An Echo Skips A Name

An Echo Skips A Name (alternate take)

Back to Control EP

Don't Look Back

In 2006, when the borders of progressive house were starting to blur and music started melting into the digital sphere, Balance 010 arrived with almost monastic ambition. A three-disc journey mixed by Jimmy Van M, the release cut against the pace of its moment: patient, structured, emotionally articulate, and stubbornly uninterested in chasing trends. It didn’t shout for attention. It didn’t try to out-shine the giants of the series. Instead, it built something more durable, a slow-burn statement that critics recognised as one of the era’s most meticulous experiments in long-form storytelling.

CD1: Downtempo Mix

01. E. Shibabaw & Bill Laswell – Ethiopia
02. Bill Laswell – Babylon Ghost
03. Future Sound Of London – Study Of Six Guitars
04. Laika – Coming Down Glass
05. Coldcut – Autumn Leaves
06. Union Jack – Water Drums
07. Casino Versus Japan – Slo Bid Bellwave
08. Nathan Fake – Falmer
09. Boards Of Canada – Dayvan Cowboy
10. Anoushka Shankar – Beloved (Thievery Corporation Remix)
11. Wax Poetic Feat. Norah Jones – Angels (Thievery Corporation Remix)
12. Autechre – Nine
13. Boards Of Canada – Everything You Do Is A Balloon
14. Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm – Rising Dust
15. Depeche Mode – Halo (Goldfrapp Remix)
16. The Egg – Walking Away
17. Bonobo – Everything You Do

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Balance 010: Jimmy van M (Disc 1)

Speranza EP

The Chant

In 2006, when the borders of progressive house were starting to blur and music started melting into the digital sphere, Balance 010 arrived with almost monastic ambition.

Disc 2 is the heart of Balance 010, the warm midtempo arc that gives the entire three-disc structure its emotional weight. It rises slowly from ambient drift into soft breakbeats, glides through Cocteau Twins shimmer and Speedy J tension, and lands in that hypnotic space where Boards of Canada, Ellen Allien, Aphex Twin and Underworld all feel like parts of the same world. 

Critics consistently pointed to this disc as the most replayable, the most cinematic, the place where Jimmy’s instinct for mood and narrative became unmistakable. It moves without forcing momentum, deepens without darkening, and closes on a fourteen-minute Underworld remix that turns the whole project into a pilgrimage. 

If Balance 10 has a centre of gravity, Disc 2 is it.

CD2: Downtempo Mix

1. Miles Tilmann – Floating Windows
2. Miles Tilmann – Minutes
3. Steve T. – How Are You
4. Cocteau Twins – Blue Bell Knoll
5. Speedy J – Oil Zone
6. Adam Johnson – Kriegspiel
7. Adam Johnson – Version 2
8. Ellen Allien & Apparat – Bubbles
9. Boards of Canada – Skyliner
10. Peter Benisch – Desert White (Joel Mull Mix)
11. Babel – X-Equals
12. Aphex Twin – Delphium
13. Brandi Ifgray – Mono
14. I:Cube – Cash Conv.
15. LCD Soundsystem – Too Much Love (Rub-N-Tug Mix)
16. Saint Etienne – Cool Kids of Death (Underworld Remix)

Bedrock: For what you dream of

Source Of The Light