Line up: Doukus (live), Cartopol (DJ), Opus Occvltiis (DJ), MEOWMEOW (DJ), COW Shift Z (live)
Open: 22:00 - 03:00 hrs
Tickets: € 5
The Hardcore Research Centre is a showcase for experimental rave music made in Amsterdam. The first edition brings a varied program full of fast-paced rhythms, high-energy sounds and chaotic noise.
Line-up
Doukus (live)
Cartopol (DJ)
Opus Occvltiis (DJ)
MEOWMEOW (DJ)
COW Shift Z (live)
Doukus (live)
Hardcore experimentalist Doukus presents a brand new live set based on his upcoming album Doukus Hardcore Research Centre 01. His music is highly intense and radically playful, combining a rough DIY aesthetic with meticulously animated sounds. Drawing inspiration from video game soundtracks and experimental electronics, Doukus weaves a variety of atmospheres and characters into brain-scrambling dance music that explores the full range of the hardcore spectrum.
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Cartopol (DJ)
Cartopol is an Amsterdam-based composer, producer and DJ from Lima, Perú. He likes to explore the grey area between club music and everything else, having developed his style through years of work composing music for theatre and dance performances, in which he fuses together influences from contemporary music and underground experimental practices. Together with Opus Occvltiis he runs Anekumena Tapes, a label dedicated to exploring the thin line between club and non-club music.
Soundcloud // Insta
Opus Occvltiis (DJ)
Opus Occvltiis is the moniker under which Polish-Canadian composer and producer Philip Przybyło makes and performs noisy industrial techno. Drawing inspiration from metal, post-punk and contemporary classical music, the project is characterised by droning textures, abrasive noise walls and machine-like metallic beats. Opus Occvltiis is also the co-founder and curator of experimental Amsterdam based label Anekumena Tapes with fellow producer and CvA alumnus Cartopol.
Soundcloud // Insta
MEOWMEOW (DJ)
MEOWMEOW is a MEOWCORE producer from the center of Holland. Enjoying and being inspired by BREAKCORE and HARDTEK parties during early kitten years eventually resulted in making glitched brews of compositions in a tracker DAW. The results can’t be fitted in a genre, so... Come and grow yourself some cat ears to be filled with amen breaks, gabber kicks, chemical X, Japanese anime, video games and many more scraps!!
Soundcloud // Bandcamp // Website
COW Shift Z (live)
COW Shift Z is a composer and performer of electronic music. Her practice as a composer focuses on integrating different music genres in her artistic language. Electronic dance music gives her the common ground to express her inner worlds and tell the stories with a free and experimental mindset. As a performer, she is interested in rhythm and groove puzzled with aggressive, industrial sounds. She is a creative coder exploring new instruments that let her improvise with her own sound design and music intuition. Over the past years COW Shift Z created diverse projects in distinct areas of music, including her EP “Funeral for the Selves” and multiple live-sets played in clubs mainly in The Netherlands and Portugal. She also created the “Biljimeiri Anthem” for the Utopa Organ and electronics and other multimedia projects, such as “buffer manelzinho 1204.8”, a multimedia opera.
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The first installment of The Hardcore Research Centre is part of the Composers’ Festival 2024, the graduation platform of the Conservatory of Amsterdam’s composition department.