Nils Frahm is one of the best artists out there in my opinion, with pretty much the best live show I've ever seen. But aside from all that, this was just a really enjoyable remix to work on because the original is such a great piece of music, and seemingly so well suited to what I wanted to do with it - which was to try and turn Nils' instrumental jam on his Juno, into something house/techno/club/44 compatible, but still carrying the class and feeling of the original. It was one of those remixes that just seemed to fit and flow easily, with minimum strain and maximum enjoyment on my part - usually a good sign for a remix (the one's that have to be forced never seem to quite get there).

Big thanks to Billboard for featuring this remix, which is now available as part of my Balance 030 compilation:
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/dance/8454339/max-cooper-nils-frahm-remix
http://smarturl.it/Balance030MaxCooper

Stream / buy

Nils Frahm - For - Max Cooper remix

Sivu - I Lost Myself (Pedestrian Remix)

it's my bday today. here a demo I'll never be able to finish or properly release because I lost the files. free download. thanks.
jt

08-01

A break from all the headfuckery, Arp Aubert is head of the Mirau Musik label that's seen releases from Mano Le Tough and Tensnake. In fact, Tensnake himself used to be a part of the Arp Aubert project. The Moshislongo EP, released on Ki Records, is the classiest batch of feels you'll hear in a while. We're all about it. 

THUMP's NFTU

Arp Aubert - Moshislongo

Single off of the release 'Mercy' on Magical Properties.


California

Created with the E-MU Proteus /1 Module using the reverse playback option, additional freeware VSTs + Arturia Minifreak, recorded, mixed/mastered with Cubase 10.5

Reverse Piano

Illum Sphere
Second Sight EP

Pre-order 'Second Sight' -
Ninjashop: found.ee/secondsight
iTunes: found.ee/secondsight-it
Bandcamp: found.ee/secondsight-bc

Taken from 'Second Sight' released 19th February on Ninja Tune.

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Facebook: found.ee/illumsphere-fb
Twitter: found.ee/illumsphere-tw
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PREMIERE : Illum Sphere -  Ritual [Ninja Tune]

Elevate

Indian Wells "Racquets" - Boiler Room Debuts

Remix by @yesoccupanther

See both Vessels and Occupanther at: 
Thu 26 Oct - Prince Charles, BERLIN
Fri 27 Oct - Kleiner Donner, HAMBURG
Sat 28 Oct - Artheater, KÖLN

Tickets: http://bit.ly/VesselsTix

Deeper In A Sky (Occupanther Remix)

I had a lot of train journeys recently and I love watching the wires seemingly dance around outside the window. I wondered if we could be getting fooled by a similar process during our usual experience of movement and time, and thought it would be an interesting project for a music video set to the music created during the same journeys.

You can find that project and a longer explanation of the video ideas here: https://vimeo.com/241546182

For the music I wanted to bring ideas of frozen moments of the past into play, and no better excuse to get stuck in with the Prophet 6 on some lush classic analogue synth sounds for the main chord sequence, and plenty of nob noodling for a dance of modulating sounds around the main sequence. I wanted to keep it fairly sparse to let the chord patch be central, and just focus on trying to make every element, including the percussion, warp a little, so you can either listen to the track from a distance and hear the harmonic ideas, or delve in to find all sorts more hiding in there.

You can hear the whole EP here: https://lnk.to/WorldPassingByEP

08-01

John Talabot