Pop IDM wizard
Max Tundra will release his third album for Domino next week in the UK and next month in the United States.
The album, entitled
Parallax Error Beheads You, was six years in the making and it sounds like it. Suffused with pop hooks throughout, it's the work of a man obsessed with prog rock and '80s synth pop in equal measure. But unlike many producers out there, Tundra doesn't use the latest and greatest technology to craft his bedroom symphonies. Nope: As Tundra tells it, he's still using the Commodore Amiga 500 "running a $1 public domain software tracker program."
Tundra continues: "The sounds don't emerge from the Amiga itself...; the machine is used to control various synths, samplers and the like…. Each song is recorded in a different way; drumkits are recorded on mono cassette recorders twice, then stuck together on the left and right of a mix; string arrangements are planned and then layered up; each note of an electric guitar is sampled so that it can be sequenced in ways too complicated for my fat fingers to play at full speed. And then I have a cup of tea and sing my heart out."
While Tundra is obviously a tea fan, in the past few days it's also been revealed that he loves a bit of soup as well. In celebration of the album, he's made
250 cans of kosher chicken soup, which he'll be selling through Domino's webstore along with "an exclusive bonus download album of covers called
Best Friends (a reinterpretation of
Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be by Max Tundra's friends.)" Yeah...we have no idea either.
Tracklist
01. Gum Chimes
02. Will Get Fooled Again
03. Which Song
04. My Night Out
05. Orphaned
06. Nord Lead Three
07. The Entertainment
08. Number Our Days
09. Glycaemic Index Blues
10. Until We Die
Best Friends
11. Kavus Torabi - Here Comes The Musket Records (Cakes)
12. Richard Larcombe - The Singing Doctor (Lamplight On A One Horse Shoe)
13. Sarah Measures - Genclik Bandido (Ah, There's Deek Now - Let's Ask Him)
14. Toirse O'Riordain - Clip Around The Ear (Lausanne)
15. Jenny Darwin - Ken Ududis (Tuli, A Plain Ride From Canvas)
16. Dan Chudley - Yarilo Kupala (Bill Sholem Quintette)
17. Scott Pearsall - Joust (Ink Me)
18. James Larcombe - Oakeshott (The Balaton)
19. Bobak Torabi - Rawat Corner (Subsi Kuku)
20. Laurie Osborne - Sick Swan, Sick Swan (6161)
21. Matthew Carroll - Bruno Brookes (Carbon Cones)
Domino Records will release Parallax Error Beheads You
in the United Kingdom on October 20 and on November 18 in the United States.
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