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July 2017

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Red Axes - Only A Clown Can Catch An Axe

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:

http://www.maxcooper.net

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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Max Cooper - All Night Long - London

We wanted to share my favorite track from the new album to everyone on my mailing list before anyone else gets to hear it.

It's a track that reminds me of my old Traum releases a little.  It's certainly not a perfect track but I hoped that maybe some of you who are on this list and have been listening to my stuff for some years might hear the reference and enjoy it. 

Many thanks for your support over the years and for listening to my work and coming to the shows, much appreciated!

Max

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Emergence

Cyclic

12"/Download/LP Stream

Cyclic [Mesh001]

Buy Emergence: http://maxcooper.lnk.to/Emergence

I started this track with a simple Prophet patch running through a Moog ring mod with loads of overdrive. It wasn't so much overdrive that it became aggressive, but enough so that it had a simple tonal quality overlaid with plenty of honest low-fi grittyness. Sometimes all it takes is getting that first timbral feature right for the rest of the track to flow from there, and this was a good example for me. 

I also knew I wanted the track to fit later on in the Emergence story, where it should be rhythmically straight enough to fit into a club show where needed, but also for the part of the show where we explore visually, the range of complex living forms and evolutionary change - it needed to capture some of that beauty of life's morphogenetic creativity.

I found the chord sequence fairly quickly, and built the drums and smooth dynamics within a few days, but I got stuck on how to complete the track. I tried hundreds of different ideas, and thought I might need to bin the project, but then luckily stumbled across some old synth jam recordings that had some moments that sounded ok. So I jumped on those and went to work on an editing job. 

It turned out that a lot of the problem I had been having was that I was trying to add too much, when for me, the chords were the hook, and what was needed was a sparse melodic addition to support the chords rather than any sort of traditional tuneful hook. In recent years I've been more and more drawn to just chord sequences as the main features of tracks musically, with the rest stripped away. When Ryan Rival Consoles was considering a remix he commented the album seemed to be all about the chords (or something to that extent), so I guess that idea is in there. Chords just seem to carry the most emotion for me for some reason (as opposed to melodies or lyrics for example).

So there it is, I hope you like the track!

Organa [Mesh001]

"Temperance is defined as moderation or voluntary self-restraint. It is typically described in terms of what an individual voluntarily refrains from doing. This includes restraint from retaliation in the form of non-violence and forgiveness, restraint from arrogance in the form of humility and modesty, restraint from excesses such as splurging now in the form of prudence, and restraint from excessive anger or craving for something in the form of calmness and self-control."

Thank you for all your support in 2016 - here's to a splendid 2017!
Love & Peace

TEMPERANCE

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Steve Bug & Cle - Together Alternative Mix - Snippet

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Dance - D Gerrard & JC Gavri Transatlanic Workout **FREE WAV**

Mathew Jonson - Decompression - Nathan Jonson's Rewind to 96 mix

1. INTRZN - Zone III DEF

2. Golden Bug - Division feat. Diego Hdez

3. Boards Of Canada - Telephasic Workshop

4. SANO - La Grua (Tolouse Low Trax Remix)

5. Stigma - Last Japan Dream

6. Passions - Endless

7. DC Salas - intro

8. Dawad - Yellow Box (Amevicious & Phred Noir Remix Ft. Mounissa)

9. Laurie Anderson & Lou Reed - In Our Sleep

10. S.M Nurse - My greedy Policeman

11. Malaria! - Zarah

12. Brian Eno - The Jezebel Spirit

13. Curses - Together In The Dark

14. Headman/Robi Insinna - Dechainee Version

15. Roe Deers - Machine

16. Lord Of The Isles - Weh-In

17. Femminielli Noir - Exotico

18. Cardopusher - Falso Progreso

19. Win2Win - Industriale

20. El Traste - Gota Tras Gota

21. Cannibal Ink - La Haine

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Steve Bug is one of electronic music’s true originals. His relentless commitment to quality - both in his own work and in the many producers he has championed - has made him one of the world’s most revered artists and curators, and along with his labels Poker Flat, Sublease Music, Audiomatique, Dessous Recordings, Traffic Signs or Raw Elements has made a sizeable contribution to building the European house and techno scene as we know it.

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