Balance 007

Chris Fortier | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 10, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: E.Q.
• ASIN: B00078802U
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #118,993 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Global Communications – The Deep (40oz Re-edit)

2. Floppy Sounds – Entertainment (Carl Craig’s Blue Miniature Morph Mix)

3. Error Error – It Hits My Hair (Falling Deep)

4. 2Dollar Egg – 4 Rooms (Fahrenheit)

5. Alex Smoke – Pingu

6. PJ Davy – Sella Door

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Disc: 2

1. HD Substance – Minimo

2. Vector Lovers – Futures in Plastic (Claro Intelecto remix)

3. Mathew Jonson – Love Letter to the Enemy

4. Jussi Pekka – Propaganda

5. Rene Breitbarth – Cooling the Plasma

6. Connors & Klingler feat. Fay Sephirah – Usage

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Disc: 3

1. Sinewave – Sinewave

2. Leigh Dickson – Praise

3. Anthony Rother – Synthetic

4. 2 Rare People – Ocean (Transparent Sound Mix)

5. Mathew Jonson – Behind The Mirror

6. Direct – Let It Ride

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Editorial Reviews

In a time when the words progressive house are no longer as chic as they once were, it is artists such as Chris Fortier who are genuinely pushing the sound forward. No greater example would be Chris’ 2002 Bedrock compilation mix CD. Rather than including big names, he chose to create a platform for artists such as Meat Katie, Jay Tripwire, and Randall Jones before they went on to greater success.

While some U.S. DJs boast about playing the world, few can genuinely claim to cover as many international air miles as Fortier. Since a Bedrock/Babelicious UK tour with John Digweed back in 1997, Chris has gone on to consistently tour the globe over the past 8 years. Chris’ DJ roots can be traced back to Central Florida in the early 1990s. As one of the pioneers of a scene which mirrored the UK at the time, Chris held residencies at the legendary Aahz nights. These visionary nights served as a platform to bring Sasha and John Digweed to America for the first time, and establish an "Orlando" scene that would become the benchmark for the rest of the U.S in the subsequent years.

As Chris’ careers moves well into it’s second decade, he continues to juggle his worldwide schedule with his solo production career, while heading back into the studio for his first international compilation in two years, compiling the seventh release in the acclaimed Balance CD Series.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Respect for your elders, July 15, 2005

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Luke - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Balance 007 (Audio CD)

There's a lot of 'love it or hate' reviews on this album, a lot of grandstanding about what progressive is, or should be, who's stuck in the past, who's moving thing forward, blah blah.

But, Balance 007 seems (to me at least) to have incorporated the better elements of new and old, progressive, house, trance, and techno. Alot of the rythms are nu skool infused and conjure up names like Chable, Habersham, Meat Katie, Coombs, Phil K, and others. Unlike Chable's recent addition to Seaman's Rennaisance series and Phil K's Y4k, though, Fortier actually incoporates melody and harmony, you know, the pretty stuff. But, it's done with a driving, darker edge that digs deeper than your last generation progressive and yet retains the forward momentum and contextual 'whole' that lacks in a lot of the empty sounding Y4k's and Alive's(Zabiela) of the world. No disprespect to those sounds live - Zabiela may be my top 5 live acts - but this is an album and should be judge as such.

CD 2 and 3 are probably my favorites. Three just gets me moving and its energy is subtle but so powerful - the best kind!

All in all a great fresh sound that, as with any decent new material, retains the better elements of the foundation upon which it is allowed to flourish.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEYOND Bedrock..., May 29, 2005

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Roger Riddell (Lexington, KY. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Balance 007 (Audio CD)

To all the nay sayers of this genre defying electronic soundscape, insidiously crafted by Chris Fortier - it's called PROGRESSIVE house for a reason... Expand your minds, welcome challenging, experimental sounds and immerse yourself in this nuclear reactor of electronic body music.

Granted, the 1st disc is a bit a-melodic as Fortier truly creates an experiment in sound. The grooves are driving and the cheez mercilessly obliterated by the grinding, teched-out, low-slung aural arsenal. Disc 2 is suffused with a sort of tech-trance (gasp!) hybrid with the storming 'Fan Dancing Vampires' mix of Floppy Sounds "Open the Door"; one of the most cerebral, pummeling stealth weapons in progressive house to date. The dizzying mix culminates with the blissed out, string drenched yearnings of Bent's "As You Fall", gorgeously remixed by Micah.

This 3 disc progressive house juggernaut orbits light years beyond Fortier's Bedrock masterpiece, crosses unknown thresholds within the genre and takes electronica to the next level, all in one fell swoop...

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great album, June 3, 2005

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Michael Mcmahon "The Stunter" (Norristown, Pa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Balance 007 (Audio CD)

This takes the cake when referring to the balance series. Bye bye Holden. Fortier really delivers some great tracks here with many different sounds. Granted I thought the second and third cds were easier to listen to, the first cd was so damn interesting. I can't wait to hear Sasha's new cd Fundacion, because I'm sure he will claim the mountain again. The whole ending to Fortier's second disc is just great, with tribal, techy, and euphoric sounds all mixed in. The whole cd makes you want to dance to some of these dirty beats. This is raw. Buy it.