Max Tundra real name Ben Jacobs is an English multi-instrumental musician singer and music producer His works are mainly electronic music, but includes non-electronic styles and instruments
Jacobs was born in Britain and grew up taking piano lessons, but most enjoyed playing TV theme song and music from the ads as a teenager, he bought a Commodore Amiga 500 and started to explore electronic music with it, he is still using the 1985 computer to this day but only for sequencing the sound of Max Tundra records come from a variety of sources, including real and synthetic musical instruments arranged frequent in complex ways Warp had a song he recorded "The playing children" and released the single in 1998
He has released three albums well received in respect fo Domino Records: "Some best friend you turned out to be" (full instrumental) was released in 2000 "Mastered by the guy on the Exchange" (with vocals by Ben and sister Becky from the band Tunng) was released in 2002 and "Parallax Error beheads You" (only Ben duties on vocals) was released in October 2008
Other than full length albums, he has also done remix work for bands with different genres, including Franz Ferdinand Architecture in Helsinki Kid606 and Pet Shop Boys Tundra also hosts a radio show on Resonance FM called Max Tundra's Rotogravure He was one of the last musicians to ever record a John Peel Session
