Ben Jacobs, more commonly known by the stage name Max Tundra, is an English multi-instrumental musician, singer and music producer. His work is predominantly electronic music but incorporates non-electronic styles and instruments. Other than his full length albums, he has also done remix work for bands of varying genres including Franz Ferdinand, Architecture in Helsinki, Kid606 and the Pet Shop Boys. Tundra also hosts a weekly radio show on Resonance FM, called Max Tundra's Rotogravure.

Max Tundra was born in the United Kingdom and grew up taking piano lessons, but mostly enjoyed playing television theme songs and music from adverts. As a teenager, he bought a Commodore Amiga 500 and began exploring electronic music with it. Warp Records received one song he recorded titled "Children at Play" and released it as a single in 1998. Following this single his debut album Some Best Friend You Turned Out to Be was released by Domino Records in the United Kingdom in 2000.

The instrumental record was followed up with Mastered by Guy at the Exchange which was his first album to use vocals. Max Tundra explained "When I was writing Some Best Friend, I thought of all sorts of weird and wonderful machines and instruments I could use to make noises, but singing never occurred to me. I had never considered using my voice on any Max Tundra record ever, but hey, I like to keep things varied, so this time round I figured what the hell!" Mastered By Guy At The Exchange received positive reviews, including being named the 12th top album of the year on Pitchfork Media's list of top 50 albums of 2002.

In 2006, Max Tundra released a new single as part of Tomlab records "Alphabet Series" for the Letter M. The single included a cover of The KLF's "What Time Is Love?", made with his Amiga during 1989. In 2008, Max Tundra toured with Hot Chip for a United Kingdom tour. as well announced his new album, released on October 20, 2008 which he had worked on for the past six years. The first single from the album is titled "Will Get Fooled Again" and was released on September 29, 2008.

Albums

Year	Title
2000	Some Best Friend You Turned Out to Be Released: April 25, 2000 Label: Domino Formats: CD, LP
2002	Mastered by Guy at the Exchange Released: September 2, 2002 Label: Domino / Tigerbeat6 Formats: CD, LP
2008	Parallax Error Beheads You Released: October 20, 2008 Label: Domino Formats: CD, LP

Singles

Year	Title	Album	Label
1998	"Children At Play"	non-album single.	Warp
2000	"Cakes"	Some Best Friend You Turned Out to Be	Domino
	"Ink Me"
2001	"QY20 Songs"	non-album single.
2002	"Lysine"	Mastered By Guy At The Exchange
2003	"Cabasa"
2006	"Alphabet Series: M"	non-album single	Tomlab
2008	"Will Get Fooled Again"	Parallax Error Beheads You	Domino

Remixes

Year	Remixed track	Released on	Artist(s)
1998	"Helicon 2"	Kicking a Dead Pig: Mogwai Songs Remixed	Mogwai
2000	"Dandy"	Kid 606 and Friends Volume 1	Kid606
	"Wow"	"Wow"	Janek Schaefer
2001	"Lilypad"	Altered and Proud	Ruby
2002	"Long Distance"	"Long Distance"	Turin Brakes
	"Whindie"	Whindie	Ambulance
2004	"Alone, Together"	"All Hail The Black Emperor"	The Strokes
	"The Owls Go"	A Commemorative Keepsake	Architecture in Helsinki
	"Mein Nehi Jana"	"Mein Nehi Jana"	Future Pilot AKA
2005	"Decent Days and Nights"	"Decent Days and Nights"	The Futureheads
	"Moonlight in the Afternoon"	"Moonlight in the Afternoon"	Shirokuma
	"The Effect On Me"	"The Effect On Me"	Mint Royale
2006	"Do You Want To"	"The Fallen"	Franz Ferdinand
	"I'm with Stupid"	"I'm with Stupid"	Pet Shop Boys
2007	"Fledermaus Can't Get It"	"Fledermaus Can't Get It"	Von Südenfed
	"Hold Music"	Like It or Not	Architecture in Helsinki
	"Bullets"	"Bullets"	Tunng
2008	"Enough About Human Rights"	(forthcoming)	Moondog

• Official site
• Max Tundra at Domino Records
• "the thing is..." interview with Max Tundra
• Pitchfork review of Mastered By Guy At The Exchange
• Max Tundra interview in Pitchfork