Antics Presents MAX TUNDRA 21st Jan '09!

Antics

ANTICS PRESENTS
MAX TUNDRA
(Domino Records)

Plus Elsewhere Dj Set

Doors 11pm
Entry €5

Usual very good drinks promos

I think this could be one of the highlights of over 3 years of Antics. I really can't wait for this. If you haven't heard Max Tundra, go check out some You Tube!

ABOUT MAX TUNDRA BY OWEN PALLETT
(Final Fantasy, ex-Arcade Fire, Last Shadow Puppets arranger)

Max and I met in Barcelona in 2005 at Primavera Sound. His slot was at 4am. He put on a mask, wrapped himself up in tape, and played forty minutes of music made mostly using Amiga sample tracker software from the late 1980s. There was virtuosic melodica playing, Pointer Sisters-style singing, and an eight-minute version of “So Long, Farewell” from The Sound Of Music. I was wasted and ended up passing out on a beach in my underwear. When the sun rose, I woke up with dried merengue and sand glued to my hair, and in a daze, I realized that I had just witnessed nothing less than the best music performance of my life.

What sets Max Tundra apart from any other band in the world is his attention to detail. This album is impossibly full of ideas, seeking out every imaginable sound in the world and giving each their own curtain call. When you listen to this album, you'd think that it was made by an eccentric millionaire, with every name-brand pop music producer in the world contributing their own two seconds of material. Upon closer inspection, you'd realize that it's been six years since “Mastered By Guy At The Exchange”; in that time, Max probably hasn't had a single good night's sleep.

I can't compare this record to any record I've ever heard before. Even Max's previous records are a distant echo. It is dance music, it is discourse, it is teen sex comedy, it is a video game, it is a dance troupe, it is a thirteen course meal with Amontillado. It is shock and awe. Listen and be humbled.

BIOGRAPHY

Max Tundra, real name Ben Jacobs, is an English multi-instrumental musician, singer and music producer. He has released two well-received albums for Domino Records: Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be released in 2000 and Mastered By Guy At The Exchange released in 2002. He has completed his third album, and it is scheduled for an October 2008 release. He was one of the last ever musicians to record a Peel Session on John Peel's radio show before Peel's death. He hosts a weekly radio show on Resonance FM, called Max Tundra's Rotogravure.
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DISCOGRAPHY

Albums
* Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be
· Mastered By Guy At The Exchange

Singles/EPs
* Children At Play
* Cakes
* Ink Me
* QY20 Songs
* Lysine
· Cabasa

Remixes
* Mogwai - "Helicon 2"
* Kid 606 - "Dandy"
* Janek Schaefer - "Wow"
* The Monsoon Bassoon - "Commando"
* Ruby - "Lilypad"
* Missy Elliott - "The Rain"
* Turin Brakes - "Long Distance"
* Ambulance - "Whindie"
* The Strokes - "Alone, Together"
* Architecture in Helsinki - "The Owls Go"
* Future Pilot AKA - "Mein Nehi Jana"
* The Futureheads - "Decent Days and Nights"
* Shirokuma - "Moonlight in the Afternoon"
* Mystery Jets - "On My Feet"
* Mint Royale - "The Effect On Me"
* Franz Ferdinand - "Do You Want To"
* Pet Shop Boys - "I'm With Stupid"
* Freddie Mercury - "I Was Born to Love You"
* The Futureheads - "Back to the Sea"
* Jack Arel - "Berkenhead School"
* Lily Allen - "LDN"
* Von Südenfed - "Fledermaus Can't Get It"
* Architecture in Helsinki - "Hold Music"
* Tunng - "Bullets"

MarkH

Just to add my tuppence worth...I agree whole-heartedly
(but I won't be there, boo hoo! See related thread.. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055465370)
Get along there if you can at all.