NTS Minimal Effort

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https://www.nts.live/shows/minimal-effort/episodes/minimal-effort-21st-january-2022

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https://www.nts.live/shows/minimal-effort/episodes/minimal-effort-18th-march-2022

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Ira demonstrates how to do extra soulful with a masterclass in vibes. It's easy when you know how.

https://www.nts.live/shows/minimal-effort/episodes/minimal-effort-8th-july-2022

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https://www.nts.live/shows/minimal-effort/episodes/minimal-effort-2nd-september-2022

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A binaural recording of three tracks from my first 4DSOUND performance - Woven Ancestry, Meadows and Gravity Well.

Woven Ancestry is from the Human LP out now, available from iTunes at www.smarturl.it/MCHuman and on vinyl and CD from bit.ly/FIELDSshop. 

The experience will only work if you listen with headphones, and in a quiet location. Closing your eyes helps. Relax and let yourself naturally build a mental picture of your surroundings based only on what you hear.

ABOUT 4D SOUND

The 4D Sound System was designed and developed in Amsterdam by Paul Oomen, Salvador Breed, Luc Van Weelden and Poul Holleman. It comprises 16 columns with omnidirectional speakers at several heights in each column, and the columns spaced around the room in a 12 x 12 x 4m array.

They have designed Max for Live devices which provide a range of spatial controls within Ableton Live, as well as an accompanying visual 3D model of the space and sounds within it. This allows for a spatial composition/production process, whereby each piece of music is designed as a physical entity to exist within the space, as something that can be walked around inside and explored by the listeners.

The system is called "4D Sound" because it produces sound in all 3 spatial dimensions, as well as being able to move sounds through the space in time - the 4th dimension.

More mixes and info:  www.maxcooper.net
Photo by Henri Blommers

HEADPHONES ONLY: Woven Ancestry, Meadows and Gravity Well from Amsterdam 4DSOUND show

Ira demonstrates how to do extra soulful with a masterclass in vibes. It's easy when you know how.

https://www.nts.live/shows/minimal-effort/episodes/minimal-effort-20th-january-2023

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AMBIENT x PSYCHILL x DUB x DUB TECHNO x TECHNO

Mixed live by PointBender @ HDStudios South

01. Mathew Anderson - Art of the Draft
02. KiloWatts - Mother of Thousands
03. Bluetech - Wandering Spirits
04. Troy Gunner featuring Synkro - Is This
05. Mathew Anderson - Messenger (Mat's Quiet Version)  
06. If I Had a Hifi - Oliver 
07. Symbio - Refraction (Ill76 Remix)
08. Minotor - Past To Present
09. Ane Brun - Let Myself Go (Andre Hommen Remix)
10. Deepchild - Black Days
11. Arthur Oskan - 99


PointBender - Monolith Rising

From the original feature on Clash Magazine: http://www.clashmusic.com/features/fluid-landscapes-exclusive-max-cooper-mix

It’s been a long time since I’ve made a full length “live” mix of just my own material, mainly because I was focused on my album in recent times. But after some new studio additions and work developing new ideas and new experiments, I’ve got enough fresh material to draw on, along with some old, to put together a new live set only composed of my originals, some remixes I’ve done, and I had to include a couple from the Inhuman remix package because there’s some great work on there from Lusine and Rodriguez Jr. among others.

I’ve approached this mix a little more like my live sets of old, keeping it pretty smooth and letting the tracks do the talking, rather than going too heavy on the genre-swapping and BPM-juggling as I have been doing on other mixes recently. There’s still some (hopefully) unexpected moments though of course, a strings solo, some crunchy glitch, backwards Nyatiti, several brand new never heard before tracks, a homemade desolation bootleg of Spastik, my first ever totally analogue tracks (I’ve only recently taken the plunge into the analogue synth world), and two live Jazz improvisation sessions recorded recently in London.

The artwork embedded is made by Andre Britz, who has literally created some "fluid landscapes" works, of which he was kind enough to donate a custom piece for this mix - Thanks Andre! You can find him here: https://www.behance.net/Andre

As a whole, the mix is about being wrapped up in a warm exploration of feelings and landscapes. It will work best with a nice pair of headphones and an open mind. I hope there’s at least some parts in there you enjoy!

1. Max Cooper - TBA1
2. Collaboration - TBA2
3. Max Cooper - Supine - Rodriguez Jr Remix (Fields)
4. Microtrauma - Contrast - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
5. Max Cooper - Woven Ancestry - Lusine Remix (Fields)
6. Max Cooper feat. Braids - Automaton (Fields)
7. Max Cooper - Automnemonic (Traum)
8. Max Cooper - TBA3
9. Collaboration - TBA4
10. Max Cooper - TBA5
11. Spastik Bootleg
12. Collaboration - TBA6
13. Collaboration - TBA7

TBA - To Be Announced

More Mixes: https://soundcloud.com/max-cooper/sets/max-cooper-free-downloads
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/maxbcooper
Info: https://www.maxcooper.net

Max Cooper Live - Fluid Landscapes - mix for Clash

Ira demonstrates how to do extra soulful with a masterclass in vibes. It's easy when you know how.

https://www.nts.live/shows/minimal-effort/episodes/minimal-effort-9th-june-2023

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Ira demonstrates how to do extra soulful with a masterclass in vibes. It's easy when you know how.

https://www.nts.live/shows/minimal-effort/episodes/minimal-effort-7th-july-2023

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Ira demonstrates how to do extra soulful with a masterclass in vibes. It's easy when you know how. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/minimal-effort/episodes/minimal-effort-1st-september-2023

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Ira demonstrates how to do extra soulful with a masterclass in vibes. It's easy when you know how. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/minimal-effort/episodes/minimal-effort-29th-september-2023

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Ira demonstrates how to do extra soulful with a masterclass in vibes. It's easy when you know how. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/minimal-effort/episodes/minimal-effort-27th-october-2023

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Ira demonstrates how to do extra soulful with a masterclass in vibes. It's easy when you know how. 
https://www.nts.live/shows/minimal-effort/episodes/minimal-effort-24th-november-2023

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Max Cooper Live - Mind's Garden
1. Max Cooper - Sea of Sound (Traum)
2. Au Revoir Simone - Take Me As I Am - Max Cooper Remix (Moshi Moshi)
3. Max Cooper - River of Gold (Traum)
4. Echaskech - The Storm - Max Cooper Remix (Just Music)
5. Abe Duque &amp; Blake Baxter - What Happened - Max Cooper Remix (Process)
6. DJ Hell - Wonderland - Max Cooper Remix (International DJ Gigilos)
7. Hot Chip - I Feel Better - Max Cooper Remix (Flash)
8. Max Cooper - Chaotisch Serie (Traum)
9. Dominik Eulberg - Daten Uebertragungs Kuesschen - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
10. Ricardo Tobar - Mi Pieza Llena De Cosas - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
11. Max Cooper - InhaleExhale (Veryverywrongindeed)
12. Max Cooper - Minertia (Traum)
13. Dyno - Risvegli - Max Cooper Remix (Hell Yeah)
14. Max Cooper - Harmonisch Serie (Traum)
15. Max Cooper - Enveloped (Traum)
Free Download URL in case needed --- http://www.maxcooperdl.net/mixes/MaxCooperLive-MindsGarden(192).mp3
(to save mix - right click save as, or ctrl click save as on mac)


For more Max Cooper mixes/free downloads:
soundcloud.com/max-cooper/sets/max-cooper-free-downloads

And music videos here:
www.youtube.com/user/maxbcooper

And for up to date info on all the goings on, you can join the mailing list at:
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Max Cooper Live - Mind's Garden (Free Download)

Here's some of my latest work, with plenty of never heard before exclusives, and an approach in mind to warm you up and provide some escapism from the winter.

And now onto the track listings, I'm afraid there's a lot on here which I can't tell you what it is yet, labels like to keep these things secret yeknow!

1. Remix to be announced 1
2. Collaboration to be announced 2
3. Max Cooper - Autumn Haze (Traum) - Out Now
4. Max Cooper feat. Braids - Automaton (Fields) 
5. Magic Panda - Distant Places - Max Cooper Remix (Tigerbeat6) - Out Now
6. Remix to be announced 3
7. Max Cooper feat. Braids - Pleasures (Fields)
8. Halls - Roses for the dead - Max Cooper Remix (No pain in pop)
9. Collaboration to be announced 4
10. Robert Clouth - Cloud Complex - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)
11. Nils Frahm - Peter - Max Cooper Remix (Erased Tapes)
12. To be announced 5


For more Max Cooper mixes/free downloads:
soundcloud.com/max-cooper/sets/max-cooper-free-downloads

And music videos here:
www.youtube.com/user/maxbcooper

And for up to date info on all the goings on, you can join the mailing list on my site if you like:
http://maxcooper.net/

Max Cooper Live - Movements Through Self Contained Space (free download)

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