1 month to go until @anotherthought.world 👌
Alongside our @thesociallondon fam we’ll be co-hosting Bikini Body (live), Decius Soundsystem, Factory Floor (live), Matt Cowell, Matt Walsh, Rosie Ama and The Social DJs at @signaturebrewbh - more details in the usual place☝️
“I’m going to carry on making things no matter what happens - I’ve never done it to become famous. I do it because I have to.”
@truusonic De Groot has spent five decades sharpening the edges of DIY electronic music culture with her creative light showing no signs of dimming.
She released a wonderful album earlier in the year via our mates at @thisisransomnote , has collaborated with @ilcosmovitelli and is still pushing
the limits of analogue synths.
Tap the bio for our new interview, share it and subscribe 😀
‘Abiotic Factors’, is the opening track of Patricia Wolf’s upcoming album ‘Yarrow’.
Abiotic factors - for those of us who skipped that particular biology lesson - are the non-living environmental conditions that determine whether an organism can exist at all: light availability, temperature, rainfall, wind, soil composition. They are the infrastructure beneath the visible world, the silent set of forces that a plant cannot choose but must simply work with, adapt to, or perish. As a concept for an opening track, it’s contemplative and a perfect orientation into the album... which you’ll all hear in its entirety soon little seedlings.
The video, which we’re premiering today, was shot in Wolf’s Portland neighbourhood, through the lens of Edward Pack Davee, the filmmaker behind the Hrafnamynd documentary Wolf scored last year.
“The footage was originally made for a project called ‘Sounds of Hope’, presented at the University of Tulsa, and it felt right to give it a second life here.”
Listen to the track/watch the video via our Bandcamp etc. 🌱
Analogue brute force. Digital tidying up. Steve Reich as rhythm generator. The best remix either of them has ever heard…and shoes.
Andy Bell (GLOK) and Timothy Clerkin interviewed each other for R$N.
Read on site now 🔗
A handful of extra 7”s from Alliance remixed now up on Bytes Bandcamp for Bandcamp Friday!
Over the moon to have been asked to contribute to Ransom Note’s “Shine A Light On” Mix + Interview series 🍒 have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know the @thisisransomnote gang over the last few years, feeling the magic of dancing next to the Adriatic sea. Big love to you all.
This mix takes you through a blend of seductive house music with a healthy injection of acid. Some perpetual favourites, some new + unreleased sauce. Red lights only. Music from @izanddiz@gideon.works@warehousepreservationsociety@joshludloworld@plush_records_inc@saltqueenxx@tobysimpsonmusic + more
Full article on The Ransom Note website, mix available to listen on Soundcloud + both via the link in my bio 💋
A few weeks ago I sat down with Tavish for Ransom Note and ended up speaking about things I don’t always know how to explain clearly in short form: the ambient machine I’ve been building, why I’m sometimes hesitant to box music into genres, and how Alchemy of Being came from a period where words weren’t enough.
A lot of this record was born from learning how to process emotion non-verbally. Sitting with instruments, improvising, and letting sound hold things I couldn’t articulate yet.
We also spoke about something that feels deeply connected to this album: my love for chill-out culture and my growing desire to reimagine those spaces through Beacon of Light, not as an escape from nightlife, but as spaces for rest, integration, and softness within it.
Grateful to Tavish for the thoughtful conversation and to Ransom Note for creating space for artists to speak beyond surface-level promo.
Cliff Workshop is the Edinburgh-based composer Euan Dalgarno’s first release for Bytes; a spellbinding set of experimental electronics, austere modern classical, blustery shoegaze textures and orchestral post-rock. Euan talks to @thisisransomnote about the album in an exclusive interview available to read now. Album is out on May 15, available to pre-order on Bandcamp. Link in bio.
🕳️🏃Big thanks to everyone who came out Saturday nite for our outing with @thisisransomnote at @vespersclub - extra thankUs in order to Saeko and Philipp for making the journey over💜
+++ extended cheers to all the crew who came down to play at our record store day hangout earlier with @hiddensounds_london XXX 🐢
Bytes is delighted to announce its first release with the Scottish electronic composer @euandalgarno , who has previously recorded for labels including Modern Obscure Music and Frosti. Bytes and Dalgarno have been sharing mutually appreciative correspondence for a few years now, waiting for the right moment to work together. Cliff Workshop was the perfect fit with the Bytes ethos — a spellbinding collection of experimental electronics, austere modern classical, blustery shoegaze textures and orchestral post-rock. Available to pre-order now on a super limited edition cassette (Bandcamp only) and digitally in all the usual places. Link in bio! ‘Catterline’ is the first single, featuring spoken word from @shanleyinglis . Cover painting by @emmafraserart
Cliff Workshop was written in the Spring of 2025, while the Edinburgh-based musician was recovering after an accident. This period of healing has given the album a stronger emotional pull than his previous releases, with moments of stupefying beauty. Try listening to ‘Rockethaus’ or ‘White Moth’ without welling up.
The music drifts between calm, Eno-like textures and sudden bursts of distorted guitar and dense sound, “which felt natural to where my head was at back then,” says Dalgarno. “Writing these eight tracks became a kind of safe space for me while my body was recovering. When I listen to them now, instead of taking me back to those darker months, the songs feel reassuring — like something quietly reminding me that things are okay, and that nothing bad ever really happened.”
A longstanding, driving force within the Italian underground and the wider world of contemporary psychedelic music, Lay Llamas celebrates the release of the project’s new album ‘Time, Islands and Thresholds‘ with a mesmerizing mix for our main series.
Formed in 2012, Lay Llamas has released an entrancing, ever-evolving body of work across labels including Rocket Recordings and Black Sweat Records, collaborating with the likes of Goat, Clinic, Damo Suzuki (Can), and Mark Stewart (The Pop Group) along the way.
Drawing parallels with Spacemen 3, Peaking Lights and Sun Araw, ‘Time, Islands and Thresholds’ nevertheless finds Lay Llamas plotting a uniquely psychotropic course. The album finale ‘I Was Blind (Now It’s Over)‘ is also one of the most beautifully strung out songs we’ve heard this year.
To accompany the release of the album, Giunta has put together a suitably potent mix of hypnotic drum trances, heavyweight dub, snarling noir-punk and rarefied psych to liven up, expand and soothe your soul. Settle in for a special one. Read and dive in over on the site now!
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Out today! Seoul-based left of centre ambient duo Salamanda’s meditation on the inner life of a basil plant. Seeds 008 is an ambient composition born from quiet domestic observation: a single basil on a windowsill, its days shaped by light, warmth, and the slow passage of time. 🕰️
Available via our Bandcamp digital/cassette. 🌱
🎵 Salamanda - Basil’s dream
🎨 @drawings_daniel_herrmann
