Ceephax Acid Crew

http://www.ceephax.co.uk/index.htm

by Overdoggo • 4 years ago

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enricozb• 4 years ago

Love his stuff, especially Sidney’s Sizzler and the United Acid Emirates album. His brother, Squarepusher, is a bit different but also really good.

smoldesu• 4 years ago

Whoa, he's related to Squarepusher? Now I need to check him out...

ggrelet• 4 years ago

The only reason to check Squarepusher is because he's the brother of Ceephax!

hexpusher• 4 years ago

I always liked the Selection Sixteen EP by Squarepusher, it's quite accessible compared to other more of his frantic tunes. Link -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNU-hASBtAY

Slow_Hand• 4 years ago

To be fair, his brother Squarepusher is bound to be different from MOST musical artists. Brilliant stuff, though. He’s a fantastic artist. In particular his ‘Ultravisitor’ album is a work of remarkable depth and forward thinking. Strongly recommended.

shoo• 4 years ago

Ceephax Acid Crew - Eurozone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpvUzUQKOqU

warning: occasional strobe. as we've not been able to travel for ages I decided to send myself off on a virtual holiday of Europe

bangkoksbest• 4 years ago

I saw him once on a whim at a New Years Eve gig without knowing anything about him, and was very impressed how good of a live show he puts on. Very fun and even a bit goofy, yet also having a careful mastery over both the instruments and the DJ setup.

kristopolous3• 4 years ago

I've read his live parties are what he is known for more then his recorded music although in California, I only have the recordings

grafelic• 4 years ago

The essential Ceephax Acid Crew way of life:

https://youtu.be/xdzX35VDVZE

obiefernandez• 4 years ago

somewhat recent Boiler Room set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep4-fFfEahE

geocrasher2• 4 years ago

Today I learned that there exists a person who bases their whole persona on the Cyberdelia scene in Hackers.

Site is reminiscent of https://hackerscurator.com/ which is also a bunch of people who haven't quite let go of Hackers (Not that it's a bad thing!)

bencollier492• 4 years ago

He's just from the same era. Been around for ages - this is a right blast from the past. "Hackers" used loads of contemporary hacker subculture and adjacent culture. I guess part of that was Megatripolis and acid techno stuff, which is why there's shared DNA here, all the "rave visuals" stuff from the 90s, although this kind of eats that for lunch and spits it out.

geocrasher2• 4 years ago

Yup I'm of that vintage too but not of that culture specifically. He's definitely at a different level than "Hackers" was, but Hackers really typified a culture that didn't really exist except for perhaps a one-off here and there.

dmschulman2• 4 years ago

A lot of the Ceephax aesthetic is taken directly from the BBC's Ceefax service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceefax

graedus• 4 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyGw3U8JdFA

"friend track"

big fan of this one, reminds me of selected ambient works era aphex twin

geenew• 4 years ago

So cool to see this here! Ceephax is quite good. In the same circle as Aphex, Squarepusher (his brother, don't you know), BoC, and the rest of the Warp/Rephlex adjacent stuff. But he's got his own style, and his own things to say.

Camelot Arcade is delightful, it's what it sounds like - electro if it were made by cool dudes in King Arthur's time.

His videos are a bit cheeky but fun. Someone else already posted a link to Eurozone, it's worth a watch.

Some of my favourites:

Hovagen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29ftnHe5K88)

Sneaker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhZzSdgnDF8)

Legend of Phaxalot (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on8C1mEKp88)

and also, a shoutout to the hippest city in Canada (tho he was probably talking about the UK variant): Haliphax (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dev3_-cHvhY)

jeroenvlek3• 4 years ago

As an electronic music fan I never thought I'd discover a new artist on HN. Those first two tracks are massive. Thanks for sharing.

scns• 4 years ago

I like the atypically slow Neo Neo Acid album by Tin Man: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnERUXhej3tb4Cp8U68B...

jeroenvlek3• 4 years ago

Yes! Also a legend. Saw him live and it was, of course, amazing

hnhg2• 4 years ago

His track Castilian is a great marriage of 8-bit chiptune and rave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxFq0JDwrlQ

(Arcadian from the same album is like its 16-bit chiptune/rave younger sibling on even more speed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9gASGEHkww)

16-bit retro vibes are also present in his Capsule in Space track - feels like a 90s Amiga demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dqimbX0l0E

hnhg2• 4 years ago

Legowelt is another artist with a strong retro aesthetic: http://legowelt.org/

He also has a very clear love of the Amiga:

Amiga 500 Tapes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Lv8J1VMog

Amiga Railroad Adventures - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4jTVAGKjDA

kristopolous3• 4 years ago

Danny is a man of 1,000 aliases. It's worth looking into him.

There's some aliases project that he hasn't publicly connected to him yet (such as https://www.elektrobopacek.ch - which is technically a personified recording studio and at times a collective although it's 80% Danny) and he makes "guest appearances" all over the place such as the telemarketer in Xosars, "The calling" (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-UdW-lmHSNY)

dmschulman2• 4 years ago

It goes even deeper, Legowelt is Xosar's husband.

jephson• 4 years ago

Legowelt and Ceephax Acid Crew have come to dominate my listening over the past decade. Favourite Legowelt release ever (in the guise of The Psychic Stewardess) is Spiritual Foundation: https://shop.hott.mx/album/strange-life-records-slr037-spiri.... I'll never forget how much I was already loving the album on first listen, then Shinobi Theme started playing: my absolute favorite game in the late 80s.

raptorraver• 4 years ago

I fell into Legowelt rabbit hole few years ago. That was basically all I listened for couple of years. Then I was so happy to see him live playing on a small venue on Helsinki 2018. The gig was sold out but I payed good money for the doorman to let me in. Raved on a first row whole his set. Good times.

jeroenvlek3• 4 years ago

I've loved Legowelt since Discoroute. As other people pointed out he's very prolific. His dj sets are a treat too. Check out his SoundCloud!

postingposts• 4 years ago

If anyone would like to hear a quick idea of what a /good song/ by Legowelt is, check out this: https://YouTube.com/watch?v=PDthMbTkzDk

Minor49er• 4 years ago

ACID MARMOT

kristopolous3• 4 years ago

His videos are insane such as Camelot Chronicles https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=138ajKRMzIY

Here's a great interview with him https://youtu.be/f6t5hZTEdbI

antihero2• 4 years ago

If you get the chance I’d highly recommend going to the Bangface Weekender festival in the U.K. https://youtu.be/g7nZRY_skTo

By far the most intense festival I’ve been to and heard of.

trollied2• 4 years ago

I was going to post that as soon as I saw the article title :)

Amazing weekend.

Have certainly seen some things there ;)

Loads of sets from the festival here: https://m.soundcloud.com/bangface This set is amazing: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/nVY3iw24HDSVBRXt7

timeon• 4 years ago

Wow that is still a thing? I was there more than 10 years a go. Good old breakcore times.

gareth_untether• 4 years ago

The monthly London party was incredible too. So much energy, many costumes and experimental beats

jonnypotty2• 4 years ago

And people covered in shit falling backwards out of toilets as I remember. Not gonna forget that in a hurry.

tommypalm• 4 years ago

I always go! I've been lucky enough to play a few times. It's a very special festival.

Never thought I'd see it mentioned here.

trollied2• 4 years ago

Never thought I'd see it mentioned here.

Same!

chungus• 4 years ago

I saw Ceephax playing at one of the weekenders, there was a small shuttle bus ride to a beach, and everybody danced in the sand. Lot of surprised locals looking at this crowd of strange people raving in the middle of the day. A ton of fun and a really good time. Super skilled and humble guy.

Terry_Roll• 4 years ago

It reminds of bugjam.co.uk at Santa Pod in the 90's where we were dancing to www.theprodigy.com* in a poky little marque tent upto our ankles in mud it was that packed, they needed a bigger tent for sure!

Apologies if you were there that weekend and got woken up at 6am by someone driving around in a Porsche with a loaded sound system playing Josh Winks Higher State of Consciousness on (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh8POlIHkSI&t=200s) at full volume on a constant loop. That was me! :-P

* They are also touring this year.

Cockbrand3• 4 years ago

Saw the Prodigy on the tour for "Invaders Must Die", when I thought they were over already, and I was surprised how much I enjoyed the show. Not sure though whether it can still be great with Keith Flint missing.

jonnypotty2• 4 years ago

People on hn talking about bangface. Things I didn't see coming.

seasnake• 4 years ago

Went to Bangface Weekender in 2012, an absolutely undescribable experience. If you can go, go!

0xdeadb00f2• 4 years ago

I get an invalid HTTPS cert error when trying to view this page. Anyone else?

someweirdperson• 4 years ago

No/yes.

The link is to http, the server does not redirect to https. So it works.

When manually adding the "s" (or using a browser that tries to upgrade on its own), then yes, certificate error. Not only that, ignoring it the server responds with an error.

Simply use a browser that does not try to enforce https.

0xdeadb00f2• 4 years ago

Thanks for the explanation

xz18r• 4 years ago

Actually shared the stage with this guy once. One of the friendliest people I've ever met.

Cockbrand3• 4 years ago

Lots of great links and videos here! I can't believe no-one has posted the genius Vladijenk II (The corroded mainframe at Tartarus) yet:

https://youtu.be/DCP-DbkbiLA

The video has been entirely hand-made on a C64 with the graphics characters from the built-in charset aka PETSCII. No other software than a blank C64 screen was involved. Made by the very talented Raquel Meyers.

ksangeelee• 4 years ago

This is the perfect marriage of music and animation. I absolutely love it.

Here's a video of her creating an animation, the technique is called KYBDslöjd or Live Type In, I think all the key-presses get recorded, then the sequence replayed in time with the music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTh-3weZR8

The software was developed at demo parties in the Swedish demo scene.

https://17days.wordpress.com/2016/09/15/day-14-raquel-meyers...

Cockbrand3• 4 years ago

So I ~lied~ erred when I said that there was no software other than a naked C64 involved - thank you for the heads up! I saw a talk by Raquel Meyers at a tech/art conference a few years ago, where she explained a few of her works, including this particular video. I guess I just forgot about the software because I was so impressed by the stuff she made :)

ErneX• 4 years ago

Ceephax is awesome, check some of his live videos on YouTube, he puts a great a show!

w_TF• 4 years ago

This is a personal favorite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szWhzdqrS2g

It's amazing what can be wrung out of old hardware.

keybits• 4 years ago

Lovely interview with Andy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6t5hZTEdbI

vstm• 4 years ago

The blog is great, I can absolutely relate to that.

alisonatwork• 4 years ago

This is the last thing i expected to see on HN. One of my favorite tracks by this dude is an acid version of Bach's Prelude no.1 in C major: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2kcOCsALnw If anyone's ever programmed a TB-303 manually you can imagine how much patience it must've taken to score this.

I also really love his track Acid le Soken. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghgbqldDI2U It's some of the most beautiful symphonic 303 out there. The only other stuff I feel comes close is Kosmik Kommando's first album (Freaquenseize). It's just infused with such a delightful sense of shameless nostalgia, no need to get "intelligent" just for the sake of it.

oreilles• 4 years ago

If anyone's ever programmed a TB-303 manually you can imagine how much patience it must've taken to score this.

Well, by his own words:

It was made on a non midi TB-303, I copied the score from Bach's prelude no.1 in C which is all monophonic and quite simple to read and put in to the 303. Most patterns are 8 16ths long with accents on the 5th and 8th notes. The patterns are repeated twice per bar. I chained every pattern in each pattern group start to finish in song mode and manually changed the pattern group from I to II to III and back again throughout the song, used up about 36 patterns on the 303 + took about 3 or 4 hours!

klawed• 4 years ago

You may enjoy this loop of Prelude although the artist didn’t do the whole score https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lpWFX9D4px8

HFguy• 4 years ago

Godzilla is a masterpiece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBpBEjMQ24k

degun• 4 years ago

My god I love this guy. He has his own kinf of Acid and the videos are hilarious.

weatherlight• 4 years ago

aciid!

durpleDrank• 4 years ago

Same vibe by another ex-planet mu forum/xltronic/IDM guy https://liveanddawless.com/

dopamean• 4 years ago

I've seen this dude play many times. An absolute legend. He's from a different era of electronic music and it so refreshing to still hear it about.

supernihil• 4 years ago

Ceephax acid crew played at Loppen (oldest rock venue in scandinavia, located in freetown christiania) back in 2012 if i remember correctly. I did visuals and the theme and dresscode was "cat techno" Best gig ever. His gear lineup is insane. All original equipment with years under his hands. It was mindblowing to see him orchestrate all the machinery and express the complex and melodic acid he is so known for. Here is a video from the night, i made it start after a part showing how we welded old tv sculptures to be used for the visuals. Enjoy, i surely did!!! Thanx ceephax!!!

https://youtu.be/5f3pPTpBxMA?t=137

(Edit: i wrote a ton of visuals software for that night only, some of it is listed here: https://github.com/sloev/psyphon_terrain) really miss dancing to "mediteranean acid"!!!!!!

baroninthetrees• 4 years ago

I got into Ceephax after hearing “Capsule in Space” which is originally from a James Bond movie soundtrack.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7dqimbX0l0E

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk4SWjtUBJY

Ceephax Acid Crew

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