Groove Podcast 01 - Apparat

As the pandemic restrictions are set to ease soon in the UK and we finally had some hot weather, I was getting nostalgic for the feeling of playing outdoors at festivals and excited about the prospect of being able to do it again soon. My manager Jonny and I decided to set up an impromptu festival stage in the courtyard here at the studio in Brighton, so I could play some tunes and create a virtual festival experience for you!

Watch the video version with projected visuals here: https://youtu.be/fNF2bE-Ksbs

Tracklist: 

Twenty Seven Inches Of Mercury - Guy Andrews
Delta Waves - Intergalactic Quartet
God Knows We Tried - Hugo Massien
Never The Right Time - Andy Stott, Alison Skidmore
Void - Fearful & Mtwn
Puls - Modeselektor
Siren Call - Alex Banks
Crystal Grid (Ryan Davis Remix) - Robot Koch
Hold On - NonSquare
Black Rose - Architectural
Darlinnn - Daniel Avery
Three Stages - Musin
Vaults - Bronson
Immerse - Alex Banks
Divided Love - Somne
Golden Teacher - Alex Medina
Siena (ft. Clara La San) - Bicep
Das Programm - FJAAK
Resurgence - Alex Banks
Hope Detuned - True Peak Limit
Lithium - Mark Henning
Start of Something New - Raven Bush
Awake - Alex Banks
Vengeance Pt.1 (Reeko Remix) - Christian Wunsch
Be Yours - Greymatter, Christian J
Headphones Kid - Varsity Star
Maik the Chicken - Modeselektor
Falling Down (Nicolas Bougaieff Getting Up Remix)
Mothra - Leon Vynehall
Check Yourself - Paul Kalkbrenner
Senxenxo - Nathan Fake
Echoes - JSSL
Misjudgement Day - Imogen & Best Pest
Endless Hours - Daniel Avery
Kambo - JakoJako
An Exhale - Leon Vynehall
Epilogue - Echaskech
Movement ft. Paul St Hilaire - Modeselektor
Head Above The Parakeets - HAAi
Chemz - Burial
Final Act & Denouncement - Ivy’s Hand
Resist - Response and Pliskin
Ultra (Yung Sherman Remix) - Evian Christ

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Alex Banks - DJ Mix - Recorded Live at Metway Studios - 31.5.2021

Rival Consoles performs live at Le Guess Who? 2022 as part of the program curated by clipping.

About
Throughout his critically acclaimed fifteen-year career, London-based producer Ryan Lee West has reinvented himself with each lauded release. His work is bound, however, by his increasing drive to humanize sound. His music has evolved from his challenging early electronic output to more conceptual and metamorphic sonic theses, such as 2020’s ‘Articulation’ and last year’s ‘Overflow’- an emotional exploration of technological advance’s consequences to human nature. 2022 saw his much-awaited return with his eighth release via Erased Tapes, titled ‘Now Is’.

Recorded at TivoliVredenburg’s Ronda on Friday, 11 November 2022.

Recording and mix by Marc Broer 
Photography by Maarten Mooijman

Rival Consoles - Live at Le Guess Who? 2022

This recording is available to download from: http://boilerroom.tv/recording/max-cooper/

Boiler Room w/ Max Cooper, David August, Christian Löfler, Hrdvsion, Oskar Offermann and B2b Edward

[Broadcasted on April 09th 2014]

For Video go to http://boilerroom.tv

Max Cooper Boiler Room Berlin DJ Set

I've been listening to Essential mixes since I first started getting into clubs and electronic music, so it was a shock, and exciting for me, to get the offer to make one myself. The two hour format really allows some time to explore ideas musically as well.

So bringing everything together, I decided to try and make it an exploration of everything that has made me so obsessed with electronic music for the last 20 years, with some of my favourite records from the mid 90's, unreleased material from my favourite artists like Nils Frahm, Lusine, Tim Hecker and Rob Clouth, and a range of genres from ambient to 90 bpm electronica, house and techno, all the way up to 170bpm glitched jungle mayhem - I thought, why not have some fun with it!?

So it's certainly not a normal club mix, it's just what I think is the best music out there, without worrying about what genre or box any particular track fits into or how things should be done "properly". I wanted to leave some sections quite ambient as well, to give breathing space between the peaks, so I'm happy to be able to post this new version up, minus the broadcast talking and idents.

The mix also contains some new work from me, some unreleased, and two tracks from my new EP with Tom Hodge, one of which you can download for free from here www.maxcooper.net, the other you can download from iTunes - http://hyperurl.co/MCartefactEP - or Beatport - http://btprt.dj/1DHZhHk

Track List

1. Max Cooper - 4D Wave Interference (Unreleased)
2. A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Atmos VI (Erased Tapes)
3. Max Cooper - Untitled (unreleased)
4. Vaetxh - List of Lists (Detroit Underground)
5. Lusine - Arterial (Ghostly International)
6. Kimyan Law - Eclairage (Blu Mar Ten Music)
7. Fran Seven - At Least (Atomnation)
8. Isaac Delusion - Pandora's Box - Lusine Remix (Unreleased)
9. Burial - Rough Sleeper (Hyperdub)
10. Gidge - Huldra (Atomnation)
11. Kiasmos - Looped (Erased Tapes)
12. Samu L - Beach (Surface)
13. Fennesz - Before I Leave (Mego)
14. Max Cooper & Rob Clouth - Untitled (Unreleased)
15. Tessela - Cmon Lets Slow Dance (R&S)
16. Joe Farr - Tape 7 (Tessela Remix) (DSNT Records)
17. FSOL - Papua New Guinea (Jumpin' & Pumpin')
18. Synkro & Faib - Inhale (Smoking Sessions)
19. Nils Frahm - Peter (Max Cooper Remix Edit) (Unreleased)
20. Max Cooper & Tom Hodge - Teotihuacan - Part 1 (Quotient Series)
21. Rob Clouth - The Smallest Measurable Space (Leisure System)
22. Alberto Ruiz & Hugo Blanco - Haze (Be One Records)
23. Rrose - 23 Lashes (EAUX)
24. Dyad - From Another Place (Dyad)
25. Pfirter - Supraventricular (Stroboscopic Artefacts)
26. Rival Consoles - Haunt (Erased Tapes)
27. OneOhTrixPointNever - Rush (Warp)
28. Rob Clouth - Deep Field (Leisure System)
29. Joe Farr - Mormon Shuffle (Leisure System)
30. Skew & Satirist - Untitled (Unreleased)
31. Dorian Concept - The Sky Opposite (Tim Hecker Remix) (Ninja Tune)
32. Max Cooper & Tom Hodge - Remnants (Fields) - http://btprt.dj/1DHZhHk
33. Kimyan Law - Daimyo (Blu Mar Ten Music)
34. Rival Consoles - Recovery (Erased Tapes)
35. Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy (Warp)
36. Rockwell - Full Circle (Shogun Audio)
37. Cirrus - Shiver Shapnel (Woulg Remix) (Terra Null Recordings)
38. Vaetxh - List of Lists (Detroit Underground)
39. The Rustle of the Stars - Sleeping Land - Part 1 (Max Cooper Remix) (Quotient Series)
40. Nils Frahm - Them (Unreleased)

Essential Mix - Max Cooper - No Voice Overs

I made a little live mix of my own tracks and remixes recently for B Traits BBC Radio 1 show. They aired 30mins or so of it, but you can get the whole mix here (plus there's a free download of the file via the website users area, where's there's a load of other content too).

It's got quite a thorough melodic string throughout. Lots of soft enveloping chords, nested textures and slowly developing tracks without straying into too much glitch - "submerged textures", with some fitting artwork made by Colin Droz featuring Mars textures, with his own hand-drawn textures embedded/submerged within. 

I used quite a few old tracks, as there's a whole load of new projects on the way and I wanted to get a little look back before moving forward with the next releases. I hope you enjoy it, and here's the full tracklist (ps it used to be called alive mix so if you already got that no need to get this too):

Max Cooper - Sea of Sound - Ambient Rework
Landside - Still There - Max Cooper Remix
Nick Warren - Devils Elbow - Max Cooper Remix
Microtrauma - Contrast - Max Cooper Remix
Max Cooper - Molten Landscapes
Max Cooper - Symmetry
Max Cooper - Symmetry - Vessels Remix
Halls - Roses for the Dead - Max Cooper Remix
Max Cooper - Cyclic
Mono Electric Orchestra - Blunt Force Trauma - Max Cooper Remix
Agoria - Panta Rei - Max Cooper Remix
Objekt - Agnes Demise / Helios - A Mountain of Ice - MC edit
Max Cooper & Satirist - Grit
Ricardo Tobar - Mi Pieza Lena De Cosas - Max Cooper Remix
Nils Frahm - Peter - Max Cooper Remix
Max Cooper - Four Tone Reflections

ps thanks for listening!

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Max Cooper - Submerged Textures - Live mix for B/Traits Radio1

DJ Mix recorded for Sally Love's Data Transmission Radio Show on 2/12/2019

Tracklist: 

Blue Veil - The Sky’s Fucking Blue
Max Cooper - Perpetual Motion
Hammer - Parabola
Forest Drive West - Phaze Shift
Special Request - Front Screen Projection
Architectural - Black Rose
Ryan Davis / Alex Banks - Sequence 1
Leon Vynehall - I, Cavallo (Club Front)
Christian Piers - P41
Yan Cook - Grey Layers
Cubenx - Hercynia
ROSH Sw4rmCLAN - Becoming You
Dusky - L.I.
Lapalux - Earth
RY-X - Untold (Alex Banks Remix)
Alex Falk - Beta
Ø [Phase] - Emergence (In A Psychological System)
Ryan Davis - Nightfall (Alex Banks Dusk Mix)

Data Transmission Alex Banks Guest Mix for Sally Love 2:12:19

From the feature in Magnetic Magazine
http://www.magneticmag.com/2013/04/sounds-spaces-001-max-cooper-the-british-museum/

Sounds & Spaces 001
Max Cooper - Synesthetes Museum
A mix based on the British Museum
 
Featuring a mix of 12th century Tibetan monks song, one of the first ever recordings of music, made by Thomas Edison on a wax cylinder in 1888, poetic spoken word, 9th century Gregorian Chant, A call to the lama from afar, some unreleased exclusives, 9/8 techno, traditional Chinese music mixed with rude glitch, and a binaural museum.
______________________________________



The brief for this mix was to make something inspired by an architectural space. When I was doing my Post-Doc at UCL I used to go the British Museum to relax, and work in the beautiful library there, so I chose the space for the mix. I wanted to capture the ambient atmosphere in the central courtyard, so I did some binaural recording to include in the mix. I also wanted to make the mix something of an exploration through history and ideas in line with the contents of the museum, so I brought in lots of disparate music spanning the centuries and continents. I also mixed it in a way to be like a journey though the museum, turning corners and regularly coming across something totally different and unexpected, with each track being like a different exhibit. Hence the name of the mix, in that, each piece of music almost has a visual content.

For the full track list + more information see the feature:
http://www.magneticmag.com/2013/04/sounds-spaces-001-max-cooper-the-british-museum/

For more Max Cooper mixes/free downloads:
https://soundcloud.com/max-cooper/sets/max-cooper-free-downloads

And music videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/maxbcooper

And for up to date info on all the goings on, you can join the mailing list on my site if you like:
http://maxcooper.net/

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Max Cooper - Synesthetes Museum (free download)

Mesh Mix Series 007: Alex Banks

A curated series where we commission artists to make an hour long mix of whatever inspires them to experiment, produce, play out and what they listen to.

"This mix reflects back on the past year of personal releases, including tracks from the ‘Beneath the Surface Remixed’ EPs and my entry for the Monkeytown 10 Year Anniversary Compilation. In keeping with the Mesh theme, a collaboration between myself and Max Cooper (that could be seen as the start of my journey to this label) sits alongside music that’s inspired me throughout the lockdown period. From abstract and ambient to driving, epic techno, I had these tunes turned up loud in the studio and imagined what it would feel like to play this set in a club. I hope in the absence of any opportunity to do that at the moment, this mix helps transport the listener to that place we are all missing!" - Alex Banks

Tracklist: 
01: A Winged Victory for the Sullen - Aqualung, Motherfucker
02: Aphex Twin - Ageispolis
03: Alex Banks - Falling Down (Ital Tek Remix)
04: Alex Banks - Chasms (Instrumental)
05: Musin - Contact
06: Bongbeck - LeuchtturmwÃ¤rter
07: Alex Banks - Ignition Sequence
08: Vessels - Everyone is Falling (Max Cooper Remix)
09: Alex Banks - Revolution (Ryan Davis Fragmented Revision) 
10: Dubspeeka - Torn 392
11: Max Cooper/Alex Banks - Eve
12: Psyk - Opal Lake
13: Four Tet - Something in the Sadness
14: Alex Banks - Awake
15: Blue Veil - Return to Forever
16: Aquarian, Deapmash, AQXDM - Infrared
17: Four Tet - Teenage Birdsong (Overmono Remix)
18: Shed - Menschen und Mauern
19: Cubenx - Bliss
20: Floating Points - Bias (Mayfield Depot Mix)

Artist Info:
www.facebook.com/alexbanksmusic
www.instagram.com/alexbanksmusic

Mesh Info:
www.meshmeshmesh.net/
www.instagram.com/meshmeshmesh_
www.facebook.com/meshmeshmeshdotnet/

Contacts:
Label: Anthony@thewildseeds.com
Press: rosalie@tailored-communication.com
Management: jonny@thehookupconsultancy.co.uk

Mesh Series 07: Alex Banks

It's an honour & pleasure that we return to our Getting Deeper podcast series, after a few months break, to bring to you an absolutely exquisite & diverse 1 hour journey. Brighton-based multi-instrumentalist, composer, sound designer, and producer Alex Banks is our very special guest for our 130th podcast.  

Alex Banks
@alexbanksmusic
www.instagram.com/alexbanksmusic/
www.facebook.com/alexbanksmusic
https://alexbanksmusic.bandcamp.com/
www.alexbanksmusic.com/

Tephra EP - https://ffm.to/tephra
Official video - youtu.be/OCAo6Q4bMTk

Mesh 
@meshmeshmeshmesh 
www.instagram.com/meshmeshmesh_/
www.facebook.com/meshmeshmeshdotnet/
https://meshmeshmesh.net/

Getting Deeper
@getting-deeper
https://linktr.ee/gettingdeeper
www.instagram.com/gettingdeeper
www.facebook.com/gettingdeeper
★ NOW ON SPOTIFY ★ bit.ly/GettingDeeper

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Also a supremely technically gifted sound technician, Alex creates music for film and television and could never be accused of lacking excitement. Amplifying his skills on every level, he retains the essence of emotional communication that makes his work so engaging.

“People really feel like they’ve got an emotional connection to it,” he says. “I feel like every track that I write has to resonate with me on an emotional level. If I’m not connecting with it and it’s not evoking some kind of feeling in me then why should I expect the listener to feel that too? As we’re all made of the same kind of stuff as it’s resonating with me then hopefully it’s going resonate with other people who are listening to it as well.”

On Nov.12th, Alex piloted a cataclysm of new abrasive sounds with his EP ‘Tephra’, released on Max Cooper’s Mesh imprint. 

The ideas emerged from two months in the rugged, black volcanic surroundings of the Canary Islands, Spain. Banks armed himself with a restricted set of equipment taken from his studio in Brighton and set about focusing on the core of his musical expression.

The 5 track EP draws an abrasive array of intertwined melodic structures - one that could only be formed by an adept sound designers’ skillset. The title track and single ‘Tephra’, is woundingly brash, jagged and skull reverberating, it paints a mental landscape appropriate to where the tracks were born, in the context of a melodic hook line.

Following on from his second studio album, Beneath the Surface which was released on Mesh in 2019. Banks’ reimagines a different story, one of which was sculpted by his time witnessing unearthly volcanic landscapes. The change in scenery he recalls brought a welcomed ‘change of mindset’ than the earlier intense period of locking himself away in his Brighton studio with intermittent bursts of time spent by the coast to foster creative thought. It brought a different intensity to Banks’ sound, one that impressively finds a line between home listening and club-focussed dance-floor bangers.

Max Cooper on 'Tephra'
“Any words I can provide to say how large this release is are a weak reflection of listening to the music. The first time I heard the tracks the energy was just oozing out of them into my torso, and that hook line in Tephra, it's something. It's so hard to make a melodic structure like that which is so simple and catchy while also being engaging after so many years of people trying to make simple and catchy hook lines. It's a fine art of big sound Alex is onto throughout, classic references, full human expression, no holding back, it's a beautiful thing to experience with a full frequency response system”.

TEPHRA EP

Getting Deeper Podcast #130 by Alex Banks

Further information: bleep.com/features/bleep-mix-162-Max-Cooper

Mesh; the name brings to mind an underlying foundation, a wire frame for a crafted piece of art to ensure structural integrity. It’s an apt name for multimedia artist Max Cooper’s electronic imprint, where the MO is clattering rhythms and voluminous ambient vistas; sound as a vehicle for big ideas. Cooper’s exclusive Bleep mix celebrates the achievements of Mesh with a collection of works from their discography, featuring the ambient swells of Rob Clouth and some especially crisp breakbeat re-alignments from the likes of Reid Willis and Synkro. To top it off, there’s a couple of unreleased Cooper numbers you won’t hear anywhere else.

"Hi Bleep and listeners, many thanks for getting me involved on your awesome mix series. I've been really excited about the music we've been releasing on Mesh recently, so I decided to combine a lot of Mesh content with Laurel Halo's beautiful new remix of the Glassforms EP with Bruce Brubaker on Infine, and a couple of unreleased bits fresh from the studio which I've been playing around with in recent weeks and which probably won't be heard in their Bleep mix form anywhere else as they're still actively evolving pieces. It's a wander through some of the music which I've been using for escapism in recent times, rich with narrative and imagery if you can spare me some time with headphones on and eyes closed." - Max Cooper

Bleep Mix 

Bleep Mix #162 - Max Cooper

Alex Banks is a DJ, producer and multi-instrumentalist from Brighton, UK. Praised by the likes of BBC Radio 6, Mixmag, Clash and Uncut, he makes music aimed at the dancefloor that thrills with its sonic intricacy and warm human feeling.
His prismatic sound design decorates rhythms influenced by jungle, broken beat and dubstep, while techno effects hiss and clank, and off-world IDM melodies snake around the arrangements. Bank’s sound carries instantly recognisable motifs and an impressive quality. All the while he consistently pushes the envelope with an adept technical skill and sound design which commands repeated listens.
‘Projections’ is the title of Banks’ third studio album that is set for release on Max Cooper’s Mesh in summer 2022. Characterised by his passion for analogue gear and experimentation, the work is a pure distillation of his production expertise and love for emotive synth sounds. The project includes visual collaborations with award-winning motion graphic designer Matthew Clugston and Tosh Fieldsend from renowned VFX house The Mill.
His other work includes critically acclaimed releases on Modeselektor’s Monkeytown, Ninja Tune and Hunter/Game’s Just This. Remix credits have seen brilliant re-works of Bonobo, RY-X and Raven Bush. On the collaborative front Banks is just as selective, linking with Max Cooper and Sasha respectively, the latter set for an April release on LNOE as part of the ‘TEN’ compilation. 
A musical polymath, when not immersed in the electronic world, Banks works as a sound designer, composing for film, TV and advertising campaigns. Notable achievements include projects for Global brands such as Nike, Heineken and Honda. 
Alex Banks is entering a fresh and exciting chapter in 2022. A master craftsman in the studio pushing his sound into inspiring new directions, he'll augment the eclectic  'Projections' project on Mesh with a new live AV set up, taking his creative output to a new level.

Data Transmission Alex Banks Guest Mix for Sally Love 2:12:19

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