Following his latest audio-visual album, ‘On Being’, Max Cooper invites a list of remixers to provide new interpretations of the track, which is out now on all digital streaming platforms. The remix collection includes Lone, Bredren, Turtle and Sorcery, along with Mesh artists Pleizel, Odalie and Throwing Snow - a collection from across the electronic spectrum.
Using an approach to composition in which he took inspiration from anonymous statements submitted by his audience in response to the question: "What do you want to express, which you feel you cannot in everyday life?" The track reflects on a snapshot of the modern human psyche in all its shared experience of fragility, grief, suffering, dreams, hopes and joys.
Max Cooper: “I hadn't realised the impact that other people's words on being would have on me.”
From heartbreaking to hopeful, these confessions took Cooper’s creative process in a new direction.
Now, he opens up in those compositions to a diverse selection of artists, each offering their own interpretations to the album’s subject matter. Ranging from jungle and garage to cinematic ambient, the reworks look outward from his originals.
Lone takes the melancholy of ‘A Sense Of Getting Closer’ and levitates it in a swarm of jungle-tinged drums and wobbly bass. On his version of the same track, Amotik gives space for the original’s synths to breathe over a stripped-down arrangement of rolling kicks.
For ‘My Choices Are Not My Own’, Throwing Snow flips the breaks-y intensity of the original into a 2-step cut of vocals and noise. Turtle leans into the percussion, chopping up a 170bpm helix of drums under Taiwah’s contemplative lyrics.
Max Cooper: “I got in touch with many of my favourite artists to put together this remixes collection, and it’s interesting hearing the collection as a whole for the first time. Much like the disparate collection of quotes reflecting our shared psyche which initially formed the music, now we also have a disparate collection of musical interpretations reflecting another shared psyche of sorts. And there’s a coherence running throughout, which seems to me a commentary on, and reaction to, where things are at. Barely an evenly spaced kick in sight, and a layer of intensity, discontent and frustration, running in parallel to beauty and playfulness. It’s a powerful collection of feelings, I hope you can find some in there which resonate with your own.”
‘On Being Remixes’ is out now via Mesh.
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