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Bytes* is a London/Dorset electronic label and an offshoot of Ransom Note Records formed in 2019.   *Named after the 1993 Black Dog album that was part of Warp’s influential Artificial Intelligence series.
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Premiere: Seagoth -Methuselah (Maps Remix) Resolutely optimistic and melancholic electronic symphonic beauty from Maps on the Seagoth remix.
 
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Premiere: Steve Queralt / Michael Smith – Chaldean Oracle (GLOK remix) On Versions, Queralt and Smith's four tracks have been reimagined by Nandele, Flug 8, GLOK and Nina Walsh.
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Jordan Stanley: The ‘Wednesday Alternative’ Mix The Edinburgh-based experimental composer explores the music that influenced his second album, released on our offshoot Bytes.
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Premiere: A Lily – Like Rising Smoke The project of Phantom Limb boss James Vella makes a return R$N offshoot Bytes for a new LP.
 
 
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Premiere: Seagoth – Eternity (GLOK Remix) RIDE’s Andy Bell reworks the 20-year-old singer's Bytes debut under his GLOK alias.
Bytes announce GLOK’s second LP and new single with Sinead O’ Brien GLOK is the electronic alter ego of Andy Bell; best-known as the guitarist in venerated shoegazers Ride. This October he readies his first album proper ‘Pattern Recognition’ released on sister label Bytes. Sonically-deep layers, hypnotic sound and trance-like headspaces “GLOK is all about the push and pull between electronic and psych in my music.”  Across […]
 
Yoann Pisterman: The ‘Monday Is Okay’ Mix Earlier this year it was announced that French, Argentinian multi-disciplinary artist Yoann Pisterman would release a new tape via Dorset and London based record label Bytes.  The tape is titled “Water Groove” and is his debut album and follows on from prior experiments. It’s described by the label as follows: “An impressionistic sound journey into […]
Video Premiere: Herrmann Kristoffersen – Gone Gold Herrmann Kristoffersen release their second single Gold Gold from their second album of the same name out next month on Bytes Recordings. We’re premiering a video of the single made by the German visual artist Moto Waganari. Working at the cutting edge of what is possible using AI with 3D wireframe sculpture, the video is […]
Premiere: Franz Kirmann & Roberto Grosso – In Waves Tears stained her cheeks; with each one she wiped away, another quickly took its place. This morning was a far cry from the highs of last night, the smiles and the laughter had dissolved and now she felt no joy. It came in waves, she didn’t know when it would hit her: what would the […]
Premiere: Herrmann Kristoffersen – 1LC Hit the gas and tear up the roads in this legendary action-driving game. Take your ride through wide city streets, push it sideways down narrow mountain roads and hit the limiter as you put the pedal to the metal on the freeway. With plenty to see, Ventura Bay is the perfect place for you to […]
 
Premiere: Minotaur Shock – Qua The pebbles fitted into his hand perfectly, like he was supposed to find them. They were almost identical – light grey, satisfyingly smooth, both almost spherical, like mini moons. The body of water in front of him was so calm and so still, but the temptation to throw the pebbles in and cause momentary yet […]
Herrmann Kristoffersen: The ‘Monday Is OK’ Mix In February of this year photographer and producer Daniel Herrmann and his partner, singer-songwriter Kristina Kristofferson, released their first collaborative outing on our cassette label offshoot Bytes. The album was a beautiful collection of long, meditative and atmospheric soundscapes made during a winter spent at one of their homes in the Taunus forest, in the […]
 
A LILY announces his fifth album on Ransom Note’s cassette label Bytes Phantom Limb boss and producer A LILY (aka James Vella) has announced his fifth album, Sleep Through the Storm, on our own Ransom Note cassette label Bytes.  The name of the album, Vella explains, refers to two experiences; “The Storm” being this dark period in human history and the anxieties that go along with it, while […]
 
Bytes: A Flavour of the Label Mix Launched in April 2019, Bytes is a Dorset and London based record label run in tandem to Ransom Note. It is an outlet for abstract electronics, music less focussed towards the club and more so towards home listening and moments of pensive thought. The label has been hugely successful and has amassed a reputation with […]
Premiere: GLOK – Dissident (Richard Sen Remix) They were well organised and disciplined as they tactfully marched through the sprawling green fields. They looked out upon the land before them and surveyed the scene, this would do. As night began to fell they each set up their tents whilst one worked on building a small fire upon which they would cook. Out […]
Video Diaries: Franz Kirmann Talks It feels like an apt time to be speaking to Franz again. Not only because it’s interesting to critique a new album from an artist when their previous album is still so fresh in the memory, but also because of the current world events that influenced the sound of it. Franz is certainly an interesting […]
 
 
Video Premiere: Abramov – Low Tide “Low Tide is the kind of creature who can never let you go, he sits inside your tears box and scratches up and down to synchronize your heavy breath, a mantra of broken hearts and empty eyes.” Following releases from close family Lily Haz, MYKI and Olsvangèr, the sixth outing on Tel Aviv imprint Tofistock […]
Premiere: jik – arp Cnidae is a Latin word for specific cells present among jellyfish, sea anemones, corals etc. It is these cells that separate cnidarians from other animals. Cnidarians are built in a very simple way, lacking skeleton animals. They seem to be innocent and beautiful, but there is also a sense of mystery, weirdness and wobbliness in […]
 
Artist to Artist: GLOK and C.A.R. Singer-songwriter C.A.R. and guitarist and producer GLOK have crossed musical paths in the past, but it wasn't until last month that the pair collaborated for the first time as part of our Pen Pals compilation. Both GLOK, which is the alias of Ride guitarist and Oasis bass player Andy Bell, and C.A.R., the moniker of RSN fave […]
Franz Kirmann returns to Bytes for his fifth album ‘First Broadcast’ French producer Franz Kirmann returns to R$N's tape-orientated label Bytes for his fifth album, First Broadcast. Following last year's acclaimed LP, Madrapour, First Broadcast is a collection of hypnotic, psychedelic live jams recorded in a state of confusion and paranoia in London during the early stages of the Coronavirus quarantine. In contrast to Madrapour, a warm analog […]
Premiere: Herrmann Kristoffersen – Vista “The woods are lovely, dark and deep,” wrote Robert Frost. At the heart of every forest is a darkness that bides its time, a mystery contained within the large expanses of trees and overgrown foliage. After the sun goes down, the dark forest spirit reclaims its turf, rolling out across bracken, bark and brambles towards […]
Insomnia Music with Franz Kirmann Since London-based label Days Of Being Wild launched in 2009, much has changed both internally and externally. Francois Gamaury AKA Franz Kirmann set up the imprint alongside friend and fellow French expat Jérome “Catalepsia” Bazzanella as a space for them to share their club focused productions, however a decade down the line and Jérome has left the […]
 
Premiere: Nine8 – POWR (GLOK Bootleg Re-edit) There's epic and then there's EPIC. GLOK's 50-minute re-edit of POWR, the debut single by Nige, of the London hip-hop crew NiNE8 COLLECTIVE, is Homeric in its scale. The product of a lost afternoon, when GLOK (aka Ride's Andy Bell) became obsessed with the original track – a laidback woozy roller with a shuffling house […]
Franz Kirmann: The ‘Monday Is OK’ Mix Last month London-based Frenchman Franz Kirmann returned to his analog hardware roots for his Madrapour LP on our Ransom Note cassette sub-label BYTES. A departure from the digital sound collages of his last album Elysian Park for Denovali Records back in 2016, Franz continues his sonic exploration of the haunting and the cinematic, something he also practises […]
 
Soundtracking the Future: Franz Kirmann Talks When I saw Franz Kirmann’s name pop up in my feed I immediately remembered how much I liked what he did with his label Days Of Being Wild, especially Spinner way back in the day. I was delighted to find out that he was releasing an album with the R$N crew on Bytes, and wondered […]
 
Video Premiere: GLOK – Kolokol Jean de Oliveira, a director, photographer and editor based in Berlin and Paris, has made a stunningly trippy video to accompany 'Kolokol', which is taken from Dissident, the debut album by GLOK aka Ride’s Andy Bell. De Oliveira, who also directed the video to Ride’s Charm Assault and has made clips for The Brian Jonestown […]
Franz Kirmann set to release album on Ransom Note sub-label Bytes French producer and film composer Franz Kirmann is set to release his debut album on Ransom Note Records sub-label Bytes.  Set for release on 4th October, the album entitled Madrapour marks Kirmann's fourth long player, coming three years after the release of Elysian Park, his dystopian album on on German imprint Denovali. During that period since his last […]
Premiere: Franz Kirmann – Salem Walking through the dead of night there was an overwhelming sense of tension which hung in the mysterious air. This was Salem and it was a place of great peril and anger – those who danced beneath the glow of streetlights were wicked and cruel whilst those that watched on from an Ivory tower had […]
 
 
Under The Covers: Graeme Swinton Under The Covers: Getting to know the artists who give birth to the visual identity of a release… In this series we turn the lens on the designers, illustrators and artists behind some of our favourite record sleeves to find out how music fuels their art and where their inspirations lie. We all know how […]
Premiere: Tom Hodge & Franz Kirmann – Three Reasons Why There were endless possibilities, questions left unanswered and a door which sat ajar. There were three reasons why she might have left… The night was cold and dark, a faint chill ran through the town as he began to wonder where his long lost lover had gone. Absconding was weak and cruel – it answered […]
 
Andy Bell to release debut album as GLOK on Bytes The second release on Bytes, an offshoot of Ransom Note Records, represents a coup for the fledgling cassette label. GLOK is the electronic solo project of Andy Bell of shoegaze legends RIDE, and ‘Dissident’ is his debut album; seven stunning instrumental tracks taking in electronica, Detroit techno, Krautrock, ambient, John Carpenter soundtracks and Balearic influences. […]
Minotaur Shock: The Ransom Note Mix Today marks the return of Bristolian producer Minotaur Shock as he releases his first album under the much-loved moniker since ‘Orchard’ in 2012. On ‘Orchard’ Edwards embraced the "folktronica" tag that had previously been a burden, but, nearly seven years on, he has renounced the acoustic guitars, drums and woodwind instruments to make ‘MINO’ – […]
Premiere: Minotaur Shock – Waxflower Somewhere in the corner of the room a machine sputtered into life. It had lain dormant for eons, buried under a thick layer of dust, a relic of a time when people still created music with their hands, heads and hearts (and computers). Techno. That’s what they called it. Music made via the transference of […]
Franz Kirmann’s Video For ‘Hypertrance’ Has Dropped Franz Kirmann's weird and wonderful video for 'Hypertrance' from his album 'Elysian Park' is now up on YouTube.  After being commissioned by Berlin art studio Zeitguised to soundtrack the art installation 'Hyper Trophies', Franz Kirmann created his third album 'Elysian Park' – made up of 14 different compositions that all featured in the exhibition. The […]
 
Influences: Franz Kirmann There is a lot to be said about the mulit faceted approach to music of Franz Kirmann. His involvement in the neo classical group Piano Interrupted is perhaps what he is known most famously for, however, his own solo work and his management of Days Of Being Wild should not slip by ignored. His latest […]
Franz Kirmann Drops Third Solo Album French producer Franz Kirmann is set to make a return to diverse electronic label Denovali Records this October.  Born out of a Berlin based art installation that Kirmann soundtracked called 'Hyper Trophies', and a Michel Houellebecq novel entitled 'The Possibility Of An Island', the new album skirts abstract and experimental sounds.  Check out his facebook […]
 
The Latest News From Neptune #11: Tunji Age, 10th Letter, Wes Period, Abra THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS HAVE SEEN PRODUCERS ROUND THE WORLD BLURRING THE LINES BETWEEN HIP HOP, JAZZ, HOUSE AND BEATS (WHATEVER THAT MEANS) AND FLINGING OUT JOYOUS, MIND-BENDING NEW MUSIC LIKE GODS CHUCKING STARS ACROSS THE SKY. THIS COLUMN TRAWLS THE INTERNET TO TRY AND MAKE SENSE OF IT ALL. HERE IS THE LATEST […]
 
Piano Interrupted To Release New Album “Landscapes Of The Unfinished” will be the third LP from anglo/french duo Franz Kirmann and Tom Hodge. The album is partly based on recordings from Senegal, where Franz spent his childhood. The approach to the production of this project follows the philosophy of their previous works, maintaining the idea of continuous reinvention. There is a […]
‘Days Of Being Wild’ Label Night In Dalston, Friday The restless and unstoppable Days Of Being Wild are hosting a label night at Dalston's newest addition to the Jaguarshoes Collective, the Victoria, this Friday. The label responsible for some stunning output from Lokier, Justin Roberton's Deadstock 33's, and Italo Brutalo, the night calls upon the tremendous selection skills and exciting new live show from labelheads […]
Hotel International & Samuel Berdah Announce ‘From Manilla With Love’ Ep Days Of Being Wild label runners Franz Kirmann and Samuel Berdah are set to release a split 12" from their respective Hotel International and Club Bizarre monikers next month. From Manilla WIth Love picks up on both the rough, DIY side of the label through Berdah's project while Kirmann's sounds provide that much sought after dose […]
 
 
First Listen: Piano Interrupted – Emoticon (Floex Remix) Anglo / French duo Piano Interrupted (Tom Hodge and Franz Kirmann) are a musical entity in "continuous reinvention, like a never-ending “mise en abyme".  They've invited a handful of artists and producers from Denovali Records' to reinterpret “The Unified Field”, and we're offering the first listen of the Floex rework. Oscillating between dub, techno, abstract […]
Random Facts With… Nick Höppner Boing bom tschak.  You might know Nick Höppner. He's done a few things in his time. Running the inimitable Ostgut Ton label, holding down a residency at Berghain/Panoramabar for a very long time and being editor of German electronic institution Groove Magazine are just three of these far from few things. A proper grafter he's […]
 
TRACK BY TRACK: Franz Kirmann – Meridians Franz Kirmann is a French producer probably best known as half of post-classical/electronica duo Piano Interrupted. Whilst his 2011 release may have been overshadowed in terms of the title by the Daft Punk album of the same name which won several awards last year, Kirmann has just released his latest album 'Meridians' via Denovali Records […]
Label Love #6: Days Of Being Wild Originally set up as a vehicle for creators Franz Kirmann and Jerome 'Catalepsia' Bazzanella to release their own music, Days Of Being Wild has now blossomed into a well respected purveyor of top quality, edgy dance music as well as being the label for a number of diverse techno artists.  In the next instalment of our Label Love […]
Audio Love #7 Pop these in your ears when you're shoveling your fifteenth portion of turkey into your gob. Good music is proven to be as least as effective as Gaviscon at curing indigestion….   Chocky – Supplier EP (Flumo)   Ive written about Chockys productions on more than one occasion now and this new 12 thats recently dropped […]
Minotaur Shock remixes Welsh Kosmiche-head R. Seiliog Everyones favourite bicycle-obsessed, bird-loving folktronica luminary David Edwards aka Minotaur Shock has served up a corking remix of Ostisho, a track from R Seiliogs brilliant forthcoming mini-album Doppler, due for release on Turnstile Music on September 30. R Seiliog is the nom de plume of the Kosmiche impulse-fuelled project of the Cardiff musician/producer Robin Edwards […]
 
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A Night With… Were now just over a month away until we have the amazing Ellen Allien for a full 8 hours for her date with A Night With… Check out when she played Time Warp last year: A Night WithEllen Allien Date: Sat 14th May, 2011Time: 10pm – 6amLocation: The Red Gallery, 1-3 Rivington Street, EC2A 3DT.Price: […]
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This Week 17/3 “Live all you can, its a mistake not to. Yes, today is the first day of the rest of your life and the greatest time in history to be living. Now is the future we were thinking of last year.” Intro from Derricks Cut the Crap B2B mix. “Well this is going to sell anyway […]
 
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Principal Participant! NEW PRINCIPAL PARTICIPANT ALBUM For a while now, Minotaur Shock has been making music under the name Principal Participant. Minotaur Shock is his regular outlet for musical dalliances, but occasionally he dons his cape and lets rip with a 4/4, aiming tunes at an imaginary dancefloor. Anything he creates that doesnt quite fit the arbitrary […]
 
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Music musings 15/4 Mixed bag of nonsense this week but some absolute amazingness. Best news of all first… The Bluetones & Wonder Stuff are touring again!! Not only that but the Wonder Stuff are playing the whole of ‘Hup’ touring plus all your favourites… how excited are Danny & Pavey gonna be about that eh?!! So, Malcolm eh? […]
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY #5 Like a good squad of nordic fisherman, R$N trawl through the bulging promo MP3 inbox and bring today’s catches straight to your plate. This week, to try and prompt the London sun god out of hiding, we’re getting all positive, with not a cynical review in sight.  The Good Papa Hedi EP- Piano Interrupted. Photogram Records […]
We Actually Like…#5 Blanck Mass – White Math This came out in August but it's too huge for me to stifle my delayed appreciation any longer. It comes from Benjamin John Power (one half of Andrew Weatherall-produced ambient/noise duo Fuck Buttons) who has also released a magnificent self-titled debut under this name. But this 12'' split (on Daniel […]
 
 
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Bytes* is a London/Dorset electronic label and an offshoot of Ransom Note Records formed in 2019.   *Named after the 1993 Black Dog album that was part of Warp’s influential Artificial Intelligence series.
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