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Biography
United Kingdom (1998 – present)
Max Tundra, real name Ben Jacobs, is an English multi-instrumental musician, singer and music producer. His work is predominantly electronic music but incorporates non-electronic styles and instruments.
Jacobs was born in the United Kingdom and grew up taking piano lessons, but mostly enjoyed playing television theme songs and music from adverts. As a teenager, he bought a Commodore Amiga 500 and began exploring electronic music with it. He still uses this 1985 computer to this day, but only for sequencing. The sounds on Max Tundra’s records come from a wide variety of sources, including real and synthetic musical instruments, arranged in dense, complex ways. Warp received one song he recorded titled “Children at Play” and released it as a single in 1998.
He has released three well-received albums for Domino Records: “Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be” (completely instrumental) released in 2000, “Mastered By Guy At The Exchange” (featuring vocals from Ben and sister Becky from the band Tunng) released in 2002 and “Parallax Error Beheads You” (just Ben on vocal duties), was released in October 2008.
Other than his full length albums, he has also done remix work for bands of varying genres including Franz Ferdinand, Architecture in Helsinki, Kid606 and the Pet Shop Boys. Tundra also hosts a weekly radio show on Resonance FM, called Max Tundra’s Rotogravure. He was one of the last ever musicians to record a John Peel Session.
www.maxtundra.com
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Mastered By Guy At The Exchange
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Parallax Error Beheads You
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Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be
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Which Song
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vamosscorcho
not sure why he's not huge. oh yeah, because who would actually want to be like Justin Bieber.... BAHAH......
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Edutainment
i love u ben
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noitseuq5
great band.
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Cease_
That first album was awful
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gobblox1
an absolute auteur
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Vata17
this is my jam
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Rohit8
:)
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MyNameIsEno
Get yr ass 2 Belgium bro.
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yorammorad
the cover of Will Bleed Amen is a fecking masterpiece!
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moe_blunts
This sound is heavily influenced by the Cardiacs. I wanna call it, "avant-pop."
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rod32lop
the covers are weird, but the sound is cool.
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MyNameIsEno
Haven't really heard anyone else like this guy.
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silaslunetta
You Killed it last night!
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mrmocha
Anyone else discover Max Tundra wrapped up as a fake leak of Animal Collectives Cuckoo Cuckoo in 2007? ...(so long, farewell remix)
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Trouserpress
Max Tundra has contributed a track to a wonderful tribute/fund-raising album for Tim Smith (Cardiacs, Sea Nymphs etc.). Pre-order your copy here: https://thegenepool.f-ten.net/items/597.htm (Includes a second bonus disc only available with pre-orders).
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almantos
Type Patrol sample wanker or Alman/module in google search engine and buy this album if you want..This is new artist from Malaysia. Peace
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AlexHorrible
check out this interview i did with the man! http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/WFMU/blog/Max_Tundra_Interview
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grandparademomo
HAPPY HAPPY!
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mrmocha
After finding myself knee deep in a Tundra playlist (after a few months of unintentional negligence)... I want more... more albums, more tours, more enthusiastic gesticulating!!!
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Saihana
genius..
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