Positive Centre

Positive Centre, a British producer focused on experimental techno, rose to prominence across the European scene during the 2010s despite issuing relatively few recordings. His first album, In Silent Series from 2014, later supplied the name for the imprint he founded toward the close of the decade.

Raised in Medway, Kent as Mike Jefford, he gravitated toward guitar music throughout the 1990s before turning to electronic production in his late teens after absorbing drum'n'bass and hardcore, with Detroit techno and acid house shaping his direction afterward. Early software experiments yielded little until he obtained an analog synthesizer and committed to hardware thereafter. After working under several prior aliases he adopted Positive Centre, drawn from a polarity marking on a power adapter.

He first organized events in Brighton, an alternative hub, before relocating to Berlin in the early 2010s amid a wave of British producers merging bass music with techno. There he connected with fellow expatriate Sigha, who responded enthusiastically to the demos and added him to Our Circula Sound. The resulting EPs—An Assembly in 2013 and Hiding Knives in 2014—preceded In Silent Series itself, each articulating his core aesthetic of murky, abstract techno slowed in pace and laced with dark ambient and industrial touches. Further material surfaced on Stroboscopic Artefacts, Leyla, and SNTS.

After settling in Lisbon in 2017 he started his own label, also titled In Silent Series, issuing the Reassembly EP that reworked selected earlier tracks; the Ancestor One EP followed in 2018.