NOVEMBER 2013

Hello, so I've done a new DJ set, with a load of my favourite stuff at the moment, which as always covers a lot of ground musically, but is hopefully still grounded in some sort of thread of warmth and flow. Full tracklist below.

Max Cooper - Molten Expansion

1. Brian Eno - LUX - Nicolas Jaar Remix - Edit (Warp)

2. The Presets - Promises - Nils Frahm Remix (Modular)

3. Max Cooper and Tom Hodge - Fragments of Self (Fields)

4. Rival Consoles - Voyager (Erased Tapes)

5. Bonobo - The Keeper - Banks Remix (Ninja Tune)

6. Rob Clouth - Sifting Through Static (Traum)

7. Samu.L - The Beach (Surface)

8. Tessela - Gateway (RandS)

9. Nils Frahm - For - Max Cooper Remix (Erased Tapes)

10. Joe Goddard - Bassline 12 (Greco-Roman)

11. Collaboration TBA 1

12. Forgold - Sleep Cycle (Sound of the Cosmos)

13. Special Request - Deranged (Houndstooth)

14. Tim Hecker - Live Room (Kranky)

15. Fuck Buttons - Stalker (ATP)

APRIL 2013

From the feature in Magnetic Magazine

Sounds and Spaces 001

Max Cooper - Synesthetes Museum

A mix based on the British Museum

Featuring a mix of 12th century Tibetan monks song, one of the first ever recordings of music, made by Thomas Edison on a wax cylinder in 1888, poetic spoken word, 9th century Gregorian Chant, A call to the lama from afar, some unreleased exclusives, 9/8 techno, traditional Chinese music mixed with rude glitch, and a binaural museum.

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The brief for this mix was to make something inspired by an architectural space. When I was doing my Post-Doc at UCL I used to go the British Museum to relax, and work in the beautiful library there, so I chose the space for the mix. I wanted to capture the ambient atmosphere in the central courtyard, so I did some binaural recording to include in the mix. I also wanted to make the mix something of an exploration through history and ideas in line with the contents of the museum, so I brought in lots of disparate music spanning the centuries and continents. I also mixed it in a way to be like a journey though the museum, turning corners and regularly coming across something totally different and unexpected, with each track being like a different exhibit. Hence the name of the mix, in that, each piece of music almost has a visual content.

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A mix for the amazing Decibel Festival, 2012. First featured on XLR8R.

01 Abyss "Birdsong (Flowers and Sea Creatures Remix)" (Buzzin' Fly)

02 Halls "Roses For The Dead (Max Cooper Remix)" (No Pain in Pop)

03 Jimmy Edgar "Black Neon Dancefloor" (Items and Things)

04 Vaetxh "List of Lists" (Tigerbeat6)

05 Ambivalent "Rumors" (Minus)

06 Agoria "Panta Rei (Max Cooper Remix)" (Infine)

07 Max Cooper feat. Braids "Automaton (Ghosting Season Remix)" (FIELDS)

08 Elef "Tales of 88 (Huxley Remix)" (Murmur)

09 Nils Frahm "For (Max Cooper Remix)" (Erased Tapes)

10 Ólafur Arnalds "Poland" (Erased Tapes)

11 Vaetxh "Unfolding Mechanism" (Detroit Underground)

12 Dan Cat "Winterslow (Max Cooper Remix)" (Playtime)

13 Pleasurekraft "Corpse Reviver No 2" (Brandnewvibe)

14 Nils Frahm "Peter (Max Cooper Remix)" (Erased Tapes)

15 The Slow Revolt "Dark Matter (Max Cooper Remix)" (Pavilion)

My approach for this mix was defined by the fact that I had to do it while travelling for my Americas tour. So I picked out a selection of my favourite tracks before leaving, and was constrained to use only these. The difficulty was that I had chosen a load of different genres, so it turned into a puzzle of how to fit them all together into some sort of coherent flow. It was a good way to work in the end as it encouraged me to make edits of lots of the tracks, and also lead to some nice unexpected combinations.

[Note from Max HQ: the original of Max feat BRAIDS - Automaton - track 6 can be heard on Max's app: bit.ly/QHzLL5]

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AUG 2012

This is a live set I recorded in my studio for John Digweed's Transitions radio show. Loads of new stuff on there which hasn't gone out anywhere before, plus a couple of exclusives not for release. Hope you like it!

1. Max Cooper - Gravity Well (Traum)

2. Hiatus - Third - Max Cooper Remix (Last Night On Earth)

3. Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm - A2 - Max Cooper's Crystal Lattice Mix (Transitions Exclusive - Not For Release)

4. Ripperton - A Skilift Upstairs the Sleeping City - Max Cooper Remix (Systematic)

5. Max Cooper - To be announced 2

6. Minilogue - Seconds - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)

7. Mono Electric Orchestra - Blunt Force Trauma - Max Cooper Remix (Manual)

8. Maxime Miville - Don't Ask - Max Cooper Remix (Wide Angle)

9. Max Cooper Remix - To be announced 3

10. Max Cooper - Spiral Inflections (Traum)

11. Extrawelt - Im Garten Von Eben - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)

12. Michael Nyman and David McAlmont - Secrets - Max Cooper Reconstruction (Last Night On Earth)

13. Max Cooper - The End of Reason - Ambient Rework - 12" Edit (Transitions Exclusive - Not For Release)

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JUNE 2012 [We're catching up with older mixes!]

This is a live set I made for Dour Festival in Belgium, which I will be playing at on the 12th of July. There's a whole load of new stuff in this mix which hasn't been released or included in any other mixes before, including the first preview of my Michael Nyman remixes, and my next EP on Bodzin's Herzblut label. There's some tracks in there which I can't even announce yet, plus my remix of two of my favourite artists in the world, Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm! I hope you enjoy it....

1. Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm - A2 - Max Cooper Remix (Erased Tapes)

2. Microtrauma - Contrast - Max Cooper Remix (Traum)

3. To Be Announced 1

4. Dnyo - Aquatika - Max Cooper Remix (Microcastle)

5. Michael Nyman - Secrets, acusations and charges - Max Cooper Remix (Last Night On Earth)

6. Hugh Pascall - Absence March - Max Cooper Remix (DSCNCTD)

7. Agoria - Panta Rei - Max Cooper Remix (Infine)

8. To Be Announced 2

9. Cream Sound - Sonata - Max Cooper Remix (Festival Lounge)

10. Max Cooper - Ruptured (Herzblut)

11. Ither - Cloud Complex - Max Cooper Remix (TBC)

12. Phil Kieran - Church Organ Nightmare - Max Cooper Remix (PKR)

13. Max Cooper feat. Get People - Careless (Last Night On Earth)

14. Max Cooper and Jeet - Fisted (Herzblut)

15. To Be Announced 3

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Resident Advisor podcast 281: Max Cooper.

Techno with a touch of the cinematic.

It seems somehow clumsy to say it, but the defining feature of Max Cooper's music is melody. And glitch. But mainly melody. The UK artist has been DJing since the late '90s, turning his hand to production around the middle of the '00s as a way of generating more bookings. It worked. Cooper has produced music for a number of European labels since making his entrance, although Cologne's Traum Schallplatten has by far been his preferred home: No less than ten releases bearing his name have seen the light of day over the last couple of years, including soaring club hits such as "Harmonisch Serie." This prolific form has translated to Cooper's live show, in which he regularly twists out his material from Ableton and an APC40 for up to two hours.

As if to further emphasize the point, RA.281 showcases no less than five unreleased Max Cooper productions, forming the spine of a mix that through artists like Ben Frost, Tim Hecker, Amon Tobin and Underworld presents a panoramic view of Cooper's tastes and influences.

This is a studio recorded live set with a softer overall feel than some of my other live sets. It’s got a few never to be released tracks in there too like the Portishead and Peaches remixes, and maybe even the classical intro, I still haven’t decided what to do with that!

This is an old DJ set I did originally for the “Fortuna That Vicious Slut” website. They asked for a special sort of description in fitting with their aesthetic, which may or may not be itunes bag, but here you go: This is a sonic representation of midgets on wheels suffering the obtrusive consequences of Goliath on heat, a coming together which can only occur with a careful oiling of musical progression. The lewd intrusion takes the audience and participants to unseen nooks and crannies of musical anatomy, as genres are split and sealed in a manner that breaks any idealistic laws of how a mix should be done.