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Unspoken Words

Mesh: A Model of Reality Reworks Collection

The Various Artists collection features 10 tracks from new and emerging artists that have been curated by Mesh and Max Cooper in response to a project on our Discord Community server. 

The challenge encouraged collaborative and mixed media creative reworks around Max Cooper's 'A Model of Reality' taken from the Unspoken Words audio-visual project released in March '22. 

We opened the Mesh Discord community to create a space for people to come together, share life, work, ideas and make connections.

'Creative Challenges' are an opportunity to focus activities around a theme. In August 2022, Max Cooper gave away the stems to 'A Model of Reality' for anyone in the community to make a remix. Unbounded by rules and conventions and welcoming any kind of artistic expression… music, code, poetry, short story, video, painting, sculpture… however people feel they could add something in their own way.

Quote from Max Cooper: 
We started the Mesh discord community a year ago to open up our interests and work. This beautiful collection of music, videos, poetry, code art and interactive remixes is a small window onto the goings on there. It’s an exciting community to be part of, massive thank you to everyone who created their own take on my project with Kotomi. There was so much to try and choose from and a lot of gems beyond what is on this official release package.

To see the collection of works from the Challenge, visit here: https://meshmeshmesh.net/a-model-of-reality

To join the Discord community,visit: https://os.fan/MaxCooper/SignUp

Mesh - A Model of Reality Reworks Collection

Yearning for the Infinite

A remix I made for Au Revoir Simone, a slow dubby sort of affair, not really for the the dancefloor.

I didn't want to use the full vocals so I went for a high-passed ghostly sort of effect with them, it catches some nice bands in the top of her voice though!

Au Revoir Simone - Take Me As I Am - Max Cooper Remix

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

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

Spectrum

Ascent

A Model Of Reality (feat. Kotomi)

Inanimate to Animate (feat. Kotomi)

From the album, Human, out now

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Finally, I can talk about this - my debut album Human is coming next year, March 10. This is the first single from it, Adrift, with my long running vocal collaborator Kathrin deBoer. I had a simple piano chord progression and a randomised percussion idea to give to Kathrin, who captured the feeling beautifully with her lyrics and jazz influenced vocal approach. It's more of a personal piece of music for me than a club track, which is the approach I've taken for the whole album. 
 
More previews, a couple more singles (and some really amazing remixers!) to follow between now and March.
 
Adrift is out now - itunes www.smarturl.it/adrift
beatport - http://www.beatport.com/release/adrift/1201254

Adrift feat. Kathrin deBoer (clip)

The Various Artists collection features 10 tracks from new and emerging artists that have been curated by Mesh and Max Cooper in response to a project on our Discord Community server. 

The challenge encouraged collaborative and mixed media creative reworks around Max Cooper's 'A Model of Reality' taken from the Unspoken Words audio-visual project. 

Mesh - V.A 'A Model of Reality Reworks': https://ffm.to/modelofreality

To see the collection of works from the Challenge, visit here: https://meshmeshmesh.net/a-model-of-reality

To join the Discord community,visit meshmeshmesh.net

We opened the Mesh Discord community to create a space for people to come together, share life, work, ideas and make connections.

01. Max Cooper - A Model Of Reality (2walls Model Of A Dream Remix)

02. Max Cooper - A Model Of Reality (Jan Steiner Remix)

03. Max Cooper - A Model Of Reality (Sebastien Veyan Remix)

04. Max Cooper - A Model Of Reality Remix (Deadly Custard Remix)

05. Max Cooper - A Model Of Reality (Sunnk Remix)

06. Max Cooper - A Model Of Reality (Fableist Remix)

07. Max Cooper - A Model Of Reality (Mattr Remix)

08. Max Cooper - A Model Of Reality (Firephly Remix)

The Various Artists collection features 10 tracks from new and emerging artists that have been curated by Mesh and Max Cooper in response to a project on our Discord Community server. 

The challenge encouraged collaborative and mixed media creative reworks around Max Cooper's 'A Model of Reality' taken from the Unspoken Words audio-visual project. 

Mesh - V.A A Model of Reality Reworks: https://ffm.to/modelofreality

To see the collection of works from the Challenge, visit here: https://meshmeshmesh.net/a-model-of-reality

To join the Discord community,visit meshmeshmesh.net

We opened the Mesh Discord community to create a space for people to come together, share life, work, ideas and make connections.

09. Max Cooper - A Model Of Reality (Odalie Remix)

The Various Artists collection features 10 tracks from new and emerging artists that have been curated by Mesh and Max Cooper in response to a project on our Discord Community server. 

The challenge encouraged collaborative and mixed media creative reworks around Max Cooper's 'A Model of Reality' taken from the Unspoken Words audio-visual project. 

Mesh - V.A A Model of Reality Reworks: https://ffm.to/modelofreality
To see the collection of works from the Challenge, visit here: https://meshmeshmesh.net/a-model-of-reality

To join the Discord community,visit meshmeshmesh.net

We opened the Mesh Discord community to create a space for people to come together, share life, work, ideas and make connections.

10. Max Cooper - A Model Of Reality(Aonian Remix)

Out Now! >> http://www.beatport.com/release/inhuman-one/1280972

Lusine has been one of my favourite producers for a long time. I'm just going back over some of his first releases on Ghostly International from the early 00's, and it's amazing how ahead of the game he's always been. His combination of delicate productions and beautiful warm analogue melodies, intricacies and amazing shuffling grooves have been a big inspiration for me over the years, with his "A certain distance" album from 2009 being one of my all-time most listened too albums.

So Lusine was one of my ideal remixers for the album, and thanks to Sean at Decibel festival, the hookup was made and he was into the idea. He's turned out a beautiful remix of Woven Ancestry, which if you've seen me play recently, you probably heard in my set. The mix has special balance of being a great piece of music to listen to at home, but then when it's unleashed in a club it's groove takes on a whole new life which I hadn't seen coming until I tried it out - Thanks Jeff!

Max

Woven Ancestry - Lusine Remix

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

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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

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

Max Cooper Live at Vent Tokyo. Artwork by Jazer Giles

Vent Tokyo is one of the best sounding rooms I know of. So it was a special experience playing there for 2 nights, right up close with everyone in an intimate space, getting intense with the full body bass experience. Hopefully some of the vibes come through in the recording. 

Next up I'll be in Brighton, Manchester, Glasgow, Bologna, Los Angeles, Mexico City, San Francisco, Vancouver, Leeds, Cambridge and Bratislava if you'd like to join me (see my website and mailer for more info and tickets www.maxcooper.net)

Max Cooper Live At Vent Tokyo 140724

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

I've not released a new mix for a long time because I've been busy working on a new album (which you can hear soon), and the Emergence live show, which is coming in a new form for next year.  

So for this new mix I brought together some new unreleased work, a couple of pieces I wanted to bring attention to, like Attaque's amazing remix of Remnants, and some older work that's been featuring in my recent live sets.

Thanks for listening - and thanks to everyone who's come to Emergence this year!

Max.


Max Cooper - Resonant States
1. Max Cooper And Tom Hodge - Remnants - Attaque Remix - Edit (Fields)
2. Max Cooper Feat. BRAIDS - Automaton - Ghosting Season Remix - Edit (Fields)
3. Landside - Still There - Max Cooper Remix (Just Music)
4. Max Cooper - Arc (Quotient Series)
5. Microtrauma - Circulate - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
6. Max Cooper - Origins (Fields)
7. Max Cooper - Woven Ancestry - Olaf Stuut Remix (Fields)
8. Cream Sound - Sonata - Max Cooper Remix (Festival Lounge)
9. Max Cooper and Rob Clouth - Unreleased
10. Max Cooper and Alex Banks - Eve (Quotient Series)
11. Max Cooper and Tom Hodge - Resonant Expanse (Fields)
12. Stephan Bodzin - Wir - Max Cooper Remix (Herzblut)
13. Max Cooper and Tom Hodge - Remnants (Fields)
14. Max Cooper and Tom Hodge - Teotihuacan (Fields)

This mix has been sent as a free download to subscribers at maxcooper.net

Resonant States - Mix

I've been playing some long dj sets recently as part of an All Night Long tour. I have recorded two sessions for you, of nearly 6 hours each, from the London and Amsterdam legs which you can download from here via the mailing list:

http://www.maxcooper.net

The All Night Long tour has given me the opportunity to really explore the music that I love in a live setting, and experiment more than is usually possible when playing with other DJs.

The sets go right through my favourite genres from ambient and post classical to downtempo, house, electronica, techno, glitch and even some of my old drum and bass records when I could get away with it.

Thanks you for your support and listens, I hope you enjoy the recordings, and hopefully catch you out at a show sometime soon.

And big thanks to Colin Droz for the great original hand-drawn artwork for the mix!

Full tracklisting:



1. Brian Eno - LUX - Nicolas Jaar Remix
2. A Winged Victory For The Sullen - Atomos I
3. Ben Lukas Boysen - Only in the Dark
4. Max COoper - Sea of Sound - Ambient rework
5. The Presets -Promises - Nils Frahm remix
6. Floating Points - Argente
7. Mark Fell - Acids in the style of rian treanor 3
8. Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
9. Blamstrain - Linja - Mosaik Remix
10. Lusine - Arterial
11. Adam Johnson - Anex
12. Shed - Dark Planet - Modeselektor remix
13. Blanck Mass - White Math
14. Weval - Detian
15. Rival Consoles - Voyager
16. Fennesz - Before I Leave
17. Jay Shepherd - Add Arp
18. Balu Brixton - While
19. Bakradze - Quiet Loop
20. HVL - Real Command
21. Max Cooper - Origins
22. Max Cooper - Woven Ancestry - Lusine Remix
23. Per Hammar - Released Dubb - Mihai Popoviciu Remix
24. Kiasmos - Looped
25. Eclectic and Marcelo Fiorela - Reverse
26. Quivver - Lose your way
27. Agoria - Panta Rei - Max Cooper Remix
28. Max Cooper - River of Gold
29. Alex Under - Pasa Par
30. Jori Hulkkonen - Waiting is All We Have - Musumeci Remix
31. Akkord - Megalith
32. Bejamin Damage - Vostok 6
33. The Native Language - King Crab
34. Metodi Hristov - Satisfy My Hunger
35. Phase - Obscura
36. Minilogue - The Leopard - Extrawelt Remix
37. Donato Dozzy - Anna Caragnano Parola
38. Orbital - Belfast
39. Metro Area - Muira
40. Fernando - Life Super 8
41. Hanssen - Azur - Lusine remix
42. Vessels - Eliptic - Barker & Baumecker remix
43. Microtrauma - Contrast - Max Cooper remix
44. Microtrauma - Circulate - Max Cooper remix
45. Akkord - Typeface
46. Tred Benedict - Past Your Eyes - Mihai Popoviciu remix
47. Ripperton - A Skilift Upstairs the Sleeping City - Max Cooper remix
48. Hot Chip - I Feel Better - Max Cooper remix
49. JoeFarr - Spectate - Max Cooper remix
50. Pig & Dan - Tears of a Clown - Max Cooper remix
51. Emika - Battles - Kamikaze Space Programme Remix
52. Diemantle - Over The Edge
53. Secret Cinema & Enrico Sangiuliano - Alone with the Bitch
54. Roman Poncet - Black Orchid
55. Rrose - Waterfall
56. Nils Frahm - Says
57. Rob Clouth - Deep Field
58. Slam - Positive Education
59. Throwing Snow - Clasp
60. JoeFarr - Oleum
61. Pan Pot - Sleepless - Stephan Bodzin remix
62. Max Cooper Feat. Kathrin deBoer - Adrift
63. Moderat - Last Time - Jon Hopkins remix
64. Special Request - Broken Dreams
65. Artificial Intelligence - Desperado
66. Forgold - Sleep Cycle
67. Ed Rush, Optical & Fierce - Alien Girl
68. Tim Wright - Killergod
69. Fuck Buttons - Stalker
70. Trentemoller - Take Me Into Your Skin


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Max Cooper - All Night Long - London

I had a modern classical/electronica mix from a friend (JamBon) which I had been listening to a lot, and after a weekend away the original of this track was really stuck in my head. At some point I clicked that it sounded just like the style of another friend - Hiatus, and on checking, it was him! So I got straight on email to him asking if I could have the parts, and I even got started on the remix before they arrived by buying the mp3 and starting to lay some ideas around that - When it's on I find it's best to go with it. It was a really enjoyable remix to do given how beautiful the original parts are, my mix is quite similar really, as I couldn't improve on it melodically, I've just tried to add some of my own flavour and twists.

Hiatus - Third - Max Cooper Remix

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

A remix of hot chip which is coming out this summer on vinyl with a Florien Meindl + Xircus mix in addition! ps Check out the unofficial youtube video someone has made to accompany the track! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tr1LfBtRlk


Hot Chip - I Feel Better - Max Cooper Remix (Clip)

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I started this track with a simple Prophet patch running through a Moog ring mod with loads of overdrive. It wasn't so much overdrive that it became aggressive, but enough so that it had a simple tonal quality overlaid with plenty of honest low-fi grittyness. Sometimes all it takes is getting that first timbral feature right for the rest of the track to flow from there, and this was a good example for me. 

I also knew I wanted the track to fit later on in the Emergence story, where it should be rhythmically straight enough to fit into a club show where needed, but also for the part of the show where we explore visually, the range of complex living forms and evolutionary change - it needed to capture some of that beauty of life's morphogenetic creativity.

I found the chord sequence fairly quickly, and built the drums and smooth dynamics within a few days, but I got stuck on how to complete the track. I tried hundreds of different ideas, and thought I might need to bin the project, but then luckily stumbled across some old synth jam recordings that had some moments that sounded ok. So I jumped on those and went to work on an editing job. 

It turned out that a lot of the problem I had been having was that I was trying to add too much, when for me, the chords were the hook, and what was needed was a sparse melodic addition to support the chords rather than any sort of traditional tuneful hook. In recent years I've been more and more drawn to just chord sequences as the main features of tracks musically, with the rest stripped away. When Ryan Rival Consoles was considering a remix he commented the album seemed to be all about the chords (or something to that extent), so I guess that idea is in there. Chords just seem to carry the most emotion for me for some reason (as opposed to melodies or lyrics for example).

So there it is, I hope you like the track!

Emergence

12"/Download/LP Stream

Organa [Mesh001]

Buy Emergence Remixed: http://maxcooper.lnk.to/Remixed
Buy Emergence: http://maxcooper.lnk.to/Emergence

I'm really excited to bring you this remix album - I was lucky to get many of my favourite producers in the world involved in the project, and they have delivered an amazing range of music, it's a bit silly actually, how good this release is!

I was originally planning to separate it out into several releases, but when I brought all the remixes together I realised it could make an LP of it's own. I tried to order the tracks to provide some flow in this respect, from the beautiful ambience and downtempo sounds of Christian Löffler and Tom Hodge, to Rival Consoles brooding synth epic, into Vessels Aside broken melodic club track, Kimyan Law's beautifully detailed jungle break masterpiece, Patrice Baumel's massive techno remix, Ash Koosha's twisted electronica vision of Kathrin de Boerr, JoeFarr's apocalyptic darkroom disaster, John Tejada's melodic analogue beauties to wind down a little, and Hidden Orchestra's symmetrically structured huge ebb and flow remix of Symmetry to close. So much great work in there, I hope you have time to listen through and enjoy it as much as I do! And massive thanks to Christian, Tom, Ryan, Vessels, Nico, Pat, Ash, Joe, John and Hidden Orchestra for your work on this.

Emergence Remixed

Trust feat. Tom Hodge & Kathrin deBoer (Christian Loffler Remix) [Mesh002]

Sometimes the chords are all I need and I don't want to muddy the waters with much else. This was one of those tracks, so I decided to avoid any big drums and just let Christian's beautiful melody and my added Prophet chords grow a little throughout, held together with some vocals from the original looped up. It's just a simple piece of music.

Full remix package here: https://christian-loeffler.33r.pm/mare-reworks

Christian Löffler - Haul - Max Cooper 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

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Resynthesis [Mesh004]

This is a live set I recorded in my studio for John Digweed's Transitions radio show. Loads of new stuff on there which hasn't gone out anywhere before, plus a couple of exclusives not for release. Hope you like it!

1. Max Cooper - Gravity Well (Traum)
2. Hiatus - Third - Max Cooper Remix (Last Night On Earth)
3. Ólafur Arnalds &amp; Nils Frahm - A2 - Max Cooper's Crystal Lattice Mix (Transitions Exclusive - Not For Release)
4. Ripperton - A Skilift Upstairs the Sleeping City - Max Cooper Remix (Systematic)
5. Max Cooper - To be announced 2
6. Minilogue - Seconds - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
7. Mono Electric Orchestra - Blunt Force Trauma - Max Cooper Remix (Manual)
8. Maxime Miville - Don't Ask - Max Cooper Remix (Wide Angle)
9. Max Cooper Remix - To be announced 3
10. Max Cooper - Spiral Inflections (Traum)
11. Extrawelt - Im Garten Von Eben - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
12. Michael Nyman &amp; David McAlmont - Secrets - Max Cooper Reconstruction (Last Night On Earth)
13. Max Cooper - The End of Reason - Ambient Rework - 12" Edit (Transitions Exclusive - Not For Release)


For more Max Cooper mixes/free downloads:
soundcloud.com/max-cooper/sets/max-cooper-free-downloads

And music videos here:
www.youtube.com/user/maxbcooper

And for up to date info on all the goings on, you can join the mailing list at:
http://maxcooper.net/

Max Cooper Live - Transitions Mix (free download)

From 'One Hundred Billion Sparks Remixed'

Buy/stream here: https://maxcooper.lnk.to/ohbsremixed

Max Cooper - Hope (Parra For Cuva Remix)

A recent remix I have done for extrawelt, with my own vocals on the track! - Available on vinyl and digital along with some great mixes from Dominik Eulberg, Mig Dfoe, Ricardo Tobar and Applescal

Extrawelt - Mit Liese Auf Der Wiese - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)

The track is called 'Parting Ways', and is set to a video sequence by the awesome Maxime Causeret, telling the story of creation via endless division. 

It's the first time I've made a live improvised piece of music, it gives it a different feel, less precise arrangement, constant patch morphing and more flow. Something to get lost in hopefully. Myself on synths, Six Sigma on bassline, and Adam Betts on drums. I added some detailing later and the big retro snare etc, but the core synth and basslines that run throughout came from that initial jam session.

The new album project is full of scores to infinite visualisations, so it needed some spacey synth noodlings to match. I hope you enjoy it.

Video by Maxime Causeret is here: https://ffm.to/yearningfortheinfinite

Artwork by Renick Bell

Parting Ways

Parting Ways (with Six Sigma)

First single from the latest audio/visual project, Yearning for the Infinite, Perpetual Motion was written for that moment at the end of the night when all the experiments and madness is over and we just need a nice warm chord sequence to send us home in a good mood. 

The name comes from its role in my new visual show, where it plays that same closing role in the story of humans “yearning for the infinite”. Set to drone footage of people in their endless pursuit of life in Mexico City, combined with epic scientific visualisations of different infinite structures. It’s all part of a project commission from the Barbican, which has spawned this new album and live visual experiment.

For tickets to the show, head to my site https://shop.maxcooper.net/tickets

And big thanks to Renick Bell for the "yearning for the infinite" human!

Perpetual Motion

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The next preview of my new album is out today. It is repetition, that seemingly boring thing which gives us all the magic of music, with its repeats inside repeats.

The track was written for a video chapter of the new AV show story "Yearning for the Infinite". The visualisation shows our cities as duplicated animated structures stretching off into the infinite distance (which I'll post very soon), and tells the story of our endless societal growth, with the music telling the same story by what means it can. Perhaps you'll find it a maddening listen, I hope not. For me there's always been something special about musical simplicity, like there's nowhere to hide, and if there's only two chords, they better be good ones. Also the track is for escaping the 5 second socials attention span thing, it needs a few minutes to work, ideally eyes closed headphones on, if you can spare me the time I promise it will be worth it!

Listen to Repitition here: https://ffm.to/pdn5ban

Artwork by Renick Bell

Repetition

Here's some of my latest work, with plenty of never heard before exclusives, and an approach in mind to warm you up and provide some escapism from the winter.

And now onto the track listings, I'm afraid there's a lot on here which I can't tell you what it is yet, labels like to keep these things secret yeknow!

1. Remix to be announced 1
2. Collaboration to be announced 2
3. Max Cooper - Autumn Haze (Traum) - Out Now
4. Max Cooper feat. Braids - Automaton (Fields) 
5. Magic Panda - Distant Places - Max Cooper Remix (Tigerbeat6) - Out Now
6. Remix to be announced 3
7. Max Cooper feat. Braids - Pleasures (Fields)
8. Halls - Roses for the dead - Max Cooper Remix (No pain in pop)
9. Collaboration to be announced 4
10. Robert Clouth - Cloud Complex - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
11. Nils Frahm - Peter - Max Cooper Remix (Erased Tapes)
12. To be announced 5


For more Max Cooper mixes/free downloads:
soundcloud.com/max-cooper/sets/max-cooper-free-downloads

And music videos here:
www.youtube.com/user/maxbcooper

And for up to date info on all the goings on, you can join the mailing list on my site if you like:
http://maxcooper.net/

Max Cooper Live - Movements Through Self Contained Space (free download)

BRAIDS are one of my favourite bands, so when I had the chance to work with them I jumped on it. The vocals were the starting point, which I layered and used to generate a general feeling also in fitting with the lyrics, which then defined how I built the rest of the tracks around them. The first one from the EP is "Pleasures", for which I wanted to make something positive and warming, with nice straightforward drums and nothing too harsh in terms of builds and drops, just a delicate flow to give a pleasurable listening experience, hopefully!

Max Cooper Feat. BRAIDS - Pleasures

3D Reworks 001

Resynthesis 3D (Binaural Version - Headphones Only)

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)

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)

Further information: bleep.com/features/bleep-mix-162-Max-Cooper

Mesh; the name brings to mind an underlying foundation, a wire frame for a crafted piece of art to ensure structural integrity. It’s an apt name for multimedia artist Max Cooper’s electronic imprint, where the MO is clattering rhythms and voluminous ambient vistas; sound as a vehicle for big ideas. Cooper’s exclusive Bleep mix celebrates the achievements of Mesh with a collection of works from their discography, featuring the ambient swells of Rob Clouth and some especially crisp breakbeat re-alignments from the likes of Reid Willis and Synkro. To top it off, there’s a couple of unreleased Cooper numbers you won’t hear anywhere else.

"Hi Bleep and listeners, many thanks for getting me involved on your awesome mix series. I've been really excited about the music we've been releasing on Mesh recently, so I decided to combine a lot of Mesh content with Laurel Halo's beautiful new remix of the Glassforms EP with Bruce Brubaker on Infine, and a couple of unreleased bits fresh from the studio which I've been playing around with in recent weeks and which probably won't be heard in their Bleep mix form anywhere else as they're still actively evolving pieces. It's a wander through some of the music which I've been using for escapism in recent times, rich with narrative and imagery if you can spare me some time with headphones on and eyes closed." - Max Cooper

Bleep Mix 

Bleep Mix #162 - Max Cooper

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Max Cooper is an electronic composer, multi-disciplinary artist, music label founder and former scientist who has carved out a unique space in music and visual art.

He holds a PhD in computational biology at the same time as being the first contemporary electronic musician to perform at the ancient Acropolis theatre in Athens and one of the first clutch of musicians to produce in Dolby Atmos.

Cooper has enquired for over 15 years through music, collaborations, and his label Mesh, to explore the intersections between the arts and sciences with installations, performances, immersive experiences, online media, music videos and live events.  Anchored throughout is his emotive approach, connecting how ideas and forms feel, in a manner accessible to us all. 
 
As an artist synonymous with the evolution of club culture, Cooper honed his craft as a DJ with a 10 year residency at legendary Midlands techno event Firefly where he formed a foundational relationship with Architecture Social Club, with whom he still collaborates on extravagant immersive installations.

"I want to encourage the acceptance of electronic music as an art form like any other. Bringing electronic music and abstract audio-visual projects into concert halls, museums and galleries is liberating - the art world opens up doors to communicate in ways that aren’t possible elsewhere."
  
Pivoting from computational biology to electronic music might not seem like the most natural career transition, but for Cooper the commonalities are obvious:
 
"In both fields, you're in a sense, free. Free from the limits of living systems, free from the limits of corporeal sound. The only constraints are in your mind."

www.maxcooper.net 

Contacts:
Management: James Palmer-Bullock, The Wild Seeds - james@thewildseeds.com 
Label: Anthony Faulkner, Mesh – anthony@thewildseeds.com 
PR: Neil Bainbridge, Neighbourhood PR - neil@nbhd-group.com 
Radio: Matthew Maxey, Enganche - matthew@enganche.co.uk

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