RIVAL CONSOLES – NIGHT MELODY

Posted on 2023-06-26

Returning with a mini album to the lauded label Erased Tapes, Rival consoles has progressed enough to keep things exciting, while still maintaining all the elements that made his music great in the first place. The album began taking shape last year, shortly after his previous work came, Howl, came out and, more poignantly after the breakup of a thirteen-year relationship. Proclaiming he’s not interested in simply making happy or sad music, but rather something closer to bittersweet, more real and lifelike. The music presented here certainly tows that line in a gloriously epic manner.

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HOODIE X JAMES K – 065 SCORPIO

Posted on 2023-06-19

AD 93 come through with a winning find once again: the new collaboration of james k who has released on Incienso previously teaming up with hoodie, the duo comprised of multi alias producer Shy (Special Guest DJ, Caveman LSD, etc) and Berlin-based artist Naemi (aka. exael), the two also having worked together as Critical Amnesia and Ghostride The Drift. The trio have created an EP featuring dub drenched dream pop on Side A and an engulfing strata of oneiric bliss on the flip, a tight but noteworthy beginning to a formation we can but only wish to hear more from.

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THE FAT OF THE LAND 25TH ANNIVERSARY REMIXES

Posted on 2023-06-12

The Fat Of The Land 25th anniversary remix E.P.

Special Edition Silver 12” Vinyl.

4-track vinyl featuring remixes of classic tracks from The Fat Of The Land from Andy C, Rene Lavice, Gydra, Mefjus and Camo & Krooked

A1. Breathe (Mefjus and Camo & Krooked Remix)
A2. Diesel Power (Gydra Remix)
B1. Firestarter (Andy C Remix)
B2. Mindfields (René LaVice Remix)

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BAWRUT – RAQS EP

Posted on 2023-06-05

The mighty Bawrut returns to Ransom Note Records with his incredible new record, Raqs EP. The follow up to his debut album on R$N, In The Middle, Our Man In Madrid discharges four weapons grade club monsters that will, as the title suggests, have have bodies moving to and fro the world over.

In Bawrut’s own words: “Raqs means dance or dancing in Arabic. The need for dance in our society and it’s act of liberation is the focus of this new EP, where I explore a beloved place like the Mediterranean sea, mixing Arabic voices and Latin American rhythms, stabs, trance and flamenco.”

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RICHARD SEN PRESENTS DREAM THE DREAM (UK TECHNO, BREAKBEAT AND HOUSE 1990-1994)

Posted on 2023-05-29

Richard Sen has been immersed in dance music for over three decades, producing, remixing, and DJing all over the world, and witnessing crucial moments in the scene’s continuum. If there’s any one person to recount the history of UK dance, it’s undoubtedly him. With the first release of Ransom Note’s new Dance Music From Planet Earth sublabel, he remembers the optimism of early 90s rave and the gauzy layers of fantasy its tracks are wrapped in.

While telling the story with a trim ten tracks scouted from record stores back in the day, the generously extended runtime of Dream The Dream gives each track room to breathe. The almost eleven minute opener ‘Tokyo’ from Centuras sets the scene admirably: a slowburn of synth bubbles and icy pad floes, the measured pace of pulsing beats, sprinkling in far flung, new agey chants and woodwinds.

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MINOR SCIENCE – ABSENT FRIENDS VOL. III

Posted on 2023-05-22

Minor Science’s Absent Friends series has eluded regular format, switching from a collage-esque DJ mix to an “infinitely looping minisite”. Now landing on Albert Salinas and Philip Sherburne’s Balmat, the series’ third reincarnation takes the form of Angus Finlayson’s second album, where he recreates live material into jittery, mercurial soundscapes. Vol. III seems to take cues more from the likes of Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto than the club frenzy of his prior efforts, with an explorative beatless direction previously hinted at on quieter moments in between the ruckus of his debut Second Language. Yet the rancour of rave displayed in the year’s earlier 064 EP still remains, teased in the active buzz of synths and sonic objects racing against each other till they crash.

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