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Community Podcast

Excerpts of all audio publications on Off Center.
Available in physical and digital form via https://offcenter.bandcamp.com

Catalogue [excerpts]

Mixes

all tracks written and produced by Val Clipp

additional vocals on 'Fire' by Nicole Ross
and on 'Jungle' by Kerim Kali

guitar on 'House' by Neighbour Disturber

special thanks to Christian, Vinzenz, Kerim, Klyl, Lucie, Hilde, and you

Val Clipp - No Worries If Not

all tracks written and recorded 26.08.2025
by Luca van Grinsven and Tom Polleau

perfect driver - perfect driver

passing phases, survival tactics, tasteful scratching, singing breaks, efteling aesthetics

w/ @bkowusu + @valclipp

initially aired via https://offcenter.online

Community Podcast #19 w/ BK Owusu

Out now on C39 Cassette and digital

009 / 39 mins runtime

Faint memories of dances are beating themselves into existence.

An empty floor.

Rough rhythmic textures fall apart, unveiling fragile structures.

SON CARPARK is telling a fragmented story, the voice is
singing hauntingly romantic mantras and sweet lullabies.
Try to locate its source. I can't.

Words are resonating in a mental room.

[transparent]

Vocalising thoughts about a journey in the middle of
this endless night. Isolate them. Let it fade. Walk away.

«SPATIAL ANTIQUITIES traverses a harsh spectrum of noise and
attempts to harvest beauty from it, each track has a nostalgic quality 
which embodies an Antiquity from the mind. Pertinent to one time,
but distant the next. When listening please think about walking
through a museum and remember all music is history.»

Recorded between March 2019 & May 2020 in Auckland City NZ

Dubbed to cassette March 2021 in Den Haag NL

All tracks written and produced by SON CARPARK (@aklnz)

Design by Luca van Grinsven

SPATIAL ANTIQUITIES

SON CARPARK - SPATIAL ANTIQUITIES [excerpts]

Off «Another Point»
out now on C20 Cassette and digital

via https://offcenter.online

010 / 20 mins runtime

Gliding over glistening landscapes, edges of sharp leaves,
a soft patch of moss, high tree tops.

Green metallic ripples open up into a stream.

Sand torn from the silent grounds beneath.

[upwards, clashing, seamlessly blending]

The earth is bubbling up, smearing across your vision,
bordering on illusions.

Then a crunch, clear image, feeling aroused.

Lena Tsibizova, Piper Spray and Sergey Podluzhny interconnect.
The energy that forms within and gushes out is undeniable.

Recorded in 2019 & 2020 between Vietnam,
Kudrovo RU, Moscow RU & Tbilisi GE

Dubbed to cassette March 2021 in Den Haag NL

All tracks written and produced by @kabinw

Photography by AIR Krew
Design by Luca van Grinsven

Another Point

AIR Krew - Spaces for discussions but ...

Out now on C36 Cassette and digital

011 / 36 mins runtime

Overtime at the office. Smile. Co-workers talk behind your back.

Lixer and Splash Soldier Splendid mumble, scream and narrate the 9-5 routine.

Tales of class issues and discrimination are being force-fed through arcade- and cotton candy machines. Kermis.

Their voices glide and sink into oversaturated soundscapes of daily news, empty words, and bland, oily meals.

Violently sweet, sonic patchworks of life in the matrix emerge.

The government watches.

[Circling the Monopoly Board]

A rollercoaster rides through your friendly neighbourhood. All is well. > Barrel roll onto the flipside of trimmed front yards, picket fences and social niceties. Beware of the dog.

£​$​₿ navigate through toxic environments. Camouflaged with masculinity, blending into the shadows, secretly scanning their allies through the checkout. Surveilled. Before they disappear into the feed we catch a glimpse of their sensitive selves.

Recorded between November 2019
& March 2021 in Utrecht & Limburg NL

Dubbed to cassette July 2021 in Den Haag NL

All tracks written and produced by
Lixer Manski (@farfetchd-2) & Splash Soldier Splendid (@wimwimwimwim)

Design by Luca van Grinsven

£​$​₿ MONOPOLY Shadow Edition

Lunetten Shadow Banking - £​$​₿ MONOPOLY Shadow Edition [excerpts]

Out now on C55 Cassette and digital

012 / 55 mins runtime

«I don’t feel safe most of the time.

I am on constant alert.

Cars have always been where I felt safest throughout my life.

In the past, cars have been a home when my body has not, a refuge when my bedroom was not, a party when the club was not; an escape, shelter, security.

Cars can injure or kill, cars pollute, a symbol of insatiable and transmogrifying capitalism, the enemy of our natural environment. Cars have the potential to be dangerous, but they rarely are for me.

I have not felt protected for a long time.

Memories can cut and draw blood; the memories attached to my experiences in cars are indelible, painful, vivid, imagined.

Sometimes when the doors lock, it seals my memories.

Shielded from rain with friends.

Feeling lust’s cool thrill in summer heat with the air con on.

Looking out as if from a space shuttle at a foreign world blanketed by snow.

Lip-bitten desire. Daft Punk spilling out the speakers. Getting lost. Laughing.

Long road trips; taking the scenic route to Manchester and back again.

Sudden arousal; sudden sadness. Talking shit in a rented vehicle.

Highways and meadows. Windows down and speeding thru Brixton.

It can be like a home, a nomad’s home, endlessly travelling and unrooted. I feel unrooted 88% of the time anyway. It can feel like the car was meant for me.

Sometimes it feels like cars are meant for memories.» «I don’t feel safe most of the time.

I am on constant alert.

Cars have always been where I felt safest throughout my life.

In the past, cars have been a home when my body has not, a refuge when my bedroom was not, a party when the club was not; an escape, shelter, security.

Cars can injure or kill, cars pollute, a symbol of insatiable and transmogrifying capitalism, the enemy of our natural environment. Cars have the potential to be dangerous, but they rarely are for me.

I have not felt protected for a long time.

Memories can cut and draw blood; the memories attached to my experiences in cars are indelible, painful, vivid, imagined.

Sometimes when the doors lock, it seals my memories.

Shielded from rain with friends.

Feeling lust’s cool thrill in summer heat with the air con on.

Looking out as if from a space shuttle at a foreign world blanketed by snow.

Lip-bitten desire. Daft Punk spilling out the speakers. Getting lost. Laughing.

Long road trips; taking the scenic route to Manchester and back again.

Sudden arousal; sudden sadness. Talking shit in a rented vehicle.

Highways and meadows. Windows down and speeding thru Brixton.

It can be like a home, a nomad’s home, endlessly travelling and unrooted. I feel unrooted 88% of the time anyway. It can feel like the car was meant for me.

Sometimes it feels like cars are meant for memories.»

Recorded between October 2020 & January 2021
in Croydon, South- & Greater London GB

Dubbed to cassette October 2021 in Den Haag NL

All tracks written and produced by SOUTH

Design by Luca van Grinsven

https://sssouthsssound.bandcamp.com

Never As Safe As When In Cars

SOUTH - Never As Safe As When In Cars [excerpts]

Off «Pave Review»
out now on CD and digital

via https://offcenter.online

Written and produced by @valclipp
Lyrics and vocals by @user-voice-actor
Mastered by Kamilė Rimkutė
Design by Luca van Grinsven

Pave Review

Val Clipp - hand gestures ft. VOICE ACTOR

Out now on CD and digital

012 / 49 mins runtime

Recorded between June & December 2021 in Den Haag NL
All tracks written and produced by @valclipp

Mastered by Kamilė Rimkutė

Lyrics and vocals
on 'again' by @spaceking416
on 'hand gestures' by @yes-noa

'chase sequence' contains a sample of 'Centro Gris' by @nueen

Cover photos, Screenshots & Design by Luca van Grinsven

Thank you Noa, Levi, Lucie, Hilde, Vinzenz, to my friends
& collaborators for their critical ears and sincerity,
& to everybody listening, sharing and supporting

Val Clipp - Pave Review [excerpts]

an agent not an object, august 2022
edits/blends/original work
--

not sure why i became attracted to this mixology medium but i made several mixtapes over the last months, oftentimes distributed by physical copies and given to particular people directly to materialize my presence to them and to shun the digital void. this mixtape is one of several so more might follow depending on whether i find them relevant enough to add to the data pile. a significant number of pieces within these mix’s i consider as ‘local music’ meaning that they came from an environment/community/secret society i find myself part of. other pieces are either present i.e from a contemporary timeframe, and one or two simply have a somewhat “present presence” in my own personal listening habits (Scene 1997). there’s a narrative of experimental electronic aesthetics and rap since i believe those to be very (socio-)culturally relevant musics at the moment. i think that’s about it. i hope there’s something there. hmm

summer mixtape 2023

"as much time as i spend looking, i keep coming back to you."

a mix by @valclipp

thank you; lee bannon, florence sinclair, the cinematic orchestra, pretty v, brannten schnüre, evian christ, the hers, laurin huber, chushi, coby sey, romance & dean hurley, ahnnu, space afrika, retch, sha hef, ernst reijseger, manny noir & psychedelic ensemble.

Val Clipp; keep shining, september 2022

w/ @weirdesthetic
host; @valclipp

https://offcenter.online

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Community Podcast #21 w/ c00

w/ @postgeography
hosts; @valclipp + @free-version

https://offcenter.online

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Community Podcast #22 w/ Post-Geography

w/ @farfetchd-2 + @wimwimwimwim
hosts; @valclipp + @free-version

https://offcenter.online

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Community Podcast #23 w/ Lunetten Shadow Banking

w/ @tristanbeutter
hosts; @valclipp + @free-version

https://offcenter.online

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Community Podcast #24 w/ Tristan

recorded live on https://refugeworldwide.com in berlin

w/ @lukatoyboy
hosts; @valclipp + @free-version

https://offcenter.online

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Community Podcast #25 w/ Lukatoyboy

all tracks written and produced by Val Clipp

additional vocals on 'Fire' by Nicole Ross
and on 'Jungle' by Kerim Kali

electric guitar on 'House' by Neighbour Disturber

special thanks to Christian, Vinzenz, Kerim, Klyl, Lucie, Hilde, and you

No Worries If Not

Val Clipp - Soulseek Qt

Val Clipp - The Race

Val Clipp - Fire (feat. Nicole Ross)

Val Clipp - Eric

Val Clipp - Tat

Val Clipp - Hi

Val Clipp; crooked silver butterfly, april 2025

Val Clipp; palm springs, august 2025

perfect driver

perfect driver - 03

perfect driver - 05

perfect driver - 04

perfect driver - 02 (fiddling in my dirty pants)

perfect driver - 01

Val Clipp; SCORPIO, november 2025

Off «You Really Shouldn't Have»
out now on C46 Cassette & digital

via https://offcenter.online

Written and produced by Thaniil Alexandros (@rbchmbrs)
Design by Luca van Grinsven

You Really Shouldn't Have

rbchmbrs - Big Pari

Out now on C46 cassette & digital

004 / 46 mins runtime

Brick and concrete are towering high above, the sun shines bright through the smog, melting brain cells. The burns are leaving empty spaces, placed silence. Sounds seem like hallucinations. Yet the body is moving by itself, finding rhythms to dance to in the glitches and cracks hammering through the system.

New York based Thaniil Alexandros creates a soundtrack for the rising summer heat, as rbchmbrs. An alias appearing on the Washington label 1432 R, on credits of artists like Sir E.U, Theravada or MIKE.

What sounds like long lost dubplate productions played with skips, dust and warps gathered through years of concealment, turns out to be a selection of recently created pieces leaving room for a number of unexpected turns.

Loud and abrasive drum patterns changing speed, variating throughout eleven tracks. Voices are chiming in, distorted breaks are opening up to a jazz variation, a pleasant melody, a song.

Recorded between April 2016 & August 2018 in New York City, Washington DC & Piraeus GR

Dubbed to cassette June 2019 in Voorburg NL

All tracks written and produced by Thaniil Alexandros (@rbchmbrs)
Design by Luca van Grinsven

rbchmbrs - You Really Shouldn't Have [excerpts]

Out now on C28 cassette & digital

005 / 27 mins runtime

I just reflect. I just reflect. I just reflect. I just reflect.

Phrases and vocal snippets repeat their way through 'used to be‘ like familiar mantras. Aaliyah, SWV and Whitney Houston sing their melancholic love songs over and over again on ghostly remains of once shiny and lush instrumentals. Blurred memories of late night phone calls, intimate moments, glances and conversations, are scattered over the pieces on Val Clipp’s second album on Off Center.

While we slowly wade through and pass out at the end, we ask ourselves;

What used to be?

You tell me. You tell me.

Recorded April 2019, except 'Rain reflects', originally recorded December 2017

Dubbed to cassette September 2019 in Voorburg NL

All tracks written and produced by Val Clipp (@valclipp)
Japanese transcription by Yuki Ito
Design by Luca van Grinsven

used to be

Val Clipp - used to be [excerpts]

love streams, sexual rhythms, resting legends, grown up perception, you're on my mind 

w/ @blondewednesday + @valclipp

initially aired via https://offcenter.online

Community Podcast #13 w/ Blondewednesday

abrasive dubs, cross genre chops, critical perspective,
re-orchestrated conversations, slowed to (perfection)

w/ @mary_2 (@spiritual_combat) + @valclipp

initially aired via https://offcenter.online

Community Podcast #17 w/ Mary

Off «New Silk Harp Strings»
out now on C29 Cassette and digital

via https://offcenter.online

Orchestrated and performed by آرام کاوسی
Design by Luca van Grinsven

New Silk Harp Strings

Biaban - Majnun / Nagoo

Out now on C29 Cassette and digital

007 / 28 mins runtime

«I’ve always struggled to feel whole.

My dad is an Iranian in America, born and raised in a
polarized Tehran. My mom belongs to a conservative
family, and grew up in a small, Southern town.
Trapped in a cycle of contradictions and self-negations,
and also free from the trap of a seamless worldview.
There’s tension in the cards I’ve been dealt, and Biaban
is one of the ways I’ve been dealing with it this year.

I’ve been doing a lot of negotiating with myself lately.
New Silk Harp Strings is a set of memories, orchestrated
from samples, loops, beatpacks and pre-revolutionary
45s buried in my basement at home, mixtapes scrawled
in handwritings of long lost friends, myths, fables,
diaspora letters and parables.»

Recorded between December 2019 & August 2020
outside Washington DC and inside St. Paul MN

Dubbed to cassette October 2020 in Den Haag NL

All tracks orchestrated and performed by آرام کاوسی
Photography and Design by Luca van Grinsven

Biaban - New Silk Harp Strings [excerpts]

Out now on C32 Cassette and digital

008 (∞) / 32 mins runtime

After a conversation and exchange of ideas orbiting his album
'Unfinished Portrait Of Youth Today' (2013, The Tapeworm),
german sound artist Hanno Leichtmann contributes a beautiful 
collection of Loop Music to the Off Center catalogue.

Sitting, immersed in a silent film noir played slightly too fast.
The movements uncanny. Trying to follow a storyline by lip
reading and listening to the tonality of the score.

Here. Rewatching this scene over and over. Again.

Suspenseful progressions throughout. (Parts 1-18)

Often times we're left with a strangely familiar feeling.
The warming, fuzzy frequencies constantly bordering
on melancholia. Collaged, vivid memories and emotions.

It's dark again.

The lonely detective on a corner with his hands burried.
Waiting, watching, observing, following a suspect unnoticed.

The case unravels in his head. Then it's being chased through a
dusty mechanical room. Not a soul. Gears and wheels are whirring
at a volume, faint shifting, the material slowly disintegrates.
Rapid rotations and steady beeping overlayed (hypnotic hum)
A distant siren. Try to focus. Try to find a way through the smog,
the oily, moist air. Hallucinations.

Hanno Leichtmann is based and working in Berlin, has published
works on Entr'acte, Karlrecords, his own label Picture/Disk, 
and collaborated with Faitiche's Jan Jelinek and Andrew Pekler
among a variety of artists.

More info via https://hannoleichtmann.com
@hannoleichtmann

Recorded between February & March 2020
at Static Music in Berlin DE

Dubbed to cassette October 2020 in Den Haag NL

Design by Luca van Grinsven

Loop Music

Hanno Leichtmann - Loop Music [excerpts]

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community, sound publications

initiated by
https://lucavg.me (@valclipp)

Events:

—2024

24.05, Off Center 014 Release & Studio Closing w/ Val Clipp, Yunque, Ghost_k.o., fascia lata & cd dj, Den Haag NL

—2022

04.11, Open Office w/ Max Frimout, c00 & BART, Den Haag NL

23.09, Open Office w/ Wilf Amis, Karl Wille & Lunetten Shadow Banking, Den Haag NL

09.07, Off Center @ k-mess, Kochareal, Zürich CH

22.06, Spectral Heat (hosted by Off Center, Big Fish Factory & RASK Collective) w/ EIGEN RISICO, BART, final boss type zero & Off Center DJs, The Grey Space, Den Haag NL

28.05, Off Center 013 Release w/ Val Clipp, grittygun, Berton, ola999 & Ezra V, Den Haag NL

—2021

18.09, Open Office w/ Fascia Lata, onedaylola, Val Clipp, Mary & K.O., Den Haag NL

—2020

27.02, Kantarion Sound x Off Center w/ acte bonté, Mayb3 bab3 (Noise Diva) & Pau, The Grey Space, Den Haag NL

—2019

09.10, Off Center 005 Release w/ Val Clipp, Yon Eta, Fascia Lata & scrtom505, The Grey Space, Den Haag NL

12.04, Off Center 003 Release w/ James King, Val Clipp & Ni Urban, The Grey Space, Den Haag NL

—2018

07.09, Off Center 001 Release w/ Val Clipp, A.V & Svartvit, The Grey Space, Den Haag NL

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