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[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

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Mastered at the Wrecktory by Captain Chaos.

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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.

Excuse the blurry snaps, none of our photo people were around. Selected live sets will be added to the Mixes / Live Sets page soon.

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

CF011 / ACP049 – Carl Brown – The Luminaries Must Be Destroyed EP

Released on 18th May at www.TheCentrifuge.co.uk & www.acroplane.org

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. More releases to come from Carl real soon! 

All tracks recorded, mixed and arranged by Carl Brown.

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.

Download from website: www.TheCentrifuge.co.uk

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

Published by The Centrifuge & Acroplane using a Creative Commons License

The Centrifuge: Experimental electronic events, netlabel and artist management.

http://www.TheCentrifuge.co.uk

http://www.myspace.com/centrifugeuk

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http://www.last.fm/label/The+Centrifuge