The venerable beacon of forward-thinking electronic culture Igloo Magazine has today published a Q&A session with missaw, giving some insightful analysis of The Centrifuge’s origins, current activities and future directions.
Read it here: http://igloomag.com/profiles/five-questions-for-the-centrifuge
[CF059] Lodsb – Aero LP
Released on Monday 16th January 2012 at https://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk, free download.
HQ digital & vinyl available from Retort Records (AUS).
Review in Igloo Magazine.
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Aero – Album Teaser (2012) by lodsb
Lodsb steps the processing up a notch on this release, a no holds barred excursion into digital deconstruction. Disturbing and beautiful in equal parts, this album is not for the casual listener, but is rather an intricate and overwhelming excursion into dense and challenging territory.
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Tracklist:
1. Vesa
2. Lynx
3. Zinc
4. Orca
5. Neon
6. Cyan
7. Wasp
Music by Lodsb
Cover art by depotvisuals
Mastering by Joel-Aime Beauchamp
Album Minisite & Artist Info:
http://lodsb.org/aero/
Stems & Full Digital Files Available for all tracks under CC license – if you use them please let us know.
Lodsb Discography:
As Karhu:
karhu – seven/sixteen (2007) (CC-NC-SA)
karhu – Sinfonia for the Blunt Sword (2008) (CC-NC-SA)
As Lodsb:
lodsb – lazer.eyes.love (2008, release 2010) (Mille Plateaux)
Appearances on a couple of tracks for Laridae (CC) and some productions & remixes for Audio88, Bleubird, Crookers…
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As the year draws to an end, I thought it a perfect time to go back through the shows from the last 12 months and pick out the highlights for you all. Roughly an hour in the mix from me, featuring tunes from Siriusmo, Modeselektor, Oxynucid, Fourtet, and a whole bunch more I haven’t decided yet.
Add to that, new music from Gravious, dgoHn, Rotodrone, Dub Phizix and Skeptikal, Carl Taylor, and many more.
www.brap.fm, 10pm tonight.
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[CF058] Rotodrone – Sail Home EP
Released on Monday 12th December 2011 at https://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk, free download.
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Sail Home is Rotodrone’s sophomore release, a 4-tracker with funky breaks, sunshine bleeps and playful squeaks within.
Tracklist:
1. Sail Home
2. See You By The Water’s Edge
3. Everything Is OK
4. The Space Between You And Me
Artist Profile:
http://agency.thecentrifuge.co.uk/rotodrone/
Music by Adam Rotodrone
Mastering by Joel-Aime Beauchamp
Cover art and photography by Nick Rodgers
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DSCI4 have been one of the most seminal DnB labels of the last 10 years, and will sadly be shutting up shop in the near future. However, they’ll be going out with a bang with their final release, the ‘Amen Warfare’ compilation, featuring amen-based tracks from a huge range of producers. To celebrate this, Tim Reaper has put together a 15m minimix of tracks from the album, and you get a chance to listen to them all on this week’s show.
In addition, we’ve new music from Debasser, Lifecycle, Mad EP & Shadowhuntaz, AAIMON, Valance Drakes and many more.
www.brap.fm, Thursday 8th Dec 10pm-12pm
With the end of the year approaching, we thought it was time to give a little back. Those who were at The Centrifuge’s Rhythm Factory night in September will remember who awesome Gareth Clarke’s set was, and you’ll get a chance to hear it again on tonight’s show in advance of his slot at Free-lectronica in a couple of weeks.
Alongside this, the usual bundle of new music and details about the final shows of the year.
www.brap.fm – 10pm GMT Thursday 24th Nov
We’re happy to announce the next instalment of our “Supernatant Sessions” Workshop & Seminar Series will take place in Denmark on the 13th and 14th of December within the award winning retro-futuristic setting of The Culture Yard in Elsinore.
The Centrifuge curates, produces and delivers the “Supernatant†programme of Workshops, ‘Make Sessions’, Lectures and Seminars. These have been designed to enrich and enliven artistic, cultural and electronic music festivals, outreach events, universities and beyond. Supernatant is a multi-faceted project focusing on artistic and technical practice at the interface of sound, experience, science, interactivity and futurism.
This 2-day session explores “creativity with electronics” with participatory synth-making sessions, game console hacking and theremin masterclasses and small-group seminars learning about advanced music software & interfaces and thinking about the future of music in the internet age. It is being provided for young Danish musicians from a variety of backgrounds including jazz and composition as well as electronic. Session conveners are Beat Frequency, Mr Underwood, Nick Bugayev, Scrubber Fox & DJ Stuff, Wassim Alsindi and are also joined by Marc Weiser, Mala and Michael F who will also be giving talks & performances.
For more information on our Supernatant Series, please check The Centrifuge Agency website or email agency[at]thecentrifuge.co.uk.
Our first broadcast from our new studio goes out tonight, and we’ve got a guest mix from Canary Warp to christen the decks. A new pseudonym for someone familiar to net-labels Swishcotheque and the Centrifuge, Canary Warp combines the sleek styles of the 80s with the twisted sounds of proper IDM. In his own words it’s ‘Aesthetics of money and power… bonus kultur… cocaine… money worship… occult glamour… That sort of thing.’ We’ve got a laptop set for your delectation recorded at last week’s Freelectronica event, featuring some of his new tunes alongside tracks from Com Truise, Clark, Baconhead, The Tuss and more.
In addition, new music from Anstam, Lowtec, Space Dimension Controller, Plug, Rick James, Mark Archer, Sepalcure, Untold, Death Abyss and more.
www.brap.fm, Tonight, 10pm. – Join us in the chatroom on the brap site!
Having reached their second decade, Thin Consolation have a great history of putting out off kilter, hip hop influenced beats. With Funckarma, Cupp Cave and Hermutt Lobby (amongst others) appearing on their releases, they’re one of the more interesting collectives to come out of Belgium in recent years. More details? ‘Some people drink, some collect stamps, some prefer gardening or cross dressing. This is our thing.’ Perhaps listening to their guest mix on the show this week will give you a better idea…
In addition, new music from Rustie, The Fear Ratio, Martyn, dBridge, Dead Sound & Videohead, Shebuzz, Funkineven, King Midas Sound, Orbital and many more…
www.brap.fm 10pm BST Thursday night – archived soon after on The Centrifuge and Brap.fm sites
Back again with an exclusive guest mix from Space Cadets Records. Label owner Empire has put together a 35m mix of material featuring Oak, Bop, ASC, The Binary Collective, and a host of other 170bpm minimal genius. Fans of the above should find a lot to enjoy.
In addition we’ve new music from Baconhead, Plaid, Lumisokea, Boxcutter, Eutechnik and many, many more.
www.brap.fm 10pm-12pm UK time. See us in the chatroom!
We’ve arrived back from Bestival with a cracker of a show for you. Over the weekend Ursa managed to track down Breakage, Dom and Kai from Mount Kimbie, and Kate Tempest from Sound of Rum to chat, and you can hear the results (plus a few of our favourite tracks from those artists) in a special feature on tonight’s show. In addition, we’ve got new music from The Binary Collective, Hitori Tori, Ninjato, Funckarma, Pangaea, Oxynucid, Space Dimension Controller and more, plus details of a competition to win CD copies of the new Cosmin TRG album on Monkeytown.
Tune in 10-12 UK time on www.brap.fm, or listen to the archives via the Brap and Centrifuge sites, Mixcloud, iTunes or PFRadio.
As we approach the release of their 3rd LP, Modeselektor dropped into London to play at the SW4 festival alongside Pendulum, Richie Hawtin and others. We took the chance to corner them for a half hour chat about the new album, starting 2 labels, collaborating with Antipop Consortium and Busdriver, their live and recording processes and many more. We’re really proud to be able to give this insight into one of the best electronic acts of the last decade.
As if that wasn’t enough, there’s also new music from Cosmin TRG, Himuro, Legowelt, FMControl, Geotic, Ion Driver, Aardvack, Mark Swift, Unquote and many more.
Tune in at www.brap.fm, 10pm tonight.
Also my apologies for anyone who missed out on last week’s show – we were unable to send them promo from a field in Croatia. If you missed it, that show is now online. Check the Radio page for details.
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[CF057] Carl Brown – Time Release LP
Released on Monday 29th August 2011 at https://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk, free download.
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Carl Brown returns for his 3rd album on The Centrifuge label, full of East Anglian electronic sorcery.
Tracklist:
1. Day Before Day
2. Kakapo
3. Unfolding
4. Clarity 2
5. F**king Ghastly
6. A Space
7. Milky
8. Fun Track
9. Butterfly Twat
10. Quartz Clock-Hop
11. Year By Year
12. You’re A Strange Boy
Artist Profile:
http://agency.thecentrifuge.co.uk/carl-brown/
Artist comments:
Hello you mysterious demographic of people who read about netlabel releases. This album has taken forever. I write this immediately after finishing the last little solo, and I can’t rightly express the amount of relief this brings.
I wouldn’t describe this as a skill, but if I read enough old diary entries/emails/album notes I am able to reach a weird state of exponential confusion/upward spirals of wonder, and what I now know is called “Presque vu”. It sort of feels like time is closing in on itself, that linear thinking is wrong. During the making of this album I have also begun to experience this feeling with music, which isn’t very convenient. I guess that’s just what happens if you have tunes which you have been working on for so long that you have started and ended a relationship by the time you finish them. Some of these tunes started three beards ago.
If you’re a musician then you have unfinished projects lying around, don’t you? that’s just inevitable. You get used to it, they build up, you make a little list of things to finish, and try not to start anything new, but ultimately there will always be that feeling of having unfinished projects. Well, as of five minutes ago, I don’t. I finally tied everything up! After ten albums, over eighteen EPs, countless mixes as miscellaneous bits, or, 1 day 15 hours and 14 minutes of recorded music. I haven’t had this state ever before’ Of course, I have projects planned, but they are going to be much less electronic – although now I get the feeling I’ve said this all before…
Anyway, on with the words about the sounds…
The wonderful Zoe Stewart recorded some great harp for Day Before Day (which is called that because it was actually started before the tune from the Luminaries EP called “Day After Day”) but after many many tries, I couldn’t quite get it to sound right, so it is served here without harp. But you can hear a little bit of Zoe in “Kakapo”. The bass sound is a sample of a kakapo. You can hear it unaltered at the beginning, but then I go and put some jungley worbs on it. Other bird sounds heard during this tune are also the Kakapo.
Unfolding has Phillip Glass style arpeggiations with some timing experiments. Clarity 2 was made exclusively between 5 and 7am. F**king Ghastly is a drumfunk attempt that descends into brutalism. I made A Space a year ago almost to the day (I say that as if it will always be a year ago… it is now August 2011) There is then a long intro to Milky, which I made today. Milky is another drumfunk/breakcorey one and features on the compilation “Amen-tal Round 3”. Fun Track is fun. Butterfly Twat interjects some ridiculousness. I once fell asleep to the main loop of Quartz Clock Hop, and now it makes me feel a bit odd. Year By Year is a mutilated Day Before Day, made a year later, and it is like an audio-summing up of that exact feeling I was on about earlier. I made You’re A Strange Boy one night in Germany.
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It’s the show’s 2nd Birthday, and to celebrate, we’ve got a guest mix covering the wonderful back catalogue of Swishcotheque Records. Dave Hanal has stepped up with an hour of tunes from the label, from such artists as Kalavnik, Volitune, Robot for Brains, and The Pad Foundation – an hour of proper electronic beats. I’ll also be playing some tracks from forthcoming Swishco releases.
In addition, there’s new music from James Blake, Machinedrum, Old Apparatus, Carl Brown, Kevin Polzer, Galaxian, Blackmass Plastics, Oak, and many more.
www.brap.fm, 10-12pm BST, archived soon afterwards on The Centrifuge and Brap.fm websites, plus mixcloud.com/ursa, iTunes and PFRadio
As our radio show approaches its’ 2nd birthday, The Centrifuge Radio Show is honoured to feature a mix from 50 Weapons/Monkeytown’s secret weapon, Anstam. Originally recorded to celebrate their appearance at this year’s MUTEK festival, and featured as part of FACT Magazine’s podcast series, the secretive Berlin duo are back after two years away, and combine 90’s jungle, skeletal dubstep, IDM flavours, and a little bit of Arvo Pärt into 35m of utter ingenuity, and we’re glad to be able to feature them on the show.
In addition, we’ve some tracks from ICASEA’s new monstrous 75 track compilation in aid of Japan, plus new music from Raoul Sinier, Vincent Steiner, Bop, IJO, Eschaton, Opti, Hurtdeer, Tatlum, The One AM Radio, Threnody, Aerea Negro and many more.
And if you’re in the London area, don’t forget about the first Free-lectronica night, Weds 3rd at 93ft east, Brick Lane. For more details, visit http://www.facebook.com/ev​ent.php?eid=12266245781905​6
www.brap.fm, Thurs 21st July, 10-12pm BST
archives soon afterwards on www.mixcloud.com, the brap and centrifuge websites, iTunes and more.