Thanks to all the crew who came down and bathed in acid with us that balmy night. sweet live sets from live acts Chevron, 0dan, Oxynucid and Quip, a rare chance to acid it up for myself and big respect to our resident VJ The SuRReaLaRTiST, Gilbert for photos and Ginglik for being great, if a little leaky!
Audio: selected live sets are being tweaked and will be in the Mixes / Live Sets page pronto.
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Thanks to everyone who came down and made it such a great night. Hats off to the excellent live acts Funckarma, Space Dimension Controller, Idiron Soundtrack and Myoptik, our resident VJ The SuRReaLaRTiST, Ginglik resident DJ Kone-R, Tan and missaw for photos and Ginglik for being so super sweet! Next one is THIS SATURDAY, acid time!
Here’s some videos of our two guest acts
Funckarma
Space Dimension Controller
Audio – we got some great recordings, check  the Mixes / Live Sets page, they’ll be landing any minute now!
There are some photos in this Facebook gallery, also below.
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Title: [MANC] Scrubber Fox / Gareth Clarke / missaw & more. Teknoist Bday Bash!
Location: Cord / The Attic, Manchester
Link out: Click here
Description: FREE FREE FREE FREE!
As a warmup to the epic Undead Rave at the Attic on July 11th, we\’re teaming up with the awesome Ninja Columbo crew and taking over Cord in the city centre for brrapday drinks and tune spinning.
Selectors include:
DJ Planet Mu (Planet Mu)
The Teknoist (Brrrapday freerange vinyl set)
Scrubber Fox (The Centrifuge/Skam)
Missaw (The Centrifuge)
Gareth Clarke (The Centrifuge)
DJ Richard Hillman (Brock Party)
Oozat (Instrumentality)
The Septic Insurgent (Dub Alliance)
Another events page for this is \’ere chaps:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113420121376&ref=mf
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Then get your arse to this afterwards:
Ninja Columbo\’s Undead Rave You Can\’t Save!!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=92009343633
Kick off the summer with a night of intensley amazing BIG FUCK OFF RAVE MUSIC!!
BREAKCORE, GABBER, DRUM & BASS, DUBSTEP, HARDCORE, CORECORE, MORECORE and YOURCORE!!
all in celebration of the Teknoist\’s coming of age.
In association with the Manchester Zombie Walk 2009:
http://www.zombie-aid.com/info_page.htm
Come dressed as the undead and party all night long for that realistic foot-dragging, vacant stare effect on Sunday\’s walk.
Starring:
The Teknoist
Broken Note
Duran Duran Duran
Scheme Boy
Macheen Boi
Tugie
Infared
The Zebz
Just £5 on the door.
Heavyweight sound reinforcement by Neuron Pro Audio – if you\’ve been to an Open Plan or Sketch event you\’ll know this rig means business!
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2009-07-11
End Time: 23:55
I was lucky enough to take part in the very first trial of this intriguing new project from the team that brought the world “The Boombot Soundsystem”. I must say it was a very powerful experience. Sensory deprivation, restricted movement and then…rebirth. recommended. probably not coming to a party near you, for the time being anyway!
Here’s the description from the YouTube Page too –
“Birth is the original and most profound experience of your life, yet nobody remembers it. This birth simulator allows you to recreate that experience. Deep pressure touch leaves you relaxed, the suspense and release will leave you elated.”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcFxfDWiGng[/youtube]
Title: [LDN] The Centrifuge presents “A Midsummer’s Synth Squeal” @ Ginglik
Location: Ginglik, Shepherd Bush Green, London
Link out: Click here
Description:
Mrs Jynx (Planet Mu, The Centrifuge)
Koolmorf Widesen (Eves, Ideation, The Centrifuge)
Mark Swift (Sublight, The Centrifuge)
Gareth Clarke (Sublight, The Centrifuge)
Carl Brown (The Centrifuge, Acroplane)
Jonny3snares (Ideation)
missaw (The Centrifuge)
Ursa (The Centrifuge)
Mr Nibbles (The Centrifuge, Sample Oak)
Start Time: 21:00
Date: 2009-08-22
End Time: 23:55
Here it is, footage from the very first Workshop/Seminar series that The Centrifuge has organised, at Futuresonic Festival in Manchester, May 2009. Apologies for the sound and video quality, limited budget an’ all that!
Street Rave Footage to follow…
1) Scrubber Fox, Mr Underwood & DJ Stuff – Microcontrollers & the physical environment: an sonic exploration of microcontrollers, tactile sensors and mechanical devices.
www.myspace.com/thescrubberfoxspace / www.mrunderwood.co.uk
Sam Underwood and Gary Naylor are electronic musicians hailing from Cornwall and Wigan. Both ‘inventor makers’, they have come together to develop their first collaborative piece for the festival. This will see electronics, interactivity and music collide. Futuresonic will play host to the unveiling, showcase and performance of their work.
Mr Underwood and Scrubber Fox Part 1
Mr Underwood and Scrubber Fox Part 1
2) NeuTek – www.thecentrifuge.co.uk
Adventures with Piggy Tracker : the pocket studio/performance package
NeuTek (aka Dean Forrest) is an Oslo-based musician and programmer, releasing music exclusively on the The Centrifuge netlabel. He uses bespoke open-source tracker software and portable devices to create technical, emotive and challenging ‘chip-glitch’ music with a dynamic and energetic performance aesthetic.
Piggy tracker is a light weight, multiple platform, powerful music composition tool. In this seminar you will see piggy’s features demonstrated and learn how to compose a song and play it live, all within your hands and off a couple of AA batteries. The utilisation of Piggy tracker has led to the world’s first live “wireless street rave†– the music is created and manipulated live by NeuTek and the Boombot Soundsystem’s speaker-suits form a mobile PA.
NeuTek
3) Raw Hedroom – www.myspace.com/rawhedroom
Jazzmutant Lemur Masterclass
Gareth Williams, otherwise known as Raw Hedroom, has been making waves of late. His recent work has been climbing Beatport’s techno charts and he is one of highly influential German techno label, Trapez’s most recent signings. His own brand of electronic music is technical and often melodic, yet puts the real emphasis on pushing an infectious groove.
After a classical upbringing, thanks to his music-teaching mother, Gareth was seduced by bleeps and buzzes at a tender age and has been practising his dark art ever since. An early adopter of the Lemur, Gareth uses Jazzmutant’s groundbreaking touchscreen controller alongside Ableton Live as as a powerful performance and compositional tool. Being able to “touch” and physically manipulate sounds intuitively allows him to deliver a precisely crafted set. In the studio it lets him capture the human error and groove which is missing from a lot of clinically sequenced electronic music.
This workshop will demonstrate the following aspects of the Lemur/Live partnership while showcasing a number of features from Lemur’s new V2 firmware update:
Performing a powerful hybrid live/DJ set with the Lemur/Live combination
Using the Lemur with Live as a powerful sound-design tool
Natural and musical sequencing with Lemur and Live
Raw Hedroom Part 1
Raw Hedroom Part 2
4) Ben Eyes (aka Quip) – www.quipmusic.co.uk
Live Looping techniques using modular software environments
Using software it is now possible to create live loops on the fly, in a similar fashion to the popular looper pedals. However the modular possibilities of programs such as Audiomulch allow far more creative use of looping. Ben Eyes will be discussing some of the techniques he uses for performance and composition. He will also show off the new mac version of Audiomulch and show how you can use Ableton as a Live Looping platform.
Quip
5) Richard Devine – www.richard-devine.com
Jazzmutant Lemur Masterclass
As an artist his productions are frequently intricate, heavily processed and intense, being held in the highest regard by journalists, music fans and seminal artists such as Autechre and Aphex Twin alike. He has released 4 full-length albums on Schematic, Warp, Asphodel, and Sublight records and has performed his own ear-tearing music mayhem worldwide.
He has done film score work for Touchstone Pictures, sound mangling for Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, designed countless commercials and done sound design for companies from uber-cool audio companies like Native Instruments, Ableton and Access to car firms such as Audi and BMW!
Being the kind of guy who loves to use (and abuse) any new technology he can get his hands on, he took to the Jazzmutant Lemur like a (rather twisted) duck to water.
In his workshop he will demonstrate how he has been using the Lemur for all of the above! He will discuss how he’s taken advantage of Jazzmutant multitouch technology in multiple situations:
DJing
Playing live
Working in the studio
Producing sound design
The workshop will feature use of the Lemur in a variety of applications, including Ableton Live, Native Instruments Reaktor and Traktor, Cycling 74’s Max/MSP and more.
Richard Devine Part 1
Richard Devine Part 2
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, Â 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, Â 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 –Â 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
[LDN] The Centrifuge presents Skam Comeback / Icasea UK Launch Party @ Ginglik.
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
[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 – 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
