A selection of Max Cooper tracks for X-agency management web page

Max Cooper Intro Reel

This one is my latest remix for Traum, of a track by Microtrauma coming out at the start of March. I loved the eerie vocals and groove on some hi-end drums from the original, so I took those and built a new chord arrangement over them, sticking to a simple understated feel throughout....it's supposed to be a quite relaxed track basically, I must be getting old!

Microtrauma - Contrast - Max Cooper Remix - Preview Clip

A remix I made for Au Revoir Simone, a slow dubby sort of affair, not really for the the dancefloor.

I didn't want to use the full vocals so I went for a high-passed ghostly sort of effect with them, it catches some nice bands in the top of her voice though!

Au Revoir Simone - Take Me As I Am - Max Cooper Remix

This is the second track on my new 12" on Traum  - Metaphysical EP, out 4th April. It's a sort of broken/electronica influenced track, which you may have heard before on my Modus and Contortions live sets. It's pretty noisey I admit, but hopefully in a way that carries the energy of the track, rather than just exploding peoples eardrums!

Heresy (Clip)

This track is released 4th April on Traum on vinyl and digital as part of the Metaphysical EP. It's quite heavy on the effects, with a long wierd noise intro just for the craic! I've been starting quite a few sets with it recently, but if you want to mix it I guess you just have to start a couple of minutes in.

Solace (Clip)

This one is simple but effective - 3 note riff, break, build, distorted smash, done. I've been playing it a lot recently, a good one for the clubs.

Andrew K - The Doppler Effect - Max Cooper Remix

I did this remix for Techno Therapy records, which will be released on all platforms 20th June. I loved the strings sample from the original track so it wasn't a hard mix to work on, I just built what I thought worked best around that one part, and this is the result. Hope you like it! Ps I think there's a vinyl for the release to, but whether or not this mix features on there I don't know.

Pig and Dan - Tears of a clown - Max Cooper's Expanded Remix (clip)

I was pretty excited to get the opportunity to remix this iconic track from 1999, and it proved a difficult remix given the strength and familiarity of the hook - I couldn't really change it without it sounding a bit like Xpander but not quite as good! So I decided to follow exactly what Sasha had asked me to do, which was "wonk the fuck out of it". The result was some wonked bits and teasing out of the hook, while sticking reasonably closely to the original on the drops. I hope you like it! ps This is a clip, the full length track has an additional intro and outro so it's mixable.

Sasha - Xpander - Max Cooper Remix Clip

Echoes Reality (preview clip)

I wanted to make something deep and soothing with this one, nothing too hectic or in your face, but with plenty of interesting production to keep it fresh despite the subtle structure. I was toying with various names along the lines of some sort of introspective, peaceful theme, so I went for qualia - not exactly a specifically peaceful term, but something relating to introspection, and with a lot of interesting associated theory behind it. 

Qualia (preview clip)

I had a modern classical/electronica mix from a friend (JamBon) which I had been listening to a lot, and after a weekend away the original of this track was really stuck in my head. At some point I clicked that it sounded just like the style of another friend - Hiatus, and on checking, it was him! So I got straight on email to him asking if I could have the parts, and I even got started on the remix before they arrived by buying the mp3 and starting to lay some ideas around that - When it's on I find it's best to go with it. It was a really enjoyable remix to do given how beautiful the original parts are, my mix is quite similar really, as I couldn't improve on it melodically, I've just tried to add some of my own flavour and twists.

Hiatus - Third - Max Cooper Remix

This is one of those tracks that seems to hold a lot of memories for people I think, having been a significant mainstream track when it was released in 2002, and also a beautiful piece of music by any standards - it's one of those ones you may not remember from the name, but when you listen the riff and vocal (by none other than Hafdis Huld) it's unmistakable. It even reached no. 49 in the UK charts according to Wikipedia, so I'm officially remixing pop music now (sort of). As with some of my other recent remixes, there was no need (and I probably would have found it impossible anyway) to improve on the track melodically, as it's pretty close to perfection in that sense. I just tried to update the style of it, with some glitchy detailed drums, a sort of dubstep-ish influenced beat structure, a long evolving build throughout, and some distortion. This is being released on the legendary Skint records too, which I'm quite excited about.

FC Kahuna - Hayling - Max Cooper Remix - Radio Edit

Ripperton - A Skilift Upstairs The Sleeping City - Max Cooper Remix

A remix of hot chip which is coming out this summer on vinyl with a Florien Meindl + Xircus mix in addition! ps Check out the unofficial youtube video someone has made to accompany the track! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tr1LfBtRlk


Hot Chip - I Feel Better - Max Cooper Remix (Clip)

This project was really enjoyable to work on because Hugh Pascall provided some amazing live instrumental parts with the trumpet and organ playing, which I caught a vibe from straight away and ran with to try make something a bit more in the techno/house space than the original, but still very much keeping the original idea.

I heartedly recommend checking out the originals on this release, they're awesome, full of character and soul, and are being released on vinyl only, with 300 hand stamped and numbered copies....some exclusive business!...a different way of doing things by DSCNCTD records than my usual.

Hugh Pascall - Absence March - Max Cooper Remix (Clip)

Peaches - I Feel Cream - Max Cooper Remix (Clip)

For this track I wanted to combine simplicity and complexity, so I went for a simple broken beat structure and bassline, and then used lots of Max for Live shenanigans to modulate the drums and hats and vocals in an interesting way, playing with psychoacoustics and detail as much as I could. It's a bit of a weird one, but I've been playing it out a lot and it seems to work!

Max Cooper - Simplexity (preview)

This is the A2 track from my new vinyl on Traum Schallpatten - It's a restrained melodic track which I tried to keep pure to it's concept, which was when I was sitting in my studio in Autumn, looking out the windows at the trees and nature which was clouded in mist. It had a really nice atmosphere which I tried to capture.

Max Cooper - Autumn Haze (preview)

This remix of seconds by Minilogue is out on 12" and Digital along with amazing remixes from Dominic Eulberg and Freska of another Minilogue classic - Certain Things.

Minilogue - Seconds - Max Cooper Remix - Out Now on Traum

I took the drums out of the original track which was released on Traum some time ago, and I think it's actually a lot more true to the style of the piece this way. This ambient version was initially released as part of "Series" on itunes exclusive, but is now on full release on all platforms in the Empirisch EP because people kept asking where they could buy the wav!

Max Cooper - The End Of Reason - Ambient Rework

This is the A2 track on my new EP on Traum, out digitally and on 12" 1st November along with a Maetrik remix and 2 more originals. Ryan Davis has also done a great remix of this track, which is out 17th November along with remixes from Marc Marzenit and Echaskech. Ps check out the artwork from Ben Slater!

Max Cooper - Enveloped (Clip)

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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