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Right, we’re putting this blog in hibernation now as The Centrifuge finally has a website that can keep y’all up to date on whats going on. See you over there!

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Our good friends and all-round netaudio champions over at the excellent INQ online magazine have published the landmark  40th instalment of their wonderful Monographic podcast series and handed the honour over to myself to put together a label mix representative of our musical activities in the 18 months since we launched our netlabel.

Hope you enjoy the mix, click and enjoy below. Either listen, stream or download from INQ or check it out on Soundcloud…

INQ Mag | monographic 040 | the centrifuge

missaw – ziggurat mix by The Centrifuge

[CF035] Myoptik – Do Not Free A Camel Of The Burden Of His Hump EP Released, Free Download.

Released on Sun 15th November at http://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk, free download.

Download ZIP Archive (6 Tracks + Artwork, 320 kbps MP3, 97Mb)

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Leicester’s hardware noizenik returns with a fistful of obtuse electronics.

Tracklist:
1. Blockage
2. Before The Grave
3. Limnesia Fulgida
4. Where Am I Gonna Be
5. Where Am I Gonna Be (Data Out Chowder Mix)
6. Before The Grave (Shrimpsalad Narrative Mix)

Artist Profile:
http://www.myspace.com/myoptik

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 guttural bleep-funk and emotive soundscapes, accompanied by a glass of rum.

Release Notes:
For Myoptik’s 3rd Centrifuge EP we have something a little different. Where the first two EPs gave a vague nod to accepted electronic forms (albeit through a mangle of madness), this time we have a diverse range of narratives from an obtuse mind. The artist’s intention here is to question accepted styles, presenting an attitude from beyond and without. There are half a dozen audio slices celebrating the fertility of limitation and the prospect of future limitlessness. It’s all about irreverent audio stimulation with a message of vitality: music that shows a tenacious thirst for life with stupid combinations that help to question, to open up towards the unknown future.
Included remixes from Shrimpsalad and Data Out give a window into what it would be like if Myoptik wasn’t so awkward and obtuse. Where he puts familiar sounds into confused and unfamiliar settings, the remixers pull them back from the brink so you can grab them with both hands. So come, take your gloves off, dive in…

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Right, there’s a fair bit going on this week in our world so we thought it’d be best to give you a round-up so you don’t miss out.

Thursday 12th November – the sublime Vladislav Delay is performing at the Union Chapel alongside Food. The event is being put on by the good people at Arctic Circle. Anyone with ears should go.

After that, its The Centrifuge Radio Show at 10pm GMT at www.brap.fm with DJ Ursa and an exclusive airing of Ebola’s incendiary live set from our last Ginglik show.

Friday 13th November – The Centrifuge DJ team (aka missaw & Ursa) are to be found soundtracking an art exhibition at St Mary’s Old Church on Church St, Stoke Newington, 6-12pm. There may be some light sermon delivery from the vantage point of the pulpit. More infos here.

Saturday 14th November - The BIG one, and our last scheduled London party for quite some time. The Centrifuge presents Flight Club with DMX Krew Live, Feldermelder, Scrubber Fox 3D-AV Disco ++ loads more @ Ginglik, 7pm – 3am

Sunday 15th November – Myoptik’s new EP “Do Not Free A Camel Of The Burden On His Hump” released.

[CF035] Myoptik “Do Not Free A Camel” EP Previews by The Centrifuge

[CF034] Nexus – Silicone Poplars LP

Released on Sunday 1st November at http://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk, free download.

Download ZIP Archive (15 Tracks + Artwork, 320 kbps MP3, 149Mb)

Stream via Archive.org (NB tracks in different order!)

Tracklist:
1. UVB-76
2. Eulogy Extract
3. Eulogy
4. Fuselage
5. Lyphony
6. Collapsible Structures
7. Waxfaced Statuettes
8. Silicone Poplars
9. CntvLxs
10. Words & Sounds
11. Fds
12. Silicone Poplars (Snelcomjon Remix)
13. Silicone Poplars (Mrs Jynx Remix)
14. UVB-76 (Vertical67 Remix)
15. Collapsible Structures (Scrubber Fox Remix)

Artist Profile:
http://www.siliconepoplars.com

Silicone Poplars/Nexus is a Dublin/Berlin-based composer and performer of sparse ambient electronica mixed with breakbeat, glitch and homemade electronics. Live sets usually include a homemade interface which tracks the movement of gameboy cartridges and chess pieces to control sound events. These homemade devices and interfaces have been on public display as interactive installations, but mostly play the part of instruments in live performances. — happy to have shared stages with Sunken Foal, Creator, Herv, DJ Scotch Egg, Miles Iwes, T-woc, Sarsparilla, Cignol, The Last Sound and to have been invited to perform at the Project Arts Centre, UCC, NUIM, Mantua, Life and Tweak Festival.

Check out the video for Collapsible Structures here:

Artist Credits:
Written, recorded and produced by Nexus in Dublin and Berlin from 2008-2009.

Thanks to all at The Centrifuge for the effort gone into the release. Thanks to the Dublin and Berlin crew who have supported every live show I’ve had for the past 4-5 years, you know who you are, you legends.

Thanks to Robin Lochmann and Frederik Poppenk for the massive work gone into the video. Also thanks to Shane T for his constant help, Mrs Jynx, Scrubber Fox, Vertical67 and Snelcomjon for their brilliant remixes.
And to everyone banging away in the Irish electronic music scene for the inspiration, the music, the ideas and the sessions.

Other Info:

Sounds in this LP are basically a mash of everything I love about music, complete still-life ambience, distortion, elements of UK bass, techno structures, “sound art”, trip-hop and the odd amen. Silicone Poplars gets the title of the album because it has nearly all of these features crammed into one track.

UVB-76 is the callsign of a shortwave radio station nicknamed “The Buzzer” which broadcasts from a military facility in Povarovo, Russia. It has been actively broadcasting a repeated buzzing noise which has been monitored by hobbyists since 1982. You can hear samples of this buzzer through the track along with Radio Station Peace and Progress. There’s plenty of information, speculation, recordings and discussion about these stations, hundreds of other ‘number stations’ and Cold War paranoia littered throughout the internet – most relevantly to this track and this release is Carl Brown’s latest release The Carl Brown Album, also out on The Centrifuge.

Download from website: www.TheCentrifuge.co.uk
Press/Contact: info@thecentrifuge.co.uk

Mastered at the Wrecktory by Captain Chaos.

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

To get you warmed up for Saturday’s festivities, here’s an advanced dancefloor electronics mix by our label boss missaw, taking in some highlights from our back catalogue, some favourites from the current crop and nice things to come

you can download/stream the mix direct from our server here or check out the original blog post on null+void with a link to a soundcloud player here.

Tracklisting:
1. Automatic Tasty – Parallel Plasticine (unrel)
2. Veqtor – Retrospective (CF024)
3. Idiron Soundtrack – Pinter’s Second Silence (CF020)
4. Koolmorf Widesen – Bow94 (Scrubber Fox Remix) (CF030)
5. Scrubber Fox – Gash Rash (Koolmorf Widesen Remix) (CF030)
6. NeuTek – Molecular Structure (CF001)
7. Idiron Soundtrack – Turbo Kiisu (Oxynucid’s Turbo Tissue Remix) (unrel)
8. Oxynucid – WATMM Wedding (Ursa Remix) (CF030)
9. Posthuman – Detach (CFMAC)
10. Automatic Tasty – Blush Reponse (unrel)
11. Myoptik – Liquorice Rave (CF023)
12. Oxynucid – pH6.6 (Quip’s Litmus Remix) (CF030)
13. Jodey Kendrick – HK2 (CFMAC)
14. Automatic Tasty – Popular Acid (unrel)
15. Mr Nibbles feat. NeuTek – 303EMU (CF030)
16. Odan – Trade Union Acid (CFMAC)
17. Scrubber Fox – Acid Bass Rape On Tablets Of Power (CF005)

[CFACP] The Centrifuge and Acroplane present NETAUDIO 2009 Compilation CD – only at Ginglik THIS SATURDAY

Yes that’s right folks, a lovely 18-track compilation CD with some of the highlights of The Centrifuge & Acroplane‘s roster is YOURS, FREE to the first 50 through the door at Ginglik this Saturday for the NETAUDIO MEGARAVE. How nice are we huh? We really ought to be selling this stuff you know. So come down and grab one before we change our minds.

Here’s the tracklist and a sneak peek at the amazing artwork courtesy of the very talented Max McLaughlin.

1. Red Box Recorder – The King’s English (ACP)
2. Scrubber Fox – What Happened Last Night, Piss (CF)
3. Filaria – Between The Lines (ACP)
4. The Gasman – Home (CF)
5. Koen Park – Mika (ACP)
6. Roy Of The Ravers – Acid Hors D’Oeuvre (CF)
7. Sitezen – Sitty Hall (ACP)
8. NeuTek – auxBerries (CF)
9. Orange Melamine – Volvo Estate (ACP)
10. Puzzleweasel & Richard Devine – Mad Bonce (CF)
11. Mothboy – Endless Summer (ACP)
12. Gareth Clarke – Sublightweight (CF)
13. Verical67 – Blur (ACP)
14. Oxynucid – Mrs Jynx’s Martian (CF)
15. Ebola – Skull Pressure (ACP)
16. Veqtor – Tanuki Jingle (CF)
17. wAgAwAgA – Sleepwalker (ACP)
18. Formication – What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You (CF)

We’ll be co-releasing it online with the mighty Acroplane in due course, but if you ain’t there at the weekend, you’re just going to have to wait!

[CF033] Carl Brown – The Carl Brown Album

Released on Sun 18th October at http://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk, free download.

Download ZIP Archive (14 Tracks + Artwork, 320 kbps MP3, 115Mb)
Download ZIP Archive (14 Tracks + Artwork, FLAC, 231Mb)

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Artist Profile:
http://www.myspace.com/blucid

Sophomore release from the East Angian wizard. Carl Brown’s penchant for off-kilter melody and precision percussive elements has won him many fans in the music biz worldwide; not least the labels Merck, Acroplane, Tippex, The Centrifuge and the Amen-Tal collective. We’re very happy to be bringing you his first long player, probably his most accomplished work to date and a blueprint for great things to come. Enjoy!

Tracklist:
1. Pharaonic Dusk Irdial
2. Old Tune
3. Safe Pt3
4. Sad Kiss
5. The Frub
6. Propperchopper
7. Become
8. Gl9ck
9. Summer Breaks Tune 3
10. Jazzydnbiheardinsoundclash
11. Safe Pt2
12. Snow Glitter Data II
13. Kitano Meso
14. Fuck Offensive T-Shirts

Download from website: www.TheCentrifuge.co.uk
Press/Contact: info@thecentrifuge.co.uk

Mastered at the Wrecktory by Captain Chaos.

Design by THR: http://www.myspace.com/thrq

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

Additional Notes from the artist:
Pharaonic Dusk Irdial : Many thanks to Robert A. Moog, for the sounds in this song especially, but in many others. Thanks to my parents for going to Egypt + buying a crappy Egyptian touristy thing , I don’t even know what it was, but it was in the bathroom when I went round + had the word “pharonic” (incorrectly spelt) on it. As always a massive UNthanks to Orion Platinum, for crashing so many times, I remade so many bits, eventually I gave up with some, and as a result, some bits might sound different to other bits, if you know what I mean. But this, at least, I can look back on as a problem of 2005, represented unwillingly in this song. (2009 edit – I’m still using it )

Old Tune: Jacob Solstice strums away on Guitar at 1:50 as instructed.

Safe Pt.3: I’m a fraud. I don’t know how I made this tune at all, I just know I played the keyboard + the tuning was all wrong. Still, I enjoy listening to it, so here it is.

Sad Kiss: Noises from a saucepan bought on a mundesley camping trip with Billie, Matthew and Lucy. Actually, it was meant to be an egg poacher, but all the other saucepans were 16 pounds or something, and this one was 3, and we only needed it for some noodles. Piano is Matthews one, recorded at Matthews, using Matthews minidisk player. Guitars: Olley Neale should be twiddling away on your left hand side, and Jacob Solstice on your right.

The Frub: An unedited solo played at 6am one morning in June. Except for the backwards notes + bell right at the end.

Propperchopper: penny whistle blowed into by me.

Become: Guitar, Jacob Solstice. There were going to be melodies in this tune by Gareth Clarke, but that only materialised in a tiny clip that I treasure.

Small Gl9ck Tune: glock bit by me.

Summer Breaks tune 3: Glock and “singing”/making noises by me (notice the painstaking audio engineering to give the illusion I’m singing in a small room into a £1.99 mic when it’s actually an AKG C12VR Multi Pick-up Tube Microphone in my multi-million pound professional studio). Guitars aplenty from Jacob Solstice.

Jazzydnb: chords based on/stolen from a tune I heard in the record shop soundclash once. Guitar riff by Olley Neale, Clarinet by me. But it would have been better if I hadn’t of broken the ligature the day I was going to record the part. And then the part took ages to come so I was probably all out of practise.yeah.

Safe Pt.2: Another solo.

Kitano Meso: This tunes structure goes out of the window, oh well.

Fuck Offensive T-shirts: Starts as a Venetian Snares impression in acid pro. I’m not really sure what happens to it. Laughter by Me, Olley, and Billie, at various different times.

You may have noticed the many random numbers audible during the playing of this recording. These are from a quadruple disc collection called “The Conet Project” downloadable from www.archive.org. Or you can head to http://www.irdial.com/conet.htm to be set on the trail of finding out more about these fascinating “number stations”, and unbelievably you can actually buy the CDs of the thing you probably just downloaded for free – and even a T-shirt.

[CF032] Nick Bugayev – Sound Art Studies LP

Released on Sun 4th October at http://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk, free download.

Download ZIP Archive (6 Tracks + Artwork, 320 kbps MP3, 150Mb)

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Artist Profile:
http://www.myspace.com/nickbugayev

Archive uber-glitch material from the multifaceted ‘Dr Nick’. Aside from his flourishing production and DJ career on a house/trance tip across Montreal, Berlin and soon to be Leeds, the globe-trotting Nick was also renowned as a audio programming guru and we are very pleased to have beaten the likes of Raster-Noton to releasing some highlights of his sound art output.

Tracklist:
Study No.1 – Impulse And Resonance
Study No.2 – Electronica Granulation
Study No.3 – Micro Waves
Study No.4 – Paper And Perl Data
Study No.5 – Noise At 6
Study No.6 – Dies Irae

Download from website: www.TheCentrifuge.co.uk
Press/Contact: info@thecentrifuge.co.uk

Design by Tom Lobo Brennan.

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

MISSAW The Centrifuge label heads exclusive dancefloor mix for n+v Click here

missaw’s mobius striptease mix

Here’s a haphazardly mixed collection of the more club-friendly side of our label’s output. There’s a fair bit of acid in there – more by accident than design – also a few of my personal highlights from our back catalogue and some gems that haven’t yet seen the light of day. Numbers in brackets are the catalogue numbers for the releases, all are available for free download from http://www.thecentrifuge.co.uk except for our charity compilation [CFMAC] which is available by donation only (more details here http://www.missaw.com/blog/?p=443).

via null+void – blog – null+void BROADCAST 006 MISSAW .