Yesterday I got a call from the outside world but I said no in thunder.
I was a dog on a short chain
and now there’s no chain.

Gedankenexperiment. (Head experiment)

Hello, so I've done a new DJ set, with a load of my favourite stuff at the moment, which as always covers a lot of ground musically, but is hopefully still grounded in some sort of thread of warmth and flow. Full tracklist below (the first track is played backwards btw):

Max Cooper - Molten Expansion
1. Brian Eno - LUX - Nicolas Jaar Remix - Edit (Warp)
2. The Presets - Promises - Nils Frahm Remix (Modular)
3. Max Cooper & Tom Hodge - Fragments of Self (Fields)
4. Rival Consoles - Voyager (Erased Tapes)
5. Bonobo - The Keeper - Banks Remix (Ninja Tune)
6. Rob Clouth - Sifting Through Static (Traum)
7. Samu.L - The Beach (Surface)
8. Tessela - Gateway (R&S)
9. Nils Frahm - For - Max Cooper Remix (Erased Tapes)
10. Joe Goddard - Bassline 12" (Greco-Roman)
11. Collaboration TBA 1
12. Forgold - Sleep Cycle (Sound of the Cosmos)
13. Special Request - Deranged (Houndstooth)
14. Tim Hecker - Live Room (Kranky)
15. Fuck Buttons - Stalker (ATP)

Max Cooper DJ Set - Molten Expansion (free DL)

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. 

You can find the website here: http://bit.ly/CooperSound

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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Semiosis - DJ Set - Free DL - Quotient 2/6

Deep, stripped-back, lucid late-night techno from nthng.

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nthng - Moving On

XDB dj set @ Mood _ Cruquiusgilde / Amsterdam 12 - 06 - 2015 

Mood With XDB @ Cruquiusgilde Amsterdam 12 - 06 - 2015

Devil, Devil, Devil (x)

I put a spell on you
Because you're mine
You gonna stop the things you do
I ain't lyin'
I can't stand it (x),
I can't stand the way you run around

I put a spell on you
because you're mine

I love you, I love you (x)

Like a snake in the grass I keep waitnig
Like a vulture in the sky I keep waiting,
Like a shark in the water I keep waiting
I don't care if you don't want me
because I'm yours, anyhow, anyway, anyplace
I put a spell on you
Because you're mine

Devil, Devil, Devil (x)

Gedankenexperiment. (Head experiment)

Sam T. Frost