Incandenza EP by Max Tundra
All proceeds from the sale of this single were donated to the British Red Cross London Fire Relief fund to help those in need affected by the fire at Grenfell Tower. The amount raised was £308.62. Thank you so much to everyone who donated! As the Red Cross appeal has now ended, the single is free to download.
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Here are two hitherto unreleased tracks I composed a few years ago, soon after I got my hands on the life-changing music software known as Renoise, a modern-day tracker sequencer, which led me to flog my beloved Amiga 500 on eBay for the princely sum of about £20, grab a ThinkPad T520 and finally become one of those laptop musicians I used to point and laugh at.
These tunes are my finding out what makes Renoise tick and learning how much fun it is to make subtly shapeshifting plugin-driven music the likes of which my old Commodore would have Guru Meditationed at. I remember wanting to push myself out of my comfort zone with these two tracks, trying to make the sort of EP that might come out on a label like Hyperdub - or my parallel universe version of that anyway. The songs are more repetitive and moody than my habitual chirpy, melodic output, and I hope you find them diverting at least.
Ben Jacobs grew up in London. He went to the same school as Jude Law and a Chemical Brother, but didn’t know them.