Nils Frahm is one of the best artists out there in my opinion, with pretty much the best live show I've ever seen. But aside from all that, this was just a really enjoyable remix to work on because the original is such a great piece of music, and seemingly so well suited to what I wanted to do with it - which was to try and turn Nils' instrumental jam on his Juno, into something house/techno/club/44 compatible, but still carrying the class and feeling of the original. It was one of those remixes that just seemed to fit and flow easily, with minimum strain and maximum enjoyment on my part - usually a good sign for a remix (the one's that have to be forced never seem to quite get there).

Big thanks to Billboard for featuring this remix, which is now available as part of my Balance 030 compilation:
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/dance/8454339/max-cooper-nils-frahm-remix
http://smarturl.it/Balance030MaxCooper

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Nils Frahm - For - Max Cooper remix

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WEVAL - Easier

Remix of Basecamp - Emmanuel. Made for a sweet, awesome pie-baking girl.

Inspired by Thuishaven, Dimitri and SRD.

No copyright infringement intended.

Basecamp - Emmanuel (FY Remix)

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TT001 - Mauerblümchen

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Bongbeck - Winter Sleep

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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!

Emergence

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get the EP here:

https://therealrobotkoch.bandcamp.com/album/the-big-now

INFO
„The Big Now“ is the new release on Robot Koch`s „Trees and Cyborgs“ Label.
It`s a collaboration between the two LA based artists Little Ashes and Robot Koch, two critically
acclaimed artists/producers who both left their European home countries a few years ago to meet
in LA, where the song was created.
The Big Now is a somewhat dark, yet visceral song that is not afraid to be a popsong at the core of
it`s leftfield production.
The EP features both the original track, and a more minimal piano version, beautifully played by
Koch`s frequent collaborator Julien Marchal, as well as a Remix of the original track, which is
actually another collaboration in itself: Koch teamed up with Ryan Davis for the remix. Davis released
his latest EP „From Within“ on Anjunadeep, and his recent remix for Nils Frahm and Olafur
Arnalds was featured in the playlist of Aphex Twin.
VIDEO STILLS
Watching “The Big Now” is to take a first breath

Basecamp - Emmanuel (FY Remix)

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