off-centre w/ glosssd & the butcher bird

KX·LONDON·22 September 2025·1 hr 1 min

Off-centre takes a sideways step into club music and seeks out all sounds hard, wonky and wonderful. Spooky season’s arrived early with this wonderfully off-kilter guest mix from the incredible the butcher bird. the butcher bird is a multi-genre DJ with a penchant for the meatier corners of electronic music. She’s also a fellow Voices resident — go check out her show Dystopia Euphoria for more dubby and dark sounds. She’s also provided us with a story to set the tone for the mix: You’ve taken hallucinogens with your friends and gone to the funfair. You follow some clowns into a house of mirrors and everything is wonky and weird, you can’t stop laughing. Then one of the clowns leans in and whispers that some people never leave. The house gets dark, the mirrors warp and things become twisted. Your trip takes a turn. Your friends are gone, and you’re surrounded by strangers who are laughing and pointing - oh god, are they laughing at you? Your pulse is racing, you’re sweating through your t-shirt and you’re dogged by the faint fear that you might have shat yourself. It feels like you’ve spent a whole lifetime in this fucked up house, and you start to think you might be stuck there forever. Then the peak passes and your trip ebbs and things start to feel a bit more normal again. You no longer want to puke and you find your friends in one of the upstairs rooms, giggling at an abandoned hotdog on the floor. All sausage, no bun. You finally make it out of the haunted house. Afterwards, you all sit on the grass and chat but something isn’t right. You go home, go to bed and fall asleep. Then, in the dead of night, you wake. Something is there, with you, in your room. You strain your ears and in the darkness, hear the faint tinkling of the funhouse…