Max Tannone, formerly known as Minty Fresh Beats,Tonic, Lucy (2009)
THE INTERVIEW: DJ/Producer Max Tannone.
''Short and Sweet NYC.'' Retrieved 2010-08-27 is a New York music producer most notable for his production of mashup music.Miyamoto, Justin (2010)
Jaydiohead: Our interview with the head behind the head, Max Tannone.
''Proxart Magazine.'' Retrieved 2010-08-17

Early life and career

Born in

Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...

, Max lived in

Upstate New York Upstate New York is a geographic region consisting of the area of New York State that lies north and northwest of the New York City metropolitan area. Although the precise boundary is debated, Upstate New York excludes New York City and Long Is ...

for most of his life, until he moved back to New York City in 2008. He began making beats and remixes with

FL Studio FL Studio (previously known as FruityLoops before 2003) is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by the Belgian company Image-Line. FL Studio features a graphical user interface with a pattern-based music sequencer. The program is avail ...

(formerly Fruity Loops) at age 16.Montgomery,James (2009)
Jaydiohead DJ Says He'd Love Feedback From Jay-Z Or Radiohead.
''MTV.'' Retrieved 2010-08-27 Currently, Max uses FL Studio,

Acid Pro Acid Pro (often stylized ACID) is a professional digital audio workstation (DAW) software program currently developed by Magix Software. It was originally called Acid pH1 and published by Sonic Foundry, later by Sony Creative Software as Acid P ...

, and

Adobe Audition Adobe Audition is a digital audio workstation developed by Adobe Inc. featuring both a multitrack, non-destructive mix/edit environment and a destructive-approach waveform editing view. Origins Syntrillium Software was founded in the early 19 ...

.Beastie Mania (2009)
Interview with Taco Zip, Max Tannone and DJAK47."
''Beastie Mania'' Retrieved 2010-08-27 Some of Max's musical influences include the

Beastie Boys Beastie Boys were an American rap rock group from New York City, formed in 1978. The group was composed of Mike D, Michael "Mike D" Diamond (vocals, drums), Adam Yauch, Adam "MCA" Yauch (vocals, bass), and Ad-Rock, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz (voca ...

DJ Premier Christopher Edward Martin (born March 21, 1966), known professionally as DJ Premier (also known as Preemo), is an American record producer and DJ. He is considered one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time. He was half of the hip hop duo ...

Beck Beck David Hansen (born Bek David Campbell; July 8, 1970) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He rose to fame in the early 1990s with his Experimental music, experimental and Lo-fi music, lo-fi style, and became ...

, and

King Tubby Osbourne Ruddock (28 January 1941 – 6 February 1989), better known as King Tubby, was a Jamaican sound engineer who greatly influenced the development of dub in the 1960s and 1970s. Tubby's innovative studio work, which saw him elevate the ...

. Later on, he calls groups like A Tribe Called Quest, Black Star and The Roots to his most influenced groups.Paul, J. (2010)
The beards interview with producer Max Tannone.
''Beards I Want To Touch.'' Retrieved 2010-08-27Aviator (2011)
Interview with Max Tannone pt. 2.
''How my connection to Hip-Hop begun.'' Retrieved 2012-11-18 In December 2008, Max digitally released ''

Jaydiohead ''Jaydiohead'' is the mashup project of the music of Jay-Z and Radiohead that was mixed and produced by New York producer Minty Fresh Beats (Max Tannone). Tannone premiered the album ''Jaydiohead'' on his Myspace page on December 30, 2008,Good ...

'', a mash-up album combining

Jay-Z Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as Jay-Z, is an American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and founder of Manhattan-based conglomerate talent and entertainment agency Roc Nation. He is regarded as one of ...

and

Radiohead Radiohead are an English rock band formed in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards); brothers Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments) and Colin Greenwood (bass) ...

.Montgomery, James (2009)
Jay-Z And Radiohead Collide On Jaydiohead Mash-Up Album."
''MTV.'' Retrieved 2010-08-27 Jaydiohead was Max's first full length mash-up project.Cochran, Todd (2009)
The Perfect Mix.
''The Dumbing of America.'' Retrieved 2010-08-27 Five additional Jaydiohead tracks were released in July 2009.Boni, Andrew (2009)
Jaydiohead is Back with The Encore.
''Jetcomx.'' Retrieved 2010-08-27 In September 2009, Max digitally released ''Doublecheck Your Head'', which mixed

vocals over instrumental tracks the band recorded for their 'Check Your Head' disc. Max's third mash-up project, ''

Mos Dub ''Mos Dub'' is a mashup album of Mos Def and various classic reggae samples that was mixed and produced by New York producer Max Tannone. The album was officially released to download on April 6, 2010. Style Editing tracks from popular dub music ...

'' was digitally released in April 2010. Max is briefly featured in the Jaydiohead "Ignorant Swan Medley" music video.Vimeo Staff Pick (2010)
Vimeo Staff Picks.
''Vimeo.'' Retrieved 2010-08-27 Max has described his creative process as finding ''"an acapella and a song I want to sample. Next I chop up the original song into short pieces so I can re-arrange it, and from here I build the track around the vocals. Once the skeleton is completed, I began adding drums, FX, other instruments, edit the vocals, etc. Really just making it as you go."'' Marco On The Bass (2010)

'Marco On The Bass.'' Retrieved 2010-08-27

Discography

*''

'' (2009) **'' Jaydiohead: The Encore'' (2009) *''

Doublecheck Your Head ''Doublecheck Your Head'' is a mashup album of songs from the 1992 album ''Check Your Head'' by the Beastie Boys that was mixed and produced by New York producer Max Tannone. The album was released to download on September 1, 2009. Production Th ...

'' (2009) *''

'' (2010) *''

Dub Kweli ''Dub Kweli'' is a mashup album of Talib Kweli and various classic reggae samples that was mixed and produced by New York producer Max Tannone. The album was officially released to download on August 29, 2010. Style Editing tracks from popular du ...

'' (2010) *''Selene'' (2011) *''Ghostfunk'' (2011) *''Mic Check 1234!'' (2012) *''Champagne Jerry − For Real, You Guys'' (2013) *''Champagne Jerry − The Champagne Room'' (2016) *''Champagne Jerry − I've Grown'' (2018) *''Trading WAV Sound System'' (2020) *''NNNNYYYY'' (2021)

References

External links

Official site of Max Tannone
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tannone, Max Musicians from New York City Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Manhattan FL Studio users