Max Tundra: Mastered by Guy at the Exchange

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, Together
2. Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott: The Rain
3. Turin Brakes: Long Distance
4. Architecture in Helsinki: The Owls Go
5. Ambulance: Whindie
6. Simon Bookish: Terry Riley Disco
7. Mogwai: Helicon 2
8. Shirokuma: Moonlight In The Afternoon
9. Ruby: Lilypad
10. The Monsoon Bassoon: Commando
11. Future Pilot AKA: Mein Nehi Jana
12. The Futureheads: Decent Days And Nights
13. Paul McCartney: Coming Up
14. Taylor Dayne: Tell It To My Heart
15. 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

It's strikes me as more in-between Point (incidentally, Cornelius' 3rd best album but also his most studio-skillful) and Fantasma (which also wears its happy little pop-rock heart on its sleeve more so than the other two) and also synchs up, perhaps in part because of Becky's presence, with C's work with his wife, Takako Minekawa ('Lysine' sounds like a cousin of 'Plash' and Teriyaki Boys' 'Moon The World', which he produced last year). I also note something of an opposite approach - Keigo was a pop kid who travelled steadily into electronic experimentalism, whereas Max has approached in the opposite direction. Today, the Franz remix could - and should - have been released to radio in the original's stead.

If anyone is after a Max Tundra album that actually sounds like Keigo ;-), you could do worse than tracking down 9 Cliches or Cartoom (both on Tokyo's Vroom Sound Recordings but can be found by means which practially every ILMer uses) by Refely and Plus-Tech Squeeze Box respectively, as well as works by The Aprils (electronic dancepoppers with indie, hip hop and Nintendo fetishes, among others) and World's End Girlfriend (constantly mutating, multi-instrumental textured soundscapes). Little wonder Max is hot in Japan.

!!

the exact same thing happened to me the last time this thread got revived, i just didn't feel like admitting it!

- MBGATE = title acronym
- all song titles are six characters
- the lyric of "MBGATE" is the sentence from Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman where the narrator "dies"

Can this really be five years old next month? I hope there's a new one soon.

I've been listening to most of the Tundra stuff I've acquired over the years today, partly prompted by reading Pitchfork's review of YACHT which claims they sound like they're trying to do what MBGATE does (not so much to me, but hell, I wish someone would), and getting excited googling recent live reviews which mention new tracks.

Lots of remixes in the meantime, of course, some of which are really great, most of which follow the pattern (bit which prominently features vocals from original and I don't really get into) (bit which sounds like ALL-NEW TUNDRA TRACK with occasional spatterings of original chorus and makes me want to tell everyone this is the best thing ever and oh gosh I have to play it again, so I replay the first bit and remember I don't like the original vocals, but but hey! here's three minutes of Max Tundra genius on the end, and...)

Oh yeah, and once Resonance restarts its regular programming (next week, maybe?) Mr Tundra will be doing a show on Saturday afternoons which I'm looking forward to. Missed the first one, unfortunately (anyone here record it?), but the tracklist is up here. Something else to tide me over until a new album. Please?

(also, sorry for yet more parentheses, but that Cozen post upthread - "the record is so fidgety, like he's saying "look look!!!" and when you turn to look at it he's already saying "but, oh yeah, as well..." - there's this boundless joy that is hard to not be affected by" - is the most OTM thing I've read about MT anywhere)

I do really like this record, but I never really got into it. I should really give it another go, I suppose.

Proclaimed his MySpace blog in May of 2006:

"My new record will contain around ten brand new songs, but thanks to my laboriously luddite working methods it's taking me anything up to three months just to record one track. Domino will be releasing this LP; this might happen as early as this year, but then again, what's the rush?

That said, I'm deliriously excited about these new songs. They make everything else I've ever recorded sound more insignificant and ordinary. I really should spend less time on Myspace and get them finished."

Fingers crossed. I was traveling this summer and had only a half-dozen albums with me on cassette. MBGATE soundtracked a disproportionate share of my bus rides and never got old.

playing @ the whitechapel gallery on oct 26th. same night as the boredoms :(

i like some of his less "wacky" stuff.

nice sounding remix of tunng's bullets, previewable on boomkat

this album rocks

I thought this was going to be about a new album : (

These are both awesome:

13. Paul McCartney: Coming Up
15. So Long, Farewell (The Sound Of Music)

AGREED

Max Tundra has very, very nearly completed his third album. (2 hours ago.)

are you his facebook friend?

and can you tell us what he wrote after heath ledger died?

MySpace friend

My fake/crappy electronic music is friends with his real/awesome electronic music.

does myspace have status updates now?

I think you guys are ignoring the exciting point here

that myspace is cool!