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Raw, rhythmic, intricate percussion and off-kilter melodic ideas woven into proper post-punk territory from the Bogotá producer.
The opening salvo from Dance On The Volcano, a mini-album for Natural Selections.
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The opening salvo from Dance On The Volcano, a mini-album for Natural Selections.
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Premiere: Kabinett - Warning Sign [Natural Selection] - Ransom Note
Euphoric pads aplenty on an excellent new EP.
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January 9, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Raw, rhythmic, intricate percussion and off-kilter melodic ideas woven into proper post-punk territory from the Bogotá producer.
The opening salvo from Dance On The Volcano, a mini-album for Natural Selections.
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The opening salvo from Dance On The Volcano, a mini-album for Natural Selections.
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Scottish producer Brian d’Souza aka Auntie Flo is launching Season Two of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By ambient/seed series.
The release explores recent botanical research revealing how sunflowers navigate cooperation and competition through their root systems.
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The release explores recent botanical research revealing how sunflowers navigate cooperation and competition through their root systems.
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Brian d'Souza Explores the Secret Social Lives of Sunflowers for Music To Watch Seeds Grow By Season Two Launch - Ransom Note
Scottish producer Brian d'Souza aka Auntie Flo is launching Season Two of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By with a composition that delves into the hidden world beneath the soil, where sunflowers engage i...
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January 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Scottish producer Brian d’Souza aka Auntie Flo is launching Season Two of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By ambient/seed series.
The release explores recent botanical research revealing how sunflowers navigate cooperation and competition through their root systems.
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The release explores recent botanical research revealing how sunflowers navigate cooperation and competition through their root systems.
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Madrid-based Italian producer @bawrut.bsky.social is relaunching his SILENCIO imprint nearly a decade after it delivered the underground hit “Ciquita,” this time with a deeply personal project, bridging electronic music and social activism.
Bawrut revives SILENCIO Label with powerful collaboration ft migrants and agricultural workers - Ransom Note
Madrid-based Italian producer Bawrut is relaunching his SILENCIO imprint nearly a decade after it delivered the underground hit "Ciquita," this time with a deeply personal project that bridges electro...
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January 7, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Madrid-based Italian producer @bawrut.bsky.social is relaunching his SILENCIO imprint nearly a decade after it delivered the underground hit “Ciquita,” this time with a deeply personal project, bridging electronic music and social activism.
Matthias Kremsreiter and Christian Schoppik combine for a new collaborative album exploring the liminal space between waking and sleep on @quindirecords.bsky.social
Roudi Vagou & Läuten der Seele unveil 'Taghelle Nacht' - a hypnagogic ode to uncertainty - Ransom Note
Matthias Kremsreiter and Christian Schoppik combine for a new collaborative album exploring the liminal space between waking and sleep.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Matthias Kremsreiter and Christian Schoppik combine for a new collaborative album exploring the liminal space between waking and sleep on @quindirecords.bsky.social
After more than a decade of mainly navigating instrumental territory, Kristian Craig Robinson aka Capitol K has circled back to where it all began...
He talks us through his 10th album track by track...
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He talks us through his 10th album track by track...
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Track By Track: Capitol K - Artichoke - Ransom Note
After a decade-plus spent navigating mostly instrumental terrain, Kristian Craig Robinson has circled back to where it all began.ct.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:43 PM
After more than a decade of mainly navigating instrumental territory, Kristian Craig Robinson aka Capitol K has circled back to where it all began...
He talks us through his 10th album track by track...
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He talks us through his 10th album track by track...
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Taking a sharp detour from the dancefloor, Bozzwell returns with something altogether more mysterious...
Premiere: David J Boswell - I Know What I Saw - Atlantis Audio - Ransom Note
Press play and keep your eyes on the skies.
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December 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Taking a sharp detour from the dancefloor, Bozzwell returns with something altogether more mysterious...
'Like Holy Tongue playing a marathon set in the enveloping Königsforst of Wolfgang Voigt’s GAS project'
Audio-visual trio Plants Heal recently released their new album 'Forest Dwellers'. Check out their enlightening playlist of music inspired by healing plants 🌿
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Audio-visual trio Plants Heal recently released their new album 'Forest Dwellers'. Check out their enlightening playlist of music inspired by healing plants 🌿
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Music inspired by healing plants: a playlist by Plants Heal - Ransom Note
Audio-visual trio Plants Heal outline some enlightening plant music, following their latest LP of intoxicating ambient, jazz, dub & techno
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December 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
'Like Holy Tongue playing a marathon set in the enveloping Königsforst of Wolfgang Voigt’s GAS project'
Audio-visual trio Plants Heal recently released their new album 'Forest Dwellers'. Check out their enlightening playlist of music inspired by healing plants 🌿
@quindirecords.bsky.social
Audio-visual trio Plants Heal recently released their new album 'Forest Dwellers'. Check out their enlightening playlist of music inspired by healing plants 🌿
@quindirecords.bsky.social
Jonathan Kusuma strips the excellent Strange Fruit’s original back to its essence and rebuilds it as something altogether more hypnotic.
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Premiere: Strange Fruit – Iridescent (Jonathan Kusuma Hypnodubmix) [Gentle Tuesday Recordings] - Ransom Note
Elegant cosmic disco meets house music on Visions of Paraiso.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Jonathan Kusuma strips the excellent Strange Fruit’s original back to its essence and rebuilds it as something altogether more hypnotic.
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Listen: www.theransomnote.com/.../premiere...
Gone To A Rave: @phatmedia.bsky.social pres UK Rave Flyers 88/89
Before the algorithms, before the Instagram flyers, there were photocopies. Crude, urgent, immediate. Flyers thrust into sweaty palms outside record shops, stuffed into pockets of the initiated
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Before the algorithms, before the Instagram flyers, there were photocopies. Crude, urgent, immediate. Flyers thrust into sweaty palms outside record shops, stuffed into pockets of the initiated
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Gone To A Rave: Phatmedia present UK Rave Flyers 1988/1989 - Ransom Note
Phatmedia founder Dave Nicholson has opened his vault to showcase ten of the most coveted flyers from the era - artefacts that now regularly change hands for three and four-figure sums.
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December 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Gone To A Rave: @phatmedia.bsky.social pres UK Rave Flyers 88/89
Before the algorithms, before the Instagram flyers, there were photocopies. Crude, urgent, immediate. Flyers thrust into sweaty palms outside record shops, stuffed into pockets of the initiated
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Before the algorithms, before the Instagram flyers, there were photocopies. Crude, urgent, immediate. Flyers thrust into sweaty palms outside record shops, stuffed into pockets of the initiated
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Post-punk provocateur Autumns has been catapulting angular weapons over the ramparts since 2014. As he joins R$N with the ferocious EP ‘Through the Construction of Grace’ EP the “lanky, ginger man from Derry” offers up a mix for us...
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Autumns: The Ransom Note Mix - Ransom Note
Hypnotic, trippy dance music from the Human Endeavour boss and R$N family member.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Post-punk provocateur Autumns has been catapulting angular weapons over the ramparts since 2014. As he joins R$N with the ferocious EP ‘Through the Construction of Grace’ EP the “lanky, ginger man from Derry” offers up a mix for us...
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OUT NOW! Underground hero, Autumns brings us a selection of rhythm and bass work outs on his latest EP, Through the Construction of Grace! 🌀😵💫
Out now exclusively via our Beatport / BandCamp - link below!
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Out now exclusively via our Beatport / BandCamp - link below!
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November 19, 2025 at 10:36 AM
OUT NOW! Underground hero, Autumns brings us a selection of rhythm and bass work outs on his latest EP, Through the Construction of Grace! 🌀😵💫
Out now exclusively via our Beatport / BandCamp - link below!
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Out now exclusively via our Beatport / BandCamp - link below!
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FLAVOUR OF THE LABEL MIX
Anna Logue Records has been a beacon for those who understand that the early 1980s represented a golden age of electronic music – a brief, brilliant window when artists armed with synthesisers, drum machines, and raw creative vision crafted something genuinely revolutionary
Anna Logue Records has been a beacon for those who understand that the early 1980s represented a golden age of electronic music – a brief, brilliant window when artists armed with synthesisers, drum machines, and raw creative vision crafted something genuinely revolutionary
Anna Logue Records: A Flavour Of The Label Mix - Ransom Note
Passion. For. Analogue. Electronic. Music.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM
FLAVOUR OF THE LABEL MIX
Anna Logue Records has been a beacon for those who understand that the early 1980s represented a golden age of electronic music – a brief, brilliant window when artists armed with synthesisers, drum machines, and raw creative vision crafted something genuinely revolutionary
Anna Logue Records has been a beacon for those who understand that the early 1980s represented a golden age of electronic music – a brief, brilliant window when artists armed with synthesisers, drum machines, and raw creative vision crafted something genuinely revolutionary
Seeds Mix #5: Openmind's "Leave your phone at home & discover paradise after a forage in the forest"
Telepathic Fish co-founder DJ Food aka one part of Openmind takes us on a trip into the world of 90s chill out.
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Telepathic Fish co-founder DJ Food aka one part of Openmind takes us on a trip into the world of 90s chill out.
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Seeds Mix 005: Openmind's "Leave your phone at home & discover paradise after a forage in the forest" - Ransom Note
Telepathic Fish co-founder DJ Food, aka one part of Openmind, takes us on a trip into the world of 90s chill out.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Seeds Mix #5: Openmind's "Leave your phone at home & discover paradise after a forage in the forest"
Telepathic Fish co-founder DJ Food aka one part of Openmind takes us on a trip into the world of 90s chill out.
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Telepathic Fish co-founder DJ Food aka one part of Openmind takes us on a trip into the world of 90s chill out.
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Recorded in a small village on the Costa Brava – surrounded by seagulls, tramontana winds, and sea urchin-covered rocks – this mix comes from Parisian-born Antoine Harispuru, better known as Golden Bug....
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Golden Bug: The Ransom Note Mixtape - Ransom Note
Recorded in a small village on the Costa Brava - surrounded by seagulls, tramontana winds, and sea urchin-covered rocks - this mix comes from the laid-back Barcelona neighbourhood of Gràcia, where Par...
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October 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Recorded in a small village on the Costa Brava – surrounded by seagulls, tramontana winds, and sea urchin-covered rocks – this mix comes from Parisian-born Antoine Harispuru, better known as Golden Bug....
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This Sunday Shaho Qadir, a Kurdish Londoner and double amputee, will embark on a heroic journey. Starting in Glasgow and propelled by his immense upper body strength, he will travel by wheelchair all the way to Gaza.
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Wheel to Gaza - Glasgow to Gaza by wheelchair - Ransom Note
This Sunday 28th September, Shaho Qadir, a Kurdish Londoner and double amputee, will embark on a heroic journey.
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September 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This Sunday Shaho Qadir, a Kurdish Londoner and double amputee, will embark on a heroic journey. Starting in Glasgow and propelled by his immense upper body strength, he will travel by wheelchair all the way to Gaza.
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'Space can be crumpled like paper into an infinitesimal dot. Time can be extinguished like a blown-out flame. And the laws of physics, which we regard as sacred and immutable, are anything but'
A Journey Beneath the Surface William Basinski @ The Rectory Lisbon
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A Journey Beneath the Surface William Basinski @ The Rectory Lisbon
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William Basinski at The Rectory, Lisbon: A Journey Beneath the Surface - Ransom Note
Tonight, my ship is coming in. William has come to Lisbon.
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September 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
'Space can be crumpled like paper into an infinitesimal dot. Time can be extinguished like a blown-out flame. And the laws of physics, which we regard as sacred and immutable, are anything but'
A Journey Beneath the Surface William Basinski @ The Rectory Lisbon
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A Journey Beneath the Surface William Basinski @ The Rectory Lisbon
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And whilst you know all this balance & wellbeing is the ‘right thing’ to do, and admittedly you do feel quite good, but with all these reclaimed weekends that once belonged to beautiful reckless abandon, what do you do now?
Turns out, you go to Salto Festival.
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Turns out, you go to Salto Festival.
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From Dancefloors to Trail Running: Finding my new festival fix at Salto - Ransom Note
...with all these reclaimed weekends that once belonged to beautiful, reckless abandon, what do you do now? Turns out... Salto
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September 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
And whilst you know all this balance & wellbeing is the ‘right thing’ to do, and admittedly you do feel quite good, but with all these reclaimed weekends that once belonged to beautiful reckless abandon, what do you do now?
Turns out, you go to Salto Festival.
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Turns out, you go to Salto Festival.
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Watching Trees announces dates for 2025
Further sonic rambling in the North Wiltshire countryside with Optimo (Espacio) will take place between 29-31st May 2026.
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Further sonic rambling in the North Wiltshire countryside with Optimo (Espacio) will take place between 29-31st May 2026.
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Watching Trees announces dates for 2026 edition - Ransom Note
Further sonic rambling in the North Wiltshire countryside has been announced.
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September 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Watching Trees announces dates for 2025
Further sonic rambling in the North Wiltshire countryside with Optimo (Espacio) will take place between 29-31st May 2026.
Sign up details here: www.theransomnote.com/art-culture/...
Further sonic rambling in the North Wiltshire countryside with Optimo (Espacio) will take place between 29-31st May 2026.
Sign up details here: www.theransomnote.com/art-culture/...
Sitting in the space between digital dub and synth-pop with nods to Spectral Display with Primal Scream's @simonemarie4.bsky.social on vocal duty.
“NoLo” is from the upcoming anniversary edition of Golden Bug’s Piscolabis II out Oct 3rd on La Belle Records
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“NoLo” is from the upcoming anniversary edition of Golden Bug’s Piscolabis II out Oct 3rd on La Belle Records
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Premiere: NoLo feat. Simone Marie - Golden Bug [LA BELLE RECORDS] - Ransom Note
Sitting in the space between digital dub and synth-pop, with nods to Spectral Display and Primal Scream's Simone Marie on vocal duty.
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September 17, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Sitting in the space between digital dub and synth-pop with nods to Spectral Display with Primal Scream's @simonemarie4.bsky.social on vocal duty.
“NoLo” is from the upcoming anniversary edition of Golden Bug’s Piscolabis II out Oct 3rd on La Belle Records
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“NoLo” is from the upcoming anniversary edition of Golden Bug’s Piscolabis II out Oct 3rd on La Belle Records
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West London’s Tutu Ta returns with their most haunting work yet on “Violence Or Violets” via the ever excellent Long Gone Are The Old Traditions
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Premiere: Tutu Ta - Samurai Igloo - Ransom Note
An homage to dub sound systems of yesteryear from the West London producer on the ever excellent Long Gone Are The Old Traditions
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September 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
West London’s Tutu Ta returns with their most haunting work yet on “Violence Or Violets” via the ever excellent Long Gone Are The Old Traditions
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"In the current climate where you can’t enjoy your music without knowing what corporate companies are profiting, it’s a truly refreshing experience, how music should be.
This really is a festival like no other."
@nadiaksaiba.bsky.social reviews We Out Here 25
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This really is a festival like no other."
@nadiaksaiba.bsky.social reviews We Out Here 25
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Out Of The Trenches... We Out Here 2025 Reflections - Ransom Note
In the current climate where you can’t enjoy your music without knowing what corporate companies are profiting, it’s a truly refreshing experience, and just how music should be.
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September 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"In the current climate where you can’t enjoy your music without knowing what corporate companies are profiting, it’s a truly refreshing experience, how music should be.
This really is a festival like no other."
@nadiaksaiba.bsky.social reviews We Out Here 25
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This really is a festival like no other."
@nadiaksaiba.bsky.social reviews We Out Here 25
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It should come as no surprise that someone as single-minded as Keith McIvor aka JD Twitch ran a great record label Optimo Music
Here's a list of some favourite songs, tracks, releases as picked by Keith’s friends, peers & admirers
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Here's a list of some favourite songs, tracks, releases as picked by Keith’s friends, peers & admirers
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A rough guide to Optimo Music - Selectors Select - Ransom Note
It should come as no surprise that someone as single-minded as Keith McIvor aka JD Twitch ran a great record label. Here's some favourite songs, tracks & releases as picked by Keith's friends, peers, ...
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September 5, 2025 at 9:51 AM
It should come as no surprise that someone as single-minded as Keith McIvor aka JD Twitch ran a great record label Optimo Music
Here's a list of some favourite songs, tracks, releases as picked by Keith’s friends, peers & admirers
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Here's a list of some favourite songs, tracks, releases as picked by Keith’s friends, peers & admirers
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Thank you to the very lovely Ransom Note for having me do a two and a half hour musical ramble round my garden - which features quite a few highlights from the Once In A Blue Moon session at We Out Here....
Joe Muggs has lived and breathed electronic music culture for many, many years…
So it is with some excitement that he's agreed to don his ambient trousers again for part 4 of our 'Seeds mix'.
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So it is with some excitement that he's agreed to don his ambient trousers again for part 4 of our 'Seeds mix'.
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Seeds Mix #4: Joe Muggs' Music to Smell the Jasmine whilst watching for Bats in the Twilight - Ransom Note
Beyond the fabled chill-out room and into the field we go...
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August 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Thank you to the very lovely Ransom Note for having me do a two and a half hour musical ramble round my garden - which features quite a few highlights from the Once In A Blue Moon session at We Out Here....
Joe Muggs has lived and breathed electronic music culture for many, many years…
So it is with some excitement that he's agreed to don his ambient trousers again for part 4 of our 'Seeds mix'.
www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/...
@joemuggs.bsky.social
So it is with some excitement that he's agreed to don his ambient trousers again for part 4 of our 'Seeds mix'.
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@joemuggs.bsky.social
Seeds Mix #4: Joe Muggs' Music to Smell the Jasmine whilst watching for Bats in the Twilight - Ransom Note
Beyond the fabled chill-out room and into the field we go...
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August 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Joe Muggs has lived and breathed electronic music culture for many, many years…
So it is with some excitement that he's agreed to don his ambient trousers again for part 4 of our 'Seeds mix'.
www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/...
@joemuggs.bsky.social
So it is with some excitement that he's agreed to don his ambient trousers again for part 4 of our 'Seeds mix'.
www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/...
@joemuggs.bsky.social