The next film clip by my girl Jackie Ransom, from her upcoming album Cell Death. The song is about a giant fish that eats children, be afraid. No MP3 with this one, you will have to wait for the album to drop later in the year. Another sweet homemade video from Miss Ransom: she certainly has a way of making what was probably at one stage pretty innocent imagery look completely menacing. I can’t wait to see what she comes up with next!

Stay tuned too for more news on my split 7″ with Jackie Ransom, featuring a track I recorded with Beta Evers from Germany. It’s coming soon on Zerohour Doom & Glamour.

Jackie Ransom – Final Exposure

Miami might be best known for cocaine, vice, Miami Bass and sunshine, but what you might NOT be aware of is that there is some seriously dark and experimental wave music coming out of Miami. Probably the best known, is Staccato Du Mal — he had several tracks on each of the Wierd LPs, as well as a handful of great independently released 7″s and CDRs under various aliases and collaborations (including a beautiful 7″ with vocals by Liz Wendelbo of Xeno & Oaklander) on his own label SDM.

Another member of this lesser known Miami underground is Miss Jackie Ransom. Like Staccato Du Mal, Jackie shares a certain punk aesthetic to her music — using exclusively analogue instruments, including cheap synthesizers, lofi drummachines and guitar, all played live: one-take recordings of every track, often improvising with vocals and synth riffs as the track is coming along, making for a raw and unique sound.

Final Exposure is from Jackie’s upcoming album Cell Death. Featuring 8* (the vocalist from Flesh Græy Display) credited for vocals, guitar and mistake — yes you read that correctly. A duet of haunting vocals between Jackie and 8*, with dark and poetic lyrics with maybe just a slight nod to Joy Division.

The video clip was also made by Ms. Ransom herself, a disturbing collage of old archive video footage of hypnotism, psychology and sight, edited into a horrifying film noir nightmare. Once again that punk DIY aesthetic and imagination shines through, saying fuck to the million dollar video clips we are assaulted with any time we switch on a TV.

I have a split 7″ on the way with Miss Ransom, featuring her track Killer Inside (which will also appear on Cell Death and the upcoming Doom & Glamour album on Zerohour) and my track Eternal, with vocals from Beta Evers. Two great songs if I may say so myself, and it also features some beautiful artwork by the ever-amazing Caitlin Shearer. It will be released shortly on Zerohour so stay tuned baby!

Ms. Ransom also plays in electronic improv rock project Mascara Scare with 8* and Jackie Soir — check them out.

Jackie Ransom – Final Exposure

Baby baby baby — It’s the fantastic romantic RETALI8!

You can call me RETALI8 for short. This is my personal blog, dedicated to whatever the fuck I feel like writing about – Which will be mostly music: both my own and shit that I like, graffiti, fashion photography, art, film, food & drink, and which models I have a crush on.

I run an experimental electronic record label called Zerohour Doom & Glamour — the first releases are on the way for 010, including the long awaited Doom & Glamour CD compilation and 2 split 7″s from Jackie Ransom + Luster & Beta Evers (featuring some absolutely stunning artwork by my girl Caitlin Shearer) and Frank Alpine + Sean Cooper.

I also write about electro funk old school rap music and graffiti for Cold Crush — Sydney’s only electro funk, Miami bass and old school hip hop club.
So on this blog you will mostly only hear about other styles of music that don’t really fit the Cold Crush sound – from minimal wave, ebm and new wave to electro to hip hop, rock and classical. As you will discover I have a pretty broad and usually obscure taste in music.