Max Tundra + Infinite Livez

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MAX TUNDRA

When Ben Jacobs (AKA Max Tundra) was a teenager he bought a Commodore Amiga 500 home computer. Armed with this and a £1 piece of music software, he began to explore the world of electronic composition. Eventually he got so good at using this cheap set-up that back in 1998 Warp Records released his first single. “Warp were the only label who were interested in my first tune,” says Ben. “I sent my demo tape to fifty labels in all, but most people freaked out. A couple of guys made the bizarre criticism that I had too many ideas.” This criticism has frequently dogged Max Tundra (as he was hereby renamed), in a musically diverse, eclectic career where time signatures, musical genres and instrumentation have been given the thorough shake-up they have long needed.

For the last few years (as well as remixing bands such as Franz Ferdinand, Pet Shop Boys, The Futureheads, Tunng and Von Südenfed), Max Tundra has been working on his third album for Domino. This record has been completed, is called “Parallax Error Beheads You”, and is scheduled for an October 2008 release. Six years have passed since the release of his previous LP. During this time many bands have formed, recorded albums, and split up. In a time when groups are encouraged to bang out new records two or three times a year, it is almost quaint to encounter a project which took the best part of a decade to record. Despite the attention to detail in the densely layered programming, these new songs are Max’s catchiest, brightest and most memorable yet, and make much of his earlier work sound home-made and clunky. Now that it’s finished he can leave the house once more.

INFINITE LIVEZ

Was born in Bethnal Green - trained at Chelsea Art College - released his first album (Bushmeat) in 2004 on Big Dada records - released his second album in 2007 with Big Dada as a collaborative project with the Swiss electro jazz outfit Stade (Art Brut Fe De Yoot) - has worked with producers such as Blufoot, M3 and Part 2 - enjoys making comic books, short films and soft toys - puts out his own improvised noise CDs - used to design Gameboy graphics - regularly pens illustrations for Hip Hop Conection Magazine - is a former FKO Raw freestyle battle champ - likes Sun Ra, Wesley Willis, David Bowie, Public Image, Willus Drummond, and Funkadelic - has reoccurring dreams of the end of the world - and recently lost his prize possession Barry Convex puppet but is determined to make a whole lot more.