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Last Afternoon

Tactile

Down

how did we fend them off: the vitreous fettles which once devoured us? +g0bln

Paul Keeley   A Sort Of Homecoming (Michael Cassette Remix)

Out Now! >> http://www.beatport.com/release/inhuman-one/1280972

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!

Max

Woven Ancestry - Lusine Remix

Non Square - Error From Deep

Body Trouble

iTunes - http://smarturl.it/MCKindred
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

Four Charm Remixes

Astrology Poisoning

Last Time

Last Time (Jon Hopkins Remix)

Glower

Clasp

peace and love in the age of disturbance

download: https://francoissvalis.bandcamp.com/track/poetry

Poetry

I had a lot of train journeys recently and I love watching the wires seemingly dance around outside the window. I wondered if we could be getting fooled by a similar process during our usual experience of movement and time, and thought it would be an interesting project for a music video set to the music created during the same journeys.

You can find that project and a longer explanation of the video ideas here: https://vimeo.com/241546182

For the music I wanted to bring ideas of frozen moments of the past into play, and no better excuse to get stuck in with the Prophet 6 on some lush classic analogue synth sounds for the main chord sequence, and plenty of nob noodling for a dance of modulating sounds around the main sequence. I wanted to keep it fairly sparse to let the chord patch be central, and just focus on trying to make every element, including the percussion, warp a little, so you can either listen to the track from a distance and hear the harmonic ideas, or delve in to find all sorts more hiding in there.

You can hear the whole EP here: https://lnk.to/WorldPassingByEP

Whole EP Stream/Buy

Resynthesis [Mesh004]

From 'One Hundred Billion Sparks Remixed'

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

Max Cooper - Hope (Parra For Cuva Remix)

From the album 'Beneath The Surface' out now on Max Cooper's Mesh Label

Download/Stream/Purchase Vinyl here: mesh.lnk.to/BeneathTheSurface

Beneath The Surface

Beneath the Surface

Forever

First single from the latest audio/visual project, Yearning for the Infinite, Perpetual Motion was written for that moment at the end of the night when all the experiments and madness is over and we just need a nice warm chord sequence to send us home in a good mood. 

The name comes from its role in my new visual show, where it plays that same closing role in the story of humans “yearning for the infinite”. Set to drone footage of people in their endless pursuit of life in Mexico City, combined with epic scientific visualisations of different infinite structures. It’s all part of a project commission from the Barbican, which has spawned this new album and live visual experiment.

For tickets to the show, head to my site https://shop.maxcooper.net/tickets

And big thanks to Renick Bell for the "yearning for the infinite" human!

Yearning for the Infinite

Perpetual Motion

Pre-order / stream

Stephan Bodzin - Treibsand

Mada Kokoni Iru Original Soundtrack Recomposed

Particle

Overpowered

Dear Miami

F44 / DOUBT

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