9 Max Cooper feat. Aho Ssan - When I Am Alone With My Thoughts I Am Crushed

Observe

Greasy off the Racing Line

i have thoughts too

ethereal core

La Colina was inspired by warm memories of southern France and Italy, landscapes on a human scale, where everything feels gentle and close. It evokes the simple act of wandering, watching insects crawl along a sunlit earth wall by an old road leading to a small hill. The piece shifts focus from the large and dramatic to the quiet and small. It’s a response to a broader cultural tendency, in electronic music, experimental work, and visual art—where emotion often needs to be intense, dark, or disruptive to be felt. La Colina moves in the opposite direction. It challenges the listener to engage with tenderness and vulnerability, to reconnect with a childlike way of seeing: curious, sensitive, and open. 

Yoann Pisterman is a French sound artist and composer based in Berlin. Originally trained in visual arts, his practice began with drawn landscapes blending architecture and vegetation. Sound emerged in response and gradually became the core of his work. He describes it as “painting with sound.” His compositions move between ambient, kraut, electroacoustic, and experimental forms; balancing softness with density, surface with depth. A kind of childlike topography for deep listeners: light yet intricate, subtly shifting perception and sculpting space. His second full-length is set to appear on Hologram Opera in October 2025.

PREMIERE : Yoann Pisterman - La Colina

https://soundcloud.com/marijnswillens https://soundcloud.com/selvamancer
🛒 https://marijns.bandcamp.com/album/digital-tears-ep

Marijn S is a Dutch producer and DJ who showcases the organic age of dance with radiant breaks and gritty, icy soundscapes.

As a producer, Marijn combines multiple contrasts in her work; the raw, pure and timeless essence of music. Embracing simplicity and tranquility, Marijn is also intrigued by darker, experimental, and complex music. Her artistic expression is characterised by the playful juxtaposition of these contrasts.

She’s played notable gigs such as De School (AMS) Garage Noord (AMS), Dekmantel Festival (AMS), La Cheetah (Glasgow) and participated in events like Ilian Tape’s Amsterdam takeover at the Melkweg. Marijn S has recently made her live performance debut for Speedy J's STOOR / PINK NOISE during ADE, playing only with her so described ‘machine of self expression’: One hour full of her own creations, ranging from textured ambience and dreamy IDM to heavy distorted bass, abstract noise and heavy hitting electro & techno.

Her most recent EP, Digital Tears, is entirely composed and produced using the Elektron Machinedrum MKII. Some tracks, like Digital Tears and Soft Fall, were recorded in a single take to capture the raw energy, live vibe, and personal touch that come from working with analog equipment. She uses techniques like layering, resampling and overdubbing to produce a richer, denser, and reimagined sound (Gleam), as well as recording several elements individually, processing and arranging them in a way that enhances the overall coherence of the sound (Magnetic Fields).

Marijn S - Digital Tears EP will be out on September 12th on Selvamancer.

Tracklist:

1. Soft Fall
2. Digital Tears
3. Gleam
4. Magnetic Fields

PREMIERE: Marijn S - Magnetic Fields [Selvamancer]

Artist: Davide Rovito aka Dez (Random/Noize)
Title: Unrequited Ritual Part-2
(OST from the multidisciplinary artistic project 'Divine Ritual”) 
Cat No: TCTTMANIPULA002
Release Date: Oct 10, 2025
Genre: electronic, ambient, drone, noise music, glitch, field recordings, cinematic, lo-fi, soundscapes, soundtrack

Original Soundtrack from the multidisciplinary artistic project 'Divine Ritual' by Andreana Notaro and Davide Rovito aka Dez (Random/Noize)
“...Divine Ritual is an transdisciplinary project that moves between the dimensions of performance art and live creation. The experimental landscape is primarily constituted by the relationship between performers and spectators, within a creative path aimed at generating a ritual. The spectator, with their presence, will be a founding part of the creative design of the ritual itself. The ritual, which draws on the essential elements of Greek mythology, particularly the myth of Persephone and the Eleusinian Mysteries, is the archetypal experience in which sound and body are fused together, energy and matter converge in a single language, and full immersion between the terrestrial world and the cosmos is achieved. In an experimental process, the manipulation of electronic music sound will rhythmically punctuate the various moments, reaching a peak of tension and sonic pressure, determining the foundations of the ritual action, serving as a moment of ablution and then of expressive effusion for the performers, exploring the possibility of alerting the body enveloped in an uninterrupted sonic envelope and exposed to a collective vibration in which it is impossible to perceive a separation between performers and spectators. From listening to this inspiration, and guided by intuition and perception, the performers will linger in an empirical area with the sole support of three dramaturgical keys: DESCENT, SEARCH, ASCENT (as in the diachronic sequence of the Eleusinian Mysteries). This dramaturgical fabric serves as a generative principle: the architecture of the event will be articulated in an open itinerary of meta-spatio-temporal experiment...”

Unrequited Ritual Pt. 2 [TCTTMANIPULA002]

Pre-order: melodizemusic.bandcamp.com/album/killing-culture

Bristol-based producer @zobol lands on Brooklyn imprint @melodizemusic with 'Killing Culture', a bold, four-track statement that fuses electro and breaks into something raw, physical, and emotionally-charged.

B-side track 'Weapon of Mass Distraction' unfolds from a looping synth fragment, slowly ramping into a tense, bass-driven groove - relentless, exacting, and distractingly armoured with acidity.

More exclusive music

Premiere: Zobol 'Weapon of Mass Distraction'

We're back with another episode of The MUSAR Show, this time featuring Dutch 
producer Roel Funcken, one of the most distinctive voices in the IDM world, who delivers a deep journey into intricate sound design, razor-sharp textures and abstract rhythms, from weaving IDM, glitch, and leftfield electronica, into one immersive ride.
Press play and dive in! 

Roel has been releasing forward-thinking music for over two decades, both solo and as part of the influential projects Funckarma (with his brother Don) and Shadow Huntaz. Known for his meticulous production and boundary-pushing approach, his work has landed on labels such as Schematic, Djak-Up-Bitch, Arcola, Ad Noiseam, Shipwrec, Analogical Force, Touched, Science Cult, his own label Funcken Industry and many more...

As a DJ, Roel has performed worldwide, from Tokyo to the USA, London, Berlin, Brussels, Milan, Walking Life and across the Netherlands - supported and sharing stages with the likes of Tim Hecker, Plaid, Autechre, Richard Devine, and Lusine.


Roel Funcken - Musc [Science Cult]
Autechre - CCeC [Warp]
Exm - C Jupiter [Touched Music]
Idlefon - Where Voices Vanish [Tympanik Audio]
Roel Funcken & Exm - Kromon [Unreleased]
Plaid - Tomason [Warp]
Syl Kougaï  - Opale Verniss [Schematic]
Phoenecia - Dilioo [Schematic]
Roel Funcken & Exm - Dovin [Unreleased]
Funckarma - Loaded (Kettel Remix) [Sending Orbs]
Djrum - Galaxy In Silence [Houndstooth]
Plaid - The Launching Of Big Face [Warp]
Secede - Say I Said So [Merck]
Roel Funcken - Nebula Messir [MethLab Recordings]
Roel Funcken - Bworn [Unreleased]
Autechre - Clipper [Warp]
Quench - Kross [FUNCK Music]
Roel Funcken - Spoaf [Science Cult]
The Flashbulb - Petiole [Billegal Beats]
Skee Mask - Muk FM [ILIAN TAPE]
Eedl - Too Few Arguments [Unreleased]
Brothomstates - Te Noch RP [Warp]
CH415 - New Life [Who Is Paula]

The MUSAR Show #77 - Roel Funcken

Submersion - Aqueous, Reticular, Fog - Taken from "Gray" Album

if i could swim all night long/3

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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