Blog: LocalCut

Active since: 1998 Members: Ben Jacobs; a whole bank of electronic doodads. Latest release: 2008's zany Parallax Error Beheads You, which took six years to make. Why you care: Ben Jacobs—who records, sings, and dances under the much-more-fun-sounding alias Max Tundra—is like a pint-sized mix of Aphex Twin's Richard D. James and Scritti Politti's Green Gartside. Since debuting with a single for Warp Records in 1998, Jacobs' output has been sporadic but always original. Onstage he's a nonstop hyperactive ball of energy, bouncing between keyboards [...]