Ransom Note

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.

Ransom Note is a music podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 500 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Ransom Note, a music show with 500 episodes published.

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  Ellie Anderson: The 'Shine A Light On' Mix

  Aug 20, 20261h 13m

  Tracklist - Jörg Kuning - Dripgroove John Tejada & Arian Levista - Word Problems Jay Haze - Boring Acid John Spring - Strange 4424 DMM Daniel Stefani - Move Me (Guido Schneider’s Dark Side of the Moon Remix) PMT - Innuendo (Principled Dub Mix) Rework - You’re So Just Just (Original Mix) Stefan Braatz - Mon Amour feat. Eric D. Clark (Instrumental) Tibi Dabo - Desert Hike Eden Burns - Telephone Terror (Original Mix) Will Hofbauer - Mudpuller (Eden Burns Whistle Beatz Remix Dub) Psychederek - Thinkin’ Bout U, Pt. 3 (Mars) Jon Dasilva & Skyskrapa Feat. Donald Waugh - Sun Brings Joy (Triangulation Dub) Queen Atom - Tributemaki Hilel Lev - Kino DJ Chrysalis - A Place Like A Place Benoit & Sergio - Walk And Talk (Original Mix) Elmass - Shank 03 Urban Sound Lab Presents Miss Yankey - One Less (Main Send)

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  PREMIERE: Thomass Jackson - Jam (Carlo Sine Remix) [Natural Selections]

  Aug 12, 20265 min

  Natural Selections label head strips out Jackson’s looseness and replaces it with gritty disco punk… There was a young Jackson called Thomass, Whose grooves were decidedly bonkers, He twisted his rhythms, And psychedelicisms, And built wonky house out of conkers. Carlo Sine said “I’ll take that Jam, And flip it as hard as I can,” He made it go gritty, A punk disco ditty, For sweaty rooms and also Milan. Natural Selections cried “Ten! We’ll never see grooves like these again!” So they pressed it on wax, Paid the Submarea tax, And Portobello Mafia rode out of its den. Thomass Jackson has been hovering around the Natural Selections orbit for a while now — guest mix here, remix there — but somehow never quite landed on the catalogue proper. That changes today. Portobello Mafia is his first official release on the imprint and it sounds exactly like you’d want it to: wonky, playful, slightly psychedelic house music that tilts just far enough off-axis to keep you guessing. Both originals do that thing where the groove feels wrong until it feels completely right. We’re premiering Carlo Sine’s remix of “Jam” today, which takes the EP somewhere else entirely. The label head strips out the looseness and replaces it with grit – punk disco built for the part of the night when the small talk stops and everyone just gets on with it. Portobello Mafia EP is out August 13. Stream below.

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  PREMIERE: Pixel Grip - Moment With God (Perel Remix)

  Aug 7, 20266 min

  Chicago darkwave trio Pixel Grip have spent the past year watching Percepticide: The Death of Reality find its people. A self-released, emotionally uncompromising collision of EBM, techno, industrial pop and synthpop built around betrayal, trauma and reconstruction, it arrived as one of the most viscerally charged club records of 2025. Now they're ready to open a new chapter. Percepticide: Remixed lands on July 29, gathering a formidable cast - KAVARI, Perel, Curses, Black Asteroid, Matrixxman, Auragraph, Frazer Ray and more - to pull the album apart and rebuild it in their own image. Glasgow-based producer KAVARI leads the campaign with a harder, more fractured take on "Noise," purpose-built for late-night rooms. Today we get another look inside courtesy of Berlin-based DJ and producer Perel, who takes "Moment With God" somewhere slower and more seductive - letting the original's intensity breathe and pool rather than ignite. Where the source material burns, Perel smoulders. Pixel Grip will also be hitting Hinterland, Just Like Heaven and Bumbershoot this summer before embarking on a European arena tour supporting KoRn in the fall, taking in Berlin, Prague, Krakow and more. Percepticide: Remixed is out now. Stream "Moment With God (Perel Remix)" here

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  Fundido: The Ransom Note Mix

  Aug 7, 20261h 3m

  Founded in Brooklyn in 2016 by longtime friends Latane Hughes and Billy Scher, Fundido are quickly becoming one of New York's most exciting prospects. With releases on the likes of DFA Records and Life and Death they have emerged globally as ones to watch. However, those on the ground in NY will have been familiar for a while with the duo having become cult favourites with appearances at the likes of Good Room, Le Bain and Elsewhere. This mix carries a good vibration throughout. Positive House music with a distinct groove, not too serious and not too fast. A homage to the origins of the sound whilst forward thinking at the same time. We like Fundido - they're good fun.

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  PREMIERE: Alphonse - Spirit of the Night (feat. Seraphina Simone) (Main Mix) [Ransom Note Records]

  Aug 5, 20266 min

  We’ve known Toby Tobias aka Alphonse for a very long time, longer than he’s been sitting on this creation with Seraphina Simone - 2017 if you’re wondering. The pair first crossed paths at Glastonbury and knocked out a set of lyrics over a single session. Life did what life does - lockdowns, a baby, other projects - and the track went through several incarnations before Toby zeroed in on what it actually was: a late-night acid house record built around the 303 line and Seraphina's unmistakable vocals. The Main Mix is where it started. Raw acid wave, heavy on vocals, the original 2017 idea more or less intact. The message is straightforward: Spirit of the Night. Alphonse has released on Klasse Wrecks, Hypercolour, Emotional Especial and Kalahari Oyster Cult. Seraphina Simone has solo EPs on her own terms (Milk Teeth, Wild), credits with TRILLS, Becky Hill and Robyn, and is currently doing her thing as vocalist and dancer in Self Esteem's live band. FOLLOW ALPHONSE/TOBY TOBIAS: https://linktr.ee/Tobytobias74 / __alphonse_____ / _toby_tobias_ https://tobytobias.bandcamp.com/ / tobytobias / tobytobiasmusic FOLLOW SERAPHINA SIMONE: https://linktr.ee/seraphinasimone https://www.seraphinasimone.com/ / seraphinasimone https://seraphinasimone.bandcamp.com/ / seraphinasimone / seraphinasimone / seraphinasimone FOLLOW R$N RECORDS: www.facebook.com/theransomnote www.instagram.com/thisisransomnote ransomnoterecords.bandcamp.com soundcloud.com/ransom-note-records

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