Centered 5 Year Anniversary | 10.13 | JAKOJAKO + BARKER (BERGHAIN | BERLIN), JOHN BEAVER (SF), SOUNDSEX + RESIDENTS
CENTERED 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
We honestly can't believe it's been 5 years since we launched our first Centered event in the heart of Chinatown, on a Wednesday.
We've come a long way... from jaw dropping pool parties to 4-day music festivals, from rooftop sunsets to all night madness. We are sincerely grateful for all your love and support these past 5 years Hawaii. Thank you for continuing to drive us to keep going, inspiring us to push the envelopes, and encouraging us to keep the music pumping. We have so much more on the horizon for our Ohana.
For our anniversary this year we're opening up all three areas of Aether for music.
Upstairs, we're taking you to the heart of dance music, Berlin. We are thrilled to invite you to enjoy two of Berghain's most established residents, JAKOJAKO + BARKER for a night of relentless dance music sure to set the house on fire.
Downstairs we're proud to host first time Centered artist, John Beaver of San Francisco. His track record sets him at the top of the game for the bay area. Strap on your dancing shoes for this one.
On the Lanai, your favorite residents will be taking us into sunrise.
Mahalo nui loa from your Centered Hawaii ohana. Here's to another beautiful year full of dancing and smiles for our community.
SET TIMES:
UPSTAIRS:
JAKOJAKO + BARKER
(BERGHAIN | BERLIN)
SOUNDSEX
GIULI G
JON CONSCIOUS
D. SHINDIG
DOWNSTAIRS:
JOHN BEAVER (SF)
HIGHER CONCEPT
TROPIC BOMBA
ZAYTEK
EVA LOVELACE
LANAI:
FATHOM
CHADDY DADDY
BABYCAKES
PANCHO
KAYS
JAKOJAKO BIO:
It all started with an urge to play with sound and a desire to know more. After several years buried in books, manuals, patch cables, and messing with a DIY synth, JakoJako (real name Sibel Koçer) was playing her first live sets in Berlin, spending every spare cent on Eurorack modules. The passion soon became all-consuming, and in 2017 she left her nursing career to work at Berlin’s synth shop institution SchneidersLaden, where she’s been sharing her grasp of tools and techniques with the city’s music maker community.
Her approach may seem studious, but JakoJako uses this fluency in the language of sound to convey emotion. Each track is an experiment, with success based on the intensity of feeling it creates. Her EPs Aequilibration and Lux showcased this explorative mindset, with very different stylistic ideas tied together through emotive sound design, sharp production, and a strong sense of melody.
With regular events disappearing in 2020, live music migrated to URL, finding a global audience in a shared experience of isolation. After streaming a live set with HÖR she was invited to join ARTE, Innervisions and United We Stream alongside Âme and Frank Wiedermann. This led to a filmed live performance in her studio for FACT Magazine’s Patch Notes series and an in-depth studio feature for Electronic Beats, which together amassed over a million views (and counting).
IRL JakoJako has made good use of studio time and her success as a producer and performer has grown steadily. With two records on Leisure System that quickly sold out, remixes for New Order and Martin Gore, tracks on BPitch, Tresor and Figure. Her debut album ‘Metamorphose’ on Bigamo earnt critical acclaim and she also collaborated with Rødhåd on a new album ‘In Vere’ on WSNWG.
JakoJako has also been involved in several motion sensor dance projects with dancers at Superbooth and Kraftwerk Berlin, and a stunning performance at the Royal Albert Hall with Bonobo. She has been featured as a live performer at Berghain, where she is resident, and participated in live jams with the ‘Circle Of Live’, ‘Âme’, ‘Rødhåd & Barker’.
For 2023, more new music by Berghain resident is imminent with the ‘Verve EP’ due on Mute Records in March, as well as new dance performances in the works. It’s also the year when her DJ performances are coming to the fore, alongside her live shows, with bookings at festivals including Dekmantel, Awakenings, Elevate, WHOLE, Nation of Gondwana and Stone Techno in the coming months. JakoJako’s future, it seems, is akin to modular synthesis: sonically endless, full of opportunity, and with boundaries yet to be pushed.
BARKER BIO:
British-born, Berlin-based Sam Barker has long sought to push the boundaries of electronic music – both in and out of the club. The Berghain resident’s string of signature solo releases for the club’s Ostgut Ton imprint have explored the rhythmic functionality of pumping, twisting and constantly evolving modular electronics. He is also one half of Barker & Baumecker with longtime Panorama Bar resident nd_baumecker, with whom he has released multiple EPs, two albums and dozens of remixes.
As a DJ, Barker combines bass music tropes, techno, electro, breakbeat, dub and ambient elements that coalesce into a distinctive, future-facing vision – one which is also reflected in his curation of the Leisure System label, which he co-founded in 2009. Originally started as a Berghain club night in 2008, Leisure System has released seminal works by the likes of Dopplereffekt, JakoJako, Objekt and Visionist (among others). The club night also held the longest residency in Berghain’s history.
Barker released his solo debut EP Debiasing on Ostgut Ton in 2018, containing four hypnotic and kick-less dancefloor tools conceptually based on research into behaviorism and psychological conditioning. This was followed by his solo debut album Utility, a playful but non-ironic musical approach to a spectrum of transhumanist ideas packed into a deeper exploration of the emotive potential of rhythmic ambient electronics – once again almost entirely without kick-drums. For many, both releases were seen not only as instant classics, but also as helping to define a discrete category of ambient dance music. Utility made numerous Best of 2019 year’s end lists, including Pitchfork, The Quietus, DJ Mag, Resident Advisor and others. It also earned title of Mixmag’s Album of The Year 2019. As Philipp Sherburne wrote in his Pitchfork review: “For anyone who has ever fantasized about dissolving into the dancefloor, Utility is about as close as it gets.”
These releases were followed by two limited edition white label EPs for Ostgut, BARKER001 and BARKER002. Recently he has also completed remixes for the likes of Martin Gore, Tangerine Dream and Planetary Assault Systems, and contributed a track together with Luke Slater for Ostgut Ton’s 16-year anniversary box set, Fünfzehn + 1.
Barker is also an active instrument designer who combines coding skills with analogue, electric and acoustic instrument construction for his experimental archive and platform Voltek. In the summer of 2020, he contributed a large-scale sound installation for Berghain’s Studio Berlin art exhibition, featuring a self-playing piano performing generative serial compositions which emphasize democratic harmonic relationships between tones. He has also continued to delve deeper into constructing his own MIDI-triggered acoustic instruments, including a prepared plate reverb and various percussion instruments, notably exploring the resonant architecture of Detroit’s abandoned factories with Underground Resistance’s Ray 7.
Currently, Barker’s musical focus continues to be on the peaktime dancefloor potential of ambient music. To this end, he is working on both an album and a new label. Operating on the periphery of club music, Barker continues to shift its center.
JOHN BEAVER BIO:
Synonymous with sell-out crowds, high energy, and passion is Bay Area native, John Beaver. No one could have ever expected what started out as a one-time visit to San Francisco County’s rave, Metropolis, to turn into the industry success that is John Beaver. In between sets at Coachella, Beyond Wonderland, and more, Beaver has begun a long awaited and highly anticipated production project with duo Beauz.
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