Max Imann

My Story

I’ve been making electronic music since the early 2000s, taking familiar forms and quietly shifting them until they feel slightly off-centre. I work across tech house, minimal deep house, French filter house, leftfield house, trap and lo-fi electronics, but I treat genre as material rather than a fixed identity. I cut recorded and generated vocals down and bury them in the mix, exaggerate the groove and low end, and let structures stretch beyond the point where they are expected to resolve. I’m interested in the small changes that alter how a listener feels inside the sound, rather than in obvious drops or easy payoffs.

My background in computer music programming, audio systems engineering, commercial radio production and underground nights has shaped both my discipline and my impatience. I’m drawn to dark humour, unease, provocation and morally ambiguous atmospheres, but I’m not interested in DJing, clubbing, live performance, festivals or simply attacking mainstream dance music. Through Filtre Noir, my independent imprint, I make records for people who stand slightly apart from the spectacle and listen for texture, detail and something less easily explained. I want the music to feel personal to anyone who recognises that position.