Very much enjoyed this, lovely sounds!! Progression is good also.
CD1 is a mix of some amazing downtempo / electronica / beatless while CD2 is more uptempo with techno / tech house and also some electronica elements.
Some awesome layering on both discs, with great use of a few samples here and there (also some not so great use here and there btw )

Here's the more complete tracklist btw:

CD1 - ALLER RETOUR
1. Gregg Kowalsky - Ashes From Evermore
2. Alva Noto – Xerrox Monophaser 2
++DJ Koze - Lords of Panama
3. Mark Pritchard - ?
4. Manvoy de Saint Sadrill - Soeheniona
5. Tosca - Joe Si Ha
6. Emiliana Torrini - Gun
*contains a sample of Mark Pritchard - ?
7. Agoria - Parasite 2
8. Arandel – In D#5
9. Justin - Columpnam
10. 19.454.18.5.25.5.18 – When I Think Of
11. Pom Pom - 10
12. Agoria - Altre Voci
13. Glimpse - Train in Austria part 2
14. The Field - Over the Ice (Live Mix)
15. Olibusta - La Pazz
16. Cubenx - Mis Dias Y Tus Noches
17. Felix Laband - Whistling in Tongues (Todd Terje Remix)
18. Jozif - Back 2 My Roots (Jozif's 5 O'Clock Fabric Shadow Edit)
19. Bibio - Jealous of Roses
20. LCD Soundystem - 45:33 (Trus'me Remix)
21. Boozoo Bajou feat. Rumer - Same Sun (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
++ Oxia - Less Time
22. Hatikvah - Synchronicity (Block Barley & Engin Ozturk Holmby Hills Remix)
23. Rio en Medio - The Last Child's Tear
24. Tipper - Just as the Sun Went Down
25. Gregg Kowalsky - Ashes from Evermore
++Alva Noto – Xerrox Monophaser 2

CD2 – RISING SINE
1. Sylvain Chauveau - Hurlements En Faveur De Serge T.
2. Aphrodite's Child - Loud Loud Loud
*contains a sample of LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (Trus'me Remix)
*contains a sample of Hauntologists - A1
*contains a sample of Avril - French Kiss
3. Taron Trekka - Shirol
++ Suedmilch - We Were
4. The Same - Szarpiesz Minerwa
*contains a sample of Dorothée & Ben Munyaneza - Mwali We!
5. Ogris Debris - G-Thong (You & Me Remix)
6. Francesco Tristano - Knee for Thought
*contains a sample of Sylvain Chauveau - Hurlements En Faveur De Serge T.
7. Different Gear - One Thing More (Dub Mix)
++Dorothée & Ben Munyaneza - Mwali We!
8. Michael Forzza - Abstractor 2.0
++Rio en Medio - The Last Child's Tear
9. Chris Carrier and Jef K - Morning
10. DVS1 - Running
11. Drama Society & Vladislav Delay - Almodrama
12. Agoria - Libellules
*contains a sample of Sylvain Chauveau - Hurlements En Faveur De Serge T.
++Gadi Mizrahi - I Know
++Marc Antona - Kipkop
13. Avril - French Kiss
14. Gadi Mizrahi - I Know
15. Jonny Greenwood - Tehellet
++Agoria - Parasite
16. Avril - French Kiss
17. Mark Broom - Twenty Nine (Broom 09 Mix)
18. Einmusik - Atlantis
19. Perc & Passarella Death Squad - Temperature's Rising
20. Aufgang - Sonar (Spitzer remix)
21. Shit Robot - Simple Things (Work it Out) (Serge Santiago Remix)
22. Efdemin - Acid Bells (Martyn Remix)
23. 3 Chairs - No Drum Machine (Part 2)
24. Kid A - Lonely
25. Sylvain Chauveau - Hurlements En Faveur De Serge T.


Disc 1 casts Agoria not simply as a functional dancefloor engineer, but as a musical craftsman, an arranger, a conductor. It's the sound DJing evolved – the art of composition, contrast and texture, toying with your emotion and patience and pushing and pulling your attention in different directions.
We begin all beatless and atmospheric, moving through the Viennese downtempo beauty of Tosca and the haunting acoustic pop of Emiliana Torrini and onwards into Agoria's own blend of operatics and deep electronica on Altre Voci. Glimpse's Train In Austria Pt.2 catches us off guard with its intense emotion, before the helmsman ushers us unexpectedly towards organic instrumentation and disco grooves, all warm and familiar after the heady electronics that went before.
A delicate, blessed-out climax lays the mix down to rest.


Disc 2 sees Agoria go for the 4/4 jugular, with more of the trademark sound that he is recognised for.
But it's not quite as simple as that. Even more so than on the first mix, he combines and sequences tracks in every different way, splicing several together, reintroducing the same track twice or four times, comparing and contrasting different flavours.
"I thought that to find the right balance, I needed to use all the ways of mixing. Editing tracks but also letting entire tracks play. Playing 3 or 4 times the same tracks, or spinning some for just a few seconds. Loopy or not. Exclusive, classic or covers, bizarre or easy listening, happy or trippy. 4 tracks together or just one. Loosing the listener for a minute to recatch him the minute after. Spinning a classical music work of Jonny Greenwood at the peak time. Going up and then down. Starting and finishing with the same tracks."
Familiar names like Marc Antona, Chris Carrier and Mark Broom supply a steady throb of techno and tech house rhythms - melody percolating the mix at the right moments - leading up to a dreamy, euphoric climax, laden with the joyous pianos of Serge Santiago's re-rub of Shit Robot and Martyn's heavenly reworking of Efdemin.
Two sumptuous vocal tracks round off this incredible oeuvre, the perfect finale to bring the mix back down to earth after some epic peaks.

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Last edited by Glaniskanis on Feb-05-2010 at 02:17

Eh, looks way too busy for me.

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Originally posted by Clovis Eh, looks way too busy for me.

I thought the same about Joris' Balance too...but looked how that turned out!

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Originally posted by Clovis Eh, looks way too busy for me.

I think these mixes usually turn out pretty well given the right person is behind them. Will Saul's was another one that seemed a bit busy to me as well, but he executed it quite nicely. Usually the snippets are unnoticable or maybe just a few bars or a hook, something like that.

Disc 2 looks like it could be a lot of fun.

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Agoria's effort is not as good as say Joris Voorn, sometimes it sounds abit sloppy, and like I said some samples/layering just isn't that good.

But on the other hand I really enjoyed the album as a whole listening the first time. It's definitely very diverse and has some amazing sounds.

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Originally posted by Glaniskanis Agoria's effort is not as good as say Joris Voorn, sometimes it sounds abit sloppy, and like I said some samples/layering just isn't that good. But on the other hand I really enjoyed the album as a whole listening the first time. It's definitely very diverse and has some amazing sounds.

My thoughts exactly! While not as good as Joris Voorn's, it still is a very good mix cd.

I think that this really is the way tech-house & techno are ought to be played nowadays. Several tracks at once & interwined with different styles. This of course has to be done right to sound good (its very easy to go overboard with the whole looping & 4 deck mixing), but when pulled off right it will sound amazing.

I think its because most of the tech house tunes made today are more like dj-tools than standout tracks.

I wonder if balance will release a sampler version of the cd?

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dtb.planet.ee <-- A couple of my mix cd-s (Deep House & Progressive with a trancy touch

It's a decent mix, but the first half of cd1 is exceptional, the rest is somewhere between good and great. Really felt the flow and track selection could have been better. I liked his ATC mix more. 7/10. Joris' still blows this and Will Saul's away - there is really no comparison there.

Last edited by ghostridenhuffy on Mar-17-2010 at 14:56

Only listened to the first cd so far but this is already way better than Voorns, not usually a fan of so many tracks but he manages to do it right, good stuff

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