solvent - The Ransom Note Mixtape

Based in Toronto, Canada, &i (alias) is a versatile and passionate DJ known for his eclectic taste and deep love for all genres of music, with a special affinity for Electronic sounds.

Blending everything from House and Techno, to Ambient and Experimental beats, &i's sets are a journey through music, always keeping the dance floor energized and surprised. His ability to mix multiple genres showcases his deep knowledge and appreciation for music's past, present, and future, creating an immersive and beautiful music experience. 

Deeply inspired by artists like Patrick Holland, Kornel Kovacs, and Chaos in the CBD, &i creates playful and unpredictable sets that will be both deeply personal and widely impactful.

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.

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“I Care Because He Does.”









This is a page inspired by the artist Richard D. James, more specifically, his work on the Rephlex Records label, unreleased/rare releases, and the album he released under the alias “The Tuss”, called “Rushup Edge.” Leading up to this official release, there were multiple MySpace pages said to be accounts belonging to The Tuss. At this point in 2023, it is still unclear how much of these Tuss accounts Rich was involved in… the only confirmed RDJ Tuss material are the aforementioned “Rushup Edge”, and the ep the preceded it, called “Confederation Trough”.

This page also focuses heavily on the “SoundCloud Dump”, which was a series of releases uploaded to a number of anonymous accounts on SoundCloud that eventually became clear to the world to be Richard. It is an astonishing amount of material - spanning his entire artistic career. They eventually were taken down by his record label, but there are a number of folks that compiled each track in a zip archive and can be downloaded for free to this day on archive.org. 

Though this page is dedicated to and inspired by Aphex Twin - I came to a turning point with where to take this page. The main goal is to promote. In other words,  to provide a place online for fans of Aphex Tain to easily stream the best of their favorite artist, as well as showing younger fans of electronic music who I believe is the greatest electronic musician. 

I’ve also uploaded various tracks from a few other artists that are either collaborators, influencers or those influenced by Aphex Twin. You will find some original DJ mixes done by me and some straight up “mixtape” style hour long tracks arranged by and mastered by me. 

I do not profit in any way from this monetarily speaking, but I do get a lot out of seeing the comments and the joy that the songs uploaded bring about, and archives are important.

https://evel.bandcamp.com/album/adopt-me

https://aphextwin.bandcamp.com/album/blackbox-life-recorder-21f-in-a-room7-f760

https://squarepusher.bandcamp.com/album/dostrotime-1

https://mikeparadinas.bandcamp.com/album/grush



https://archive.org/details/aphex-twin-2023