Max Turner is a Scottish-German vocalist, producer and songwriter. He is known for being one of the core founders and contributors of the

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, as well as releasing a steady flow of collaborative and solo projects in his distinctive style of rhythm & poetry since his debut in 2001

Life and career

Career

In 1999 Turner moved to Berlin and founded Puppetmastaz with his cousin Paul Affel

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and several others. They were joined by Taylor Savvy to form the short lived rap-quartet ''The'' Bench'' which featured on a''

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Records ''release among others.'' The album Lost Treasures furthermore features early collaborations between the above-mentioned Mc's and producers such as Patric Catani, Bomb20 and Nitro, all of whom are considered the artistic bedrock of the Puppetmastaz crew. Other artists that Turner collaborated with and who influenced him during these formative professional years in Berlin include

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and Gina V. D'Orio of Cobrakiller as well as

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with whom he collaborated on the Puppetmastaz single Scandalous. Working with Producer Marcus Rossknecht he founded the band Meteorites in Barcelona where he lived for a significant period and signed to Cristian Vogel's Rise Robots Rise Records. His first solo album ''The purple pro'', produced in Stockholm, gained some underground recognition that garnered further momentum through a string of collaborative releases with producers such as SchneiderTM for Cityslang, Cristian Vogel for Novamute and Matias Aguayo's De Papel for

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records. He has also contributed vocals to several releases by Japanese sound artist Kouhei Matsunaga on labels such as

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, Wordsound and Autechre's Skam label under the alternative moniker Google Premiere;. In 2011 The Hindu newspaper reported that Turner had performed in Hydrabad and was studying Indian classical music , exploring the subcontinent and founding a live project called The Migrations with several collaborators which contributed to the Boarder movement in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Turner has worked as an arranger, producer and songwriter for several seasons of runway shows by

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under the direction of Dominik Emrich.

References

External links

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Max Turner at Discogs
{{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, Max 1980 births Living people Musicians from Hamburg