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A selection of tracks released on Mesh - the platform set up to explore the intersection between music, art and science. Each music release with an element of visual collaboration, live installation, data visualisation, or any other new ways of bringing music to you in a more fulfilling context than the norm.

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Mesh Releases

Tailored Tracks - March Playlist

'Violence' is the first track to be taken off Andy Stott's forthcoming album 'Faith In Strangers' due for release via Modern Love on November 17th/18th 2014.

Andy Stott - Violence

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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

NeWOrder - dark blue monday (remix)

Pat Thomas & Ebo Taylor - Ene Nyame Nam 'A' Mensuro (Henrik Schwarz Remix)

North Star/Silent Space released 06/11  on R&S Records

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Written by Matteo Milleri and Carmine Conte.

Tale Of Us - North Star

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Following on from their Record Store Day ‘Looped EP’ release, which featured remixes by Dauwd and Lubomyr Melnyk, Kiasmos – made up of Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen – return with three new tracks and a remix by Tale Of Us.

Recorded in various locations including Reykjavík and Berlin, the EP opens with ‘Drawn’, a four-minute percussion fuelled track with gentle piano motifs. ‘Gaunt’ features the addition of ambient synths and a drum loop, underpinned by slow-moving chords. Title track ‘Swept’ which the duo offered to fans as a surprise gift in form of a free download card at previous show dates, showcases a more club-oriented beat structure alongside Kiasmos’ signature emotive instrumentation. 
 
Closing the EP is a remix from Berlin-based duo Tale of Us who met Kiasmos in London and twist the original downbeat title track
into their distinctively dark aesthetic. Pulsating hats and a driving bass loop add pace as the track builds toward an epic breakdown.

The ‘Swept EP’ will be released on 12”/DL via Erased Tapes on November 20th, 2015.

Kiasmos - Swept (Tale Of Us Remix)

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

Youth Code "Transitions" from the upcoming album, Commitment to Complications, on Dais Records. April 8, 2016.

Youth Code "Transitions"

Taken from 'Struggle & Emerge'. Released 13/05/16
Pre-order here - https://RSrecords.lnk.to/Lakker

Following last year’s breakthrough album “Tundra”, Lakker return to R&S with a very special new project.
 
Lakker were commissioned by the RE:VIVE Initiative to create a new conceptual work solely sampling field recording, TV and radio broadcasts from the Dutch National AV archive, The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The curated material provided all related to and was representative of the theme the “Dutch and water”
 
The resulting 8 track release “Struggle and Emerge” is a tense soundtrack to the machine driven mid-20th century that captures the complex relationship between the Dutch and the water that surrounds them- unyielding, colossal, industrial. 
 
Broadcasts from the flood of 1953, which claimed over 1,800 lives and decimated the southern province of Zeeland are sampled in the gloomy “Open Clouds”. The contemplative “Broken Clouds” features a radio broadcast the day after the Nazis inundated the Wieringermeer Polder in 1945 in an act of desperation before retreating.
 
In order to combat the catastrophic power of the sea Dutch engineering has needed to go to equal extremes. On the album, the propulsive and dramatic “Reclamation” blaring “Ever Rising” and pummeling “Maeslantkering Gating” capture the sheer size, scale and power that is Dutch flood protection. Lakker gained inspiration from archival footage of the closing of the 32km Afsluitdijk, a man made barrier protecting the Netherlands from the vicious North Sea, a first hand visits to the futuristic engineering marvel, Maeslantkering and the never ending challenge of keeping the sea at bay. 
 
To gain insight into their topic, Lakker ventured on a tour around the Netherlands, meeting leading academic experts in the field. From the world’s premier flood defense department at TU Delft, to a professor of amphibious culture at the Free University of Amsterdam, to art historians and specialists on the ground; the duo were given first hand insight into the centuries long tumultuous relationship between the Dutch and the water.

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Lakker - Maeslantkering Gating

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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Youth Code - 'The Dust Of Fallen Rome'

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Alex Smoke - Dire Need (Tale Of Us Rmx)

AL001. 24th June 2016. Realm Of Consciousness.  

Afterlife and Tale Of Us are proud to announce ‘Realm Of Consciousness’, a 10-piece compilation
expanding the Afterlife totality into a label. The label and events will complement each other with one
aim; to bring the crowd into another dimension of music perception with enthralling production to that
ignite the senses.
The ‘Realm Of Consciousness’ voyage commences with Tale Of Us’ Lies - a fitting introduction with
quivering keys and restrained percussion that engenders an ominous suspense ahead of Monoloc’s
enigmatic industrial techno crunch, Phoenix. Shifting through the haunting chords of Recondite’s dynamic
Murphy’s Law, to the brooding synth of Poseidon by Ukrainian duo Woo York, the realisation of Afterlife
utopia is upon us. The repetitive, mesmerising synth and effective reverb that Somne creates with Triangle
is an odyssey within itself. From there, John Hester’s expertly woven ‘Logan’ is a feverish techno stab that
transverses through the emotional senses, transitioning to Locked Groove’s adroitly crafted Emeralds, to
Ryan James Ford’s ambient, albeit percussive, techno cut Toree Bahrstad. Die Wiederkehr is the outcome
of Obscure Shape & SHDW’s collaboration, which incorporates facets of techno and trance that have
been shaped with real guile and finesse. Mind Against round off the compilation with Gravity - a
mystifying ambience and a fitting title as we touch back down to planet earth.

Tracklist
1. Tale Of Us - Lies
2. Monoloc - Phoenix
3. Recondite - Murphy’s Law
4. Woo York - Poseidon
5. Somne - Triangle
6. Jon Hester - Logan
7. Locked Groove - Emeralds
8. Ryan James Ford - Toree Bahrstad
9. Obscure Shape & SHDW - Die Wiederkehr
10. Mind Against - Gravity

Realm Of Consciousness

AL001 - Obscure Shape & SHDW - Die Wiederkehr

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'Axiom 13' takes the EP to its next levels, wasting no time before bursting into a combined soundscape of grinding layers and an addicting, sharp snare, constructing a perfect arc for the tension that's so sought after in the genre. Out on PILO's forthcoming EP 'Flourishes', out digitally and on vinyl May 5 on BNR.

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Premiere: PILO & Dean Grenier 'Axiom 13'

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Tracklist:
01. DJ Zombi - Lovely (Original Mix)
02. DJ Zombi - Lovely (Dousk Remix)
03. DJ Zombi - Lovely (Franz Alice Stern Remix)
04. DJ Zombi - Lovely (Magitman Remix)

Release Info: 
Label boss DJ Zombi opens 2018 on Beat Boutique. 

The Israeli legend has been releasing on Sudbeat, Sprout, Flow Vinyl and Iboga but always likes to return home. This time he brings the gem entitled 'Lovely', a punchy and driving number with Eastern influences all washed down with oozes of passion and musicality.

Remixes-a-plenty come from Dousk, Franz Alice Stern and Magitman, all delivering superb reworkings with their own unique slant.

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DJ Zombi - Lovely (inc Dousk, Franz Alice Stern, Magitman Remixes)

PREMIERE: DJ Zombi - Lovely (Franz Alice Stern Remix) [Beat Boutique]

Scattered has evolved significantly over the years, being born out of a messy late night writing session after a disappointing club night. The track was raw and powerful when it was first written but we felt it lacked depth. After several different versions over many years and a lot of different melodic lines we came up with the main arpeggiated lead that elevated the track into the raw and emotive piece we are proud to present today.

Scattered is out today on Max Cooper's label - Mesh - as part of our debut 6 track EP 'Cairn'.

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Cairn

BRECON - Scattered

HEIST031 | Detroit Swindle ft. Seven Davis Jr. - Flavourism EP is out April 23rd
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Written and produced by Lars Dales, Maarten Smeets, Lorenz Rhode 
Vocals by Seven Davis Jr.

2018 marks our first step into album territory, releasing the sophomore album High life of Heist's very own Detroit Swindle, to be released end of May. This single features the album cut Flavourism with vocals from Seven Davis Jr. Here, the single is presented with remixes by the amazing Pepe Bradock and Boston-to-NYC house duo John Barera & Will Martin.

Flavourism EP

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A1 Detroit Swindle ft. Seven Davis Jr. - Flavourism (Original Mix)

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Aïsha Devi has announced the release of her second album ‘DNA Feelings’ out 11th May. In conjunction with the album announcement comes first track ‘Inner State Of Alchemy.’
 
TWO SERPENTS OF FREQUENCIES CIRCLING AND ELEVATING, HEALING ATOMIC AND ENERGETIC FORM 

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DNA Feelings

Inner State Of Alchemy

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Aïsha Devi - Inner State Of Alchemy

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"Small Towel People" is available 5 March on Quartet Series

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Premiere: Nachtbraker - Kippendijen (Original Mix) [Quartet Series]

I Don't Hold Knives

Groeni - I Don't Hold Knives (Nihx - Project: Mooncircle, 2018)

Quote "Shedding Layers by Rob Clouth is easily my favourite piece of electronic music that I have heard so far in 2018" (Andy Fosberry).......so how am I supposed to remix that!?....it was a difficult track to approach.

I decided I had to stay true to the original core of the track, the main melodic elements, which I just complemented with some new prophet chords. Then for the rest of the remix it was more of a matter of augmenting than a typical remix. I spent a loooong time working on detailing for this, I wanted to try and bring some industrial sounds in to push further the intensity that Rob had created, and push the sound design complexity as far as I felt I could get away with in the context of what is basically a techno track for clubs.

It's definitely one of the most intense remixes I've worked on for some time, and I've been playing it out a lot recently with good effect. But I hope it can also work as an interesting home listening track. As usual I put a lot of effort into the binaural and general stereo design, so if you listen with headphones you should hear sounds pop out at you, fly behind your head, that sort of thing. I wanted to turn all those clicks and strange noises into an immersive cloud dancing around your head.

The remix package has amazing work by Ben Lukas Boysen, Brecon and Chihei Hatakeyama on there, some beautiful ambient and peaceful moments as well as this monstrosity, I'm certain can you find something in there which will make your day better!

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Rob Clouth - Shedding Layers - Max Cooper Remix [Mesh006]

OUT NOW: lnk.to/Dust-EP

Following on from his acclaimed 2017 debut album and an accompanying EP that relaunched the legendary British label, Novamute, Nicolas Bougaïeff presents a three track EP on Max Cooper’s Mesh imprint out June 26th. ‘Dust’ borrows its name from a short story by Greg Egan, in which a future scenario grants humans the ability to duplicate their consciousness as software, thus experiencing immortality.

Inspired by this narrative, Nicolas decided to focus on the experiences of the main character, who observes himself becoming increasingly disordered in his surroundings. As such, the EP is equal parts exhilarating and disturbed, taking references from melodic techno and distorting them into new forms amongst vast, unfamiliar landscapes.

‘Dust’ presents a glitchy melodic lead which unravels itself through 7 minutes of sudden volume changes and expansive acoustics. ‘Bremsstrahlung’ deconstructs the components of a hypnotic techno track, repurposing them into a tense framework. ‘Dust Theory’ morphs the theme from the title track into an abstract cocktail of ambient wanderings and harsh noise pollution.

Nicolas Bougaïeff - Dust [MESH008]

Here is my Remix for one of my favorite tracks from Max Coopers 'One Hundred Billion Sparks' Album coming soon on Vinyl & digital.

Max Cooper - Rule 110 (Synkro Remix)

From 'One Hundred Billion Sparks Remixed'

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

Max Cooper - Hope (Parra For Cuva Remix)

The new single out now...watch the stunning video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq7CD8FN828

Taken from the album 'Beneath The Surface' forthcoming on Max Cooper's Mesh label 06/06/19 

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Beneath The Surface

Chasms

'Chasms' featuring Ásgeir

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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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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