Become a friend of Ransom Note and support independent journalism.

Become a friend of Ransom Note and support independent journalism.

Become a friend of Ransom Note and support independent journalism.

Become a friend of Ransom Note and support independent journalism.

Become a friend of Ransom Note and support independent journalism.

Become a friend of Ransom Note and support independent journalism.

Become a friend of Ransom Note and support independent journalism.
g986
RSN_15_SPHERE_1 copy
Must Read
FB-51
Interviews

Matthew Herbert: “There should be no food banks”

In 2000 there were no food banks in the UK. Not few - none. That fact sits underneath everything on theukhasmorefoodbanksthanbranchesofmcdonalds.com, the new album from Matthew Herbert, whose title comes from a headline that stuck with him a couple of years ago.
 
 
Grup Ses x Ransom Note INT aW
Mixes
Grup Ses – The Ransom Note Mixtape Istanbul-based digger and producer Grup Ses’s mix for Ransom Note is a trip through the cassette underworld of 1980s Turkey, when drum machines and synthesisers went from novelty to the centre of the arrangement.
IMG_2987
Mixes
Seeds Mix 015: Soda Lite’s Music for basking in the late afternoon sun and then, as dusk falls, falling asleep in the dissolving warmth. "Like a plant, I rely on the sun for life and I very rarely make music at night." Soda Lite is Alex Last, a gardener and composer on Lutruwita, the island off Australia's southern coast. His Seeds record, Cape Gooseberry, is out on 28 October. Ahead of it comes this: "music for basking in the late afternoon sun and then, as dusk falls, falling asleep in the dissolving warmth."
Erik Hall Solo Three
Playlists
Track By Track: Erik Hall – Solo Three A handwritten Branca score, a Palestine piece he couldn’t play and a Reich CD blasted in the car for two years. Erik Hall talks us through the four minimalist pieces he rebuilt on his own for ‘Solo Three’, the closing chapter of a trilogy that began with Steve Reich’s ‘Music for 18 Musicians’.
 
Mid_90s Mixmag CDs
Interviews
Before Everything Was Searchable In his new book, 1990–2000: The Decade That Was House Music, James Bleakman describes discovering house music when the culture had to be pieced together through radio, record shops, clubs, cassettes, and magazines. Here, he looks again at the role the specialist dance press played in that process...
Screenshot 2026-09-04 at 15.51.06
Mixes
The Music Is the Diet: Full Circle (Joakim and Alexis) in conversation Fifteen years since Joakim first played a slowed-down Goa trance record for Alexis, the pair skip the middleman and interview each other about the genre's proto roots, its glow-stick afterlife, and a forest gig still to come.
a0921676476_10
Featured
Track By Track: Patrick Belaga – Solar Calf Patrick Belaga walks us through the zones, bosses and one unplanned dip in a duckweed pond behind his second solo album, 'Solar Calf'
 
image11
Art & Culture
We Oscillate, We Modulate: The Interconnected Worlds of Andreas Tschopp An essential read; Richard Greenan (Kit Records) guides us through the remarkable, surreal jazz of Swiss musician Andreas Tschopp
 
BoP_END
Interviews
Hope Draws The Map, Trust Is The Compass: Birds Of Pandæmonium in conversation Birds Of Pandæmonium are Brooklyn’s Hazy James Armstrong and Tim Wagner, two musicians who met nearly 20 years ago through the city’s DJ and club scene.
 
tree overlooking Glasgow
Mixes
Seeds Mix 014: A Walk in Pollok Park with Spritz Editions "...the closest place you can go to feel lost amongst trees." The Glasgow tape label - run by Emma Diamond and Loris S Sarid - create us walking tape for the city's largest green space.
31
Mixes
Adam Curtain: The Ransom Note Mix A selector with fifteen years of crate-digging under his belt, fiercely devoted to the underground and always hunting for the next evolution of UK club music.
DSC02018
Reviews
Review: Convenanza 2026 – Back To The Castle Year two in Carcassonne: new recruits, old ghosts, Jonnie Wilkes on the mic and quite a lot of Tia Cousins.
 
3voor12
Reviews
Review: Draaimolen – A Dutch Nature & Digital Arts Festival Pushing Boundaries In Light Installations & Music As the festival secures three more years in its South-Netherlands forest, a complete redesign brings together the team's unique lighting innovations with one of Europe's densest electronic music programs.
IMG_2575
Travel
Vienna, the long way round Stranded after a Croatian wedding - turning a bad connection into a Before Sunrise stopover. 
a0697641923_10
Playlists
Track By Track: Le Motel – Pozo de Agua Brussels-based producer, composer and field recordist Le Motel returns with Pozo de Agua, a new album released on September 15, 2026 via Oakland’s Constellation Tatsu.
 
PK26_260826_Commissioned-Work-Before-Its-Over_Kuppelhalle2_©YvonneHartmann
Events
Pop-Kultur 2026: What Happens Before the Stage A closer look at the people behind the strand, and at Alejandra Cárdenas’ commissioned performance, reveals what that can mean in practice.
 
AmélieRavalec
Mixes
Amélie Ravalec: ‘A Realm of Impossible Intensity’ Mix Weaving soundtrack extracts from her own films alongside tracks by Nick Cave, David Lynch, ANOHNI, Hildur Guðnadóttir and Kangding Ray.
 
WhatsApp Image 2026-09-07 at 10.41.02 (2)
Art & Culture
Meakusma 2026 – In Praise of Not Seeing Everything A biennial gathering, spread across churches, a disused shopping centre and a converted slaughterhouse, in a Belgian border town nobody's heard of - Tia and Wil go to Meakusma and won't shut up about it.
Alphonse / Toby Tobias Ransom Note Mix
Premieres
Alphonse ‘See Me in 3D’ Ransom Note mix Toby Tobias talks Croydon, Cybotron and the Glastonbury session that took almost a decade to come out as Alphonse's "Spirit of the Night."
CHLOE_by_Sarah Makharine_4
Mixes
CHLOÉ: The Ransom Note Mix A DJ with a forward thinking approach takes a moment to remind us why the music is still the most important thing of all. 
 
Photo 20.07.26, 18 16 58
Premieres
Anna Kost: The ‘Shine A Light On’ Mix A full mix of her own, new material, a rare insight into a producer and dj to watch. 
RSN15_B&W
Premieres News Reviews
LK-CT-008-Cover-Digital-Object-1
Premiere: Vanity Project – File Management Blues
Obergman-PeriodicMotionEP-White
Premiere: Obergman – Many Body Problem
image1 (3)
Premiere: James Allison & Tia Cousins – Messin’ With The Wrong Guy
3000x3000_full
PREMIERE: Ammonite – So [clay.]
Source of Nature – Chemistry EP Artwork low-res
Premiere: Source Of Nature – Chemistry
rskj`bsdm
Premiere: Josh Ludlow – The Kettle
Leipzig-Art
Premiere: Bikini Body ft. Ben Katzman – Leipzig
Orange Sunrise A (3)
Premiere: Dan Andrei – Orange Sunshine (Brainsurfers Remix)
FLN002 Artwork
Premiere: Philipp de Castro – Oxímoro
CT004 Vinyl Jacket DIGI
PREMIERE: Rocco Universal – Kerobokan
PREMIERE: Nandele – Viola [Awesomakossamusic.]
Premiere: Nandele – Viola [Awesomakossamusic.]
Copy of Digital
Premiere: Jen Cardini & Shonky – August in Paris (Kasra V Remix)
DEAR_2400
Premiere: Matthew Dear – Head In The Clouds
BSide – Circle
Premiere: Dani Labb – Aight Alien That’s It
Thomass Jackson – Portobello Mafia_R3
PREMIERE: Thomass Jackson – Jam (Carlo Sine Remix) [Natural Selections]
LP Artwork
Premiere: Pixel Grip – Moment With God (Perel Remix)
Screenshot 2026-08-07 at 15.42.10
VIDEO PREMIERE: Dicky Continental Featuring Tia Zakura
alphonse and seraphina simone
Alphonse & Seraphina Simone finally share “Spirit of the Night” on Ransom Note Records
SDF_Policeman artwork
Premiere: SDF – Policeman [Vitamins]
beat hotel london
Beat Hotel debuting its very first London edition…
02. grand river 2026 press photo credit joseph kadow landscape web
Dutch-Italian artist Grand River announces new LP on Editions Mego
Soda-Lite-bushwalk-768×1024
Tasmania’s Soda Lite studies an Andean transplant’s stubbornness for Music To Watch Seeds Grow By’s 11th edition
VT002R-Artwork-V1
Viscera Transmissions announce Remix EP of Latrec’s Kutika
COPY_ADAM WILTZIE_JOHANN JOHANNSSON_FRIENDSHIP SURVIVAL GUIDE_ArcoItaly_17.8.12 1500×1200
Adam Wiltzie (Stars of the Lid) announces collab LP with Jóhann Jóhannsson
Kirk Barley Press Shot (credit Pete Gavin) 1000×1250
Yorkshire experimental composer Kirk Barley releases new album Arc
JL-1 (1) (1)
Scottish drone folk project Wild Gods present debut release
ZERO.NINE_DAVID+HOLMES1604_v1_LR copy
David Holmes launches new label Dream Drama, debuting with Ivor Novello-Winning Trespasses
03_DJA_DJA_Promo_Small
Marina Herlop Announces New Self-Released Album, Dja Dja
Djrum Halftone Photo Effect 1 V1
Djrum Announces New EP ‘I Wander’ on Houndstooth
MarkBarrott x SofiaBoriosi-23
Influential Balearic luminary Mark Barrott releases new album The Exit Diaries
a4006122517_10
Rare Makina tape from 2004 reissued for charity by Never Sleep
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
Yaga Gathering Announces 2026 Lineup and Introduces Mycelium Institute
cidimg_18052159_0
O’Flynn shares new track ‘Ashiko’
Screenshot 2026-06-03 at 16.14.20
Zillas On Acid play London show to celebrate debut EP on Human Endeavour
LEIGH MASTER CUT 8.00_05_40_11.Still302
The Warehouse Project Drops New Film Celebrating Manchester Club Culture Legacy
_97A7514_ Juliette viole
La Nature festival announces eclectic programme for 2026 edition
Todmorden’s Golden Lion faces uncertain future after noise complaints
Todmorden’s Golden Lion faces uncertain future after noise complaints
DJ_KOZE-Portrait_sRGB_FullRes_
DJ Koze Announces ‘Spiralen’ Double A-Side & Shares Title Track
a0062624748_10
Rare Italian Tapes resurface from 1970’s for new release
ParallelSociety_DayTwo-005
Review: Parallel Society, Marvila, Lisbon 
beverly_20260609_beatriz_pequeno_024
Review: Beverley Glenn-Copeland at The Rectory, Lisbon
A BUTTON
RN Desktop Homepage -34
Mixes
Grup Ses x Ransom Note INT aW
Mixes

Grup Ses – The Ransom Note Mixtape

Istanbul-based digger and producer Grup Ses’s mix for Ransom Note is a trip through the cassette underworld of 1980s Turkey, when drum machines and synthesisers went from novelty to the centre of the arrangement.
 
 
IMG_2987
Mixes
Seeds Mix 015: Soda Lite’s Music for basking in the late afternoon sun and then, as dusk falls, falling asleep in the dissolving warmth. "Like a plant, I rely on the sun for life and I very rarely make music at night." Soda Lite is Alex Last, a gardener and composer on Lutruwita, the island off Australia's southern coast. His Seeds record, Cape Gooseberry, is out on 28 October. Ahead of it comes this: "music for basking in the late afternoon sun and then, as dusk falls, falling asleep in the dissolving warmth."
tree overlooking Glasgow
Mixes
Seeds Mix 014: A Walk in Pollok Park with Spritz Editions "...the closest place you can go to feel lost amongst trees." The Glasgow tape label - run by Emma Diamond and Loris S Sarid - create us walking tape for the city's largest green space.
IMG_9326
Mixes
Seeds Mix 013: Ibukun Sunday’s Rooted In Shadow mixtape "Rushing it kills both the plant and the music. The beauty is in waiting with it."
 
samson a.k june 2026 tall
Mixes
Samson A.K: The Ransom Note Mix A heads down, ominous mix of heavy hitting club material. 
DECIUS TRAX L AND L
Mixes
Decius Trax: The Ransom Note Mix Don't remix it with AI. Don't expect liner notes on the next one either. Just make them, play them.
WhatsApp Image 2026-06-16 at 23.42.43
Mixes
Dave Harvey – ‘The Line Out Mix’ Love International Live @ Rainbow Disco Club Long before The Ransom Note had a name. Long before Team Love had a manifesto. Dave was always there. Usually near the speakers.
 
Lay Llamas _ Nicola Giunta – Press Shot 1
Mixes
Lay Llamas: The Ransom Note Mix Italian underground psych luminary supllies us with a mesmerizing mix of heavyweight dub, snarling noir-punk and rarefied sounds
 
IMG_5779
Mixes
Daichi: The ‘Shine A Light On’ Mix Daichi's ear was formed early. Weekends spent at Oppa-La in Enoshima, absorbing whatever the room had to offer.
 
1000056634
Mixes
Owain K : The ‘Shine A Light On’ Mix Underground sounds from the deeply knowledgeable Owain K who delivers over an hour of exquisite, well crafted house music. 
image1
Mixes
Joshua Idehen’s ‘Music To Make Joy To’ Ransom Note Mix Music that makes you feel deeply human...
IMG-2245 (1)
Mixes
Ana K Miller: The ‘Shine A Light On’ Mix A cosmic transmission from Manchester-based musician and artist Ana K Miller, just shy of 2 and a half hours, weaving together psychedelia with electronica.
 
collusion
Mixes
Seeds Mix #9: Hamie Jouse’s mixtape for benevolent collusion Kodama Deep in the Yorkshire woods, the multi-disciplinary artist and producer has been quietly splitting light into a thousand tiny rainbows.
SSS_CHANEL_3 copie
Mixes
Sarcus Soundsystem: The ‘Shine A Light On’ Mix Three figures of the French underground scene known for their extended set and wide selection. Their different curations in the capital brought attention to their project in the past years, valuing care and curiosity in the space they invest. While playing they encompass their influences into a hypnotic blend of fast paced rhythms and bizarre melodies that will get to your mind and feet.
Grup Ses x Ransom Note INT aW
Mixes
Grup Ses – The Ransom Note Mixtape Istanbul-based digger and producer Grup Ses’s mix for Ransom Note is a trip through the cassette underworld of 1980s Turkey, when drum machines and synthesisers went from novelty to the centre of the arrangement.
RN Desktop Homepage -13
Record Labels
bytes
insulttoinjury
outer-reaches
ransom-note
R$N Boutique
record g3268 g3244 g3086 g3194
Visit the Shop
Background
Want More?
g2174
g4082
g4134
cats
Join our Community
Press