Experimental

Painting : Niyadbakyr by Kentaro Kanamoto

The Cinematic Orchestra - Arrival Of The Birds & Transformation (Edited)

This recording is available to download from: http://boilerroom.tv/recording/max-cooper/

Boiler Room w/ Max Cooper, David August, Christian Löfler, Hrdvsion, Oskar Offermann and B2b Edward

[Broadcasted on April 09th 2014]

For Video go to http://boilerroom.tv

Max Cooper Boiler Room Berlin DJ Set

Track taken from the Codes In The Clouds remix album 'Paper Canyon Recycled'
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CODES IN THE CLOUDS vs. RIVAL CONSOLES – EU TOUR 2011

After they blew the roof off at this year's Erased Tapes special at Haldern Pop Festival, label mates Codes In The Clouds and Rival Consoles will challenge each other to a post rock vs. electronic duel.

To celebrate this exciting announcement here you find a good teaser of what to expect:
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Hope to see you on the road...


Erased Tapes, Burning Eagle, Motor.de, Byte FM, Tonspion, Opak and WhiteTapes present
CODES IN THE CLOUDS vs. RIVAL CONSOLES

24.09. Portsmouth (UK) - Edge Of The Wedge*
25.09. London (UK) - Vibe Bar*
26.09. Brighton (UK) - The Hope*
10.10. Nijmegen (NL) - Merleyn
11.10. Gent (BE) - Charlatan Club
12.10. Hamburg (DE) - Prinzenbar
13.10. Copenhagen (DK) - PH Caféen
14.10. Berlin (DE) - Comet
16.10. Warsaw (PL) - Progresja Club
17.10. Lodz (PL) - Luka Club
18.10. Poznan (PL) - Fabrika Club
19.10. Nürnberg (DE) - MUZ
21.10. Innsbruck (AT) - PMK
22.10. Offenbach (DE) - Hafen 2

* UK warm-up shows without Rival Consoles

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Paper Canyon Recycled

Codes In The Clouds – You Are Not What You Think You Are (Rival Consoles RMX)

This is the second track from the Tileyard EP, where I went to a recording studio with some jazz musicians and I played them different tracks which they improvised over. This one was much more of an ambient venture, where I've added lots of reverb and delay to Kathrin's vocal and Quentin's trumpet, to try and blend them into the airy pads and create a feeling of space. 

I added a high end squeal that sounded to me like an army of crickets in a hot country at dusk, hence the name of the track. 

The whole EP is out now on gearbox records on vinyl and digital, with the more beat driven a-side, another ambient experiment, and some sort of abomination of a piece of music called theatre of the absurd.

Digital: http://smarturl.it/chronology
Vinyl: http://gearboxrecords.wazala.com/products/max-cooper-feat-kathrin-deboer-quentin-collins%E2%80%A8/

Dusk Mass with Kathrin deBoer and Quentin Collins

Hello, I’m launching a new site dedicated to provide you with new music that you won’t be able to find anywhere else. There will be 6 parts, and every one of them will be free for members of the site.

This first track, called Arc, was one of my first experiments with some new analogue synths recently - the Moog Minituar, and the Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 08. I wanted to make something smooth and melodic which would work for my club sets, and would be mixable, but nothing too peak time intense, something a little softer. I think the heart of the track really all came down to squeesing the main riff with those lovely analogue filters!

If you would like to download this track, and receive promos of the rest of the new music before it goes public, then just click on the download button on the soundcloud player and all will be explained. In return for your email you will receive all 6 parts of the series for free, and they will not be released on any other platforms.

Thanks to Rabbithole for the excellent art work!

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Arc - Free Download - Quotient 1/6

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

FREE DOWNLOAD HERE: http://bit.ly/CooperSound
 
Your December free download is a remix, and an important piece of music to me personally. Partly because it was the result of a chance string of events driven by my love of the original track and a fortuitous meeting with Frederic D. Oberland, one half of The Rustle of the Stars with Richard Knox. And partly because I love the intensity and feeling of the original which I have tried to convey in my own way with little regard for the usual rules of making music - ambient strings arrangement at one end, and a drum and bass wall of sound at the other, because that's what I felt was required to communicate the emotions I found in the original piece, inspired by "a musical passage through the North Pole explorer diaries".  
 
Here's what Richard and Frederic said about the original:  "We would like to think of this as a polar journey to the ends of the earth through the arctic sea. We kept in mind the first polar expeditions, Edgar Allan Poe's Dream-Land, the ships trapped or crushed by ice, the point of no-return, the minds sinking, the attempt on the Pole ending in disaster, the quest of the Northwest Passage, Erebus & Terror, the Mercy Bay, Mangazeya, Charles Francis Hall, Beechey Island, the Midnight sun and the Polar night."
 
It's very winter-y. And I'm very pleased Richard and Frederic agreed to allow me to give the remix away for free to anyone who would like to hear it this Christmas!

The Rustle of the Stars - Sleeping Land (Part 1) - Max Cooper Remix

You can find the beautiful full album from the Rustle of the Stars, here: http://www.therustleofthestars.com/ 

FREE DOWNLOAD HERE

The Rustle Of The Stars - Sleeping Land - Max Cooper Rmx - Quotient 3/6

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Format: Cassette 
Edition: 75 
Released: March 10, 2015

Track list:

1. Cloak Of Lingering Fog 
2. Field Rotation - Zeitreise (The Frozen Vaults Remix) 
3. Stilled

The Frozen Vaults are a far-flung five piece collective consisting of musicians 
Yuki Murata (piano), Tomasz Mreńca (violin) and Dave Dhonau (Cello). 
Produced and arranged by Bartosz Dziadosz (Pleq) and Harry Towell (Spheruleus).



The Frozen Vaults - Cloak Of Lingering Fog

When I was touring in Mexico, I was lucky enough to have some days off during a visit to Mexico City, and took a trip to a nearby Toltec/Aztec Pyramid site called Teotihuacan. It's a beautiful place, but when I asked about its history I was told that most of the knowledge and culture of the people who built it was lost, with the arrival of the Europeans. Now it's turned into a rebuilt money making tourist trap, with the loss of its real meaning.

I recorded the space and sounds there with binaural mics, so I could try and capture some of the feeling of it, including a storm which came in, and then I wrote a strings part inspired by the feelings of the visit there. Tom Hodge brought the piece to life by playing a piano part in addition, and I loved the piano so much I decided to make two parts, the first with the piano only, combined with the binaural recordings and a randomising delay feedback network, and the second part with the strings. The first part of Teotihuacan is available exclusively from the free download Quotient Series, and the second part will be coming on the Artefact EP in April.

preorder available - www.smarturl.it/ArtefactEP‏

Teotihuacan - Part 1 - with Tom Hodge - Quotient 4/6

"Delicate" is a calm, soft mixtape I made to celebrate Piano Day (http://www.pianoday.org/).

Tracklist:

1. Heinali - Leaves (0.00)
2. Dmitry Evgrafov - Flutter (4.30)
3. Luke Howard - Oculus (6.38)
4. Endless Melancholy - Quiet (13.45)
5. Chad Lawson - I Wish I Knew (17.38)
6. Steve Gibbs - Råklipp (22.49)
7. Lowercase Noises - What Would There Be Out There to Hurt Me (26.12)
8. Levi Patel - The Clear, Empty Light (30.35)
9. Heinali - Little by Little (33.15)
10. Ólafur Arnalds - Lag Fyrir Ömmu (37.15)
11. ecco - Evolve (40.44)
12. Alexander Arnold - dih dih (47.06)

Thanks to all the artists for the great music.

Cover art picture: https://flic.kr/p/68bF14

Listen on Mixcloud

Delicate - Piano Day Tribute (Mixtape)

1. Max Cooper - Untitled 1
2. Max Cooper - Qualia (Traum)
3. Max Cooper - i (Traum)
4. Max Cooper - Darkroom - John Tejada Remix (Traum)
5. Max Cooper - i - Pele Remix (Traum)
6. Agoria - Panta Rei - Max Cooper Remix (Infine)
7. Pig &amp; Dan - Tears of a clown - Max Cooper Remix (Techno Therapy)
8. Max Cooper - Industrialiser (Herzblut)
9. Microtrauma - Circulate - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
10. Max Cooper - Echoes Reality (Traum)
11. Peaches - I Feel Cream - Max Cooper Remix (TBC)
12. Max Cooper - Miocene (Herzblut)
13. Max Cooper - Epoch (Herzblut)
14. Andrew K - The Doppler Effect - Max Cooper Remix (Vice versa)
15. Au Revoir Simone - Take me as I am - Max Cooper Remix (Moshi Moshi)
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Max Cooper Live - Loom (free download)

I wanted part of my Emergence show to be about the emergence of the human machine, with an infographic-style visual tour of the different modules of the human body - lungs, heart, blood vessels, brain, and more. Henning M. Lederer, who created the amazing video to "Numb", took on the project and created some beautiful video content, and I then created the music to match.

Anatomic is now the fifth free download in the Quotient series - original pieces of music, remixes and mixes that are free just for you.

DOWNLOAD: http://bit.ly/CooperSound

Anatomic was created in an unusual way for me, as a scored part of my new Emergence audio-visual show.

Henning's work is hand drawn, and this video work was also colourful, so I made the music quite playful and lighter than my usual - to match the fun, but also full of meaning, visual content. This section of Emergence also shows the mechanical, ongoing, cyclical nature of the workings of the human body, so I applied the same reasoning to the music, with many melodic and rhythmical loops of different lengths and forms, which create interesting syncopation effects as they interact in a continuous flowing structure, without breaks or stops.

Anatomic is very much a piece of music most at home in the live show, I hope you can join me to see it sometime!

Anatomic - Quotient 5/6

Cinematic Orchestra's "To Build A Home" featuring Patrick Watson Live @ The Barbican in London, 2007. As heard on ABC's Grey's Anatomy.

Cinematic Orchestra To Build A Home

Here's Alex's and my oral history of this track..

Alex:  "The idea for ‘Eve’ came about from a short session in my studio where I sketched out some very rough 16 bar loops and sent them over to Max to play with, deliberately stopping myself from developing them too far at this stage in order to leave space the collaborative process to evolve."

Max:  "I almost un-wrote a track for this one. Alex started off with the main bulk of the ideas for the track, and I initially chopped it all back to a couple of key elements.   I then experimented with some FFT effects and building some chaotic randomising manipulations of the basic elements, and sliding drum rhythms so that one drum element would slip relative to another and then back in - all an attempt to generate some movement and variation from the simple building blocks."

Alex:   "It was interesting to hear the rough ideas I had created, developed in a totally different way to how they would have had I been writing the track by myself. Inspired by the new direction the track was going in - "

Max:  "I'd made a mess.  Alex helped tidy it all up and bring it enough back into line to work as a dancefloor track"

Alex:  "- I layered some more percussion hits and string textures.  We continued the process of sending stems back and forth, refining each others ideas as well and creating new ones until the track was ready."

Max:  "The quotient series has been a nice opportunity to experiment with new music outside of the restrictions of record labels and their need to sell product.  This freedom has left me open to put out a piano solo and feedback matrix, a 10 minute ambient to drum and bass glitch remix, a track scored to a video, a one off club collab and more - all projects that I wanted to try, and am glad I did, but that wouldn't easily fit into the usual EP/LP formats. 

It's been a sort of sketch and experiment project, much of it tied to the Emergence visual shows, where I've been experimenting with how I can perform music and visual in sync in a live format. "


FREE DOWNLOAD

Eve - with Alex Banks - Quotient 6/6

Art Of Man - Geomatrix (preview)

2015 saw Stephan Bodzin release his second full length, “Powers of Ten”, as well as a new single on DJ Tennis’ and Tale of Us’ taste making label Life and Death. The album is another magical piece of work that focuses on melody and rhythm, on fat bass and vivid sound design and is a truly captivating journey through the mind, music, body and soul of one of dance music’s truly modern greats. After its release, a great team of modern music makers was enlisted to remix tracks from it: Maceo Plex & Shall Ochin, Fur Coat, Extrawelt, long time musical sparring partner Marc Romboy, Pan-Pot, Max Cooper, Agents of Time, Dominik Eulberg and many more all contributed to what is an essential collection. With a remix of ‘Sleepless’, a Pan-Pot track from their latest album, Stephan Bodzin closed the latest chapter of 2015 in what has been an exhilarating musical journey in his capable and creative hands.

Wir (Max Cooper Remix)

Exclusive Bonus Track on 'Erased Tapes Collection VII'.

Available for free download upon sign-up here: http://www.erasedtapes.com/user/mydownloads

"Ryan contributed the second exclusive track in form of a remix he’s finally found the time to finish after all his extensive touring, and it’s a real beast, putting Óli and Nils’s original into a completely different light. Watch out for the moment when the beat kicks back in. It’s pure sonic bliss!" – Robert Raths, label founder

Read more via XLR8R: https://www.xlr8r.com/news/2016/01/erased-tapes-releases-free-11-track-new-years-compilation-titled-erased-tapes-collection-vii/

Erased Tapes Collection VII

Four (Rival Consoles Remix)

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Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Four (Rival Consoles Remix)

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Bandcamp: http://po.st/olafurBC 

Standing at the intersection where techno meets classical music, Ólafur Arnalds directs the new Late Night Tales.

“When I was asked to do the next installation of the Late Night Tales series I thought "This will be fun and easy, only a couple of days work. No problem!". Six months later, I was still pulling my hair out in some kind of quest to make the perfect mix. As someone who has never really done mixes before, I learned a lot of things along the way and the whole experience was very inspiring. I decided to approach the mix in a similar way as I would one of my scores. This is the soundtrack of my life. I included songs from many of my friends and collaborators and tried to deliver a mix that represents who I am as an artist and where my influences are coming from - both personally and musically.” - Ólafur Arnalds, March 2016

Follow Late Night Tales:

Web: http://latenighttales.co.uk
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/latenighttales1
Twitter: http://twitter.com/LateNightTales
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/latenighttales
YouTube: http://youtube.com/latenighttalestv
Instagram: http://instagram.com/latenighttalesofficial
Spotify: http://goo.gl/Q98T7d
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/curator/late-night-tales/1233898093
Bandcamp: https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/

Ólafur Arnalds - Kinesthesia I

Late Night Tales: Ólafur Arnalds

Ólafur Arnalds ft. Arnor Dan - Say My Name (Late Night Tales: Ólafur Arnalds)

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS & NILS FRAHM - a2 (Max Cooper Remix) 

DOWNLOAD it exclusively from XLR8R: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/04/stare-max-cooper-remix

ORDER the Ltd. Edition 10" Vinyl/Download from our store and receive the remix with it:
http://www.erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP042

'A starry-eyed house experience that fits seamlessly into a soulful, deep-felt dancefloor dynamic. Swells of low end surge into a crisp, percussive breakdown that never seems to shift too abruptly, leaving Arnalds' & Frahm's original melody work to come humming through the compressed kick in a blissful wave of moonlit elegance' – XLR8R

'A hazy slow-builder that sits nicely equidistant between Arnalds’ solo work and his excellent Kiasmos project' – The Line Of Best Fit

Erased Tapes label mates Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm record and mix their first collaborative record between Reyjkjavík and Berlin as a surprise release for label founder Robert Raths.

The ambient/electronic work ‘Stare’ is a true family effort from Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm with Anne Müller joining in on cello and all graphics by close label-friend and now in-house designer Torsten Posselt of Feld Studios.

This release will be strictly limited and exclusively available on Record Store Day 2012, April 21st. Coinciding with the 5th Anniversary of Erased Tapes, it’s also available from the official Erased Tapes online store and sure to become a must-have for fans of the label and these two artists.

LABEL: ERASED TAPES RECORDS    UK RELEASE DATE: APRIL 21, 2012
CAT.NO: ERATP042 EP/DL   EAN: 4050486068137

TRACK LISTING:  1. a1  2. a2  3. b1  4. a2 (Max Cooper Remix)* digital bonus track

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:   OLAFURARNALDS.COM   DURTONSTUDIO.COM   ERASEDTAPES.COM 

Stare

a2 (Max Cooper Remix)

Ólafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - a2 (Max Cooper Remix)

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