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Somatic Responses are available for live & DJ sets. Please contract agency@thecentrifuge.co.uk with offers stating date, location, budget and other artists on the bill.
The brothers John and Paul Healy, collectively known throughout the world as Somatic Responses, are still native residents of a small industrial mining community snugly located in the southwest region of Wales. Somatic Responses are into complex dislocated & broken beats, distorted intelligent constructions, fascinating sonic structures, force and sweetness intertwined. They have released on labels such as Hymen, Sublight, Ad Noiseam, Acroplane, Zhark and Puzzling Records and have then their sound around the world to great acclaim.
Rotator is available for live sets. Please contract agency@thecentrifuge.co.uk with offers stating date, location, budget and other artists on the bill.
Rotator is frantically active as both label head of Peace Off and Bang-a-Rang Records and also in a more literal sense as an incendiary live performer, bringing more to the modern ‘core sound. As one of the most renowned and in demand artists in the high-tempo music world, Rotator attacks headline slots at clubs and festivals with the utmost ferocity.
“ROTATOR will dismantle your firecrackers and bomb the place down cause he’s the perfect combination of French pastry and kamikaze riddims, King of the dance floor and yardsales!” (Sickboy)
With his new album “Even Weight” just out on the mighty Ad Noiseam, Enduser has been tearing up the label’s 10th anniversary party series across Europe and beyond. Now booking for 2012!
Lynn Standafer, also known as Enduser, undoubtedly counts as the better known, most active and highest praised break- core producers. Shooting his way through the 2000’s with salvoes of EPs and albums as well as constantly touring all over the world, Enduser has grown from being a driving force of this sound to one of its best embodiment and most recognized figure.
Synonymous for a music which marries carefully laid melodies with unrestrained aggression, Enduser has received praise from all sorts of horizons for the way he manages to entice a sense of beauty in the midst of broken and pummelling beats. If hard electronic music can ever be recognized as having a soul, it is throughout Enduser’s output that this gets best demonstrated.
Enduser has played too many high-profile shows and festivals to list, and has amassed an impressive discography, which features several highly successful records and tracks. His music has been recognized as heavily influential in many genres, ranging from drum’n’bass to metal.
Enduser has also collaborated with artists ranging from drum’n’bass heavyweights Dylan and DJ Hidden as with rock and metal legends Jarboe (of the Swans), Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu) or Bill Laswell.
It’s been a long and diverse experience for Roel Funcken when it comes to music.
One constant throughout this journey has been his love for the decks and the people moving to them. As the youngest finalist of the DMC NL in the 80′s (age 13), he was pushing wax with some of the pioneers of the now global scene, feeding the floors back the enthusiasm he was feeling for the new music.
From the start of this life-long ambition Roel took his love for funk, jazz, hip hop etc and began applying his own unique take to the dj set, blending an eclectic love of sound with a cohesive form for the live venue. After years of production/live shows in the infamous Funckarma, a maze of other releases/projects, and drawing from his degree in Sonology, he forged a method for live dj work that is fiercely unique, impeccable in its sound quality, memorable and crowd energizing.
Roel has now moved to digital methods for mixing live, putting all his production/studio skill into creating versatile and dynamic sets that traverse genres and keep the sound fresh for today’s evolving dancefloor.
Having just released his first full length solo album "Vade" on Ad Noiseam records (home of Enduser, DJ Hidden etc) to critical acclaim he draws from a mix of his own work and the latest in Dubstep, Techno, Acid and DnB as the vectors for his sessions.
2010 forward is a fresh path for Roel, still maintaining his work with Funckarma but also taking his own vision to a new place. His recent sets at festivals and clubs across Europe attest to this new angle, and the packed floors resonate with his ability to move the crowds.
A microsite for the album Vade is up here, this url is soon becoming a full blown artist site, while a bio page at Funckarma serves up a production slant. Dig through the new funckarma.com for full release data.
To book Roel and discuss the logistics of having him come to your venue click here.
Funckarma is the long standing project of Don and Roel Funcken, Dutch brothers notorious for their bass heavy groove filled IDM and experimental approach to all forms of electronic music. Since 1995 their prolific output under various names has found them homes on labels around the world, from Warp to n5md, Skam to !K7 and many more . Always forging new sounds in their constant sonic evolution, they’re breaking into the dubstep and DnB scenes as well, bringing their own unique form to these ever shifting landscapes while staying true to what built their fanbase .
Funckarma live is a spontaneous fusion of material from their amazingly broad catalogue of production sources. They feed the audience their infamous intense ground shaking moments as well as something minimalist and stripped, all in one smooth transition. This gives a totally unique perspective on the work, and guarantees a fresh set every time by providing a tremendous amount of freedom to its creation.
With their DJ sets they integrate music from other artists with their own. Genres mainly flow through dubstep, techno, acid and dnb but are not limited to these forms. he DJ sets are renowned for their approach using digital mixing and controllers enabling them to alter tracks into a new blend.
No matter which set they play, it’s all about bringing innovation and new dimensions of sound to the system by blending their own production with the finest in the new wave of artists warping dance floors and minds around.
According to his press bio, Global Goon’s Johnny Hawk is a former shepherd from Liverpool who earned a recording contract after moving to London and rooming with Richard D. James (aka Aphex Twin) for a time. Hawk had worked in the capital for a multimedia company while making music on the side; after moving into a shared house with James, he released his first album Goon on Rephlex in 1996. Rumors that Goon actually was Aphex Twin persisted even after the release of Cradle of History 4 years later.
Planet Mu / We Me Records Syntheme project is a recognised alias of Global Goon and his recent live / DJ performances exhbit his tweaked-up take on acid house, techno and disco.
San Francisco native Jay Fields aka Exillon is available for live sets in October 2011.
With releases on Ad Noiseam, Tigerbeat6, Detroit Undergroud, Zod Records, Contortion, Phthalo, Component Records and Puzzling Records spanning techno, DnB, acid, IDM, ambient, dub and everything in between, Jay Fields is less concerned with sticking to predefined genres as he is with bombing the dancefloor whilst setting an introspective mood.
Mike Dred aka The Kosmik Kommando is available for live and DJ sets.
Mike Dred is a true legend of electronic music. He has produced records since 1990 and counts 210+ published works on over 50 commercial projects, on labels such as Rephlex Records, R&S Records, and his own recently revived imprint Machine Codes. He has performed in over 120 cities spanning 27 countries. Rough Guide publications ‘ The Rough Guide to Techno’, describes Mike as “The Jimi Hendrix of the 303” and “Full on Acid (Music) Genius”.
Discography: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mike+Dred http://www.83db.com/pdfs/CullenMC_Discog_2009.pdf
Early sonic experiments prompted Dave Robinson, Editor of Future Music (November 1995, Issue 37), to write: “We boldly call ourselves Future Music. But how often do we bring you something so forward-looking, yet at the same time so contemporary that it might – just might set the agenda for the next post-techno, post-analogue phase?”
Links to some performances people have uploaded on to YouTube & Vimeo:
Bangface 11 – Live Show, London UK.
Live @ BLOC Weekender, UK.
Live, Tokyo. Japan.
There are many more video and music uploads. See under the following guises:
Mike Dred,
Kosmik Kommando,
Universal Indicator with Aphex Twin.
RIVAL CONSOLES is London-based youthful purveyor of intelligent dance music Ryan Lee West. With his critically acclaimed debut album IO released on Erased Tapes Records in 2009, West crafted an electronic record to transcend the discerning and flirt a little with the club culture. The follow-up record Kid Velo is slated for release in summer 2011 and we are taking bookings for club shows and festivals in support of this highly-anticipated release.
Biography:
Born November 10th, ‘1985’, Ryan Lee West grew up in the small city of Leicester in the midlands of England. Fascinated by sound from an early age, Ryan chose to dedicate his time to studying, experimenting with and producing sound at De Montfort University Leicester before relocating to London. West strives to humanise and at the same time emphasise entirely computerised sounds to defy categorisation in modern electronic music. Rival Consoles combines a clever and complex mix of hard-hitting beats with catchy acid melodies.
Or as he describes it in his own words: ‘Rival Consoles is a musical project where I take ideas which are cheap and processed, and combine them with rich, unpredictable patterns – resulting in music which appears commercial yet typically against commercial music at the same time.’
Earlier EP releases clearly define his progression from ‘The Decadent EP’ and the follow-up 7-inch ‘Helvetica’, where instead of X-Box vs. Playstation, classical theory meets dance. More recently West contributes three album tracks, ‘Milo’, ‘Func’ and ‘ARP’ to his 12-inch split EP with Ólafur Arnalds’ minimal-techno outfit Kiasmos.
There is more to this freshly graduated 23 year-old than meets the eye, for those not content with 4/4 beat dance floor stormers; West is fast establishing himself as both a sound designer and programmer. Having repeatedly performed at the Tate Britain Museum in London, where he drew over 2000 visitors into his unpredictable, yet detailed sound drawings ‘…using self-created sound manipulation tools in MAX/MSP and Super Collider’. New York based composer Nico Muhly, known for scoring the Oscar-nominated The Reader and his collaborations with artists from Björk to The National, is amongst one of the first to receive West’s trademark remixes.
The album got recommended by James Chapman of MAPS: “I just got into this guy. The album’s great (‘IO’) and this (‘Electorate’) is my favourite track. It turns from electronica into a real kinda disco groove. Superb.”‘1985’ got introduced by Tom Robinson on BBC6 Music. West recently moved to London where he is working on his next full-length album scheduled for a mid 2010 release. In the meantime he will showcase his new material at London’s FABRIC and other club venues throughout Europe.
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Selected Press Quotes:
‘West’s Rival Consoles project revives the schism between the commercial house music of suburban hell-holes and the perverted beats of electronica’s golden boys. A massive slice of jagged grandiosity… ‘IO’ is a party record even snobs can enjoy.’ (7/10) – NME
‘A new sulphuric wave is about to wash over our dancing forms and reduce us to boogieing bones – and Ryan West, aka Rival Consoles – is riding it on an acid-proof surfboard… leading the crusade against tired welterweight club rhythms… one minute indebted to the techno godfathers, the next paying reverential tribute to the masters of electronica’ – DJ MAG Fantastic Four
‘If you miss the Aphex Twin who wrote songs that lit up warehouse raves at 3 a.m. but still tied your brain into knots, do yourself a favor and check out Rival Consoles. West is a nascent IDM hero on IO’ (9/10) – XLR8R (US)
‘Writhes in a field of its own, twitching and buzzing like little else… One of the best releases of its kind this year.’ – CLASH
‘Rival Consoles finally comes in full album length and satisfies all along the line. His tracks appear to be little short of celestial, are catchy and contain several grandiose melodies’ (5/6) –RAVELINE (DE)
‘Ibiza yesterday, Berlin today, Miami tomorrow. You don’t need to get on a plane to explore the international club-scape: putting on IO by Rival Consoles will do’ (4/5) –MUSIKEXPRESS (DE)
WISP is available for selected club / festival dates in the UK & Europe in 2012.
Please email us at agency@thecentrifuge.co.uk to discuss a booking, with as much information as you can give us. Date, Location, Venue Size, Budget, Lineup. We are able provide support live acts and DJs as required.
Wisp (Reid Dunn) comes from Niagara Falls, New York. He makes electronic music that spans many genres, from jungle and experimental drum n bass to ambient and downtempo electronica. Nostalgic computer games bear an influence on his music. He began releasing music for free, in the form of mp3s on netlabels, but has since released on Sublight and more recently has been signed to the legendary Rephlex Records.
Professional radio / tv sound designer by day, electro-breakcore mentalist by night, this smiling misfit has caused so much recent mayhem in his hometown of Grenoble (France), that only London could take him. Since arriving here, he’s already torn up the Interakt electro party, Yardcore, north London’s ill FM show, and various events across Europe including the Riddim Collision Festival 2007 with Plaid, Scorn and Enduser.
Coming from a background in thrash metal and industrial music, with his previous 12-piece metal band gigs involved fake-blood-splattering theatrics and on-stage riots, he later went the solo electronic route as it was more efficient at causing mayhem. Taking up Native Instrument’s Reaktor software, he’s spent the past few years exclusively designing his own instruments and effects to further mangle audio to his own extremes.
Intrigued by his way of adeptly and confidently switching from solid, body-rocking electro grooves to abstract, mentalist breakcore, feisty hyper-processed dancefloor electronics, labels like Jarring Effects, Bedroom Research and Peace Off have been quick to release his militant, lunatic sound.
The decision to move to London came after his last performance in France caused a small riot among old punks fighting in a record shop, resulting in smashed windows and other damage.
Roy of the Ravers is available for hardware live sets and remix projects.
Roy of the Ravers is the answer to your acid woes. A new artist hailing from Nottingham (UK), “Roy” is a master of the art of maximising 303-inflicted dancefloor destruction. Be it house, techno, electro or something a little more complex, Roy has it all.
Roy of the Ravers @ 030303, Utrecht NL. January 2011
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