Max Cooper

Max Cooper is a London based musician and geneticist. A combination of these influences is evident in Max’s turntablist DJ sets, technical production style and abstract research topics. Max started DJing in the late 90's in his home city of Belfast, Gaining inspiration from artists like QBert, DJ Craze, Baboo and DJ Noize, who used turntables as instruments to create new beats and sounds through scratching and juggling. This DJ style consumed Max’s time for several years until he turned his focus to his next musical obsession in productions.
Max’s DJ career started in 1999, with a residency at ‘Rumour’ in Belfast. A move to Nottingham to pursue his scientific studies then followed, with the start of his long-standing residency at UK club night, ‘Firefly’, now in its 9th year. Max was quickly recognised by the media, receiving the label of Mixmag ‘future hero’. This National recognition helped Max along the way to a BBC Radio1 invite on Fergie’s Friday night show early in 2004. Max’s Radio1 set was well received, and provided him with a signing to Ornadel Management and Mainstage artists. This provided Max with regular dates across the UK and abroad while he pursued the development of his academic and music productions career. Following the completing of his degree, masters and PhD in Nottingham, Max made the move to London to work on new music and research projects. Currently his main projects include the development of his productions and DJing career with Traum schallplatten and management, Germany, mathematical modelling research on the evolution of networks of genes at University College London, and a sci-art project combining evolutionary and music production algorithms.

Since 2001, Max has played a fundamental role at Firefly, helping the night develop into the giant it is today. This residency has seen Max perform alongside acts including Jeff Mills, Booka Shade, Vitalic, Hot Chip, Dave Clarke, Justice, Digitalism, Derrick May, Slam, Alter Ego, Umek, Alex Under, M.A.N.D.Y., Stanton Warriors, Paul Woolford, Justin Robertson, Speedy J, Daddy G (Massive Attack), Marco Bailey, Andrew Weatherall, Ben Sims, Adam Freeland, Plump DJs, Technasia, Freq Nasty, Phil Kieran, Rolando, Fergie, Hybrid, Green Velvet, Luke Slater, Brodinski etc etc etc!

Max’s personal production career began in 2006, with signings to Firefly recordings and Evolved Records, with considerable chart and press review success for Max at an early stage. Much in line with Max’s DJing style, his production is a fusion of elements from electronica, minimal, electro and techno. 2007 saw Max gain new Residencies The Key - London, Stealth – Nottingham and The Cross – London. Firefly also continues to expand, with new events and festivals in Bristol, London, Sheffield, Birmingham and Nottingham. 2007 also saw Max’s turntablist skills commissioned by the BBC to make a scratch tutorial video which is available on the BBC website.

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