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Max Tundra's mixtape

Jennifer Lucy Allan shares a mixtape from pioneering UK producer Max Tundra. Plus sonic discoveries in a Swiss village, DIY pop from S?o Paulo and Peruvian psychedelia.

Jennifer Lucy Allan shares a mixtape from pioneering producer Max Tundra. Dismantling, reconfiguring, and exaggerating the sonic tropes of pop music, Max Tundra’s avant-garde and maximalist aesthetic - heard across a trio of albums in the 2000s - paved the way for the explosion of hyperpop and label-collectives like PC Music. Tundra’s playful commitment to piling sounds together began with what he describes as the “queasily irritating collection” of answerphone messages created for his parent’s home phone in the 1980s (unsuspecting callers would be met with a barrage of samples, songs, silly noises and even a compelling story about an avocado stone.) And in the 2000s, carting “from house to house” the Commodore Amiga home computer system bought with his bar mitzvah money, Max Tundra began releasing music that sought to be “genre-free”, initially employing “an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink multi-instrumental approach” before exploring a more synthetic sound as the decade progressed. On the eve of the release of new remixes of those seminal albums, Max offers up a Late Junction mixtape full of impossible vocals and wild pop abandon, including the “woozy electronic joy” of Vegyn, a song he wrote for Daphne & Celeste’s comeback, and the reeling experimentation of NNAMD?.

Elsewhere in the show, there’s a DIY pop ditty from S?o Paulo, and an percussive improvisation in a Swiss cavern, reworked by the sound artist Feldermelder; and El Polen, a group formed in the late 1960s, fuse traditional Andean music with folk and psychedelia.

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Music Played

  • Max Tundra

    Grange Concrète

    • Before The Tone (Ancient Answerphone Antics).

  • L'Empire Des Sons

    Quand Nos Pères ?taient Des Poissons

    • Spirit of France.
    • Spiritmuse Records.

  • Max Tundra

    Cakes

    • Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be.
    • Domino.

  • Liew Niyomkarn

    Heaven Level 7

    • I Think of Another Time When You Heard It.
    • Chinabot ?.

  • Steven Hutchins

    Pumping up (Inflatable Kayak)

    • Sounds of Summer.

  • Natalie Beridze

    Ash Wednesday

    • Of Which One Knows.
    • Room 40.

  • ?irom

    I Unveil a Peppercorn to See It Vanish

    • The Liquified Throne of Simplicity.
    • Tak:Til.

  • Anadol

    Gizli Duygular

    • Felicita.
    • Pingipung.

  • Max Roach

    The Drum Also Waltzes

    • Drums Unlimited.
    • Atlantic.

  • Feldermelder & Julian Sartorius

    Grotte

    • Bonne Route.
    • OUS.OOO.

  • 邓博宇

    Copper Ball

    • Tractor Academy.
    • Dusty Ballz.

  • Devin Brahja Waldman & Hamid Drake

    Esprit Es-Tu Là

    • Mediumistic Methodology.
    • Astral Spirits.

  • Lawrence Shove

    Guillemot

    • Sounds of Summer - British Library.

  • Max Tundra

    Jeruslalom

    • Before The Tone (Ancient Answerphone Antics).

  • Max Tundra's Mixtape

    • felicita

      I woke up

      • a new family.
      • PC Music.

    • Art of Noise

      Snapshot

      • Who's Afraid Of The Art Of Noise?.
      • Island Records.

    • NNAMD?

      Bullseye

      • Brat.
      • Sooper Records.

    • Synergy

      Delta Two

      • Games.
      • Passport Records.

    • ARTHUR

      Ivy League

      • Woof Woof.
      • PLZ Make It Ruins.

    • Daphne & Celeste

      Paint Can

      • Daphne & Celeste Save The World.
      • Balatonic.

    • Vegyn

      B4 The Computer Crash

      • Like a Good Old Friend.
      • PLZ Make It Ruins.

    • Little Snake

      USER1111333

      • Lost In Spirals.
      • Brainfeeder.

    • Carl Stone

      Korzo

      • Wat Dong Moon Lek.
      • Unseen Worlds.

    • bill wurtz

      Outside

      • Outside.

    • Finn Keane

      Sondico

      • easyFun EP.
      • PC Music.

  • Madison McFerrin

    No Time To Lose

    • You + I.
    • MadMcFerrin Music.

  • Walter Willy

    Syd do Pink

    • Cabe?a de Pa?oca.
    • Chupa Manga Records.

  • David Kennedy / Mouse Organ

    Buchanan Street Glasgow

    • Sounds of Summer.

  • Asha Puthli

    Pain

    • The Essential Asha Puthli.
    • Mr Bongo.

  • Ariel Kalma

    Blackout Vision

    • Odd Ones.

  • O.G. Jigg

    Part IV

    • The Land Dictates The Lay Of The Stone.
    • Earth Member Records.

  • Brother May

    Yoga Flame

    • Meeks and May.
    • Curl.

  • Max Tundra

    American Pie (feat. Becky Jacobs)

    • Before The Tone (Ancient Answerphone Antics).

  • 骋谤ú辫补迟 & Jennifer Walshe

    O'Brien Industries - In A 3

    • Songtags.

  • El Polen

    Mi Cueva

    • Fuera De La Ciudad.
    • Virrey.

Broadcast

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