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Laurent Garnier, A Love From Outer Space, Decius, Tia Cousins, Pete Herbert's Music for Swimming Pools and many more join Heidi Lawden, Luke Una, Jimpster and Greg Wilson for this year's Campo Sancho edition...
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Campo Sancho 2026 announces their best lineup yet - Ransom Note
Laurent Garnier, A Love From Outer Space, Decius, Tia Cousins, Pete Herbert's Music for Swimming Pools and more join Heidi Lawden, Luke Una, Jimpster and Greg Wilson for this year's edition
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February 4, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Laurent Garnier, A Love From Outer Space, Decius, Tia Cousins, Pete Herbert's Music for Swimming Pools and many more join Heidi Lawden, Luke Una, Jimpster and Greg Wilson for this year's Campo Sancho edition...
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Deep in the woods at the Bush of Ghosts stage @ Watching Trees, Scottish producer Brian d’Souza, aka Auntie Flo brought his ‘Plants Can Dance’ project to life in a 5-hour ambient set.
Brian’s ode to the Sunflower is out on the 19th Feb, launch party on the 21st
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Brian’s ode to the Sunflower is out on the 19th Feb, launch party on the 21st
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Seeds Mix #8: Brian d’Souza- Live @ Bush of Ghosts - Ransom Note
"It's nice to play at night as you have a natural sensory deprivation of sight. One is more absorbed in their other senses, including the sounds they hear."
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February 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Deep in the woods at the Bush of Ghosts stage @ Watching Trees, Scottish producer Brian d’Souza, aka Auntie Flo brought his ‘Plants Can Dance’ project to life in a 5-hour ambient set.
Brian’s ode to the Sunflower is out on the 19th Feb, launch party on the 21st
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Brian’s ode to the Sunflower is out on the 19th Feb, launch party on the 21st
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Craven Faults, North Yorkshire's enigmatic answer to Tangerine Dream, favourite of 'the gothfather' Robert Smith + remixer of The Cure curates a special playlist ft. Can, Laurie Spiegel, The Velvets & more ⚙️ 🎛️
@cravenfaults.bsky.social @theleaflabel.com
@cravenfaults.bsky.social @theleaflabel.com
Unconscious Refinement: a playlist of influences by Craven Faults - Ransom Note
North Yorkshire's enigmatic answer to Tangerine Dream chronicles a lifetime of listening in a playlist of pivotal influences
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January 28, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Craven Faults, North Yorkshire's enigmatic answer to Tangerine Dream, favourite of 'the gothfather' Robert Smith + remixer of The Cure curates a special playlist ft. Can, Laurie Spiegel, The Velvets & more ⚙️ 🎛️
@cravenfaults.bsky.social @theleaflabel.com
@cravenfaults.bsky.social @theleaflabel.com
Between innocence and anger, Ghazi Barakat’s Pharoah Chromium project delivers a devastating meditation on Gaza on his latest work, Chronicles on Discrepant
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Pharoah Chromium Chronicles the Weight of Witness on New LP - Ransom Note
Between innocence and anger, Ghazi Barakat's Pharoah Chromium project delivers a devastating meditation on Gaza.
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January 26, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Between innocence and anger, Ghazi Barakat’s Pharoah Chromium project delivers a devastating meditation on Gaza on his latest work, Chronicles on Discrepant
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The Berlin University of the Arts' Master’s program in Sound Studies & Sonic Arts, faces elimination amid budget crisis for Berlin’s only university-level degree program in a field where the city has international renown.
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Berlin's University of the Arts to close historic sound studies program - Ransom Note
Europe's leading sonic arts program faces elimination amid budget crisis
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January 26, 2026 at 7:34 PM
The Berlin University of the Arts' Master’s program in Sound Studies & Sonic Arts, faces elimination amid budget crisis for Berlin’s only university-level degree program in a field where the city has international renown.
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When two generations of Lisbon’s underground collide, the result is visceral, raw & uncompromising. Scam Dust is Tiago
Lux Fragil resident and ‘DJ’s DJ’) and Shcuro of Discos Paraiso channel Detroit filtered through Sheffield with a distinctly Lisbon sensibility www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/...
Lux Fragil resident and ‘DJ’s DJ’) and Shcuro of Discos Paraiso channel Detroit filtered through Sheffield with a distinctly Lisbon sensibility www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/...
Tiago & Shcuro pres. Scam Dust - The 'Shine A Light On' Mix - Ransom Note
When two generations of Lisbon's underground collide, the result is visceral, raw, and uncompromising.
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January 23, 2026 at 1:27 PM
When two generations of Lisbon’s underground collide, the result is visceral, raw & uncompromising. Scam Dust is Tiago
Lux Fragil resident and ‘DJ’s DJ’) and Shcuro of Discos Paraiso channel Detroit filtered through Sheffield with a distinctly Lisbon sensibility www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/...
Lux Fragil resident and ‘DJ’s DJ’) and Shcuro of Discos Paraiso channel Detroit filtered through Sheffield with a distinctly Lisbon sensibility www.theransomnote.com/music/mixes/...
Since founding Plus Instruments in Eindhoven in 1978, Truus de Groot has carved an uncompromising path through the experimental underground.
Five decades into her restless creative journey, her 9th album as Plus Instruments, ‘Unnoticed,' lands on Feb 11th.
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Five decades into her restless creative journey, her 9th album as Plus Instruments, ‘Unnoticed,' lands on Feb 11th.
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Dutch Underground Pioneer Truus de Groot Returns with Ninth 'Plus Instruments' Album - Ransom Note
Five decades into her restless creative journey, Truus de Groot remains an unstoppable force in experimental music. The Dutch artist's ninth album as Plus Instruments, Unnoticed, lands on February 11t...
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January 13, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Since founding Plus Instruments in Eindhoven in 1978, Truus de Groot has carved an uncompromising path through the experimental underground.
Five decades into her restless creative journey, her 9th album as Plus Instruments, ‘Unnoticed,' lands on Feb 11th.
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Five decades into her restless creative journey, her 9th album as Plus Instruments, ‘Unnoticed,' lands on Feb 11th.
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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!
ransom-note-records.lnk.to/ThroughtheCo...
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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