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Lacuna

mellow pop 3

Chill

Son's Music

ambient and downtempo

There have been a lot of collabs on this song and I have chosen 2 for my upcoming Junischnbee album. The others are more experimental and go to my next album "Nightflight" which contains all the wonderful SC experimental tracks and collabs !

Thanks Andreas for this wonderful gift !

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Dirk Maassen with PessoaZ - Les Jours D'été I (Album Master - www.facebook.com/Dirk.Maassen.Music)

Warped Dialectic

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Phantom Rickshaw

Hey Joe

Charlotte Gainsbourg - Hey Joe

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree...    

Xanadu

"Í gegnum Ísinn" from Ólafurs original score for the film Vonarstræti / Life In a Fishbowl 

Stari Í Gegnum Ísinn

a large expanse

yearning for something

If you like it please leave a comment. :)

WOODZSTHLM - Reaching(Feat. Ian Boom & Olle Grafström)(Blue RBM Remix)

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Inner Piece

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Your December free download is a remix, and an important piece of music to me personally. Partly because it was the result of a chance string of events driven by my love of the original track and a fortuitous meeting with Frederic D. Oberland, one half of The Rustle of the Stars with Richard Knox. And partly because I love the intensity and feeling of the original which I have tried to convey in my own way with little regard for the usual rules of making music - ambient strings arrangement at one end, and a drum and bass wall of sound at the other, because that's what I felt was required to communicate the emotions I found in the original piece, inspired by "a musical passage through the North Pole explorer diaries".  
 
Here's what Richard and Frederic said about the original:  "We would like to think of this as a polar journey to the ends of the earth through the arctic sea. We kept in mind the first polar expeditions, Edgar Allan Poe's Dream-Land, the ships trapped or crushed by ice, the point of no-return, the minds sinking, the attempt on the Pole ending in disaster, the quest of the Northwest Passage, Erebus & Terror, the Mercy Bay, Mangazeya, Charles Francis Hall, Beechey Island, the Midnight sun and the Polar night."
 
It's very winter-y. And I'm very pleased Richard and Frederic agreed to allow me to give the remix away for free to anyone who would like to hear it this Christmas!

The Rustle of the Stars - Sleeping Land (Part 1) - Max Cooper Remix

You can find the beautiful full album from the Rustle of the Stars, here: http://www.therustleofthestars.com/ 

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The Rustle Of The Stars - Sleeping Land - Max Cooper Rmx - Quotient 3/6

When I was touring in Mexico, I was lucky enough to have some days off during a visit to Mexico City, and took a trip to a nearby Toltec/Aztec Pyramid site called Teotihuacan. It's a beautiful place, but when I asked about its history I was told that most of the knowledge and culture of the people who built it was lost, with the arrival of the Europeans. Now it's turned into a rebuilt money making tourist trap, with the loss of its real meaning.

I recorded the space and sounds there with binaural mics, so I could try and capture some of the feeling of it, including a storm which came in, and then I wrote a strings part inspired by the feelings of the visit there. Tom Hodge brought the piece to life by playing a piano part in addition, and I loved the piano so much I decided to make two parts, the first with the piano only, combined with the binaural recordings and a randomising delay feedback network, and the second part with the strings. The first part of Teotihuacan is available exclusively from the free download Quotient Series, and the second part will be coming on the Artefact EP in April.

preorder available - www.smarturl.it/ArtefactEP‏

Teotihuacan - Part 1 - with Tom Hodge - Quotient 4/6

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

Say "Hello!" to Week #4 music! No other instruments this time, i'm back to my good old piano. Pure, clean, neoclassical piece. 

Week #4

Jane Birkin - Strange Melody (hippies Edit)

This one in particular is for my friends Clinton, Adam & Soda.
We took a trip into the unknown halfway through the US to a place we've never been. 
Journey of a lifetime. Godspeed! Boys. 
We shall meet again in Valhalla.

Can't Reach You

Pre-order the full 'Thrown EP' here: http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP044

Buy the '65' split EP with Rival Consoles here: http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP013

Exclusive Premiere via SPEX Magazine: http://www.spex.de/2012/08/27/kiasmos-wrecked-stream-premiere/

"Its moody bass fluctuates between rock patterns and sonar gestures that graze through deep, night black valleys" - SPEX

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Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen's collaborative project Kiasmos continues to spread Icelandic techno with new Thrown EP featuring remixes by FaltyDL and 65daysofstatic.

After having revealed the title track Thrown via XLR8R in April, Kiasmos announce the release of their Thrown EP featuring brand new track Wrecked and two guest remixes by FaltyDL – one of New York's finest electronic producers – and UK's industrial post rock pioneers 65daysofstatic in the form of a12"/DL on Erased Tapes.

A1: THROWN
Ólafur explains: ‘Thrown is the first track of the "New Kiasmos", so to speak. Actually, Thrown is kind of a remix of a new Ólafur Arnalds track that hasn't even been released yet.’ ‘It has become the track that we use as a reference for all our newer stuff’, adds Janus.

A2: THROWN (FALTYDL REMIX)
‘Remixing used to be a very special thing. Not so much anymore. And when you're done, it will end up as a free download and most likely not on vinyl. It's bullshit. So when I get the opportunity to make an actual record, an object that will last longer then any of us, I jump on it. I have pleasures in my life. Doing this remix was one of them’, says Drew Lustman aka FaltyDL.

B1: WRECKED
Janus: ‘I don't really know what we were thinking when we started working on Wrecked.’ ‘Wrecked is our experiment with a new Doepfer synth. The song is severely out of tune’, adds Ólafur.

B2: WRECKED (65DAYSOFSTATIC REMIX)
‘It was quite a challenging remix to do, because it's such a minimal, understated track. The usual 65 approach of pulling out key refrains and messing with them didn't work because the bass is such a unique, dark sound. Likewise, I was reluctant to add too much new material because each attempt at that quickly veered into writing what sounded like a new song. Too many remixes these days are done to provide quick and easy bonus tracks for artists to giveaway, which is a shame, because when done properly, I think a remix is a great way to see a track you're familiar with as a listener in a new way’, explains Paul Wolinski of 65daysofstatic.

Janus: ‘I'm really excited about the remixes. They are both very different from each other and give the songs a new life. It's always great fun to hear someone make the tracks their own.’

ABOUT:

Kiasmos is the brainchild of Icelandic modern classical composer Ólafur Arnalds and Bloodgroup mastermind Janus Rasmussen from the Faroe Islands. Based in Reykjavík, Arnalds used to work as a sound engineer – often for Rasmussen's main project Bloodgroup – where the two musicians discovered their common love for minimal, experimental techno music. They eventually became best friends, and Janus now often accompanies Ólafur's solo shows with his electronics. ‘I am really enthusiastic about this project. Finally, I can make music that people can dance to. Something refreshing for the weekends’, explains Arnalds in an interview with the German electronic music magazine Beat. The project is a good way for both artists to ‘get out of the house’ so to speak and do different music to what they normally do. Having released their 65/Milo split 12" with label mate Rival Consoles in 2009, this year sees the duo return with the hotly tipped Thrown EP and a string of European club shows.

'A rich production of deep, subdued techno...sure to stick in your head long after the track is through' – XLR8R

'Linear electronic music that propels you to pastel horizons...a dreamy new track to ease you through the day. A gentle groove and washes of sonic colour underpin a deceptively simple melody that buries itself inside your head' – Electronic Beats

'Thrilling stuff, primed for the more discerning floors' – Bleep

'Extremely elegant and addictive, sharp and hypnotic' ★★★★ – The Milk Factory

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:

facebook.com/kiasmos
soundcloud.com/kiasmos
erasedtapes.com

Thrown

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Kiasmos - Wrecked

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Delusions of grandeur - Marr-One

Taken from my Autumn Stories album, Digipack Edition.

Week #5 (Piano solo)

Music (c) Madeleine Hanover 2012
Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kikasz/5097186346/

Dawn (Original Piano Composition)

Feist - Mushaboom

I have known recently Dirk Maassen for his wonderful music and as a person.
Generous in any sense and deeply dedicated to his and other people work.
His piano, a bliss.
Here I have only contributed with an orchestral arrangement which was due to the inspiring song Dirk has created. A full collaboration will come soon.
Thank you Dirk 

Dirk Maassen (feat. London-DC) -To the sky (Symphonic version)

Year of the Rabbit

Dune Bird

Fashionista - [Available now on Beatport]

From the album Earthen Birth By Henry the Rabbit

Limited edition cassette available from Moon Glyph:
http://moonglyph.com/releases/mg58

Earthen Birth

Luna's Gift

We live in a time of complete media saturation, of instant and constant news coverage. There has never been so much information available to us, and never so much misdirection and falsehood. Free press has the ability to enlighten and empower us, to expose corruption and bridge societal rifts. When this freedom is subverted however, the media can be used to keep us atomised, divided and numb. ‘Yesterday’s News’ is intended as a comment on this constant barrage of news media, and as an attempt to reduce it to what it really amounts to when its integrity is undermined; babble.


Yesterday's News (blown by the wind)

This piece was created primarily from sounds I collected from the ‘Big Pit’ Heritage Site in Blaenavon. My intention was to appeal to the listener’s most primal reactions and evoke the raw power of industrial noise, but also to instil the work with a feeling of mounting human spirit and mass movement that is initially suppressed but ultimately allowed to break forth.
With thanks to Big Pit Coal Mine and Heritage Site and The Blaenavon Male Voice Choir.
Brass Players:-
Trumpet- Ali Kidd
Horn- Simon Jones
Trombone- Gareth Robinson
Tuba- Rob Graham White

Coalface
“On my visit to the ‘Big Pit’ coal mine, I was first struck by the stillness and calm of a place once so full of movement and noise. The silence seemed incongruous, hanging in the air like an almost palpable force. This feeling of suppressed energy was reinforced by the piles of heavy industrial material strewn across the site, now rusted and held down by weeds, becoming part of the landscape itself. The idea then came to use these materials and the machinery on the site as the basis of my piece. My thought was to give them movement and record the results, then organise the sounds in such a way that recalls and reinvigorates this once dynamic and thrilling human enterprise.
An aspect of the Industrial Revolution which I felt shouldn’t be overlooked in my project is this element of human enterprise, the mass body of the workforce and all that entails: On one hand the exploitation of an emerging working class but also the incredible explosive energy that comes from an increasingly self conscious mass body. To breath some humanity into the piece I decided to explore Blaenavon further, talk to some of the town’s residents and see to what extent the industrial labour that took place at the coal mines still lingers in cultural memory. My search brought me to Blaenavon Male Voice Choir, which has been rehearsing and touring for nearly a hundred years and still includes a number of former miners. The recordings I made with the choir not only provide a textural contrast to the sounds recorded at Big Pit, but I also hope that they begin to infuse the piece with a feeling of mounting human spirit, to reflect the struggle of the workers in the South Wales coal field, of which Blaenavon was an epicentre. “


Coalface

Cardiff based singer-songwriter, electronic musician and composer.

Welcome to the place where most of my musical projects ended up. There's some interesting stuff here, even if I say so myself. Someone with a bit of patience and a decent pair of headphones could be rewarded with a cosmic audio journey into the deepest recesses of my subconscious, or something.

Phantom Rickshaw

Dani Thomas