The Centrifuge presents:

Orcas (Morr Music)
Rafael Anton Irisarri (Touch, Room40, Ghostly, Miasmah)
Benoît Pioulard (Kranky, Type, Desire Path)
Prima Mater (DJ set)

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Quite a last-minute show so please help us to spread the word! The Centrifuge Agency is delighted to be welcoming the critically-acclaimed Orcas for their first ever London show, fresh from the release of their widely praised debut album on Morr Music. This will be a very special evening with both band members, each respected and established in their own right, also performing solo sets.

Seattle’s post-minimalist composer Rafael Anton Irisarri plays his only solo UK show this year and Michigan’s Benoît Pioulard returns to London after recently enchanting a full house at Cafe OTO with his unique guitar and vocal explorations. Be prepared for an evening of Pacific Northwestern experimental guitar music, avant-folk songcraft and symphonic neo-classical ambience.

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Orcas

Interview with Vice’s Noisey Magazine

Album of the week on Boomkat April 2012

Orcas is a new band by haze-pop auteur Benoît Pioulard and post-minimalist composer Rafael Anton Irisarri. Theirs is a style deeply rooted in personal variations on songform and ambient craft, and as a duo they bridge the furthest outlying aspects of their previous solo works.

“This type of collaboration between experimental pop musicians can too often devolve into aimless fancywork and tech shenanigans, but Meluch and Irisarri have crafted a genuine, coherent album that conjures immense shadows and immense depths worthy of its namesake.” – Pitchfork Music.

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Rafael Anton Irisarri

“Irisarri embodies the hybrid genre…the new kind of composer, who exists in an undifferentiated welter of pop, techno, and classical.” – Pitchfork (USA)

Rafael Anton Irisarri is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, curator, producer and interdisciplinary artist. He is predominantly associated with post-minimalist, drone and ambient music and has been exploring textural electronics for over half a decade. Irisarri’s recorded output captures an essential vision of floating tones, deep pulsing bass and textured Gaussian curves. His use of ostinato phrases taps into minimalist ideals, whilst his use of atmospheric layers of reverb suggests a more cinematic quality. In all, Irisarri’s compositions are deeply emotive and epic to the point of being symphonic.

He is also known as the main member of electronic shoegaze act The Sight Below, and one half of the critically-acclaimed new duo Orcas with…

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Benoît Pioulard

Since a young age, Michigan resident Thomas Meluch has been fascinated with the sounds of nature and tape decay—through almost a decade of recordings, he has fostered an infatuation with a sort of sonic density that combines remnants of pop song structures with the lushness and unpredictability of field recordings. A veteran drummer of a half dozen bands, Meluch chose guitar and voice as the primary instruments for his work as Benoît Pioulard. He began documenting field recordings and his own lo-fi compositions on dictaphones, discarded stereos and four-track machines in the mid 1990s, later focusing on highly limited CD-R and cassette releases of his experimental, folk-influenced songs for friends and family.

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Ticket link to follow!

http://www.irisarri.org/
http://www.pioulard.com/
http://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk/
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/

The Centrifuge gratefully acknowledges support from The PRS For Music Foundation.

[CF063] Roy of the Ravers – 2012 Annual LP

Released on Monday 14th May 2012 at http://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk

Mysterious hardware fiend Roy of the Ravers returns for a fresh instalment of acidic analogue jams aimed squarely at the dancefloor. Need we say any more…?

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Tracklist:
1. Grace Jones Intro
2. Breakbeat 7
3. Police Raid!
4. Bomb On Board!
5. Kimberley Theme
6. Zut Alors!
7. Cave Rave
8. Super Strength Pills!
9. Twilight Zone
10. Roland Corp Labs

Artist Resources:

Roy of the Ravers – Oriental X-Press from requesting it on Vimeo.

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On this week’s show we’ve a properly eclectic mix from a mainstay of the french electronic scene, Bit-phalanx’s Topher. A producer and DJ since the late 80s, Topher is the man behind both the Aries Slant label and the György Ligeti Tribute project, as well as releasing tracks on labels such as Bit-Phalanx. His mix moves from downtempo dubby vibes through 4×4 dancefloor materials right through to balls out breakcore, and features tracks from Volitune, T-Toe, Steinvord, Untrkmind and many more.

In addition, we’ve a competition to win a CD and T-Shirt combo of Addison Groove’s ‘Transistor Rhythm’ LP, plus new music from Coppe, Phon.o, Roughquest, Kamikaze Space Programme, Hurtdeer and many more.

www.brap.fm, Tonight, 10pm UK time.

The Centrifuge Agency presents a 5th Anniversary Showcase:

EOD (030303, WeMe, Wil-Ru)
Ither aka Vaetxh (The Centrifuge)
missaw (The Centrifuge)
Omar León (Moog)

The Centrifuge continues celebrating its 5th Anniversary with a unique session in Barcelona’s cult MOOG CLUB with two of electronic music’s most praised emerging talents!

Moog Website

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There will also be a Gallery session at NIU on 07/06/12 and an in-store session at Discos Paradiso -details to be announced on our Facebook + Twitter pages.

Over the bank holiday weekend, that bastion of truly innovative electronic music Igloo Magazine published a special mix “Syncratica” compiled by missaw and packed full of exclusive & unheard tracks from our forthcoming 5th Anniversary compilation, with particular emphasis on the atmospheric.

Full infos over at Igloo

Quick & Dirty Preview:

Tracklist ::
—Yellow Then Blue :: “Big Dipper”
—Eraserhead :: “Cusp”
—Rival Consoles :: “Sebastian”
—Vaetxh :: “Resonant Bridge”
—Gareth Clarke :: “Folie A Deux”
—Lodsb :: “Cyan”
—Point B :: “Fen”
—Roel Funcken :: “Gallice”
—Eutechnik :: “Alex Makes It Good”
—Soundex Phonetic :: “Celestial Navigator”
—TCO :: “Errors And Fatality”
—Prima Mater :: “Eternities (Remix of Carl Brown)”
—Sense :: “The World Is Yours”

As well as this, we’ve new music from Scrubber Fox, Duke Slammer, Space Ladies, Thrupence, Vincent Steiner, Kristian Heikkila, Paul Mac, Max Cooper, Swarm Intelligence and many more, plus a competition to win a copy of Addison Groove’s new album on 50 Weapons.

www.brap.fm tonight, 10pm

[CF062] The Gasman – Clubfoot EP

Released on Monday 16th April 2012 at http://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk

Christopher Reeves returns for his fourth instalment of idiosyncratic electronics under his “The Gasman” moniker on The Centrifuge label. This time he takes aim at the 80s, with what he describes as a selection of “footwork classics”. So is he jumping on the Chicago bandwagon and letting the pitched vocals and toms rip? You’ll have to listen to find out.

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Tracklist:
1. Fade to grey
2. Won’t let the sun go down on me
3. Ghosts
4. Love action
5. Dancing with tears in my eyes
6. Owner of a lonely heart
7. Our friends electric
8. Feed the world

Artist Links:

http://www.gasmanmusic.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Gasman/28792488970

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As we approach show number 69, The Centrifuge Radio Show is proud to present a retrospective mix from Bad Sekta’s very own PHUQ. With past releases from Voltergeist, Blackmass Plastics, Last Boss, Ronin and many others, plus a forthcoming release from The Centrifuge’s own Scrubber Fox, Bad Sekta has a formidable back catalogue, and label boss PHUQ has harvested the best for a retrospective mix for the show. A great listen for those of you into your dark, aggressive, abstract noises.

In addition…well, there’s so much we haven’t decided exactly what to play, but for starters you’ll hear new music from Addison Groove, Mouse on Mars, Poborsk, Ukkonen, Toob, Cygnus, Molez, Memotone, Lorn, Caoutchou records and many, many more.

www.brap.fm – 10pm-12pm tonight.

In addition, we’ve new music from Eutechnik, Patten, FURS, Toob, Qebrus, Pocz, OktoRed, Fanu, Koloah, Scrubber Fox and more.

www.brap.fm – Tonight at 10pm

[CF061] Gareth Clarke – Atheist In Foxhole EP

Released on Monday 12th March 2012 at http://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk

Gareth Clarke delivers his long awaited sophomore release, underlining his reputation as one of the brightest lights and best-kept secrets in electronic music today. Oozing elegance and sensory richness throughout; subtle, playful and visceral often in the same moment, somehow. GC has elicited the perfect pleasure amalgam for body and brain.

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Tracklist:
1. August
2. Honest John
3. Sex In The Chancel
4. Flex Hands Extend Mournfully to Side
5. Eved

Artist Links:

http://soundcloud.com/gareth-clarke
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