Bradbee has been fascinated by music from his earliest years. As a kid he spent most of his time listening to music and recording songs from the radio, trying to mix them together on his parents’ tape deck. At the age of 15, his mom (!) took him with some friends to their first big indoor festival, '4elements' in Rotterdam (NL). Seeing legends like Tiesto, Michel de Hey and Junkie XL playing their music for a hysterical crowd, made an unforgettable impression. Since then he knew he wanted to become a dj.
Bradbee started with playing trance music at birthday parties and in local youth centres, and at the age of 19 he played his first gigs in Noordwijk. Soon he was playing in clubs all over the Netherlands such as Marcanti, Studio 80, Rembrandt etc..
Over the years, his taste in music gradually changed: trance music wasn't satisfying for him anymore and he started playing more progressive and tech house. After an intentional pause in dj‑ing for several years, he was invited to play at the Graanschuur in Breda. He instantly was hooked again, the energy of the crowd had woken his old passion. From then on, Bradbee invested all his time getting back to the scene. His present sound is much more mature, and can be described as melodic progressive with influences of tech house and techno. In his sets he always tells a story, taking the crowd on a journey through the different aspects of his sound.

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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

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