Coopermix

I was pretty excited to get the opportunity to remix this iconic track from 1999, and it proved a difficult remix given the strength and familiarity of the hook - I couldn't really change it without it sounding a bit like Xpander but not quite as good! So I decided to follow exactly what Sasha had asked me to do, which was "wonk the fuck out of it". The result was some wonked bits and teasing out of the hook, while sticking reasonably closely to the original on the drops. I hope you like it! ps This is a clip, the full length track has an additional intro and outro so it's mixable.

Sasha - Xpander - Max Cooper Remix Clip

This is one of those tracks that seems to hold a lot of memories for people I think, having been a significant mainstream track when it was released in 2002, and also a beautiful piece of music by any standards - it's one of those ones you may not remember from the name, but when you listen the riff and vocal (by none other than Hafdis Huld) it's unmistakable. It even reached no. 49 in the UK charts according to Wikipedia, so I'm officially remixing pop music now (sort of). As with some of my other recent remixes, there was no need (and I probably would have found it impossible anyway) to improve on the track melodically, as it's pretty close to perfection in that sense. I just tried to update the style of it, with some glitchy detailed drums, a sort of dubstep-ish influenced beat structure, a long evolving build throughout, and some distortion. This is being released on the legendary Skint records too, which I'm quite excited about.

FC Kahuna - Hayling - Max Cooper Remix - Radio Edit

Ripperton - A Skilift Upstairs The Sleeping City - Max Cooper Remix

This original track had a really nice piano riff along with an interesting groove and some weird noises, perfect remix material! Also I love what Mauro Norti has been doing, and Wide Angle, so I got involved. I think I did a lot of the ideas for this one during a wait for a delayed flight in an airport, and I was feeling pretty tired at the time, and a bit paranoid because some weird guy sitting opposite seemed to be staring at me. Then some other guy came up to me with a mobile phone in two pieces, slightly freakily shouting words of English that made no sense and trying to give me this phone, I never managed to figure out what he was on about. Anyway, this track was my escapism from all that crap, I tried to make something nice and relaxing and enveloping to remove me from reality a little, hope you like it.

Mauro Norti - You and me - Max Cooper Remix (clip)

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/12/healing-gang-colours-remix

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James Zabiela "Healing (Gang Colours Remix)"

Thank you!

…for all your listens and support and coming to events and voting and general good vibes throughout the year leading to these recent top RA live act / Beatport top artist of 2012 / XLR8R top 10 most popular podcast malarkies. 

This track is one of my best tracks planned for release next year, a collaboration with one of my favourite songwriters and vocalists, The Slow Revolt.  

Max

PS this was a free download over Xmas 2012, but that's over now.  If you keep watching facebook or join the email list at maxcooper.net, there'll be a few more freebies coming this year.

Max Cooper Feat. The Slow Revolt - Only You

'I Take Comfort In Your Ignorance' (Tycho Remix) is available as part of a bonus I Take Comfort In Your Ignorance remix EP when purchasing Ulrich Schnauss' A Long Way to Fall out now from Domino or iTunes in North America.

Ulrich Schnauss' A Long Way to Fall is out now on Domino in North America and Ulrich Schnauss' own Scripted Realities imprint in the rest of the world.

Listen to the album version of 'I Take Comfort In Your Ignorance' here: snd.sc/X09MBa

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Ulrich Schnauss - I Take Comfort in Your Ignorance (Tycho Remix)

out feb. 25th on Fiakun on a limited 10" 

El Txef A- In- Permanent Vacation Inside Out  Remix

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!

Marc Romboy And Ken Ishii - Seiun - Max Cooper Remix (out now)

I went pretty minimal on this one, no hi-hats, and pretty much no drums actually, just a kick and much later into the track a snare comes in.....There was something about the simple repetitive 2 note melody hits and chords I landed on that just seemed to work without needing anything much else, well hopefully it works for other people too and not just me. It's been going down really well in the clubs at least, it seems to make people clap for some reason, maybe because it's so simple and kick focused rhythmically, it's got a bit of a marching stomp feel.

I stripped out most of the parts from the original, and focused on the great pads and vocal sweeps, which seemed to lead to the melodic idea somehow. It was one of those remixes which flowed nice and easily, not too much conscious thought required, I just let it flow out.

I made an edit of an old video to fit the track too, full details about that on the youtube link:

http://youtu.be/pXdoDtQlvDE

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Nick Warren - Devil's Elbow - Max Cooper Remix (out now)

Download: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2013/03/rutes

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Sau Poler "Rutes"

For my new EP on Traum I've done a couple of collaborative tracks with Nicolas Bougaieff (one of the founders of Liine). Nick had some great melodic ideas and a nice operator patch which we used to build two tracks around. This first one, Ellipse, has lots of shuffle and a simple groove to focus attention on the meandering riff at forefront. It's a little different from my usual, a bit of an experiment, hopefully some people will like it!

Release date 1st April on Traum, digital + 12"

Max Cooper and Nicolas Bougaieff - Ellipse

James Zabiela 'The Healing' (Born Electric)

This track is contained on the Movements EP, where each track is themed by movement through a different medium. The concept I had in mind this time was a summer meadow, with lots of warmth and activity and detail of all natural processes going on, and a feeling of movement though the space. I have no idea how well that idea of mine translates into the piece of music for you, but hopefully it works in some way (your interpretation is more important than my concept really).

Andrew Brewer (Whiskas FX) has made a video for this one with some abstracted meadows combined with moire patterns, it's a beauty!....can't wait to get that out in the next few days.

(This is just a clip of the track btw, if you want the full length version it will be out 1st April!)

Max Cooper - Meadows

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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