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Le Carousel is Phil Kieran's latest LP, which is great, it was a pleasure to work with this track, and all the better because I decided I was going to do something weird with it! The lovely pads and vocals provided the backbone for my remix, and I just tried to accentuate these with a long ambient build.

The track would probably work better just with this ambient part and no more, but I decided to add on some sort of odd drop at the end, where it goes all hectic with lots of double timed randomised beats. To continue with the unexpected theme I went for another extended build to total distortion, climaxing in nothingness!

It's probably not the easiest track to fit into a set unless you just use the ambient part, but it's always nice to just let go and mess around with a track without worrying about how it might function outside of what you feel you want to do musically at the time.

Release date is 23rd September on PKR

Le Carousel - Lost Years - Max Cooper Remix

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)

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

FACT mix 424 - Max Cooper (Feb '14)

A binaural recording of three tracks from my first 4DSOUND performance - Woven Ancestry, Meadows and Gravity Well.

Woven Ancestry is from the Human LP out now, available from iTunes at www.smarturl.it/MCHuman and on vinyl and CD from bit.ly/FIELDSshop. 

The experience will only work if you listen with headphones, and in a quiet location. Closing your eyes helps. Relax and let yourself naturally build a mental picture of your surroundings based only on what you hear.

ABOUT 4D SOUND

The 4D Sound System was designed and developed in Amsterdam by Paul Oomen, Salvador Breed, Luc Van Weelden and Poul Holleman. It comprises 16 columns with omnidirectional speakers at several heights in each column, and the columns spaced around the room in a 12 x 12 x 4m array.

They have designed Max for Live devices which provide a range of spatial controls within Ableton Live, as well as an accompanying visual 3D model of the space and sounds within it. This allows for a spatial composition/production process, whereby each piece of music is designed as a physical entity to exist within the space, as something that can be walked around inside and explored by the listeners.

The system is called "4D Sound" because it produces sound in all 3 spatial dimensions, as well as being able to move sounds through the space in time - the 4th dimension.

More mixes and info:  www.maxcooper.net
Photo by Henri Blommers

HEADPHONES ONLY: Woven Ancestry, Meadows and Gravity Well from Amsterdam 4DSOUND show

Touching Bass- Max Cooper

Taken from "Human" out now >

Digital: iTunes www.smarturl.it/MCHuman / Beatport http://btprt.dj/TC7WHJ
Vinyl / CD bit.ly/FIELDSshop

This was a fun track to make. I wanted to try and make something purely noisy and intense, but always delivering a feeling that 100 times more power was still fighting to get out, like the potency of human nature. After deciding on a basic chord structure, it was just a matter of layering and layering, which gave an interesting interference result, you can hear the different waves interacting to give beating patterns.

The layers were made from some Operators in Ableton with Guitar Rigs and Saturators, plus a Moog Minitaur with a fast LFO with high resonance, plus Andy Ramsay’s overdriven guitar amps and speakers re-recorded, plus Phil Kieran’s tape saturation/distortion - it’s basically a right mess! You can even hear some of the leftovers on Phil’s tape at the end, with him speeding it up and slowing it down. Interestingly, that Moog on there was the only analogue synthesiser used in the whole album, the rest was all sourced digitally, albeit with some subtle analogue compression and analogue mixing desk throughs at the end.


Some album press:

"Incredibly intense" - Pitchfork

"Insanely good" - The FADER

"Impossibly gorgeous" - FACT

"Burns with an incredible creative intensity ... sumptuous, enticingly beautiful" - Clash

"Wants you to dance and cry simultaneously, and will probably succeed in doing so" - DUMMY

"Ace" - theQuietus

"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

Potency (clip) from HUMAN LP out now

This recording is available to download from: http://boilerroom.tv/recording/max-cooper/

Boiler Room w/ Max Cooper, David August, Christian Löfler, Hrdvsion, Oskar Offermann and B2b Edward

[Broadcasted on April 09th 2014]

For Video go to http://boilerroom.tv

Max Cooper Boiler Room Berlin DJ Set

My remix of Max Cooper's Von Der Klippe :) 

Von Der Klippe _ Max Cooper & Tom Hodge  _ Harvey McKay Remix

From the original feature on Clash Magazine: http://www.clashmusic.com/features/fluid-landscapes-exclusive-max-cooper-mix

It’s been a long time since I’ve made a full length “live” mix of just my own material, mainly because I was focused on my album in recent times. But after some new studio additions and work developing new ideas and new experiments, I’ve got enough fresh material to draw on, along with some old, to put together a new live set only composed of my originals, some remixes I’ve done, and I had to include a couple from the Inhuman remix package because there’s some great work on there from Lusine and Rodriguez Jr. among others.

I’ve approached this mix a little more like my live sets of old, keeping it pretty smooth and letting the tracks do the talking, rather than going too heavy on the genre-swapping and BPM-juggling as I have been doing on other mixes recently. There’s still some (hopefully) unexpected moments though of course, a strings solo, some crunchy glitch, backwards Nyatiti, several brand new never heard before tracks, a homemade desolation bootleg of Spastik, my first ever totally analogue tracks (I’ve only recently taken the plunge into the analogue synth world), and two live Jazz improvisation sessions recorded recently in London.

The artwork embedded is made by Andre Britz, who has literally created some "fluid landscapes" works, of which he was kind enough to donate a custom piece for this mix - Thanks Andre! You can find him here: https://www.behance.net/Andre

As a whole, the mix is about being wrapped up in a warm exploration of feelings and landscapes. It will work best with a nice pair of headphones and an open mind. I hope there’s at least some parts in there you enjoy!

1. Max Cooper - TBA1
2. Collaboration - TBA2
3. Max Cooper - Supine - Rodriguez Jr Remix (Fields)
4. Microtrauma - Contrast - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
5. Max Cooper - Woven Ancestry - Lusine Remix (Fields)
6. Max Cooper feat. Braids - Automaton (Fields)
7. Max Cooper - Automnemonic (Traum)
8. Max Cooper - TBA3
9. Collaboration - TBA4
10. Max Cooper - TBA5
11. Spastik Bootleg
12. Collaboration - TBA6
13. Collaboration - TBA7

TBA - To Be Announced

More Mixes: https://soundcloud.com/max-cooper/sets/max-cooper-free-downloads
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Info: https://www.maxcooper.net

Max Cooper Live - Fluid Landscapes - mix for Clash

Sometimes I turn up to a gig for my 6am slot, and the room is pitch black, deafening, and sweat is dripping off the roof, and I think, hmm, what should I play?

A lot of my solo tracks aren't quite right for this sort of atmosphere, so I've been working on a new project designed more for dark sweaty holes in which we like to spend our weekends.

It's a collaboration with someone I have been working with for many years, who is releasing under the new name - Satirist. The first vinyl + digital release coming next week on Berlin's Killekill label. No pretty melodies this time. The name I will be releasing this work under is - SKEW (because it's a bit off).

You can hear the rest of the EP here:
https://soundcloud.com/killekill/killekill-021-skew-satirist-through-the-compound-eye-ep-snippets

You can find the new Satirist facebook page here:
https://www.facebook.com/satirist.official/

I won't be making any new pages for my Skew project, as I think there are already enough facebook artist pages out there in the world.

Skew & Satirist - Morphogenesis

What happens if you take 3 great jazz musicians, put them in recording studio, and throw electronic music at them?

This project was an experiment into exactly that, with my long running collaborator Kathrin deBoer on vocals, and the greatest trumpet player I've yet to hear - Quentin Collins, with Jack Stevens on bass for this one track from the EP too. 

We made some recordings where Kathrin and Quentin played at the same time, which was really interesting - I love the way you can hear Kathrin and Quentin almost talking to each other during the track, they sort of imitate and bounce off each other as they go along. They were having a lot of fun during the recordings and I think it comes through.

The fun we were having making the recordings was aided by the fact that Gearbox records (who are releasing the EP 6th Oct on vinyl, and 3rd Nov on digital) had provided Mark Ronson's recording studio for us to work in, so it was a pleasure all round.

There are 3 more tracks to come from the release, 2 ambient, and one absolute abomination where I wanted to see what would happen if I made the most f*&ked up track I could and then asked them to improvise over it - more clips and info coming soon.

If you want to catch Quentin Collins playing, he does regular gigs in London at Ronnie Scotts, amongst other places. And Kathrin deBoer has also launched a new solo project under her name, which is also touring and highly recommended.

Chronology - with Quentin Collins, Kathrin deBoer and Jack Stevens

This is the second track from the Tileyard EP, where I went to a recording studio with some jazz musicians and I played them different tracks which they improvised over. This one was much more of an ambient venture, where I've added lots of reverb and delay to Kathrin's vocal and Quentin's trumpet, to try and blend them into the airy pads and create a feeling of space. 

I added a high end squeal that sounded to me like an army of crickets in a hot country at dusk, hence the name of the track. 

The whole EP is out now on gearbox records on vinyl and digital, with the more beat driven a-side, another ambient experiment, and some sort of abomination of a piece of music called theatre of the absurd.

Digital: http://smarturl.it/chronology
Vinyl: http://gearboxrecords.wazala.com/products/max-cooper-feat-kathrin-deboer-quentin-collins%E2%80%A8/

Dusk Mass with Kathrin deBoer and Quentin Collins

Hello, I’m launching a new site dedicated to provide you with new music that you won’t be able to find anywhere else. There will be 6 parts, and every one of them will be free for members of the site.

This first track, called Arc, was one of my first experiments with some new analogue synths recently - the Moog Minituar, and the Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 08. I wanted to make something smooth and melodic which would work for my club sets, and would be mixable, but nothing too peak time intense, something a little softer. I think the heart of the track really all came down to squeesing the main riff with those lovely analogue filters!

If you would like to download this track, and receive promos of the rest of the new music before it goes public, then just click on the download button on the soundcloud player and all will be explained. In return for your email you will receive all 6 parts of the series for free, and they will not be released on any other platforms.

Thanks to Rabbithole for the excellent art work!

FREE DWNLD HERE

Arc - Free Download - Quotient 1/6

iTunes - http://smarturl.it/MCKindred
A few years ago I did a remix of a track by Dominik Eulberg called Sansula, which featured an instrument of the same name. After the release a builder of sansula instruments in the Netherlands was kind enough to give me one as a present in case I wanted to use one again in a live recording, which I have finally got around to doing now with this track!

My process consisted of me sitting in my studio (badly) playing the thumb plucked sansula for quite a while, so that I could go back to the recording and pull out some useable loops as a starting point. I wanted a nice warm analogue chord progression to complement, but more in the high bass and low mids than my usual chord progression that's down really low, to fill the mix with the warmth as much as possible.

The track still needed something though, so I turned to some spare recordings of my favourite vocalist - Kathrin deBoer, from some of our previous recording sessions. I didn't want to go for the usual full lyrical approach of a vocal collab track, I just wanted to add some small snippets of human feeling to round off the track properly.

The release is coming out on Fields on the 1st of December along with an intense synth experiment with a Prophet 08, and beautiful remixes from David August and Throwing Snow.

If you're not into buying music there is also a new website I have just launched which will be providing exclusive new free downloads for all in return for signing up to the website - http://www.maxcooper.net/downloads

Origins

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

This remix had some really nice vocal and guitar parts, but when I combined them with my drums it didn't really work for me. So I decided to create a long build with the original parts, which finally drops into a more stripped down form to try and maintain the quality of the original elements. It's a bit of a combination of deepness with euphoria, which I hope still works, I guess I'll find out what you think about it soon enough!

D/R/U/G/S - The Source Of Light - Max Cooper 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

This was an attempt to make an enveloping wash of sounds to drown in. It started as a techno track but I realised it worked best without drums to get down to what it's really all about. It was released on Traum a while ago, but I just stumbled across it today and it seemed to suit my mood so I thought I better put it on soundcloud.

The artwork is a scan of a dried flower by my friend Ben Slater (http://www.behance.net/benslater), which I adjusted the colours on to make all saturated and purple. It's from the same set of scans that Ben used to make my Expressions EP artwork - still my favourite release artwork to date for sure.

MAX COOPER

Maryjane Dreams