Published
Thu, Mar 15, 2018, 16:00
- The label says the 36-track set is "as much a production as a DJ mix."
Max Cooper is next up on the Balance mix series.
The UK producer, known for cinematic sound design and conceptual multimedia projects, took a technical, hands-on approach to Balance 30, which is out on May 4th. He went heavy on editing and rearranging, treating the project "as much as a production as a DJ mix," says the label. There's even binaural processing, which alters the directional and spatial distribution of sound in the listener's speakers or headphones.
The tracklist, which moves from atmospheric techno and breakbeats to field recordings, includes artists like Nils Frahm, Batu, Tessela, Rob Clouth and Donato Dozzy. As usual, it's available in the form of a two-CD mix and as a double-LP unmixed compilation, with exclusives from Cooper and others. Balance 30 follows James Zabiela's entry into the series, which Carlos Hawthorn reviewed here.
Listen to a Balance 30 mini-mix.
Tracklist
CD1
01. Ben Lukas Boysen, Sebastian Plano - A Greater Pattern
02. Bing and Ruth - The How of it Sped
03. Nils Frahm - For (Max Cooper Remix)
04. Bxentric - Afon
05. Max Cooper - Balance (Perc Tool)
06. Geotic - Actually Smiling
07. Agrippa – Ziplash
08. Portable Sunsets - Straylight (Dave DK remix)
09. Max Cooper - Music Of The Tides
10. Nils Frahm, Olafur Arnalds - 23:52
11. Deapmash - Blocks
12. Burnski - Control
13. Tenebre - Axe Nord-Sud
14. Lusine - Ticking Hands feat. Sarah McIlwain
15. Donato Dozzy - A Ritmica
16. Batu - Stairwells
17. Max Cooper - Organa (Patrice Bäumel Balance Remix)
18. Max Cooper - Resynthesis
CD2
19. Lusine - Tropopause (Loscil Remix)
20. Tim Hecker - Chimeras
21. Brecon - Half Light
22. Tessela - Helter Skelter
23. Rob Clouth - Shedding Layers
24. Hidden Orchestra - Wingbeats (Max Cooper Remix)
25. Rob Clouth - Transition (Ben Lukas Boysen Remix)
26. Kimyan Law - Luba
27. Com Truise - Ternary
28. Rob Clouth - Silica
29. HLZ - Dream Source
30. LSB - About Tonight
31. Lee Chapman - Believe In Something
32. Belief Defect - Disembarking Horizons
33. Alix Perez - Blips
34. Atoms for Peace - Default
35. Vaetxh - Unfolding Mechanism
36. Rival Consoles - What Sorrow
Double-LP:
A1 Bing and Ruth - The How Of It Sped
A2 Nils Frahm - For (Max Cooper Remix)
B1 Max Cooper - Music Of The Tides
B2 Rob Clouth - Shedding Layers
C1 Max Cooper - Resynthesis
C2 Com Truise - Ternary
C3 Kimyan Law - Luba
C4 Max Cooper - Balance (Perc Tool)
D1 Rob Clouth - Transition (Ben Lukas Boysen Remix)
D2 Alix Perez - Blips
D3 Atoms for Peace - Default
D4 Vaetxh - Unfolding Mechanism
Balance Music will release Balance 30 on May 4th, 2018.