The Centrifuge Archive (2008-14)

Author: missaw

  • [CF024] Veqtor – Retrospective EP

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    [CF024] Veqtor – Retrospective EP

    Released June 7th 2009 at https://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk, free download.

    Bumper 8-track EP from Sweden’s Veqtor, curator of the OXO-Unlimited netlabel. The release twists and turns between melodic junglism, max/msp-fuelled glitch explorations and a dirty, dub techno vibe.

    CF024 cover

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    Tracklist
    1. Kickuchi and Retort (draft)
    2. Room 431
    3. Tanuki Jingle
    4. 3-Aulien Caexf-9
    5. Pecking F-Key
    6. Computers Will Inherit The Earth
    7. Snowflakes
    8. Retrospective

    Artist Profile
    Veqtor Online: veqtor.blogspot.com
    Download from website: www.TheCentrifuge.co.uk
    Press/Contact: info@thecentrifuge.co.uk

    Published by The Centrifuge using a Creative Commons License.

    The Centrifuge: Experimental electronic events, netlabel and artist management. View our artist roster PDF: http://bit.ly/CbOVu

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  • Support Us If You Can!

    As you might have guessed, running a free label and non-commercial events isn’t exactly a shortcut to a pot of gold, quite the opposite in fact. So if you like what we do, and can spare a little bit of cash it would make all the difference to us! We want to keep releasing music for free, we believe that open-source music is one of the best ways forward to revitalise the music industry, especially in a less commercial scene such as experimental electronic music. Any help you can give is appreciated, whether its spreading the word about our releases and events, coming down to our shows and saying hello or cold, hard, sweet cash.

    As a token of our appreciation, if you can donate over £5 (UK peeps) or over £10 (EU/Rest of World), and give us your postal address, we’ll send you a mixture of exclusive digital and real-world goodies that can’t be gotten at any other way. Can’t say fairer than that huh??

  • A lot can happen in a year…

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    Well, its been a year since we launched The Centrifuge’s netlabel with our first London show (at the now defunct Epicurean Lounge) and what a year it’s been!

    At the last count we’ve put on or been heavily involved about 35 shows in 4 UK cities (London, Nottingham, Leeds and Manchester) in the past 12 months, in spaces as diverse as galleries, clubs,  city centre spaces, warehouses and community centres. Not to be outdone, the label has released 27 EPs, albums and compilations.

    Here at The Centrifuge HQ we’d like to extend a sincere, heartfelt thankyou to everyone who’s been involved with both sides of our activities, including but not limited to:

    Label -NeuTek, Sadistician / Unit Cell, Captain Chaos, Oxynucid, Scrubber Fox, Loz Koleszko, Communicon, The Gasman, Idiron Soundtrack, Carl Brown, Gareth Clarke, Mark Swift, Fractional, Uncool Sam / Glaztze / Mr Underwood, brokeBust / Guide, Myoptik, LJ Kruzer, Manglebot, abscissa, Reflexicon, Formication, Richard Devine, Puzzleweasel,  Koolmorf Widesen, Ken Bock, Sinnataggen, DH Sublord, Jash, Chevron, Joel-Aime Beauchamp, Ursa, Quip, Veqtor, Yellow Then Blue, QXTC, Mrs Jynx & heaps more to come!

    Events – NeuTek, missaw, Ebola / Zeddemore, Captain Chaos, Wisp, Al Qaholic, Plucking Skanker, Sadistician / Unit Cell, Oxynucid, Quip, Scrubber Fox, Communicon, The Gasman, Idiron Soundtrack, Gareth Clarke, Mark Swift, Uncool Sam / Glatze / Mr Underwood, brokeBust / Guide, Myoptik, abscissa, Formication, Richard Devine, Puzzleweasel, Koolmorf Widesen, Sinnataggen, Chevron, Ursa, Mrs Jynx, The Acid Factory, Rob Hall, Mr 76ix, Syntheme, DJ Scotch Egg, Ove-Naxx, Maruosa, Bogulta, Chevron, DMX Krew, The Boombot Soundsystem, Dolphin, Scheme Boy, Raw Hedroom, DJ Stuff, Zanf, The Doubtful Guest, Feldermelder, AGT Rave Cru, Daedelus, Lone, Joe Germlin & loads more I’m sure I’ve forgotten (sorry! let us know if you’re missed and we’ll sort it out!)

    Crews – Adverse Camber, I Love Acid, Plex, Lobotomy, Strictly Come Rinsing, Kombination Funk, Redrum and many others…

    And finally – big respect to Tom Brennan, Gilbert Sinnott, Alex Henson, Ameet Hindocha for graphics and photography; Alex Wintermute for mastering, the management at Ginglik (London), Blueprint (Nottingham), Moog (Nottingham), The Common Place (Leeds), Urbis (Manchester), Blink (Manchester), The Epicurean Lounge (London), Gramaphone (London); and love to our pals at Acroplane Recordings, Rephlex Records, Balkan Vinyl, Planet Mu, Warp Records, Skam Records, n5MD, 030303 and many other excellent crews for gracing our shows and keeping the fire burning.

    We’re aiming to put links up to artist, label and events crews soon, the power of google search should help you in the meantime if you’re curious!

    Keep on keeping on, here’s to another cracking 12 months.

    The Centrifuge x

  • RogueBot – An Interactive Rave Installation

    RogueBot – An Interactive Rave Installation by our friends the Electric Toybox.

    Join the Facebook group here to make comments and suggestions!

    PDF of Electric Toybox press release.

     

  • Mr Underwood and his MIDI-Octopus

    Mr Underwood and his MIDI-Octopus (as seen at Futuresonic 2009).

    midi-octopus.  a modular midi-to-real-world converter. designed to allow midi sequencing of objects in the local environment.
    As seen at Futuresonic Festival 2009.

     

     

    note: demo track really kicks off around 3:40

  • [LDN] Sat 25th July – The Centrifuge presents Icasea UK Launch Party @ Ginglik

    [LDN] The Centrifuge presents Skam Comeback / Icasea UK Launch Party @ Ginglik.

    Icasea Logo

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=81762844583

    8pm – 4am. £6 before 10pm, £8 after.
    Arrive early to avoid disappointment, live acts start early!

    Skam stars celebrate the UK Label Launch of Icasea Records. Absolutely HUGE lineup, including a rare UK performance by UK/Japanese legends Team Doyobi and Mortal & Chemist, a Gescom DJ set (yes you read that right!) and Mr 76ix premiering his new Skam album. KILLA!!!!!

    ∆ LIVE:
    MR76IX (SKAM)
    TEAM DOYOBI (SKAM / ICASEA / FAT-CAT / ALKU)
    MORTAL & CHEMIST (SKAM / ICASEA / 33)
    POBORSK (ICASEA / CACTUS ISLAND / TSUKU BOSHI / FILAMENT / PLASTIQPASSION)
    KONX-OM-PAX (ICASEA / DISPLAY COPY)
    THE WYRDING MODULE (ICASEA)

    ∆ DJ:
    GESCOM (SKAM / OR / CLEAR / SOURCE / WARP / FAT-CAT)
    S>>D (ICASEA)
    MISSAW (THE CENTRIFUGE)

    ∆ VISUALS:
    SEEN

  • [CF023] Myoptik – Allusion To Dance EP

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    [CF023] Myoptik – Allusion To Dance EP

    Released on Sunday 24th May 2009 at https://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk, free download.

    Myoptik’s second EP for The Centrifuge delivers another 3 epic tracks in his distinctive atmospheric acid-electro style. The tracks are full of attention to detail, micro-edits and cheeky retro rave phrases.

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    Tracklist
    1. Nuclear Jellyfish
    2. Liquorish Rave
    3. Human Whirlpool

    Artist Profile
    Myoptik Online: www.myspace.com/myoptik
    Download from website: www.TheCentrifuge.co.uk
    Press/Contact: info@thecentrifuge.co.uk

    Published by The Centrifuge using a Creative Commons License.

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  • Photos from Richard Devine @ Corsica Studios

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  • [LDN] Sat 27th June – The Centrifuge presents Open Source Acid @ Ginglik

    [LDN] Sat 27th June – The Centrifuge presents Open Source Acid @ Ginglik
    Netlabel 303 takeover whilst I Love Acid has a breather for June…

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=201744225270

    Sat 27th June @ Ginglik, 1 Shepherds Bush Green, London. W12 8PH.

    Chevron LIVE (Planet Mu, Ad Noiseam, 030303)
    Odan LIVE (Net-Lab)
    Oxynucid LIVE (The Centrifuge)
    Quip LIVE (The Centrifuge, STFU)
    missaw (The Centrifuge)
    Captain Chaos LIVE (The Centrifuge)

    Full members free / P.A.Y.G. members free before 8pm, £6 before 10pm, £8 after / 7pm – 3am

    The Centrifuge (www.thecentrifuge.co.uk) takes over the last Saturday of June while I Love Acid has a breather till July. Expect all the acid you could ever hope for from Brighton’s rave king Chevron and a host of ultra-talented live acts like Odan, Oxynucid, Captain Chaos and Quip that have set the netlabel scene alight in the past 12 months.

    Chevron LIVE (Planet Mu, Ad Noiseam, 030303)
    www.chevvers.com
    Brighton’s acid rave king Chevron touches down for his Ginglik debut to lay down some seriously infectious floor-filler 303 basslines fresh off the back of his excellent track “Excursions” released on the ultra-cool 030303 label and an equally rinsing number “St Matthew” on The Centrifuge netlabel.

    Oxynucid LIVE (The Centrifuge)
    www.myspace.com/oxynucid
    A classically-trained musician with golden fingers, Oxynucid aka Dominick Schofield is fast making a name for himself in electronic music. Having spent 10 years playing keys in an electro-indie band that made it big, he left to pursue his solo career. Barely moments later, he signed to The Centrifuge and has released a string of acclaimed EPs and tracks, combining his electro tendencies and braindance influences to shape wondrous pieces of lush melodic electronics. You aren’t gonna see too many reel-to-reel players and Korg MS-10s on stage either – live electronics can be real, and Oxynucid’s sets have been the highlight of many a Centrifuge show.

    Odan LIVE (Net-lab)
    www.myspace.com/0dan
    Odan is a London-based electro don with some impressive advanced acid productions in the pipeline which he will be premiering on the night. Also a couple of netlabel EP’s to his name back in the hayday of Net-lab. One to watch!

    Quip LIVE (The Centrifuge, STFU)
    www.quipmusic.co.uk
    Experiments in small suburban bedroom, playing guitar in a punk band, classical guitar, show band, making tracks with a one second sampler, getting my first PC and rinsing the Soundblaster card, working to pay for equipment, making tracks on trains, in basements and in peoples houses, more bands, loss of my music partner, learning how to write tunes, recording the guitar, making sounds with the guitar that doesn’t sound like the guitar, working as a sound engineer, doing lots of gigs, working to pay for equipment, moving house, splitting up with long term girlfriend, making more music, releasing music for I Can Count, Hippocamp, more gigs, working with STFU collective, teaching music technology, moving house, making more music, working to pay for equipment, joining some more bands, doing some music for the Centrifuge and Inaudible Answer making music for tv and film, doing more gigs….

    missaw (The Centrifuge)
    www.missaw.com
    missaw is The Centrifuge’s label curator & resident remixer, creating electronic concoctions for the body and the mind.

    Captain Chaos LIVE (The Centrifuge)
    London’s live acid rave general, ready to law down some sweet 303-lines and crunchy beats for maximum sweat on the dancefloor!

    More info online:

    http://www.TheCentrifuge.co.uk
    http://www.myspace.com/centrifugeuk
    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4077312718

  • [LDN] Sat 20th June – FUNCKARMA Live / CANE DJ Set @ Ginglik

    [LDN] Sat 20th June – The Centrifuge presents FUNCKARMA Live / CANE DJ Set @ Ginglik
    The Dutch masters of electronica, bass, IDM and electro hop over for an exclusive London show!

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=81334752939

    Sat 20th June @ Ginglik, 1 Shepherds Bush Green, London. W12 8PH.

    Funckarma LIVE / Cane DJ Set (Warp, Skam, 030303)
    Space Dimension Controller LIVE (Acroplane)
    Idiron Soundtrack LIVE (The Centrifuge)
    Myoptik LIVE (The Centrifuge)
    missaw (The Centrifuge)
    Kone-R (Uncharted Audio)

    Full members free / P.A.Y.G. members free before 8pm, £6 before 10pm, £8 after / 7pm – 3am

    The Centrifuge (www.thecentrifuge.co.uk) touches down in West London for their monthly residency at Ginglik with an all-aces draw of live electronica musics.

     

    Funckarma LIVE & Cane DJ Set (Warp, Skam, 030303)
    www.funckarma.com
    Flying in from Holland are the mighty Funckarma, playing a rare London show to showcase their recent lush, bass-heavy sonic explorations as well as their killer back-catalogue of electronica, IDM, acid, electro and all else inbetween. Check the bonus rare DJ Set from their dark dancefloor electro moniker Cane.

     

    Space Dimension Controller LIVE (Acroplane)
    www.myspace.com/spacedimensioncontroller
    Also worth shouting about is the debut London show of Belfast’s Space Dimension Controller, a teenage prodigy who has been blowing away all and sundry with his excellent debut LP on the Acroplane netlabel.

     

    Idiron Soundtrack LIVE (The Centrifuge)
    www.myspace.com/idironsoundtrack

    Idiron Soundtrack has been responsible for several full-on electro / snare-rush live sets at The Centrifuge’s music events and the epic Manifest Sounds EP (CF009). Originally from Bristol and trained in violin and piano, elements from hyper jungle to squelchy acid are fused through an intricate and emotive approach toward composition that conjures goosebumps and rave mentalism in equal measure. He will be showcasing new material from his forthcoming EP (‘turbo kiisu’).

     

    Myoptik LIVE (The Centrifuge)
    www.myspace.com/myoptik

    Celebrating the release of CF023 – “Allusion To Dance” EP at www.thecentrifuge.co.uk.
    For 10 years myoptik has been a radio presenter, dj, music journalist, producer and event promoter based in not-so-sunny Leicester. Live performance is Myoptik’s natural home with appearances in all sorts of places, under all sorts of musical guises and monikers at events such as the Sonic Arts Network, Summer Sundae, Monastery Of Sound and Delia Derbyshire’s old home. Myoptik is also known for his vibrant Leicester based PVC club nights and his ping-discs imprint both of which pioneered his trademark live Funkatronix sound.
    He has worked with the likes of BJ Cole, Chin Chin, I-mitri, Phaelah and Normal Position. On his own his musical demeanor tends towards a wild maelstrom of gutural bleep-funk and emotive soundscapes, accompanied by a glass of rum..

     

    missaw (The Centrifuge)
    www.missaw.com
    missaw is The Centrifuge’s label curator & resident remixer, creating electronic concoctions for the body and the mind.

     

    Kone-r
    www.unchartedaudio.com
    Kone-r is the man behind the Uncharted Audio record label, which has introduced the likes of Cursor Miner, LJ Kruzer, Kings Have Long Arms and plenty of other weird and wonderful sonic tomfoolery to the world. Manning the turntables since 1992 when he discovered the joy of warehouse raves, the spirit of that era lives on in his sets today, with a liberal sprinkling of ambience, techno, breakbeats and plenty of low frequency oscillations. Despite the length of time he’s spent in the booth, he maintains a cutting edge – you’re as likely to hear him drop fresh dub plates by up and coming acts alongside the latest cuts from Berlin to Detroit as you are to hear vintage rave, classic disco and timeless electro. What’s more, every Kone-R set is expertly mixed entirely on vinyl to preserve audio and artistic integrity – just like in the good old days.
    “…a dexterity few DJ’s can harness” (One Week To Live)

    More info online:

    http://www.TheCentrifuge.co.uk
    http://www.myspace.com/centrifugeuk
    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4077312718

  • First batch of photos from Futuresonic Festival Online!

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  • Fresh Sets & Mixes Published!

    Just got some great mixes and live sets from our archives up on here, check em out. 2 new mixes of thecentrifuge label tracks and live sets from our 2009 shows to follow soon…

  • Events & Releases in June

    Thu 4th June - Adverse Camber & The Centrifuge present The Cloaks Album Launch Party with Zan Lyons, Steve Cloaks, Dead Fader, John Wall, Lee Gamble, DJ Wrongspeed, Diode @ Corsica Studios, Elephant Road, London

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=84268721361

    AdCam Corsica 4th June Flyer

     

    Sat 20th June – The Centrifuge & Techliks Present @ Ginglik , Shepherd’s Bush, London

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=201744225270


    Sat 27th June – The Centrifuge Presents “Open Source Acid” @ Ginglik , Shepherd’s Bush, London

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=81334752939

     

    Netlabel:

    CF011 / ACP049: Carl Brown – The Luminaries Must Be Destroyed out on 18th May.

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=70664949182

     

    CF023: Myoptik – Allusion To Dance EP out on 24th May.

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=71846715628

     

    CF024: Veqtor – Retrospective EP out on 7th June.

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=71324678891&ref=ts

     

    CF025: Scrubber Fox EP out on 21st June.

  • [CF011] Carl Brown – The Luminaries Must Be Destroyed

    [CF011] Carl Brown – The Luminaries Must Be Destroyed EP

    Released May 18th 2009 at https://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk and http://www.acroplane.org, free download.

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    The Centrifuge and Acroplane team up to deliver Carl Brown’s stonking netlabel debut EP. 7 prime cuts of delicious low-bit electronics full of arped chip-blips, scatty beats and chunky synth flurries from the East Anglian wizard. All tracks recorded, mixed and arranged by Carl Brown.

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    Tracklist:
    1. Ends And Beginnings And All That
    2. Wowmwowmwowm Song
    3. Further Hearts
    4. Snow Glitter Data 3
    5. Landscape Android – Blue
    6. Wick
    7. Day After Day

    Artist Comments:

    The EP begins with the reversed sound of the ending of the 2005 album, representative of a return to the ideals of my “proper” music. You might say “That’s one hell of an opening sentence, I haven’t even heard of you, what’s more you’re putting words in my mouth. You’ve created this fictitious character which is an unfair portrayal of me, and now you think you can justify it by making the character mention this for confusing/comic effect”. To which I would reply “Wow, you said exactly as I predicted in my description of my EP, I will reply with this, to complete the circle of self-reference so we can get on with the description”.

    Sorry. Why a return to the melodic complexities was so vital is that I had completed a few projects since then that were far from pretty. One of which had gone on to be 624% more popular than my “real” music (The Tesco Value Gabba EP, to which, like a contradicting schizoid idiot I am now writing the sequel, as well as yet more Jungle & Dubstep, what am I like.)

    Wowmwowmwowm Song is a happy number based on an unearthed loop that had remained buried amongst the unfinished file mountain since 2003. Further Hearts and Snow/Glitter/Data 3 are continuations/developments of previous themes (cashing in on my “hits”). Landscape Android (my ambient pseudonym who hasn’t lifted a finger in 4 years) pops in for a little light relief before the thrashing twisted darkness of Wick. Day After Day stutters along in a peculiar rhythm with depressed melodies underneath that sometimes crash to the surface, ending in a psychedelic snoop-hop fade-out.

    Melody is something so important to me and I feel the balance is often swung in the favor of releases focusing on timbre/rhythmic complexities that often forego descernable/traditional melody. I love that stuff to bits too, but if you’re looking for decent progressive melody based electronic music you can sometimes be dis-heartened by the vast quantities of releases that sound lush but stay in the same minor chord for the whole album, or centre around heaviness/percussion. It makes it a joyous occasion when I find someone who can meld incredible production with melodic inventiveness. I certainly don’t profess to belong in this category, owing to an often slapdash production in favor of getting tunes out quicker, but I hope someone out there enjoys this tipping of the balance.

    Artist Profile
    Carl Brown Online: www.myspace.com/blucid
    Download from website: www.TheCentrifuge.co.uk
    Press/Contact: info@thecentrifuge.co.uk

    Published by The Centrifuge using a Creative Commons License.

    The Centrifuge: Experimental electronic events, netlabel and artist management. View our artist roster PDF: http://bit.ly/CbOVu

    http://www.TheCentrifuge.co.uk
    http://www.myspace.com/centrifugeuk

    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4077312718
    http://www.last.fm/label/The+Centrifuge
    http://www.discogs.com/label/The+Centrifuge

  • Welcome. Take a seat while we get things going.

    What up, welcome to missaw’s blog about The Centrifuge and various related matters.  This is only meant to be a stop-gap solution to filling a hole in our website’s functionality as we’re part of the way towards sorting a new, better one out. But in the meantime, we’re gonna do our best to keep you posted with what we’re up to.