11 Max Cooper - My Mind Is Slipping

6 Max Cooper feat. Tawiah - My Choices Are Not My Own

This is a small album of various intelligent dnb and ambient jungle pieces, with some atmospheric/techmospheric influences and downtempo vibes.

For me, it symbolizes a return to the music I deeply love, free from overthinking and trying to be someone who I never was.

Tracklist is built to slowly take you off the Earth surface straight beyond the stratosphere: from warm tones of the sunset, through the violet acceleration zone, until you reach dark blue depth of space.

Hope you'll enjoy the vibes:

00:00 eventide illusion (extended mix)
05:04 cerulean altitude
10:08 rhythm waves
13:39 last blue sattva
17:03 tropopause
20:26 time flow is drifting, but neither am I static
24:40 transfiguration functions 
28:34 transfiguration functions (dreamcast mix)
30:56 deep cyan

Purification

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Purification (2024) - full album

Soulful spring mix for Density Radio Show & warmup mix for my Basel debut on 31.05.24: https://www.gannet.lv/agenda/urban-bass
Contains music of @calibresignature, @mysticstate, @kuttinedge, @dubphizix, @waeys, @manlikedusk, @alixperez, @rockwell, @submorphics, @brianbrainstorm, @archangeldnb, @speakerlouis, @traildnb, @djredeyes, @blackbarreldnb, @londonelek, @northernzone, @sustancemusic, @qbig-zenith-b, @minorformsuk, @djtrex, @tomfinster, @kraekdnb, @phasednb, @visionobi, @mishandgreeen

audite - Guest Mix For Density Radio Show

On her fourth full-length album as Shedir, Sardinian sound artist Martina Betti offers a profound meditation on what it means to be human on the threshold of uncertainty. We Are All Strangers is a series of ambient tapestries shaped by duality and introspection, where sound becomes a space to explore the tension between identity and ambiguity, presence and disappearance, connection and solitude. Inspired by the idea that we are all strangers, however, first and foremost to ourselves, Betti crafts seven fluid, slow-burn compositions that inhabit a sociological liminal zone—what she comments as an “inner elsewhere.” These aren’t songs in the traditional sense, but evolving sonic environments that feel like emotional states made audible. Environmental textures, submerged electronics, and deep low-end pulses coalesce into a dreamlike architecture of sound: immersive, fragile, and quietly transformative.

Rather than offering answers or closure, the album invites us to live in radical openness—to stop trying to define everything we see and feel, and instead bathe in what remains unnamed. In this sense, We Are All Strangers is an invitation: to sit with uncertainty, to embrace the unfinished, and to find resonance even in our collective disconnection.

For listeners drawn to the introspective frequencies of Rafael Anton Irisarri, Félicia Atkinson, or Lawrence English, Betti’s music offers a similarly haunting and immersive experience—one where strangeness is not a flaw, but a starting point. In her hands, ambient music becomes a kind of reflective shelter: a place to brush against each other in the dark and begin to learn, as she puts it, “the difficult art of closeness.”

Starveflight

Live recording of the DJ set that I have played on the "Garage" floor of the surbardo festival (Sunday 13:30)

reckless - Subardo Festival 2025

My Choices Are Not My Own feat. Tawiah, May Kaspar (Throwing Snow Remix)

My Choices Are Not My Own feat. Tawiah, May Kaspar (Bredren remix)

it's so easy [fromnow dnb remix]

В новому випуску подкасту Drum&Bass Panorama Tonika @tonika_funkmasters запрошує вас і глибинно-басову подорож ламаними ритмами за участі світових та українських релізів. Налаштовуйтесь на максимально суворий і темний вайб.

🎧 Tracklist:

01. DPR - Don't Leave 
02. Aaron Payne, Phrase - Keep On 
03. InsideInfo - Victory Over Death (Feat. MoniKali)
04. Derrick + Tonika - Shaman Is Back 
05. Division - Legacy 
06. Jaydan - The Mangroves
07. Creatures - Curious 
08. Spektiv, Morrow - Run It
09. Break - Back To Funk
10. Iamdoomed - Selecta
11. Ed:It - Dust Cut 
12. T-1 - Black Room 
13. Telomic - Lesson Learned
14. Need For Mirrors - Belly Vibes
15. Talisman, 2-C Breaks - Guestlist
16. HLZ - Pulsar
17. Kublai - Who Fi Dead 
18. Kara - Audacious
19. RMS jaybee - Heard 
20. EXD - Magma
21. Morrow - Deep State
22. 7th Sense - L:N
23. Calyx - Repercussion
24. Vardae - Charming Your Soul

Melted Vox в Instagram:
www.instagram.com/melted_vox

Drum&Bass Panorama by Tonika #006

A masterful DJ Mix show casing some of Smokin' Sessions magical catalogue, released over the last 10 years, mixed by https://soundcloud.com/escapism-refuge with some exclusives for good measure :)

The Session - A 10 year Celebration of the Label is out now Digitally!
Vinyl with this classic from Djrum is out October 6th!

You can support direct on Digital or Vinyl from our Bandcamp here
deepheads.bandcamp.com/album/the-session

Or Vinyl from Red Eye here:

https://www.redeyerecords.co.uk/vinyl/89288-smoke033-the-session-va-2-x-lp

Or Digital from Juno Download:

https://www.junodownload.com/products/escapism-refuge-the-session-unmixed-tracks/3549128-02/

iTunes:
itunes.kud.li/smoke033

Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/25J3g9GLhP7Dgt8MbNajf1

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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