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A cosmic transmission from Manchester-based musician and artist Ana K Miller, just shy of 2 and a half hours, weaving together psychedelia, acid, kraut, dub and techno.

Full interview here: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/ana-k-miller-shine-a-light-on-mix/
Tracklist:
Nathan Dawidowicz - Deep Fluff (feat. Leo Börger)
Sula Bassana & The Nasoni Pop Art Experimental Band - Emmerting Spring
銀色の波 - Whispers Of Chikurin
Nidiot – World of Nids
Jimi Tenor Band - Shine All Night (feat. Florence Adooni)
TINA – Vacation
Minami Deutsch - Can't Get There (Jamie Paton Remix)
Teledubgnosis – Echolocation
Hawkwind - Electric Tepee
Kris Baha - You Told Yourself This Would Get Worse
Anatolian Weapons - Process (Original)
Coil - Protection III
Maart – Noma
Sinusoidal – Half Closed Eyes
Sula Bassana – Stella Star
U-Ziq – Melancho
Mr TC & Lo Kindre – The Waving Bridge
The Soft Moon – Black
Davy Kehoe – The Pilot (Part 1)
Mr TC – Zeuglodon
Pancho Piedra – Servio
Dr. Strange - Tripode de Diode (Pt1 & Pt2)
Blurred Boy - No Time For Tears
Moody Boyz - Destination Africa (Electric Forest Version)
Khidja - Never Seen The Dunes
Identified Patient & Sophie du Palais - Peaceful Panic
Autumns - Cruising (Black Bones & Autumns)
Cabaret Nocturne - Voodoo Spunk (Original Mix)
KOB 101 - Beat Depressed
Zaliva-D - Long Journey
O Yuki Conjugate - The Chasmic
Abdulla Rashim - Path Inwards
Azu Tiwaline - Ethereal Tribes
Hawkwind - Death of War
Black Merlin - Stalky Tarkovsky
Von Grall - Vanquish the Disparities
Acronym - River Red Gum
Azu Tiwaline & Al Wootton - Nine Points
Tres Demented - Demented (Or Just Crazy) (Original Version)
Tres Demented – Brainfreeze (Carl Craig 'Sessions' Mix)
Death in Vegas – Arise
Dalo – Woodpecker
Von Deyen / Schütz - Valley Of The Monsters

Deep in the Yorkshire woods, multi-disciplinary artist and producer Jamie House – aka Hamie Jouse – has been quietly splitting light into a thousand tiny rainbows.

Best known for his hypnotic visual installations and art direction across DIY music spaces from Old Red Bus Station to Resonance, House found himself at last year’s Watching Trees festival doing something beautifully meta: filming daytime trees to project back onto their evening counterparts through a cascade of prisms.

The “arty bullshit” behind it, as he puts it, was about bridging gaps of time and space and memory – creating past tense ghosts of daylight. But really, “it just looked pretty, and the trees and sun had it all covered.”

Whilst setting up his spectral light show on the Bush of Ghosts stage, Tia and Wil (that’s us) caught wind of the music he was playing. What unfolded in those early morning hours was something special – patient, ambient-soundscapes with a deep understanding of the fractal nature of the forest, where every process is made up of countless sub-processes doing their best impression of one solid bit.

This mix captures that philosophy; energised yet gently held, pulsing yet ambient. Mirroring both the slow, steady rhythm of plant growth and the constant, quick reactions within the cells. There are rarely right angles in the forest, just lots of individual leaves doing their thing- a benevolent collusion with the kodama, those forest sprites that House channelled through his psychogeographic, hauntological light work.

From the Rhubarb Triangle of West Yorkshire, where he dabbles in ambient matters with his long time friend Aaron during hazy Sunday afternoon straggler zones, overlooking different vistas, House has created something that feels like plugging into the mainframe with beings deep in the woods, under a very full moon.

Always bring a memory stick, indeed.

Interview here: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/hamie-jouses-mixtape-for-benevolent-collusion-kodama/

Tracklist -
Ironic Hill - Chorus
Kuzich - Morning Sun
John Haycock ft Rob Dunford - Dapple Shade
Palta - Tabt optagelse
ssssoftpatch - Bowling for Loops
Agron - Should I feel bad for doing This
Wizold Sage - Comfort Heater
Christian Kleine - Beyond Repair (Version)
Golden Bug & In Fields - Blind
Ex-Terrestrial - Everybody Dreams
Takao - Bird Ensemble
David Versace - Heart to Heart
Barker - Fluid Mechanics
Shhhhh - Pond Natter
420 aka Galcher Lustwerk - Untitled 6
Motoko & Myers - Plover
Zammuto - It Can Feel So Good

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FUCK!LACRÈME are back with the second part of their unhinged trilogy. The Italian five-piece have been making a mess of Beat Machine Records in the best way possible, and Welcome To My Crib keeps that energy going.

We’re premiering “Slam It” today. It’s big beat, sharp percussion, layered textures, the works. The title cut goes deep into jungle rhythms and acid breakbeats, built for dark dancefloors.

Out on 20th February on Beat Machine.

https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premieres/premiere-fucklacreme-slam-it-beat-machine-records/

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Cornelius Doctor & Tushen Raï held no punches with a hard hitting acid driven EP released on their homestay record label Hard Fist at the tail end of last year.

It was a nod to the Goa inspired days of old, excellent rave fodder with beeps and glitches galore.

The pair are based in Lyon and have been a familiar presence amidst the underground music community in the city for a long time now, we at Ransom Note find them to be pretty great too.

Anyway, this mix spans two hours and is a wild ride through fast paced leftfield dance music which pays homage to the roots of the genre in the best way possible.

Stranded's new EP 'The Dead' arrives at that hour when the city finally shuts up - all sub-bass rumble and skeletal beats, the kind of thing that sounds best through headphones on the last bus home. It's got that Bristol thing in its bones: dub's cavernous space, post-punk's wire-tight nerves, hip-hop's head-nod.

Opening track "Arch Groves" sets the tone for the whole record - vocal samples drift like smoke through low-end weight and slow-burning unease, swelling and receding without ever fully resolving. The guitars don't lead so much as lurk at the edges, scraping and hovering.

It's the sound of something haunted, patient, built for dark rooms and quiet contemplation.

Stream it here and pre order the EP: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/premiere-stranded-arch-groves/