00:00 01. The MFA - The Difference It Makes (Original Mix) 06:25 02. Meta.83 - Metalgroove ep:Antrieb 08:19 03. Jake Fairley - Oshawa 10:39 04. Zeta Reticula - Tool 1 11:58 05. Petter - All Together 19:01 06. Baby Ford & The Ifach Collective - Bad Friday 20:47 07. Zeta Reticula - Tool 3 21:47 08. Avus - Real 26:50 09. DJ ESP - No Future ep:No Future (Soundburnt mix) 29:04 10. Jase From Outta Space feat Claire - Do What You Want (Infusion’s Sky mix) 36:39 11. Nathan Fake - Outhouse (Fluffy mix) 39:56 12. Nathan Fake - Outhouse (Original Mix) 48:45 13. FortDax - Fortune Telling Fish, Curled to Suggest ‘Home’ 50:53 14. PQM - You Are Sleeping (PQM meets Luke Chable Vocal pass) 57:26 15. Petter - These Days (Instrumental)** 65:28 16. Herrmann & Klein - Leaving You Behind (Without Knowing Where To Go) ** Includes Beats of Baby Ford & The Ifach Collective - Bad Friday?
This double album has accompanied me through sun; rain; storm; hail; ice; snow; day; night; traffic jams; fast driving; alone; with family; with friends; unknown thousands of miles of motorway; autoroute; autobahn; autostrada; dálnice; snelweg; autopista - this album is my euphoric flying carpet…….
No doubt. Hwy. 285 in central/northern NM, flying thru the unknowable darkness. The binary streams of red and white light, as midnight passes, towards an uncertain destiny
Rolling joints with james Holden and the BC crew me holding the hash and him fetching rolling papers had no price in a backstage somewhere in paris back in… 2012
I remember how I had to wait months for this to come out - couldn't buy it where I lived, had to pick it up when I was in NYC for a holiday. I can still remember driving back from the city that Sunday, listening to it for the first time. Words can't describe.
Never heard it Jesse Murphy, for me its first time, I hit it by "accident" listening to SASHA Airdrawndigger album which I 4ever love. And now. Its 2019 ;-) cool real cool
Still one of the best collections of songs. This made an incredible impact in my life and took me through some rough and awesome shit. Im back in Mozambique now where I used to throw some insane parties years ago while this playing in the background. Lovit! Love it! Made a difference for me.
@@user-rc9pi2nw2o bwahahahahaha "Neo trance" you silly kids with your silly names. It's just good f*cking music dude, don't put it in boxes. btw Neo is new, this album is 18 years old, hardly new.
Это не хаус, а транс, и для прочтения моего сообщеня надо знать русский! Мне интересно почему я должен писать на английском, а амерканцы и англичане даже не парятся?
005 : well known discs.. unstoppable moments back then... still f.ing loving to listen to both of them.. holden rulz and the acts writing stuff also rulz.. but time changes as music. when you can hear and enjoy "old" tunes that means that are priceless. Thank god i lived (and survived) those loving times... very happy to see that there is people to also like this (as the second disc)
in my opinion ... best mix EVER .. james u crushed it .. songs flow perfectly into one another.. the definition of an immaculate mix is you really can't tell where one track ends and another begins but you also sort of can and they are so fucking insanely well matched .. the contrast is perfect and the feel moves like some cinematic movie and soon you're lifted to another place .. this is the James Holden Balance CD 1 experience
i'll definitely have to give this one a few listens, until then, James Lavelle's Barcelona GU 023 has been my go to since like 2003 or whenever that was.
its def. up there with Sasha's involver pt 1. not sure about politics though.. the only two in my opinion that could top this is Sasha's GU Ibiza 013 and Paul Oakenfold's Transport, bar none.
Spent 3 weeks in Ibiza, 5 lads from Canada, this album set became the soundtrack to our lives and the soundtrack to one of the best trips / life experiences ever. Forever in my ♥
If you have the good taste to have arrived here, I think you deserve a tracklist! 1. The Difference It Makes (Original Mix) - Mfa 2. Metalgroove EP: Antrieb - James Holden 3. Oshawa - Jake Fairley 4. Tool 1 - Zeta Reticula 5. All Together - Petter 6. Bad Friday - Baby Ford 7. Tool 3 - Zeta Reticula 8. Real - James Holden 9. No Future EP: No Future (Soundburnt Mix) - Dj Esp 10. Do What You Want (Infusion's Sky Mix) - Claire 11. Outhouse (Fluffy Mix) - James Holden 12. Outhouse (Original Mix) - James Holden 13. Fortune Telling Fish, Curled To Suggest 'Home' - Fortdax 14. You Are Sleeping (PQM Meets Luke Chable Vocal Pass) - Pqm 15. These Days (Instrmental) - Petter 16. Leaving You Behind (Without Knowing Where To Go) - Bernard Herrmann
I remember a very ling time ago I heard a mix and its had jasefos- do what you want acapella over nathan fake outhouse mashup.. it was incredible,do u happen to have heard it before and maybe point me in the direction of the mix i could have been?cheers
I took my Mom and my Uncle to James Holden set on the rooftop at the Standard LA. Only a few people there knew who Holden was / is. I spoke with Holden for a few. Then I asked my Mom and Uncle if they liked the music. They said "Yes! … it's got a good beat!"
Kind of a sad story but I remember my friend James giving me a burned copy of this CD maybe around 2007 or 2008 while I was a student at Ryerson university. I played it all the time in my 1992 Honda accord that I installed a cd player in. Sadly he passed away from an apparent drug overdose - he lives on through this memory. Thanks for the good times James.
you could imagine yourself in an art gallery in Europe, sitting in the same place, watching everything unfold around you, the art work, unfolding, the people, unfolding, everything unfolding and dividing and melting underneath you, as this music plays. Then you jump across frame by frame as the melt in well under way, to your rockier destination of funky peaks. Rather what you would expect from James Holden. Come a long since having his tune on a mixmag cd haha. Was a pretty good one to be fair. anyway, enough story telling... enjoy this mix of James Holden. An inspiration to all aspiring producers. of anything...haha xD
if my life could be but into music and each year = 1 minute this would be my 111.45 minutes/years on earth summed up in a piece of music, truly a masterpiece of digital music , thank you James, I had the pleasure of meeting you 15 years ago( in Melb aus), and still the end of balance 005 brings tears to my eyes....... I want a reserve ticket carriage 1.
Firmly within my top five ever mixes. It's a shame in a way that Holden abandoned his alluring brand of dark prog, but I guess he felt he was moving with the times. Timeless classic. The mixout between Do What You Want into Outhouse is, alone, stunning.
Ooh now let me see. I've had this conversation so many times with friends. OK, in no particular order: 1) Jonathan Lisle - Bedrock OS.0_2 2) Nick Warren - GU 28, Shanghai 3) Tiefschwarz - Fabric 4) James Holden, Balance 5) S&D - Northern Exposure 1 Ouch that was hard. No place for Henry Saiz's or Joris Voorn's Balance; no place for S&D - The Mix Collection, not sure how I'm gonna live with myself for that. How about you?
duketranslucent3rd I don't have one, i'm new to these DJ mixes stuff so i asked since you seem to know a lot about them ;) For now, i particularly like this, Balance 014 and Jeff Mills - Liquid Room (basically, the cliche ones). Thanks for answering though, now i have more mixes to go after o/
Aha OK :) Well those five are all great but it depends what branch of EDM (electronic dance music) you prefer. If you like this (Holden's Balance) then check out Henry Saiz's Balance, or Sasha's Global Underground #9 (San Francisco.)
duketranslucent3rd When comes to electronic, i am mainly into predominant full LP artists like Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada so, finding the existence of these mixes really opened another whole world of discoveries for me, exploring it should be fun. Anyway, thanks Duke, i will definitely check them!
Picked this up a few years ago after recognising the artist from one of my favourite tracks (Horizons) on a Dave Seaman compilation . I was blown away by disc one but couldn't find the same love for disc 2. I played the shit out of this for a year or two and put it away in a random cd case which I stumbled upon the other day. Man it's new to me all over again, probably the best thing that's happened so far this year finding that disc. I wonder how long it will be before this actually sounds dated.
Sean Simpson music never sounds dated to those who can transcend the petty, pretentious attitude of feeling you have to only listen to whatever's come out this week. Everything now is rehashed shit from back in the day anyway.
Sean Simpson I listened to both discs for the first time last night. I agree, disc two doesn't stack up to disc one - but that's a good thing, I think. Disc one is so incredibly good it would be hard for any disc to follow. What he did follow it with fits well with the set. I can't believe this is from 2003. Amazing.
If music doesn't go for the obvious tricks of the era and doesn't abuse a new technology trick or a over played riff or sample it will never sound dated imho. That's why this mix will always sound great because it doesn't go for the super obvious tunes and tricks of the era.
the emotions that track has given me. the lyrics "I just can't believe, you're with someone else & if you ever need me, i'll be here for you" do hit hard don't they.
Still probably my fave mix of all time. Henry saiz balance came close, Paul oakenfold global underground new York up there as well, but this still has it for me!
balance series, other than d1 on 005, I'm going disc 3 on burridge. that is mnml heaven, or west coast on yoshiesque2, or of course northern exposure. or maybe bukem on logical progression. theres some good music out there in the archives
Jamie Moore I'll have a look at West Coast - not come across that one before. Ltj bukem has done some epic stuff as well your right - progression sessions 5 and 6 still get regular play from me :) happy listening anyway!
Whenever I feel like listening to good music, after hearing all of the current EDM crap, I directly head towards Northern Exposure, Global Underground, Balance 05 and Involvers. These have the capability to make you happy, or to pull you of bad mood. I feel privileged to be able to enjoy this kind of music. I hope EDM listeners will one day become mature and appreciate this kind of music.
