{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"HOWA EP 102 - MAX TUNDRA","description":"Max Tundra is Ben Jacobs A man that was a child that grew up in London. As pointed out on his bandcamp, he went to the same school as Jude Law and a Chemical Brother, but didn\u2019t know them. In this disposable content age, there\u2019s an undeniable urge to go for quantity over quality is there not? The music Ben makes as Max Tundra comes as rarely as a celestial event. We forget the rising and falling of the sun each day but we don\u2019t forget a total eclipse now do we? This is how it felt when Mocky and I came across the LP \u201cMastered by guy at the exchange\u201d. We were without sun for a while. In an unknown land that felt Most welcoming and yet most peculiar. It was genuinely new music. Something so rare that still feels fresh all these years later. Here\u2019s what hyper pop bloke A. G. Cook said of Max Tundra\u2019s legacy: \u201c\u2018Mastered by Guy at the Exchange\u2019 is a true cult album - a playful monolith that sounds both nothing and everything like the 2000s. Stumbling across it as a teenager, it reinforced a hunch I had: that music is a place where anything could happen, and total chaos could be held together by the lightest of pop hooks. There\u2019s an oddly British quality to Max Tundra\u2019s work, a soft and polite maximalism - pioneering, eccentric and infinitely remixable.\u201d Ben Jacobs invented hyper pop As they say in the UK FACTS It\u2019s a good time to be a Max Tundra fan as domino has reissued his first three studio albums to be found HERE 2000s Some Best Friend You Turned Out to Be, 2002\u2019s Mastered by Guy at the Exchange, and the 2008 masterwork Parallax Error Beheads You. We get into a lot of his formative years and thankfully he kept so much of his sonic ramblings from that time and they can be found on his band camp page It\u2019s a real treasure trove. Here it is What a legend. If you\u2019ve never heard of him before, I\u2019m so glad I get to make the intro. He\u2019s a true original and a very nice man Please welcome on the show Max Tundra ","author_name":"hanging out with audiophiles","author_url":"http:\/\/hangingoutwithaudiophiles.com","html":"