MAX COOPER – BALANCE 030
2018-05-04Balance has long been a series that elicits the greatest efforts and most original thinking from artists when it comes to the concept of what we know as a DJ mix. On a technical level, 118-minute odyssey is drenched with subtle detailing, editing, rearranging — even binaural processing only audible on headphones that appears to make sounds move around the listener’s head in all directions.
Exclusives come in the form of Coopers’ own Balance (Perc Tool) — self-explanatory — and the blissful depths of Music of The Tides, constructed using an intricate binaural particle cloud simulator plugin created by Rob Clouth. “I wanted to create moving clouds of sound and similarly swelling clouds of melodic synthesis with soft pads and delays” Cooper says of the majestic composition. Clouth also provides three other tracks on the mix (“you can spot which tracks are his by the mastery of intricate productions and beautiful sound design”). More unreleased material comes via Deapmash’s Blocks — a fixture in Cooper’s sets of late — and fellow Balance compiler Patrice Baumel’s remix of Cooper’s Organa, which Baumel wanted to scrap until he witnessed the amazing reactions when Cooper played it at a festival they both featured at last year. New English act Brecon provide sumptuous broken beat electronica on another exclusive, Half Light, and Cooper’s remix of Nils Frahm’s Juno-60 based live jam, For, which finally gets an official release.
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