Musically speaking, dub techno has a haunting, haunted, tripped out site of memorial exploration where everything sounds half-remembered, half-there and half-real. The genre is akin to ambient music, in that music of both genres acts as background music on purpose. The best tracks in the dub techno genre do what little it does amazingly, in that every element in the mix is given breathing space and, accordingly, takes on a sense of the organic.

Dub Tech - 006 (Organic dubs)

http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/21392/1/stream-james-holdens-chaotic-synth-and-drum-mix

Tracklist:
Forma – "Forma 237B"
Don Cherry & Latif Khan – "Air Mail"
You – "Son Of A True Star"
Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid – "Between B & C"
Silver Apples – "Oscillations"
Beak > – "Wulfstan II"
Enzo Kreft – "I Don't Understand It"
Avant-Dernieres Pensees – "El Miedo"
Zombie Zombie – "L'age D'or"
Don Cherry & Terry Riley – "Koln Concert Piece 3 (excerpt)"

James Holden – Dazed Mix

A curated series where we commission artists to make a mix of whatever inspires them to experiment, produce and what they listen to.

This mix was recorded live at SOMMERLIGHTS at Dark Matter Berlin on Fri 28th July 2023. 

Max Cooper blurs the lines between genres, fusing elements of techno, ambient, drum and bass and experimental. With an unparalleled ability to captivate audiences, he seamlessly weaves intricate layers of sound that transcend the dancefloor.

Tracklist: 
1 Max Cooper - Unspoken Words 
2 The Presets - Promises - Nils Frahm Remix 
3 Autechre - Nine 
4 Max Cooper - Spectrum 
5 Rival Consoles - Dreamers Wake 
6 Max Cooper - Spike 
7 Mark Fell - Acids in the style of Rian Treanor 02 
8 Rob Clouth - Transition 
9 Rival Consoles - Running 
10 John Tejada, DNTL - Using Generators 
11 Tor - Foxglove 
12 Max Cooper - A Model of Reality - Tor Remix 
13 Barker - Neutron Collider 
14 Skee Mask - Panorama 
15 Awe Kid - Eve - Max Cooper Remix 
16 Viers - Lain 
17 Lusine - Tropopause Loscil Remix 
18 Amotik - Laal 
19 Oisel - Erosione 
20 Nils Frahm - Peter 
21 DJ Dextro - Opical Illusion 
22 Erol Alkan - Spectrum - Matrixxman remix 
23 Maxime Miville - Don't Ask - Max Cooper Remix 
24 Dustin Zahn and Marcal - Charger 
25 Moderat - Fast Land 
26 Com Truise - Iteration 
27 Kimyan Law - Luba 
28 HLZ - Dream Source 
29 Monty and Alix Perez - Good to Me 
30 Bredren - Abyss 
31 Hyroglifics - New Day 
32 Alix Perez - Blips 
33 Alix Perez - Poison Ivy 
34 Rival Consoles - Recovery 
35 Lusine - Retrace 
36 Moderat - Last Time - Jon Hopkins Remix 
37 Special Request - Broken Dreams 
38 Max Cooper - Perpetual Motion 
39 Gabriel Ananda - Doppelwhipper 
40 Vaetxh - Unfolding Mechanism 
41 Nathan Fake, Clark - Outsider 
42 Budakid - The End

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Mesh Mix Series 026: Max Cooper

New Year’s Eve is here and in honour of the occasion, we’re forgoing our characteristically downtempo Sunday Mix for a special weekend instalment of our flagship series, with Max Cooper at the controls. Bookmark this one for whatever you have in store for this evening – or any other occasion, of course.

In his own words, the innovation-driven producer and visual artist opts for a “psychedelic techno adventure” featuring tracks from JakoJako, Barker, Oliver Coates, Rival Consoles, ANNĒ and Venetian Snares. “Lots of melodies and beautiful feelings to get lost in," Cooper begins, "but also lots of unexpected turns and mind-mangling soundworlds, and plenty of genre-hopping so you never quite know what's around the next corner."

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Max Cooper (Live 3D/AV) plays Simple Things, Bristol, on 23-29 February

Crack Mix 541: Max Cooper

I love playing music set to visuals. Usually it's set to my video collaborations for my live shows, but this time I got to DJ amongst Christopher Bauder's light installation at Dark Matter in Berlin to create an audio-visual conversation. 

The audience in Berlin is amazing too, being the magnet for electronic music people that it is, and not being one of the historic clubs there with their specific musical identity to integrate with, this was anything goes and just feeding on the energy in the room. And there was a lot of energy in the room, as you can hear in the mix. 

I let loose pretty much…. It’s a club set, how I'm into club sets, at least. With some new unheard things in there and lots of old favourites from over the years. 

Llyr opened the night with a really nice set that built as the evening unfolded - listen to that here if you like: https://soundcloud.com/llyr1101/

I hope there's some things in there you like, I'll get the tracklist up asap too, I'm just in the midst of a release deadline at the moment. 


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Max Cooper DJ set at Dark Matter Berlin 8 June 24

Leftfield is a British electronic music group formed in 1989. It began as the duo of Neil Barnes and Paul Daley. In January 2010 Barnes resurrected Leftfield without Daley and, after touring for a few years, finished writing new material for a third album entitled Alternative Light Source. Daley declined to be involved and is focusing upon his solo career. The duo was very influential in the evolution of electronic music in the 1990s, with Mixmag describing them as "the single most influential production team working in British dance music". As with many of their contemporaries, such as the Chemical Brothers, Leftfield was notable for their use of guest vocalists in their works. Among those involved were Toni Halliday on "Original", Johnny Rotten on "Open Up", Djum Djum on "Afro-Left", and Earl 16 and Cheshire Cat on "Release the Pressure". The term progressive house was coined to define their style, a fusion of house with dub and reggae.

In an interview with Neil Barnes and Paul Daley of the group, published in 2017 on The Skinny, Paul Daley mentioned how John Peel influenced Leftfield via dub and reggae: "Dub and reggae had been around in my life from punk gigs of the mid seventies, and listening to the John Peel late night shows of the late seventies – it had a big influence on a lot of the feel of Leftism."

Dialogue – Bongo Shep
Release the Pressure (Vocal) 
Release the Pressure (Adrian Sherwood Mix)
Leftfield – Release The Pressure (The Rough Dub)
Godumaduma Codona
Art of Noise - Ransom on the Sand 
21st Century Poem
A Final Hit
El Cid 
Melt (Quiet Village Mix)
Melt (Remastered)
Dusted w/ Roots Manuva
Renegade Soundwave – Renegade Soundwave (The Leftfield Remix) [1994]
Inspection (Check One) 
Rino’s Prayer 
Open Up (The Chemical Brothers Remix)
Song Of Life (The Lemon Interrupt Mix By Underworld)
Not Forgotten (DJ Nipper Xtended Edit)
Space Shanty_ (Unbroken’s AcidEdit)
Cut for Life 
Afrika Shox w/ Afrika Bambaataa
Afro Left 
Phat Planet [Dave Clarke Remix – A1]
Snake Blood 
Earl Sixteen – Trials And Crosses 12 (1981)
Leftfield – Chant of a Poor Man
Swords w/ Nicole Willis
Shallow Grave 
Citing and Fighting
Song of Life (Original mix extended)
Leftfield & Lydon – Open Up (Full Vocal Mix)
Release The Pressure (Guesswerk Dub)
Leftfield interview – Neil Barnes (part 1)

Dubfield - Leftfield in Dub

“This EP is a fragile dance between decay and self-discovery. Four songs — four fragments of a restless soul.
‘Fall of the Leaf’ drifts through quiet resignation,
‘My Melancholic Dance’ moves with bittersweet grace,
‘Thoughts of a Unsober Mouse in a Downtown Bar’ drowns in ironic confession,
and ‘You Have Some Problems With Your Head’ closes it all with raw, unapologetic honesty.

It’s the sound of a heart learning to live with its cracks —
a diary of sleepless nights, fading love, and quiet survival.”

My Melancholic Dance

Ambient techno top 50

A special feature, text about history of Ambient Techno and IDM, written by Funky Jeff. Here is the blog text : 

https://funkyjeff77.wordpress.com/2022/09/06/ambient-techno-the-history-of/

1)	A conversation about reality 
2)	Bola – Glink
3)	Terence Mc Kenna – Shamanism
4)	Biosphere – Startoucher 
5)	FFWD – Lucky saddle
6)	Sun Electric – Castor & pollux
7)	Nav Katze Wild Horse 
8)	James Bernard - Phosphorous (1994)
9)	FSOL : Ill flower (1994) 
10)	Samples from the movie Scanners 
11)	Carl Craig (69) - Desire
12)	Robert Leiner - To Places You've Never Been (Visions Of The Past / 1994)
13)	The  Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds 
14)	The Black Dog Chase The Manhattan	Spanners
15)	Air liquide - If there was no gravity
16)	Air Liquide - Liquid Air
17)	Vapour Space - Gravitational Arch Of 10
18)	Aphex Twin - Tha –Selected Ambient Works Vol.1 [85-92] 
19)	Orbital	- Halcyon on + on 
20)	Aphex Twin - On
21)	David Morley - Evolution
22)	Jedi Knights - the truth
23)	Amorphous-androgynous-liquid-insects
24)	The Future Sound of London - Smoking Japanese Babe
25)	Opus III - It's A Fine Day	
26)	Trust-suspicious-mindgear-mix-trance-europe-express
27)	Meat-beat-manifesto-mindstream-the-aphex-twin-remix
28)	Caustic Window - On The Romance Tip
29)	Autechre - Piezo Amber / 1994
30)	Darrel Fitton - Blipsalt
31)	The 7th plain - to be surreal
32)	Orbital - Semi-Detached
33)	Seefeel-time-to-find-me-afx-slow-mix
34)	Aphex Twin Falling Free (Curve)	
35)	Polygon Window - Polygon Window 
36)	Robert Leiner - Out Of Control
37)	Beaumont Hannant - Utuba
38)	Saint-etienne-your-head-my-voice-voix-revirement
39)	Seefeel - Time to Find Me [AFX Fast Mix]  
40)	Autechre - Skin Up, You're Already Dead
41)	B12 - VOID/Comm  (Time Tourist 1996)
42)	Merck - Balil (Bytes 1993)
43)	The-Higher-intelligence-agency-Speedlearn-reformed-by-the-irresistible-force
44)	KLF - 3 A.M. Somewhere Out Of Beaumont
45)	Speedy J - Lanzarote
46)	Warp 69 - Natural High	Global Communication remix
47)	Epsilon Phase	Global Communication
48)	The Irresistible Force - Moonrise
49)	The Irresistible Force - Sunstroke
50)	Banco de Gaia - China clouds not mountains

Ambient Techno Top 50 tracks

isolatedmix 100 and we have a legend at the controls. One half of Global Communication and a big inspiration for ASIP from day one, the Jedi Knight himself, Tom Middleton. For more information, track-by-track notes, sleep tips and an interview with Tom Middleton: http://asip.me/isolatedmix100

Tracklist:
01. Tom Middleton - ASIP + 9128 intro
02. Global Communication 0:54
03. The oldest sound in the cosmos - cosmic microwave background radiation from the Big Bang Tuning out Saturn radio waves
04. Carl Sagan - Voyager Gold Disc interview
05. Ganymede and Whistlers
06. Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe Pt.1
07. Tomita - Suite Bergamasque / Clair de Lune
08. Vangelis - Dr. Tyrells Owl
09. Chihei Hatakeyama + Federico Durand - Luisa
10. Sigur Rós - Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do
11. Underworld - Sunshine
12. Brian Eno - 3M5
13. Julianna Barwick - The Harbinger (Alex Somers Remix)
14. Lowercase Noises - The Last Stages of Consumption
15. Global Communication - 4:14
16. Kara Lisa Coverdale - Grafts (edit)
17. bvdub - Make The Pain Go Away
18. Steve Roach - This Moment Is Memory
19. GCOM - Atmosphere Test
20. Brian Eno - Signals
21. Qebrµs - ۩ ִ ְ ֲ ֳ ֲ ۩ - 05 ฌฎ๒๓๔ญ°°°°°
22. Marc Streitenfeld - Earth
23. Vangelis - Heaven and Hell (Theme from 'The Cosmos')
24. Tom Middleton - Sunset
25. Reload (+E621) - Event Horizon (TM edit)
26. Boards of Canada - Olson
27. The Orb - O.O.B.E.
28. Shur-i-kan (Tom Szirtes) - Ebb and Flow
29. Jeff Taylor Cross - Ambient 02
30. Spooky - Orange Coloured Liquid
31. Marcomé - Memoria
32. Aphex Twin - Lichen
33. Lowercase Noises - Ambient Songs 06
34. Laraaji - Being Here
35. Machine Drum - 528Hz Love Frequency
36. Yoko Sen - Sleepscape 6
37. Tom Middleton - St Ives Bay
38. Dustin O’Halloran - Memories (Lion)
39. August Wilhelmsson - Somewhere in Between
40. Sienna - Seven Bays for Seven Days
41. Lights & Motion - Glaciers
42. Rone - Human
43. Tom Middleton - Sea Of Glass (Jon Hopkins mix)
44. One Divided Soul - Of
45. Jakob Ahlbom - Ether
46. LA Synthesis - Zyllvakrynn
47. The Presets - Promises (Nils Frahm Version)
48. Ilya Malyuev - Universe
49. Global Communication - Incidental Harmony
50. Tom Middleton and Ulrich Schnauss - Midaus 1
51. Tom Middleton - WYV AUW CHU (Ambient mix)
52. Mmoths - Deu
53. John Beltran - Clouds Pull
54. Universal Solution - Liquid Love
55. Ralf and Florian - Tanzmusik
56. Brian Eno 1:1 (excerpt)
57. Felix Mendelssohn's Hawaiian Serenaders (featuring Tommy Middleton) - Always and Always
58. Ben Kenobi - The Force Will Be With You Always

ASIP - isolatedmix 100 Tom Middleton

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isolatedmix 100 - Tom Middleton

I’ve made a little ambient mix of some of my all time favourite peaceful music.

The mix was originally made for a clinical trial for people undergoing something of a reconstructive therapy. It was designed to repeatedly and slowly transition between relaxed reflection, and stimulation of new thoughts, running for a 2 hrs 30 mins session. You’ll probably hear what I mean in the structure.

It also includes some unreleased music of mine which hasn’t been heard before, alongside many of the most beautiful pieces I could find. I hope you enjoy it.

Tracklist

1 Field Recording
2 Max Richter - Laika's Journey
3 Hakobune - Lighthouse
4 Nils Frahm - Talisman
5 Starts of the Lid - Articulate Silences Part 2
6 Max Cooper - Untitled / Unreleased
7 Ben Lukas Boysen - Only in the Dark
8 Matt Robertson - Postscript
9 Rob Clouth - Dirac Sea Birth
10 Suda Norihito - Anim
11 Taylor Deupree - Minism
12 Willamette - Mid August, For Rachel
13 Mark Fell - Part 3 Acids in the Style of Rian Treanor
14 Rafeal Anton Irisarri - Ardous Clarity
15 Field Recording
16 Nils Frahm, Olafur Arnalds - 2017
17 Christopher Willits - Sunset
18 Lusine - Jetstream
19 Max Cooper - Circular
20 Boards of Canada - Tears from the Compound Eye
21 Com Truise - Gaussian
22 Loscil - In Threes
23 Willamette - Echo Park
24 Komet - Plus
25 Rob Clouth - The Galaxy Collapsed into a Point
26 Tim Hecker - Borderlands
27 Steve Hauschildt - Eyelids Gently Dreaming
28 Pausal - Semi Submerged
29 Christopher Willits - Ground
30 Bing and Ruth - Starwood Choker
31 Barker - When Prophesy Fails
32 Roly Porter - Kistvaen
33 Rafeal Anton Irisarri - RH Negative
34 Petrels - All things in Common
35 Max Cooper - Memories
36 Field Recording

Max Coooper - Out of Body - Ambient Mix

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Out of Body (ambient mix)

Tracklist: http://www.factmag.com/2013/06/17/fact-mix-387-dj-koze/

FACT mix 387 - DJ Koze (June '13)

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James Holden – Dazed Mix

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