Along the road of self-expression, an artist finds themself in an ever-shifting flurry of highs and lows. Both internal and external, one learns that these come with the territory of sharing one’s vision, especially after momentum takes hold. But among those highs, there are some that reach the surreal plateaus of a “career-defining” moment, moments that sing the arias of achievement, moments the artist will remember with crystalline detail for the rest of their life.
It is in the wake of one of these peak moments that Maxfield shares his most recent release: Anemoia EP. This crisp, full-ranged journey delivers four exciting IDs from the artist’s set last April at the final edition of Tipper and Friends Suwannee, a beloved festival that has inspired countless musicians to try their hands at production since its inception, often providing a home and spotlight for these artists to showcase their work to the community and make a name for themselves.
Album Art: Ella Rosa / Pulp Prints
Following the event, Maxfield wrote on social media that this set, paired with DR01D Visuals, leading directly into Tipper on Uptempo Night, was “the biggest honor” of his life. The four tracks on Anemoia embody both the teeter-totter of emotions experienced during the artist’s preparation for this celebrated performance and the supercharged yet reflective release that followed its actuality.
Read on to learn more about Maxfield and the music that makes up this electrifying EP.
A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston-based Maxfield is a melodic menace, a sonic lapidarist, crafting textured soundscapes that baffle the brain and bolster the heart. Mixing flourishes of instrumentation with industrious sound design that draws influence from genres like neuro, glitch, psybient, future bass, jazztronica, cinematic scoring, and more, Maxfield is a melting pot of musical madness that meets the ears brimming with fresh and invigorating arrangements.
Whether he’s drawing tears with his dexterous downtempo or inciting a frenzy on the dance floor with bangers of equal emotion and skill, Maxfield always delivers a proper package of polished tunes to his growing fanbase–the range of an artist who refuses to be locked into a single sound camp.
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Following a solid year of exemplary EPs, masterful mixes, and a number of unique, high profile shows, 2025 has already seen a few unexpected releases from the passionate producer leading up to this current project. In January, Maxfield released “Goodins” on Generation I, the debut compilation from new label arrival. This was soon followed by Slowblink, Vol. 1, a two-track collaboration with Drewidd. On the live side for 2025, Maxfield played prime slots at festivals like Infrasound, Fam Fest, and Tipper and Friends Suwannee, and he recently played with Mindex in Atlanta, with a handful of anticipated shows lined up for the months ahead.
PC: Dead Leaf Arts
Anemoia
According to The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, anemoia is the feeling of nostalgia for a time you’ve never known. Those of us who couldn’t make it to “The Swamp” for the final edition of TnF probably feel a touch of anemoia for much of the music missed that weekend. Thankfully, mixes and EPs like this have given us a taste of at least some of the magic that came to be at the festival.
The EP opens with the ethereal ooze and topsy-turvy tonality of “Runtsplitter”–the title itself a playful neologism coined by the producer in the throes of late-night shenanigans. This track is like a carnival of subatomic Willy Wonka womps, a lysergic visit to Frick Frack at 3am. Funky synths, rizzled horns, and airy jazz keys mingle with boisterous bass for a lasting effect of full-tilt swagger.
“Get It Together” builds like the blast-off clock of a dystopian space race. Broken up by a deconstructive scatter of cyber glitches and pizzicato bass riffs, the track soon launches into a drum-and-bass hyper tunnel of motion and reciprocity, fragmenting, gathering pieces, an aural assimilation of onward trudge against the currents of life. This is the affirmative sound of control lost and control regained.
The third track, “Moving Through Sludge”, is a chunky swamp romper full of distortion and knee-high power bass. While it may be the shortest on the EP, this track is rife with blood and bone marrow, a bellicose banger guaranteed to evoke waves of frenetic movement from start to finish.
And thus we reach our conclusion: “Left Behind”. Ending on a more introspective note, this track was also the swoon-worthy finale of Maxfield’s set. As the layers unfold in short-circuit ripples, we find ourselves in a night forest of surprising shapes and shadows. Teeming with a palette of familiar feels, forlorn horns begin to blow atop scattered piano. The moon drifts in and out of dense clouds, revealing just enough to keep our footing. Unsettling as it is empowering, this is a track of decisions that must be made whether we want to or not. This, in the end, is the only dance there is.
What’s Next
As we reach the end of an era with Dave Tipper’s upcoming retirement, there is a select group of experimental producers who will find themselves directly in the spotlight. Showcasing himself these past years as an artist with both the vision and capability to produce intricate music of all-encompassing range, Maxfield is clearly one of those to whom the light has already found its way.
The producer has recently stated that there is much in the works, with a number of releases both solo and collaborative on the horizon.
“Unless all the servers go down, releasing art, it has the potential to outlive you. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately… I want to release music more often, and this EP will hopefully be the start of a nice string.”-Maxfield
This August, you can catch Maxfield live at a boat party in Long Island with Entangled Mind, headlining a skatepark show in Orlando, and playing the Sacred Hive event after Tipper at the Orion Amphitheater with Resonant Language and Koan Sound. In September, Maxfield will be playing Sacred Acre Music Festival in Alaska, and come October, he will also be serving his sound underground at The Caverns with Papadosio for one of their last curated events before hiatus.
We’re sure there will be plenty more to come, so stay up to date with everything you need to know at the links below.
Along the road of self-expression, an artist finds themself in an ever-shifting flurry of highs and lows. Both internal and external, one learns that these come with the territory of sharing one’s vision, especially after momentum takes hold. But among those highs, there are some that reach the surreal plateaus of a “career-defining” moment, moments that sing the arias of achievement, moments the artist will remember with crystalline detail for the rest of their life.
It is in the wake of one of these peak moments that Maxfield shares his most recent release: Anemoia EP. This crisp, full-ranged journey delivers four exciting IDs from the artist’s set last April at the final edition of Tipper and Friends Suwannee, a beloved festival that has inspired countless musicians to try their hands at production since its inception, often providing a home and spotlight for these artists to showcase their work to the community and make a name for themselves.
Following the event, Maxfield wrote on social media that this set, paired with DR01D Visuals, leading directly into Tipper on Uptempo Night, was “the biggest honor” of his life. The four tracks on Anemoia embody both the teeter-totter of emotions experienced during the artist’s preparation for this celebrated performance and the supercharged yet reflective release that followed its actuality.
Read on to learn more about Maxfield and the music that makes up this electrifying EP.
Maxfield
A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston-based Maxfield is a melodic menace, a sonic lapidarist, crafting textured soundscapes that baffle the brain and bolster the heart. Mixing flourishes of instrumentation with industrious sound design that draws influence from genres like neuro, glitch, psybient, future bass, jazztronica, cinematic scoring, and more, Maxfield is a melting pot of musical madness that meets the ears brimming with fresh and invigorating arrangements.
Whether he’s drawing tears with his dexterous downtempo or inciting a frenzy on the dance floor with bangers of equal emotion and skill, Maxfield always delivers a proper package of polished tunes to his growing fanbase–the range of an artist who refuses to be locked into a single sound camp.
Following a solid year of exemplary EPs, masterful mixes, and a number of unique, high profile shows, 2025 has already seen a few unexpected releases from the passionate producer leading up to this current project. In January, Maxfield released “Goodins” on Generation I, the debut compilation from new label arrival. This was soon followed by Slowblink, Vol. 1, a two-track collaboration with Drewidd. On the live side for 2025, Maxfield played prime slots at festivals like Infrasound, Fam Fest, and Tipper and Friends Suwannee, and he recently played with Mindex in Atlanta, with a handful of anticipated shows lined up for the months ahead.
Anemoia
According to The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, anemoia is the feeling of nostalgia for a time you’ve never known. Those of us who couldn’t make it to “The Swamp” for the final edition of TnF probably feel a touch of anemoia for much of the music missed that weekend. Thankfully, mixes and EPs like this have given us a taste of at least some of the magic that came to be at the festival.
The EP opens with the ethereal ooze and topsy-turvy tonality of “Runtsplitter”–the title itself a playful neologism coined by the producer in the throes of late-night shenanigans. This track is like a carnival of subatomic Willy Wonka womps, a lysergic visit to Frick Frack at 3am. Funky synths, rizzled horns, and airy jazz keys mingle with boisterous bass for a lasting effect of full-tilt swagger.
“Get It Together” builds like the blast-off clock of a dystopian space race. Broken up by a deconstructive scatter of cyber glitches and pizzicato bass riffs, the track soon launches into a drum-and-bass hyper tunnel of motion and reciprocity, fragmenting, gathering pieces, an aural assimilation of onward trudge against the currents of life. This is the affirmative sound of control lost and control regained.
The third track, “Moving Through Sludge”, is a chunky swamp romper full of distortion and knee-high power bass. While it may be the shortest on the EP, this track is rife with blood and bone marrow, a bellicose banger guaranteed to evoke waves of frenetic movement from start to finish.
And thus we reach our conclusion: “Left Behind”. Ending on a more introspective note, this track was also the swoon-worthy finale of Maxfield’s set. As the layers unfold in short-circuit ripples, we find ourselves in a night forest of surprising shapes and shadows. Teeming with a palette of familiar feels, forlorn horns begin to blow atop scattered piano. The moon drifts in and out of dense clouds, revealing just enough to keep our footing. Unsettling as it is empowering, this is a track of decisions that must be made whether we want to or not. This, in the end, is the only dance there is.
What’s Next
As we reach the end of an era with Dave Tipper’s upcoming retirement, there is a select group of experimental producers who will find themselves directly in the spotlight. Showcasing himself these past years as an artist with both the vision and capability to produce intricate music of all-encompassing range, Maxfield is clearly one of those to whom the light has already found its way.
The producer has recently stated that there is much in the works, with a number of releases both solo and collaborative on the horizon.
This August, you can catch Maxfield live at a boat party in Long Island with Entangled Mind, headlining a skatepark show in Orlando, and playing the Sacred Hive event after Tipper at the Orion Amphitheater with Resonant Language and Koan Sound. In September, Maxfield will be playing Sacred Acre Music Festival in Alaska, and come October, he will also be serving his sound underground at The Caverns with Papadosio for one of their last curated events before hiatus.
We’re sure there will be plenty more to come, so stay up to date with everything you need to know at the links below.
Featured Photograph: Dead Leaf Arts
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