― Cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 15 January 2003 20:22 (twenty-one years ago) link
― TMFTML (TMFTML), Thursday, 16 January 2003 00:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Miranda, Thursday, 16 January 2003 01:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jack cole (jackcole), Thursday, 16 January 2003 01:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
― TMFTML (TMFTML), Thursday, 16 January 2003 02:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bob snoom, Thursday, 16 January 2003 09:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 16 January 2003 16:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 17 January 2003 02:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 17 January 2003 03:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 17 January 2003 06:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
I talked to Max/Ben when his first album came out about putting it out in the US through my label, and we still e mail each other. We were going to meet up in Japan recently, but didn't because I was in Paris! Anyway, he's great. And funny too: when I told him I'd seen his video on French MTV, he mailed me back 'Hooray! But I'm still Benny from the block.'
― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 18 January 2003 23:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― TMFTML (TMFTML), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 20:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 21:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― David (David), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
Massively into this. Sorry if I was a bit late to the party, but I was trapped in cultureless Ormskirk n'all.
Mbgate is the best thing ever which isn't soft and moist and most of the rest of it wants me to go out and go crazy.
I love this record. I really get the XTC thing people mentioned upthread. Nice parallel. Also I think the Cornelius link is relevant to.
If you ain't got this go out and get it, it deserves far more than the pithy length of this thread.
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 22:52 (twenty years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 07:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 12:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 13:45 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 7 February 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― charleston charge (chaki), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 03:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Christopher Costello (CGC), Monday, 26 December 2005 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― howell huser (chaki), Monday, 26 December 2005 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 26 December 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Currently rocking world: Max Tundra remix of "Do You Want To."
― nabiscothingy, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 05:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 05:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
His Shirokuma remix is rather good - I did the engineering on the original and it was fascinating to hear what he did with it.
― On one hand I've got myself to blame (Lynskey), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link
I'll see if I can dig up that Franz mix and YSI when I get home.
Also rumored (though possibly not recorded) = Max Tundra and Kevin Blechdom live duets on "More than Words."
Given the guy's career so far, I feel like there's every chance his third album will be something really, really special.
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:22 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Lambert (Michael Lambert), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 11:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― waldo jeffers scenario (haitch), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 11:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― bow down before the scintillating genius of max tundra, Wednesday, 28 December 2005 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hal! Jordan! HAL! JORDAN! (Barima), Thursday, 29 December 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 29 December 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 29 December 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 29 December 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― [use of street parade as pivotal set piece] (nordicskilla), Thursday, 29 December 2005 23:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― DR. O. RLY? (eman), Thursday, 29 December 2005 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 29 December 2005 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 29 December 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 29 December 2005 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 29 December 2005 23:21 (eighteen years ago) link
Nice discussion! Great motivation for me to hurry the fuck up and finish my third album. Sorry it's taking so long (four years is a ridiculous gap), but I assure you I am writing and recording much music every day. I've no idea when it will be ready; hopefully some time this year, but there's still lots of work to be done. I am extremely excited about these new songs and can't wait to share them with you all.
Ok, so this Remixes and Interpretations thing is just a CDr I made myself to send to bands and labels who might want a Max Tundra remix. I did some copies for friends too, and sent one to wfmu.org who are always very supportive of my stuff. The track listing is as follows (tracks 1-12 are remixes and 13-16 are cover versions, although I guess all remixes are cover versions in a way):
1. The Strokes: Alone, Together2. Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott: The Rain3. Turin Brakes: Long Distance4. Architecture in Helsinki: The Owls Go5. Ambulance: Whindie6. Simon Bookish: Terry Riley Disco7. Mogwai: Helicon 28. Shirokuma: Moonlight In The Afternoon9. Ruby: Lilypad10. The Monsoon Bassoon: Commando11. Future Pilot AKA: Mein Nehi Jana12. The Futureheads: Decent Days And Nights13. Paul McCartney: Coming Up14. Taylor Dayne: Tell It To My Heart15. So Long, Farewell (The Sound Of Music)16. Theme From The Bill
Who wants a copy? I have a small handful of these CDrs left. You should message me through my Myspace page, which is here:
http://myspace.com/maxtundra
...with your name and address, quoting "A Certain Member Of Ex-Models Lookalike Giveaway". I merely request that you would be kind enough to do me the favour of introducing a friend to the music of Max Tundra. That's all I ask.
My Mint Royale remix is still on the Myspace page, but my Franz Ferdinand one is not. There are some white label 7"s of the latter floating about (with my instrumental version of the remix on the b-side), so keep your eyes peeled.
Happy new year!
Ben / Max x
― Max Tundra, Monday, 2 January 2006 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 2 January 2006 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― DR. O. RLY? (eman), Monday, 2 January 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
lotta pop music that I hear nowadays sounds like max tundra mbtgate
― Bongo Jongus, Thursday, 2 March 2023 19:27 (one year ago) link
oh yeah he's the og hyperpop guy, for sure. as with many ogs his work is also pretty different from his successors when you look under the hood. definitely an irreducible, quirky tundran core, as opposed to the cultivated emptiness of some in the pc music universe
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, 2 March 2023 19:31 (one year ago) link
yeah more like twitchy straight ahead pop rather than pure cool weirdo or dumb art weirdo stuff
whenever I hear any pink panthress track I feel like I'm hearing him singing
― Bongo Jongus, Thursday, 2 March 2023 19:40 (one year ago) link
“mgtgate” -> it’s not “the guy” but “Guy”, Guy Davie at The Exchange. Really a brilliant album title imho
― lurching toward (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 2 March 2023 21:21 (one year ago) link
whenever people say "I listen to podcasts at 1.5x speed" it makes me think of "Merman" which I think is a really funny way to make a 3 minute pop song into a 2 minute one
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 March 2023 21:23 (one year ago) link
I seem to remember, and I might be wrong, but I think it was a Pitchfork review, of “Parallax Error Beheads You”, and I think it was written by the beautiful Dominique Leone, and I think it began with a fantasy-version of the previous decade of pop, where MBGATE was the primary indie influence on electronic chart-pop (as opposed to The Postal Service); and wouldn’t it be great if we’d had a decade of music that sounded like that instead of a decade of Owl City. Seems like Max lost the battle but won the war in the end!
― lurching toward (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 2 March 2023 21:24 (one year ago) link
Ha, quite! Leone's own pop experiments can definitely play in that game too btw - crashingly underrated and proto-hyper
― imago, Thursday, 2 March 2023 21:35 (one year ago) link
one exciting prospect of AI is more weird pop dudes making stuff like "Orphaned"
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 March 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link
I drunkenly accosted him post-show in portland ca. 2009 and basically asked him "how the hell did you make orphaned" and he was like, "it was 6 months of my life mate" and was keen to point out that it never repeats. so ... you're right.― unknown pleasure zone (uptown churl), Sunday, November 9, 2014 1:51 AM bookmarkflaglink
― unknown pleasure zone (uptown churl), Sunday, November 9, 2014 1:51 AM bookmarkflaglink
i think of this post every time i think of this (incredible) song.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Friday, 3 March 2023 02:17 (one year ago) link
Might finish this. https://t.co/RVxzqbBSPx— Max Tundra (@MaxTundra) January 27, 2023
Please!
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Friday, 3 March 2023 02:32 (one year ago) link
(The quoted Tweet is from March 30, 2012)
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Friday, 3 March 2023 02:33 (one year ago) link
https://thequietus.com/articles/33310-max-tundra-interview-kate-bush
New music - version of This Woman's Work + nice interview.
(Ben your time has come I hope)
― woof, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 11:09 (nine months ago) link
delighted to hear he also adores "human sadness" and that a new album is coming along (though very slowly)
― ufo, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 12:08 (nine months ago) link
his hyperpop "this woman's work" cover rules too. i'm excited to hear new music from him that's influenced by all the cool stuff he's influenced in the last decade
― ufo, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 12:10 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x9CggWVsiA
i hadn't noticed he put out a new version of "lights" earlier this month, very promising for where he's at right now. it somehow answers the question "what if bloc party were hyperpop"?
― ufo, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 12:16 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8W5RzTCAY0
oh there's a 6 minute version of it here too, even better. really wonderful stuff
― ufo, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 12:30 (nine months ago) link
Kind of odd that that interview doesn't mention the Daphne and Celeste album at all.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 14:35 (nine months ago) link
I was a bit surprised by that - kind of nice in a 'let's keep the focus on you' way but it does seem both big & pertinent, so weird there's not even a small mention.
― woof, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 14:51 (nine months ago) link
that new "Lights" is very cool - the chimey sound added in the second verse might be a sped up "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" lol. Kate Bush cover is ok, wish more of it was like the final minute
the D&C album is a Max Tundra album in my mind, he wrote and produced the whole thing and his style is pretty strong on it. I don't like the album as much as his three solo albums but still look forward to anything he puts out
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:30 (nine months ago) link
somehow missed the Daphne & Celeste album when it came out! been listening to it off and on for the past week since your post, Vinnie. it's a charmer! no question that i hear his style in basically every melody and production choice. maybe with fewer moments of sheer MIDI-glitchy sonic explosion than i'm used to? but very clearly of tremendous interest to any Tundra fan alive, glad to be getting to know it. "BB" was stuck in my head all yesterday and into the night.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Friday, 1 September 2023 12:00 (nine months ago) link
Yeah "BB" and "You and I Alone" are def keepers
― Vinnie, Friday, 1 September 2023 19:58 (nine months ago) link