MAX COOPER: Live - 'Reflections' by Elite Music Management

"One of the greatest new talents to emerge on the dance scene in the last few years" - Skrufff.com
 
"Consistently proves himself to be one of the most peerlessly beautiful recording artists in modern dance music.." - IDJ
 
"One to keep a close eye on" - Fabric blog
 
"Haunting" - Clash magazine
 
"Beautiful, hypnotic techno that should be listened to by anybody with even a passing interest in intelligently geared dance music" - Electrorash blog

'"The End of Reason," a truly sublime beatless tour de force that recalls Philip Glass, Aphex Twin's most serene moments and even Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3" - Resident Advisor

The facts are easy to establish: Max Cooper has more than 50 original releases, tracks and remixes under his belt, from glitchy reinterpretations of big bands like Hot Chip and Au Revoir Simone to straight dancefloor 12"s like his breakthrough "Serie" originals and remixes for names like Agoria, Dominik Eulberg, Extrawelt, Pig and Dan, Kaiserdisco and Sasha.

The approach, meanwhile, is anything but simple. A melancholy composer whose live sets can raise blisters in a club, Cooper is as comfortable writing abstract electronica as he is writing dancefloor techno 12"s . A rationalist with an otherworldly, idealistic side, Cooper is also a wildly creative musician who until recently had a day job as a sober scientist.

And he's swung from extreme to extreme since he first took to the decks 11 years ago.

As Cooper sees it, there's conflict, but it's part of the music-writing process. Each side of his personality sparks ideas off the other, and what remains constant is his own unique and starkly emotional style. From his breakthrough trilogy of "Serie" releases on Traum Schallplatten - the first released in 2009 and with each track inspired by a different scientific or mathematical concept - Cooper has built a reputation for one-off originals, killer remixes and challenging DJ and live sets.

Since his first release in 2007, his back catalogue now includes two mainstream Hype Machine smashes with reworks of Hot Chip and Portishead, several Beatport genre top 10s, work with the visual artists Whiskas fX and Nick Cobby and an increasing number of collaborations with artists a long distance from Cooper's dancefloor beginnings.

With his time now entirely spent writing and touring music, Cooper continues to release his own originals, with 'The End Of Reason' described by Resident Advisor as "a truly sublime beatless tour de force that recalls Philip Glass, Aphex Twin's most serene moments and even Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3", and the UK's IDJ magazine saying that Cooper "consistently proves himself to be one of the most peerlessly beautiful recording artists in modern dance music". Stark, emotive and original, Cooper is, according to Skrufff.com, "One of the greatest new talents to emerge on the dance scene in the last few years".

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Max Cooper's Top Ten - November 2010

01 Midland - Play The Game - Phonica Records
02 Max Cooper - Ediolic Spectra - Bedrock
03 Minilogue and Inid Imman - When the roof is low, open your heart and the sky will follow - Aleph Zero
04 Ida Engberg - Owl's Nest - Truesoul
05 Vinilette - Neu Electrica (Ryan Davis Vision Mix) - Dame Records
06 Presslaboys - Come Inside - Fruit Machine
07 Fairmont - They Live In The Moon (Max Cooper remix) - Traum
08 DYNO - Cruda - Hell Yeah Recordings
09 Groj - Beren Gardh - Untitled & After
10 Jichael Mackson - Sugar Hill Mountain - Musique Risquée

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Max Cooper DiscographyHot Chip - I Feel Better - Max Cooper remix  [Flash] 2010
Max Cooper - Expressions EP Remixes - including remixes by Ryan Davis, Marc Marzenit, Echaskech [Traum] 2010
Maxime Miville - Don't Ask  (Max Cooper remix [Wide Angle] 2010
Max Cooper - Expressions EP incl Maetrik remix [Traum] 2010
Max Cooper - Series EP [Traum] 2010
Yan Stricker - Smooth a Surface remix [Organism] 2010
Max Cooper - Ediolic Spectra [Bedrock] 2010
Fairmont - They Live In The Moon - Max Cooper Remix [Traum] 2010
Minilogue - Seconds remix [Traum] 2010
Ryan Davis - The Wolve remix [IRM] 2010
Max Cooper - Sleazebox EP inc Hans Bouffmyhre, Jill Bellac remixes  [Veryverywrongindeed] 2010
Au Revoir Simone - Take Me As I Am / Remix [Moshi Moshi] 2010
Max Cooper - Chaotisch Serie EP  inc Reset Robot, Dyno remixes [Traum] 2010
Dyno - Risvegli  - Max Cooper remix   [Hell Yeah] 2010
Ricardo Tobar  - Max Cooper remix [Traum] 2010
Max Cooper -  InhaleExhale EP inc Spektre, Tim Sheridan remixes [Veryverywrongindeed] 2009
Max Cooper - Stochastisch Serie EP inc Leeks, Microtrauma remixes [Traum] 2009
Abe Duque & Blake Baxter - What Happened - Max Cooper remix [Process] 2009
Dominik Eulberg - Daten Ubertragungs Keuschen - Max Cooper remix [Traum] 2009
Pollyy - Pins and Needles  - Max Cooper remix [Shrink Records] 2009
Bigger Than Jesus - Checkpoint Charlie - Max Cooper remix [54 Music] 2009
Dan Cat - Winterslow - Max Cooper remix [Playtime] 2009
Granlab - Industrial Romance - Max Cooper remix [Broque] 2009
Extrawelt - Mit Liese Auf Der Wiese - Max Cooper  remix [Traum] 2009
Applescal - A Slaves Commitment  -  Max Cooper remix [Traum] 2009
Gary Beck - Numb - Max Cooper remixes [Perc Trax] 2009
Marco Dassi - Narcotraffic  -  Max Cooper remix [McGrooveBlack] 2009
Tim Sheridan - Villain  - Max Cooper remix [Veryverywrongindeed] 2009
Jill Bellac - Solid -  Max Cooper remix [Firefly Recordings] 2009
Max Cooper  - Symphonica EP + Perc, Marco Dassi remixes [Traum] 2009
Hot Chip Bugged Out Compilation [New State] 2009
Moonbeam - When Tears are Dropping from the Sky -  Max Cooper remix [Traum] 2009
Dominik Eulberg - Sansula  -  Max Cooper remix [Traum] 2009
Max Cooper - Harmonisch Serie EP inc Kanio, Ito remixes [Traum] 2009
Extrawelt - Im Garten Von Eben - Max Cooper remix [Traum] 2008
Max Cooper  -  The Brazilian Fallacy [Flux] 2008
Max Cooper  - Crushbox EP [Autist] 2008
C-System - Playing with Dogs - Max Cooper remix [Flux] 2008
Celtec Twinz - The Grass Is Always Greener - Max Cooper remix [Naked Lunch] 2008
Spangled Ballet - Destruction Friday - Max Cooper remix [Venga Digital] 2008
Will Bailey - Screwball  - Max Cooper remix [Simma] 2008
Max Cooper - Waste Gash [2 Hype Records] 2008
Max Cooper - FRANK [Firefly Recordings] 2008
Max Cooper  - Upside Out [Konnekt] 2008
Max Cooper  - The Blind Watchmaker EP  inc Casiogrand remix [Shrink Records] 2008
Max Cooper  - Ergo EP [Evolved Records] 2007
Max Cooper  - Tamperine EP [Evolved Records] 2007
Gray - Corrosive  -  Max Cooper remix [Evopro Recordings] 2007
Max Cooper - One Is None EP [Evolved Records] 2007

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