That felt like an eternity, but in a good way.

Dec' 16

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

Free download here: http://vesselsband.bandcamp.com/track/says-vessels-remix

Find out more about Nils' music here: 
http://www.erasedtapes.com/artists/biography/13/Nils+Frahm



Free download

Nils Frahm - Says (Vessels remix)

Anther

Microvariations 417 Hz. [Dark Nature Concept]

HRRSN - Das Tor

TT001 - Mauerblümchen

https://soundcloud.com/bongbeck

https://www.facebook.com/Bongbeck-601784376549397
www.facebook.com/tontoepferei

Bongbeck - Winter Sleep

New EP 'Sufi' is out now on @atomnation
More info: http://atomnation.net/ATM037-Polynation-Sufi-feat-Marlon-Penn
Purchase: https://atomnation.bandcamp.com/album/sufi

Polynation - Sufi Pt II (feat. Marlon Penn)

Buy --> http://classic.beatport.com/release/little-helpers-253/1869500
Stream full tracks on YouTube --> http://bit.ly/2eCLtFG
*Release date for all other online shops November 27

Little Helpers 253

Rotty - Little Helper 253-2 [littlehelpers253]

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

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 HERE: http://btprt.dj/2hcSjHo

MFF MUSIC 015 – Juliet Fox & Derek Marin – “Roomers EP“
1. Juliet Fox & Derek Marin - Roomers
2. Juliet Fox & Derek Marin – Roomers (Alexander Aurel Remix)
3. Juliet Fox & Derek Marin – Ride It Again
4. Juliet Fox & Derek Marin – Ride It Again (Vonda7 Remix)

Release Date: December 09
Format: digital

We are happy to welcome two outstanding artists in a collaboration on MFF MUSIC, Juliet Fox, one of the most multi-talented upcoming electronic music artists on the scene who already released on Suara, Toolroom and Cajual and Derek Marin who already worked for labels like Get Physical, Plastic City and Superfreq.

With using her own vocals, Juliet always creates a certain uniqueness in her tracks and so she does it once again on her and Derek Marin's new EP 'Roomers' on MFF MUSIC. 'Roomers' is a classical exciting tech house track that combines powerful 707 drums with catchy samples of Juliet's voice.
In his remix Alexander Aurel adds a groovy melodic bassline on top.

The second track on the EP 'Ride It Again' is a playful trip including a remarkable acid line, which comes up in the middle of the track. VONDA7's remix gives even more space to it with effects and synths lines flying around and creating a trippy dramaturgy.

Juliet Fox & Derek Marin - Ride It Again (VONDA7 Remix)

More info: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2016/12/premiere-stream-knowsums-latest-lp-in-full/

@knowsum
@money-ex-records

Play God and Shit Happens

Premiere: Knowsum - Mocontrupsolism

Premiere: Knowsum - Shit Happens

Premiere: Knowsum - Humans Are Better

@max-cooper reworks 'Everyone Is Falling', taken from The Great Distraction
https://vesselsband.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-distraction

Everyone Is Falling (Max Cooper Remix)

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

Taken from the album Salon des Amateurs (Remixes) out now on FatCat Records (FATCD88). 

FatCat Store

Radar (Michael Mayer remix)

Sign up for updates & exclusive experiences: 

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

Organa [Mesh001]

Max Cooper

Recent comments

Bla Lefilm

Drophead

koojee

nsiries

Related tracks