Choons September 2018

MAX COOPER

House/Techno - Chill

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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!

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Woven Ancestry - Lusine 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

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Max Cooper Live - Fluid Landscapes - mix for Clash

Taken from the album 'Shaker Notes'
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Where You Gonna Go?

An album by Roman Flügel is always a sensation. That holds true for his countless monikers and collaborations as it does for his 2011 Dial debut Fatty Folders. Being the first of its kind under his civic name, the long over-due association of Hamburg's cerebral label and its group of off-centre house and techno individuals with Frankfurt's favorite electronic music producer for the thinking man and woman, proved to be a seminal one.

Now, that sort of Happiness Is Happening again. Roman Flügel's follow up on Dial takes off, where Fatty Folders landed: on a runway that acknowledges the roots of house and techno as well as its fruits, but leads to a different location. Exempt from the burden that a concept album can lay on its author, Flügel seems not to be concerned with the current trends, retro fashion or a pre-conceived topic. Free-wheeling and with a freshness akin to morning dew, he rather takes us by the hand and through ten tracks that sometimes feel like songs without a voice.

Having said that, the strongest point of Happiness Is Happening is that it has a voice. The voice of a maker who is not afraid to mix joy and pain, ambient textures with remnants dance floor euphoria, quiet spaces and loud places. So you have an almost Depeche-Mode-like ballad that the ”Friendship Song” is, next to the techno city ghost story of “JD Atmo”. Slow-motion robot disco (“Wilkie”) appears as much at home here as the bulky “Stuffy” or the sudden impact in “We Have A Nice Life”. That list goes on and on. The most startling fact about Roman Flügel's tour de force is that its sum is as great as its parts. Nothing feels superfluous, ill-paced or forced here. Its a condensate of a life that has been spent in techno, house and its various mutations and archetypes with a sensibility for pop music, a consciousness of indie culture and an affinity for the avant-garde as such. 

Happiness Is Happening is like a concept album without a concept. A testament to the fact that the concept of an album that works within the realms and boundaries of “electronic (dance) music” can be so much more than a loose collection of 12-inches or just an exercise in style: it can be, after all, a piece of art and at its best comparable to a successful singer-songwriter album without words. Especially, when the creator of all his seems to be truly comfortable with himself and at his best. Then, Happiness Is Happening, indeed.

Gerd Janson, 2014

We Have A Nice Life (mp3)

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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’ve been pretty obsessed with simple ratios in the forms of chord progressions for as long as I can remember, hence all the long sustained chords in my music - for some reason I find chords even more satisfying in the lower frequencies, maybe we can pick out the ratios more clearly when they’re using slower wave fronts like with bass. I also love melodies and rhythms that combine different loop lengths so that interesting syncopation effects arise as a result of the ratios between the loop lengths. A lot of my favourite new tracks recently have used these types of techniques, so I decided to base a mix around them - Semiosis.

Semiosis is a process by which we create meaning from comparison. If I tell you a made up word that doesn’t relate to anything you know, you can get little meaning from it - meaning comes from what something isn’t, how it relates to other things you know. Music works in exactly this way, with us comparing meaningless wave frequencies to find feeling in how one value relates to another - a ratio.

Whether or not you like it, your subconscious mind is a massive maths geek, and it gets really excited when it finds a 1:3:5 ratio in the stream of air pressure information being received by your ears.  Ratio has the capacity to make us feel and make us dance. But it all happens without us being aware of it. 

When you listen to long drawn out chords and syncopating rhythms however, you can’t really get the full feeling from just a quick dip in, I find that it needs time for the ratios to wash over and sink in. The more time you give to it the more beauty you can find hidden in there. So the mix is very much of this long form, it doesn’t jump from one extreme to another like some of my other mixes, and needs to have some time to develop.

This is part 2 of 6 from the Quotient Series, all of which can be downloaded for free in return for signing up to my new download website, built specifically for bringing you new original tracks, remixes and mixes, which you won't be able to get from anywhere else. 

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Max Cooper - Semiosis - DJ Set - Quotient 2/6

1. Petrels - White And Dodger Herald The Atomic Age - Part 1
2. LJ Kruzer - Turk
3. Petrels - White And Dodger Herald The Atomic Age - Part 2
4. LJ Kruzer - Poil
5. Vessels - Elliptic - Barker & Baumecker Remix
6. Akkord - Typeface (Houndstooth)
7. Stimming - Der Schmelz - David August Remix
8. Oberst Buchner feat. Mimu - Doves - Patlac Remix
9. Clarian - Inuit
10. Locked Groove - Meditations in an Emergency - Clockwork Remix
11. Vaetxh - Mass (Detroit Underground)
12. Subjex - Funkynightmare (Warp)
13. Max Cooper - Voyage Through the Analogue Womb (Fields)
14. CTRLS - Charge - Rrose Remix
15. Donato Dozzy - Vaporware 07
16. Diemantle - Over the Edge
17. Bill Youngman - Teardrop Turns to Solid (Killekill)
18. Ueno Masaaki - Supersolid State (Raster Noton)
19. Rival Consoles - Recovery (Erased Tapes)
20. To be announced (Quotient)

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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:

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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

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@max-cooper reworks 'Everyone Is Falling', taken from The Great Distraction
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Everyone Is Falling (Max Cooper Remix)

Exclusive TB 'Unskinny Dub'

'Future Sounds of Jazz' is one of the most relevant, most artsy, most forward thinking compilation series from the house of Compost as it has defined the term 'future jazz' ever since its first release back in 1995. With the release of 'Future Sounds of Jazz 14' the compilation series breaks new ground as it is compiled by Compost befriended artists and Permanent Vacation-label heads Benjamin Fröhlich and Tom Bioly, who displace Michael Reinboth, who had brought the compilation to fame. 'Future Sounds of Jazz 14' consists out of 28 tracks including three exclusives, one by Tom Bioly alias TB himself. 'Unskinny Dub' is the title of Bioly's compilation contribution and nominally refers to him seeing a stranger wearing a tee with that print. It's the little details that Bioly pays attention to in his everyday life, when compiling music, when working on projects that separates him from others. The track-affix 'Dub' is owned to the fact that the FSOJ-exclusive is instrumental only. A few days before the official release Torture the Artist caught up with Tom Bioly to deeply talk about the compilation and the footsteps Michael Reinboth has left.

'Future Sounds of Jazz 14' compiled by Tom Bioly (TB) and Benjamin Fröhlich will be released September 7th, 2018 on Compost.

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Thomas Fehlmann - Geworden [Kompakt]

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@asa-808 'Love Trumps Fear' is part of a double headed single whose flip side 'Woke' is already seeing mileage from Avalon Emerson, Breach, Frits Wentink, George FitzGerald and Whitesquare - that acts as a pre-cursor for a forthcoming mini-LP. Already the entrée bodes well for the main course.

Woke / Love Trumps Fear

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Taken from the new album 'One Hundred Billion Sparks', released 20 Sept.

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It's hard to know what to say when it's the release day of a new album. So much time and work and thought and joy and pain goes into the process, and then I need to sum it up in a sentence somehow. All I can say is, I put everything I had into this one, and tried to be as musically honest as I could, I hope some of the ideas and feelings resonate with you.

As with my other releases of recent years I've used a visually related theme and collaborated with visual artists for every track to tell the overall story. I wanted to try and link this theme into my process of creating the album as closely as I could. So I chose a theme of the mind, and spent the first month of the project in total isolation with no outside contact, in order to look inwards for what creates us, and me, to provide content for the music and visuals. 

I named the album "one hundred billion sparks" after the one hundred billion neurons in our heads, and their act of "sparking" to create our experiences. It seemed a nice way to visually summarise what the project was about, and lent itself to the album artwork form, beautiful delivered by Tyler Hobbs with his countless networked fragments. 

The individual chapters of the story stray pretty far from the usual ideas around brains, but that's way too much info to include here, so we've made a little website summarising the whole project, which will be updated with each music video as they're released.

So that's it, I hope you find some music or ideas in there which you enjoy, and I'll be touring the new album AV show in 270 surround visual format wherever possible, so hopefully catch you at one of those gigs sometime soon.

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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."

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