Balance 005

James Holden | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 6, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: E.Q.
• ASIN: B0000TAZGK
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #126,190 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The MFA – The Difference It Makes (Original Mix)

2. Meta.83 –Antrieb

3. Jake Fairley – Oshawa

4. Zeta Reticula – Tool 1

5. Petter – All Together

6. Baby Ford & The Ifach Collective – Bad Friday

7. Zeta Reticula – Tool 3

8. Avus – Real

9. DJ ESP –No Future (Soundburnt Mix)

10. Jase From Outta Space– Do What You Want (Infusion’s Sky Mix)

11. Nathan Fake – Outhouse (Fluffy Mix)

12. Nathan Fake – Outhouse (Original Mix)

13. FortDax – Fortune Telling Fish, Curled to Suggest ‘Home’

14. PQM – You Are Sleeping (PQM Meets Luke Chable Vocal Pass)

15. Petter – These Days (Instrumental)

16. Herrmann & Kleine – Leaving You Behind

17. Meek – Happy (Original Mix)

18. Meerkat – Colours (JH Re-Edit)

19. Avus – Your Body (Original Mix)

20. Scape One – PFX Tokyo

See all 30 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

In the last few years James Holden has quickly established himself as one of the dance music community’s pillars, having an impact of which many an older producer and DJ can but dream.

Holden first shot to fame when Way Out West DJ Nick Warren charted the then-unknown 19-year-old’s "Horizons" on CDR for three months. Warren’s good taste was affirmed as the track went on to be a Pete Tong Essential new tune, was picked up by Sony’s dance label offshoot Incredible, and named one of UK dance bible Mixmag’s Top 100 dance records of all-time. Further singles along with various side projects for Hope Recordings, Bedrock and Loaded have compounded the young producer’s reputation, as he gradually evolved his own unique sound. His consistently beautiful and futuristic tracks and equally stunning remixes are always a mainstay of the major league DJ’s sets, from Sasha, Digweed and Nick Warren to Pete Tong, Oakenfold and Tiesto, with Sasha even asking him to collaborate on a track ("Bloodlock") for his Airdrawndagger album. James Holden offers EQ’s Balance series the most innovative selection of music to date. Showcasing his vast taste for left of center material matched with dance-floor sensibilities, James has compiled an eclectic mix of house, techno, melodies, and ambient moments, all fused with a progressive attitude, that will definitely capture the attention and imagination of clubbers and music connoisseurs alike.

Features tracks and remixes from the likes of FC Kahuna, Holden, Infusion, Carl A. Finlow, FortDax, Zeta Reticula, Petter, Meta.83, Baby Ford & The Ifach Collective, Luke Chable & more...

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars its time to hand down the torch, February 17, 2005

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T. Scarisbrick "tonytwocents" (Tampa, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Balance 005 (Audio CD)

I'd like to start off by saying that this is my first review. I've heard plenty of great mixes from S&D to Tenaglia, Sander to Deep Dish, but you wouldn't need any convincing to know that those guys are great. After listening to this mix, i felt that it was essential that you should know just how crazy this mix is.

I've always been a bit stubborn sticking with deep, progressive house, and though it is the foundation of this mix, Holden does a great job at mixing so many other elements and sounds that you'd be a fool to try and categorize this as anything other than brilliant.

At just 22 years old, it's scary to think that this guy is just getting started. The only other album that had this much of an effect on me was Sasha & Digweed's Northern Exposure. If you can relate, then this CD is a must have. I understand if you're still skeptical, He's not as big a name as others, and the audio samples on this page don't really give away much at all. But I just hope you don't make the same mistake I did and hold off another year before getting your hands on this. What an unbelievable talent.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TOPOR, February 17, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Balance 005 (Audio CD)

I grant this mix to be the most important release in the past few years. The fuzzyness and uncertanty of many opinions about this music will hopefuly be a little cleared up with this cd. It collects everything we always wish for in our music: beautiful melodies carved out of well-processed' sounds, intelligent percussion, even minimalism, full-filling beats, melodic basslines. Every part of this album seems to work with any other part. Be it the MFAs' "Difference it makes' or Petters'"Tonediary" everything seems to transform itself into another movement.
The devoted listeners will agree that technically in the past few years our music has been getting more and more complex, I think that it is the reason of the decline in the more trancy approach now that musicians are focusing a lot more on the different changes that this music brings to the brain. Before, the atmosphere around you seemed to be the main focus of the dance music. Now the atmosphere of the mind seems to be taking hold.
James Holden brought one of the first results of these experiments into light with his Balance. It is very techno-friendly with the lightness of Holdens style showing through. It is dreamy, and yet it makes me feel very strange, something that has been boiling inside, that feeling that a lot of electronic music brings has been magnified.
The bottom line, the mainline;) of this review is that this music brings undescribable pleasure and a view of the future.

brilliant

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Holden = Genius, January 26, 2005

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Omar A. Stamp - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Balance 005 (Audio CD)

Disc 1 is a masterpiece, feels like the end of a beautiful movie by the end of track 16, Disc 2 is more club orientated w/ tracks like FC Kahuna - Hayling, but a very good choice to get feet moving. Keep it up James