Maxo

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Composer / Producer / Scorer

Max Coburn, often under the name ‘Maxo’ is a musician and sound designer from Brooklyn, New York who specializes in digitally produced music, channelling a wide array of style and influence from Jazz, to Digital Fusion, to various types of dance music and beyond.

Maxo has been a major player and pioneer in many music communities for over a decade, and is known best for works including the acclaimed Chordslayer EP & website, their influential LEVEL MUSIC project, contributions to popular indie games, Celeste and Spin Rhythm XD, and their most recent soundtrack for Netflix’s interactive series, Battle Kitty.

Maxo has garnered attention with their brand of detailed, jazz-influenced electronic music and played frequent live sets in and around New York. They have since released both original and remixed music under a diverse variety of labels & imprints including PC Music, NHX, Maltine Records, TREKKIE TRAX, Brainfeeder, Record Record, DESKPOP, ubiktune, and more. This music has brought Maxo to stages around the world, from a Boiler Room set at 2015’s SXSW to multiple tours in Japan, South Korea, and various cities in the US and Canada. In line with their success as an independent musician, Max has been able to explore a variety of scoring opportunities, from more intimate personal projects all the way to hit indie-game soundtracks and full-scale animation scoring.

With their expanding global audience, Max continues to direct creativity toward their passion for music, both independent and for media alike. They have recently joined fellow composers Lena Raine, surasshu, FLOOR BABA and Miles Morkri as part of the music production cooperative, pluswav.

Max currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.