Turbine

This track is about having a walk on a nice sunny day in the countryside, all is well and good, until you accidentally fall off a cliff. We chose the title in Deutsch due to the kick focused poundingness rhythmically.

It was a fun track as I decided I'd let loose, and you might notice, particularly towards the end it gets pretty loose! But luckily Tom's beautiful 5 bar piano riff is there to anchor things at either end, and hopefully save you from the death by cliff (you might notice it's a pain to mix with those 5 bar loops though).

So a bit of background - Tom Hodge is a great pianist and composer who I met recently, and we've been working on lots of interesting things. This is the most extreme in terms of the noise levels really, we've done some nice stuff too, as we're not planning on starting a death metal band just yet.

Lot's more to hear from this collaboration with the release out on Monday 28th on Fields + an amazing remix from Petrels of the A-side track (Fragments of Self) + an amazing video for the A-side by Nick Cobby, which we're all really excited about!

Thanks for listening!

Von Der Klippe Fallen - with Tom Hodge - FIELDS

This track is released 4th April on Traum on vinyl and digital as part of the Metaphysical EP. It's quite heavy on the effects, with a long wierd noise intro just for the craic! I've been starting quite a few sets with it recently, but if you want to mix it I guess you just have to start a couple of minutes in.

Solace (Clip)

This one is simple but effective - 3 note riff, break, build, distorted smash, done. I've been playing it a lot recently, a good one for the clubs.

Andrew K - The Doppler Effect - Max Cooper Remix

written & produced by mode b
remixes produced by Nto //Groj //Mute
mastering by the 'O-Street' Studio
more infos on facebook.com/ryandavislabels

With Antwerpen Mode B returns again on Back Home with a dark melodic production. Their unique touch of using twilight moods combined with on point percussive finesse and groove makes those kind of tracks so special. Groj delivered a minimal maximal remix wich folds out an armada of single small details and giving the original a totally different note. Nto drops with his remix a floor orientated dance mashiene wich gives the original more drive. Finaly we welcome Mute for the first time on Back Home. His realy spheric electronica version peppered with some live percussions and analog sounding elements completes this release to a 100% lovely 4 track secret.

Mode B - Antwerpen - BackHome

Magic Panda has been doing some great stuff in recent years, so when he sent me over his album to consider for remixes I immediately found a couple of tracks I had to work with. The problem was I couldn't decide which one to remix, so I decided to remix both tracks into one. This is the result, containing parts from two different tracks, combined into a single remix. Out today on Tigerbeat6!

Magic Panda - Distant Places - Max Cooper Remix (clip)

For this remix they asked for something heavy, so I tried to make something nice and straight and rhythmically focused on the kick, with some distortion and big spacious noise, with a touch of melody to deliver my influence on the mix. It's a dancefloor track, and sounds best when you play it obscenely loud!

Release date is on Monday 3rd December, and I think it will also be available on vinyl 12"

Tanov - Flane - Max Cooper Remix (preview clip)

Rob Clouth is one of my favourite producers out there at the moment, if you've heard any of my sets recently then you will have heard his Vaetxh stuff in there, the glitchy super-detailed madness! So when he turned himself to making an EP for Traum I jumped on the opportunity to get involved with a remix.

His methods and style are very original, so it was quite a difficult remix to make, the track just didn't want to fit into a normal techno format! I ended up going for a really heavy shuffle on the drums and trying to make the track a little more dancefloor in it's arrangement, but I wanted to try and keep the approach of the original too so I introduced a lot of complexity into the drums, as Rob said, it's like a lattice of details. So here it is, I hope you like it, and if you're going to do one thing this year, then give the rest of the EP a good listen, in my opinion it's the best release of the year in this genre, properly amazing stuff from Rob Clouth.

Rob Clouth - Cloud Complex - Max Cooper Remix (clip)

I had a lot of fun working on this remix, mainly because Marc and Ken provided some great parts to work with. I messed around with chopping up the main riff so that it plays different versions out of each channel to give an interesting left/right effect, every so often hitting the same pattern on both channels and suddenly jumping to the middle as a result. Then it disintegrates and recombines in new form during the break before finally reaching the original riff on the main drop....I've been playing it out a lot, seems to do the job nicely in the clubs....all about the bassline as often is the way with my stuff!

Turbine

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