Max Cooper

Tracklisting
1. Max Cooper - Solace (Traum)
2. Microtrauma - Contrast - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
3. Max Cooper - TBA
4. Max Cooper - Darkroom (Traum)
5. Fairmont - They Live in the Moon - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
6. Dominik Eulberg - Sansula - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
7. Max Cooper - Echoes Reality (Traum)
8. Andrew K - The Doppler Effect - Max Cooper Remix (Vice Versa)
9. Hot Chip - I Feel Better - Max Cooper Remix (Flash)
10. Ricardo Tobar - Mi Pieza Llena De Cosas - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
11. Xircus - Rolf Harris - Ronan Portela Remix (Trapez)
12. Max Cooper - Heresy (Traum)
13. The Good Natured - Animal - Max Cooper Remix (Unreleased)
14. Kura - Crystal Clear - Max Cooper Remix (Bujakasja)
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Max Cooper Live - Reflections/Contortions (free download)

This track started as a beautiful short piano solo from Tom Hodge. I wanted to keep the focus firmly on the piano and just introduce some subtle electronic elements, while looping Tom's short sections to give a full arrangement.

The percussive clicks came from a visit to Manchester when I played at WHP. The day after a friend was kind enough to offer us free tickets to see Manchester United play Fulham in the FA cup, so I brought my binaural mics along to capture the sound of the huge crowd. I'm not quite ready to introduce huge crowd cheering noises into my tracks (maybe the EDM career can begin next year), but I found that even when the sound of the crowd was cut down to little fragments using Monolake's Granulator, they still had a nice quality. So the percussion on this track are made from the sound of Old Trafford, and there are some points in the track (right at the end for example) where I open the release a little and you can here some crowd coming through.

You can buy the full release on iTunes at http://www.smarturl.it/FragmentedTwo

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Amorphous Romance - with Tom Hodge - FIELDS

Hello, so I've done a new DJ set, with a load of my favourite stuff at the moment, which as always covers a lot of ground musically, but is hopefully still grounded in some sort of thread of warmth and flow. Full tracklist below (the first track is played backwards btw):

Max Cooper - Molten Expansion
1. Brian Eno - LUX - Nicolas Jaar Remix - Edit (Warp)
2. The Presets - Promises - Nils Frahm Remix (Modular)
3. Max Cooper & Tom Hodge - Fragments of Self (Fields)
4. Rival Consoles - Voyager (Erased Tapes)
5. Bonobo - The Keeper - Banks Remix (Ninja Tune)
6. Rob Clouth - Sifting Through Static (Traum)
7. Samu.L - The Beach (Surface)
8. Tessela - Gateway (R&S)
9. Nils Frahm - For - Max Cooper Remix (Erased Tapes)
10. Joe Goddard - Bassline 12" (Greco-Roman)
11. Collaboration TBA 1
12. Forgold - Sleep Cycle (Sound of the Cosmos)
13. Special Request - Deranged (Houndstooth)
14. Tim Hecker - Live Room (Kranky)
15. Fuck Buttons - Stalker (ATP)

Max Cooper DJ Set - Molten Expansion (free DL)

From the album, Human, out now

iTunes: www.smarturl.it/MCHuman
Beatport: http://smarturl.it/HumanBeatport
Vinyl + CD Pre-order: bit.ly/FIELDSshop

So, it's my next album single, and this time it's a bit crunching. There is a reason for this abomination lacking softness or melody though - the album is called "Human", and it's my attempt to translate some common themes about the human condition, into musical form. And of course not everything about being human is beautiful or pleasant - we experience all sorts of things, and this one is about the impacts of life, in the form of pounding mechanical collisions. It's a club track really, and if you've seen me in recent months you've probably had your face smashed by it a little - sorry about that!

Big thanks to Pitchfork for featuring this along with the amazing acid-style excursion from Gabe Gurnsey of Factor Floor.....AND....watch out for the Perc mix coming very soon, which takes the track to whole new labels of abrasion.


Here is the press spiel in case more info and fafferage is needed -

An album that sets out to examine sonic extremes, Max Cooper's debut Human juxtaposes a whole range of electronic styles:  lush orchestration fighting savage distortion, and clinical digital sound anchored by warm analogue grooves.  And nowhere is that restless curiosity to experiment as apparent as the contrast of the first and second singles - first, the delicate and downtempo Adrift, versus this second release, Impacts, the roughest, toughest sampler workout Cooper has produced.
On the album, they're sequenced in a focused line to be the centre of the album's first act and then its midpoint, before the album's more experimental final act.  But as a single on its own?  Impacts is a stop-start stomper that has had festival crowds asking WTF!?!? for months now, and the album's only purely dancefloor moment - as far from voguish k-house sounds as it is.  

But despite the harsh uncompromising sonic contrast - and this is a track that grunts into focus like a sledgehammer picking a fight with a gang of hi-hats - Impacts is, to Cooper's mind, actually something very optimistic.  It's the sound of a person beaten again and again by life, but each time bouncing back and wanting more.

For the remixes, Cooper has gone for two artists with their own take on high-contrast sonics.  Gabe Gurnsey of Factory Floor has folded his band's hypnotic acid tweaking into the original's rasping beats, and Perc has gone balls out with an take-it-or-leave it experimental sub-lead mix for the serious heads and big systems.


Impacts (clip)

Max Cooper is certainly no stranger to fans of Wide Angle Recordings or the dance music scene in general. Over the past 5 years he has been shaping the landscape of melodic techno with his innovative sounds and dazzling productions. We first spoke with Max in 2009 and one year later we had him on board for this remix of Don't Ask, a  beautiful melodic track by the talented Canadian producer Maxime Miville.

"Higher Ground: 6 Years of Wide Angle Recordings" is available January 21.

Maxime Miville - Don't Ask (Max Cooper Remix)

Tracklist: http://www.factmag.com/2014/02/10/fact-mix-424-max-cooper/

FACT mix 424 - Max Cooper (Feb '14)

From the album "Human" out now

iTunes:  www.smarturl.it/MCHuman
Beatport: http://smarturl.it/HumanBeatport
Vinyl + CD: http://bit.ly/FIELDSshop

"Incredibly intense" - Pitchfork

"Insanely good" - The FADER 
 
"Impossibly gorgeous" - FACT

"Ace" - theQuietus

"Wants you to dance and cry simultaneously, and will probably succeed in doing so" - DUMMY

"A religious experience .. a master at blending blissed-out, lightweight textures with moments of heavy darkness" - Earmilk

"Recalls Philip Glass, Aphex Twin's most serene moments and even Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3" - Resident Advisor

"A quiet elegance that's unique to the genre" 
- XLR8R

"Some of the more ambitious and exploratory music crafted within the last few years" 
- The Music Ninja
  
"One of today's most innovative electronic musicians" - DJZ


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Empyrean (clip)

1. Max Cooper - Untitled 1
2. Max Cooper - Qualia (Traum)
3. Max Cooper - i (Traum)
4. Max Cooper - Darkroom - John Tejada Remix (Traum)
5. Max Cooper - i - Pele Remix (Traum)
6. Agoria - Panta Rei - Max Cooper Remix (Infine)
7. Pig &amp; Dan - Tears of a clown - Max Cooper Remix (Techno Therapy)
8. Max Cooper - Industrialiser (Herzblut)
9. Microtrauma - Circulate - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
10. Max Cooper - Echoes Reality (Traum)
11. Peaches - I Feel Cream - Max Cooper Remix (TBC)
12. Max Cooper - Miocene (Herzblut)
13. Max Cooper - Epoch (Herzblut)
14. Andrew K - The Doppler Effect - Max Cooper Remix (Vice versa)
15. Au Revoir Simone - Take me as I am - Max Cooper Remix (Moshi Moshi)
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Max Cooper Live - Loom (free download)

Max Cooper Live - Mind's Garden
1. Max Cooper - Sea of Sound (Traum)
2. Au Revoir Simone - Take Me As I Am - Max Cooper Remix (Moshi Moshi)
3. Max Cooper - River of Gold (Traum)
4. Echaskech - The Storm - Max Cooper Remix (Just Music)
5. Abe Duque &amp; Blake Baxter - What Happened - Max Cooper Remix (Process)
6. DJ Hell - Wonderland - Max Cooper Remix (International DJ Gigilos)
7. Hot Chip - I Feel Better - Max Cooper Remix (Flash)
8. Max Cooper - Chaotisch Serie (Traum)
9. Dominik Eulberg - Daten Uebertragungs Kuesschen - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
10. Ricardo Tobar - Mi Pieza Llena De Cosas - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
11. Max Cooper - InhaleExhale (Veryverywrongindeed)
12. Max Cooper - Minertia (Traum)
13. Dyno - Risvegli - Max Cooper Remix (Hell Yeah)
14. Max Cooper - Harmonisch Serie (Traum)
15. Max Cooper - Enveloped (Traum)
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Max Cooper Live - Mind's Garden (Free Download)

RA Podcast 281 - Max Cooper
1. Underworld - To Heal (PIAS)
2. Tim Hecker - Chimeras (Kranky)
3. Max Cooper - Echoes Reality - Si Begg Remix (Traum)
4. Ripperton - A Skilift Upstairs The Sleeping City - Max Cooper Remix (Systematic)
5. Kollektiv Turmstrasse - Was Bleibt - Jimster Instrumental Mix (Connaisseur Recordings)
6. Agoria - Panta Rei - Max Cooper Remix (Infine)
7. Lusine - Every Disguise (Ghostly International)
8. Vaetxh - Mass (King Deluxe)
9. Mono Electric Orchestra - Blunt Force Trauma - Max Cooper Remix (TBC)
10. Jimmy Edgar - Uniform (Citation) (Warp)
11. Giom - Techno Idiots (Lost My Dog)
12. David August - Peace Of Conscience (Diynamic)
13. Amon Tobin - Bedtime Stories (Ninja Tune)
14. Extrawelt - Titelheld (Cocoon)
15. Vaetxh - Cuntpressor (Detund)
16. Andrew K - The Doppler Effect - Max Cooper Remix (Vice Versa)
17. Hot Chip - I Feel Better - Max Cooper Remix (Flash)
18. Ben Frost - Killshot (Bedroom Community)
19. The Flashbulb - Undiscovered Colours (Alphabasic)
20. Hiatus - Third - Max Cooper Remix (Last Night On Earth)
21. Underworld - To Heal (PIAS)


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Max Cooper DJ Set - RA 281 (320 free download)

I'll be closing the Origin stage at Glade this year - 17 June 2012, which I'm really looking forward to, so when they asked if I'd like to provide a podcast for the festival I jumped right on it. This podcast will be very different from my set on the day, that will include all my favourite stuff from over the years, while this set is more of a preview and demo of my recent productions. My latest Egomodal EP on Traum features heavily, along with some recent remixes of Agoria, FC Kahuna and Phil Kieran which I've been playing out a lot recently. I hope you enjoy it!

More info on Glade at http://gladefestival.com

TRACKLIST
Hiatus - Third - Max Cooper Remix (Last Night On Earth)
Max Cooper - Autumn Haze (Traum)
Mauro Norti - You and me - Max Cooper Remix (Wide Angle)
Max Cooper - Micron (Traum)
Max Cooper - Simplexity (Traum)
Agoria - Panta Rei - Max Cooper Remix (Infine)
Max Cooper - Miocene - Super Flu Remix (Herzblut)
Hugh Pascall - Absence March - Max Cooper Remix (DSCNCTD)
Max Cooper - Miocene (Herzblut)
Max Cooper - Epitaphy (Traum)
Phil Kieran - Church Organ Nightmare - Max Cooper and Phil Kieran Remix (PKR)
Cream Sound - Sonata - Max Cooper Remix (Festival Lounge)
Max Cooper - Inhale Exhale (Veryverywrongindeed)
Max Cooper - Raw (Traum) 
FC Kahuna - Hayling - Max Cooper Remix (Skint)


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Max Cooper Live - Panacea - Glade Festival 2012 Podcast

This is a live set I made for Dour Festival in Belgium, which I will be playing at on the 12th of July. There's a whole load of new stuff in this mix which hasn't been released or included in any other mixes before, including the first preview of my Michael Nyman remixes, and my next EP on Bodzin's Herzblut label. There's some tracks in there which I can't even announce yet, plus my remix of two of my favourite artists in the world, Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm! I hope you enjoy it....

1. Ólafur Arnalds &amp; Nils Frahm - A2 - Max Cooper Remix (Erased Tapes)
2. Microtrauma - Contrast - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
3. To Be Announced 1
4. Dnyo - Aquatika - Max Cooper Remix (Microcastle)
5. Michael Nyman - Secrets, acusations and charges - Max Cooper Remix (Last Night On Earth)
6. Hugh Pascall - Absence March - Max Cooper Remix (DSCNCTD)
7. Agoria - Panta Rei - Max Cooper Remix (Infine)
8. To Be Announced 2
9. Cream Sound - Sonata - Max Cooper Remix (Festival Lounge)
10. Max Cooper - Ruptured (Herzblut)
11. Ither - Cloud Complex - Max Cooper Remix (TBC)
12. Phil Kieran - Church Organ Nightmare - Max Cooper Remix (PKR)
13. Max Cooper feat. Get People - Careless (Last Night On Earth)
14. Max Cooper &amp; Jeet - Fisted (Herzblut)
15. To Be Announced 3


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Max Cooper Live - Loop Topologies [mix for Dour Festival] - Free Download

This remix of seconds by Minilogue is out on 12" and Digital along with amazing remixes from Dominic Eulberg and Freska of another Minilogue classic - Certain Things.

Minilogue - Seconds - Max Cooper Remix - Out Now on Traum

This is a live set I recorded in my studio for John Digweed's Transitions radio show. Loads of new stuff on there which hasn't gone out anywhere before, plus a couple of exclusives not for release. Hope you like it!

1. Max Cooper - Gravity Well (Traum)
2. Hiatus - Third - Max Cooper Remix (Last Night On Earth)
3. Ólafur Arnalds &amp; Nils Frahm - A2 - Max Cooper's Crystal Lattice Mix (Transitions Exclusive - Not For Release)
4. Ripperton - A Skilift Upstairs the Sleeping City - Max Cooper Remix (Systematic)
5. Max Cooper - To be announced 2
6. Minilogue - Seconds - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
7. Mono Electric Orchestra - Blunt Force Trauma - Max Cooper Remix (Manual)
8. Maxime Miville - Don't Ask - Max Cooper Remix (Wide Angle)
9. Max Cooper Remix - To be announced 3
10. Max Cooper - Spiral Inflections (Traum)
11. Extrawelt - Im Garten Von Eben - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
12. Michael Nyman &amp; David McAlmont - Secrets - Max Cooper Reconstruction (Last Night On Earth)
13. Max Cooper - The End of Reason - Ambient Rework - 12" Edit (Transitions Exclusive - Not For Release)


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Max Cooper Live - Transitions Mix (free download)

At present, this mix is only downloadable from XLR8R's site at http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2012/09/max-coopers-decibel-mix [which we assume you're all reading anyhow, as it's excellent.]

01 Abyss "Birdsong (Flowers and Sea Creatures Remix)" (Buzzin' Fly)
02 Halls "Roses For The Dead (Max Cooper Remix)" (No Pain in Pop)
03 Jimmy Edgar "Black Neon Dancefloor" (Items & Things)
04 Vaetxh "List of Lists" (Tigerbeat6)
05 Ambivalent "Rumors" (Minus)
06 Agoria "Panta Rei (Max Cooper Remix)" (Infine)
07 Max Cooper feat. Braids "Automaton (Ghosting Season Remix)" (FIELDS)
08 Elef "Tales of 88 (Huxley Remix)" (Murmur)
09 Nils Frahm "For (Max Cooper Remix)" (Erased Tapes)
10 Ólafur Arnalds "Poland" (Erased Tapes)
11 Vaetxh "Unfolding Mechanism" (Detroit Underground)
12 Dan Cat "Winterslow (Max Cooper Remix)" (Playtime)
13 Pleasurekraft "Corpse Reviver No 2" (Brandnewvibe)
14 Nils Frahm "Peter (Max Cooper Remix)" (Erased Tapes)
15 The Slow Revolt "Dark Matter (Max Cooper Remix)" (Pavilion)

My approach for this mix was defined by the fact that I had to do it while travelling for my Americas tour. So I picked out a selection of my favourite tracks before leaving, and was constrained to use only these. The difficulty was that I had chosen a load of different genres, so it turned into a puzzle of how to fit them all together into some sort of coherent flow. It was a good way to work in the end as it encouraged me to make edits of lots of the tracks, and also lead to some nice unexpected combinations.

[Note from Max HQ:  the original of Max feat BRAIDS - Automaton - track 6 can be heard on Max's app:  http://bit.ly/QHzLL5]

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Max Cooper DJ Set - XLR8R/Decibel Festival Mix (DL link in description)

A recent remix I have done for extrawelt, with my own vocals on the track! - Available on vinyl and digital along with some great mixes from Dominik Eulberg, Mig Dfoe, Ricardo Tobar and Applescal

Extrawelt - Mit Liese Auf Der Wiese - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)

Halls- 'Roses For The Dead' (Max Cooper remix)

Here's some of my latest work, with plenty of never heard before exclusives, and an approach in mind to warm you up and provide some escapism from the winter.

And now onto the track listings, I'm afraid there's a lot on here which I can't tell you what it is yet, labels like to keep these things secret yeknow!

1. Remix to be announced 1
2. Collaboration to be announced 2
3. Max Cooper - Autumn Haze (Traum) - Out Now
4. Max Cooper feat. Braids - Automaton (Fields) 
5. Magic Panda - Distant Places - Max Cooper Remix (Tigerbeat6) - Out Now
6. Remix to be announced 3
7. Max Cooper feat. Braids - Pleasures (Fields)
8. Halls - Roses for the dead - Max Cooper Remix (No pain in pop)
9. Collaboration to be announced 4
10. Robert Clouth - Cloud Complex - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
11. Nils Frahm - Peter - Max Cooper Remix (Erased Tapes)
12. To be announced 5


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Max Cooper Live - Movements Through Self Contained Space (free download)

A selection of music from my recent releases along with a few unreleased exclusives in there. Hope you enjoy....
Max Cooper Live - Modus
1. Max Cooper - Untitled 1
2. Max Cooper - Enveloped [Traum]
3. Peaches - I Feel Cream - Max Cooper Remix [TBC]
4. Max Cooper - Ripple [Traum]
5. Max Cooper - Chaotisch Serie - Maetrik Remix [Traum]
6. Max Cooper - Gravity's Rainbow [Traum]
7. Xircus (Jeet &amp; Max Cooper) - Dehydration
8. Max Cooper - Stochastisch Serie - Leeks Remix [Traum]
9. Yan Stricker - Smooth A Surface - Max Cooper Remix [Organism]
10. Portishead - Roads - Max Cooper Remix [Not for release]
11. Max Cooper - Enveloped - Ryan Davis Remix [Traum]
12. Maxime Miville - Don't Ask - Max Cooper Remix [Wide Angle]
13. Max Cooper - Ediolic Spectra [Bedrock]
14. Max Cooper - Heresy [Traum]
15. Ryan Davis - The Wolve - Max Cooper Remix [IRM]
16. Max Cooper - The end of reason - Ambient Rework [Traum]
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Max Cooper Live - Modus (free download)

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.
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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/

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