Max Tundra - Late Junction Mixtape

MAX TUNDRA - LATE JUNCTION MIXTAPE 29.07.22 (320kbs-m4a/68mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 3 broadcast: 29th July 2022

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 NNAMDÏ.

Max Tundra - Jeruslalom
Felicita - I Woke Up [PC Music]
Art Of Noise - Snapshot [Island]
NNAMDÏ - Bullseye [Sooper]
Synergy - Delta Two [Passport]
ARTHUR - Ivy League [PLZ Make It Ruins]
Daphne & Celeste - Paint Can [Balatonic]
Vegyn - B4 The Computer Crash [PLZ Make It Ruins]
Little Snake - USER1111333 [Brainfeeder]
Carl Stone - Korzo [Unseen Worlds]
Bill Wurtz - Outside
EASYFUN - Sondico [PC Music]
Madison McFerrin - No Time To Lose [MadMcFerrin Music]

Intro (320kbs-m4a/15mb/7mins)
Outro (320kbs-m4a/1.3mb/32secs)