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Balance 006 mixed by Anthony Pappa!!!!!!!!
Australia's internationally recognised mix compilation series is back with another eagerly anticipated instalment. Following on from Phil Ks and James Holden's inspiring & groundbreaking mixes, the heads down EQ have enlisted UK based Aussie Anthony Pappa to compile and mix the 6th compilation in the series. With his undeniable talent in mixing and selecting quality underground music, expect to be taken on a journey through musical soundscapes, and twisted beats, over this breathtaking 2CD set.
The Balance 006 album is Anthony's 8th in his career so far, with the most recent being the Resolutions release on React. Pappa was also responsible for the acclaimed debut for Global Underground offshoot, Nu-Breed, which saw his face (not to mention blue jacket and brown eyebrows) splattered all over every available poster site in Britain.
Having worked in the family business from an early age, Anthony decided to strike out on his own and become an international renowned disc jockey, in the days when international renowned disc jockeys were as rare as tap dancing marmosets. Anthony was alarmingly good from the off. Annoyingly good. At the tender age of 15, he entered Australia's DMC Mixing Championships. And won. Not content with this, he worked regularly in the clubs in native Melbourne, where he forged a reputation as one of the city's hottest DJs. In 1993, Mixmag organized a mixing competition (it was a forerunner to Muzik's Bedroom Bedlam contest) and he won that, too, with a brilliant and musically clever mix of funky and vocal house.
In 1994, frustrated at being halfway around the world from where the music he loved was happening, he hopped on a banana boat and landed in Southampton docks six weeks later armed with a bag full of records, and a cache of funnel web spiders. Hooking up with Dave Seaman and a sinister enclave of DJs and producers based in Maidenhead and Slough, he plotted his takeover of the world. He struck a friendship up with producer/engineer Alan Bremner and together they formed Freefall: by day mild mannered janitors at the Daily Globe, by evening world beating dance music makers.
Gigs began to arrive as he established himself in the UK. Both promoters and punters noticed something particular about the way he played: smooth mixing, musically complementary, great programming. Trainspotters noticed something else again: that his record box was organized in keys. Crikey. Who's a clever dick, then?
This compilation takes those skills to the next level, with the first CD being a voyage through the world of ambient and breakbeat with tracks by up and coming artists like Blue Haze and Australian Steve May sitting alongside material from long standing names such as Slacker and Tilt. Diversity is the theme and the second CD is a snapshot of the more twisted style that fans of Anthony Pappa know and love. With some of the finest material around at the moment carefully layered, programmed and keyed into one cohesive mix, it's the fitting end of an album that shows Anthony Pappa's ability to balance all manner of different sounds, making him the perfect candidate to join this acclaimed series.
Disk 1
01.Luke Chable - Into The Storm
02.Fretwell - Faceless
03.KVK - Reality Theory
04.Michael Lanning Feat Charity Havens - Bound For Ascension
05.Blue Haze - A Time To Reflect
06.Rhino Drum - Underground Sound
07.Michael Burns - Sunshine In My Shadows
08.Jacob Todd - Nothing Is Real
09.Main Element - Delta Of Venus (Chris Salt Mix)
10.Steve May - Open Day (Luke Chable Quakes & Craters Mix)
11.Chimera - Natural High
12.Slacker - Tutikinegi
13.Shiloh - Mana
14.Tilt Vs Quivver - I Know You're Afraid
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Disk 2
01.Pavel Bidlo - My Pills
02.Rennie Pilgrem - Coming Up For Air (Mara Mix)
03.Ozgur Can - Connected
04.Dirty German Feat Mirko Meyer - Be Together (Main Pass)
05.Rhythm Unlimited - All I Wanna Do
06.Pig & Dan - Basement
07.Moonface - Our Prediction
08.MCCP - Deeper Inside
09.Musgrove & McGrath - Freakout
10.John Graham & Jon Sutton - Cold Rush
11.Chris Salt - Atmospheric Graffiti
12.Ben Camp - New World
13.Shpongle - Beija For
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Nieuwe mixcompilatie van James Zabiela:
It's just a few years ago since James Zabiela's career skyrocketed after Sasha placed his hand upon the young man's shoulder and said: "Go on my son". The life of Southampton's latest DJ prodigy was then turned upside down. Three years ago, he'd never even been in a plane while nowadays he takes his recordbags to all corners of the globe. The former Bedroom Bedlam winner is now voted as 11th most popular DJ in the world!
With already two mix compilations under his belt, for Groovetech and Hooj, a new one is now under way. This will provide a good opportunity to hear how his skills have evolved using decks, CDJ's and effects units. James will also take the new Pioneer DVJ's on the road soon to mix music and visuals together, something Sander Kleinenberg is also currently roadtesting.
James Zabiela will release his new mix, entitled 'ALiVE', on Renaissance around July/August and it will features music from SI Begg, PJ Davy, Deetron, BT and Atomic Hooligan amongst others. The release will be followed by an extended tour later in the year.
James Zabiela - ALiVE - Part 1
1. Luke Vibert 'Ambalek' (Zabiela's Delboy Edit) (Warp)
2. Diplomat 'Number One DJ & MC Crew' (Electrolab)
3. SI Begg 'Gangstas' (Botchit & Scarper)
4. Elite Force 'Peyote Road' (Kingsize)
5. Hisham Samawi 'Holding On' (Native Theory)
6. Rob Mello presents No Ears Dub Volume II 'Fantasize' (No Ears Dub) (Classic) / Undeworld 'Dark & Long' (Junior Boys Own) (Zabiela's Live Dub & Long Mash Up)
7. Hisham Samawi 'Spirals' (Native Theory)
8. Smash TV 'Circuit Breaker' (B*Pitch)
9. Masket & Mullet 'Forgive' (Drum + Breaks)
10. Atomic Hoolagan 'Shine a Light' (Lee Coombs Remix) (Botchit & Scarper)
11. Downpressor 'Nine' (Elite Force Remix) (Ritmic)
12. Sven Sarvarko 'Transition' (Night Vision)
13. Donacha Costello 'Blue' (Minimise)
14. Jeff Bennett 'Strange Item' (Zabiela's Tease Edit) (Hearing Aid)
James Zabiela - ALiVE Part 2
1. Southampton Sounds with TARDIS Record Fuzz (Zabiela's homebaked Intro)
2. Basic Pleasure Model / Psykosonic 'How to LIve' (R3volve Remix - Zabiela's CDJFX Dubit)
3. Sound Alliance 'C'est La Dior'
4. PJ Davy 'What it's Worth'
5. Lincoln 'Funky Odd Box' (Mauritius)
6. Perc 'Ice Cream for Kenton' (Spartak's Tek Dub) (Perc Trax)
7. Diplomat 'ZX Complex' (Electrolab)
8. Future Funk Squad vs Kraymon 'Firewater'
9. Alex Arzeno & Ali Kay 'A New Day' (Downshift Records)
10. Deetron 'Don't You Know Why (9000 Edit) (Intec)
11. Momu 'Adori' (Blake Potters Main Mix) (Spundae)
12. Quadsquad 'Reach' (Ext Vocal Version) (Tao)
13. BT 'Childhood Montage' (DTS) |
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James Zabiela is still a nice guy
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It took three calls to James’s voicemail, two calls to his girlfriend Greta and one text message, but eventually the following interview took place. He’d just got to London from Canada.
JZ: … it was two hours before they let us get off the plane, then they let us get off the plane, then they lost my bags with my phone charger in it. I’ve lost my records as well.
RA: Shouldn’t you be trying to track them down?
JZ: No, I’ve had to leave and hopefully they’ll be able to find them. My bags didn’t show up – my clothes or anything – so I’m wearing these smelly, horrible clothes that I was wearing 10 hours ago in Canada.
RA: Lucky you’re on the other end of the phone.
JZ: Yeah, exactly. I’ve actually just been able to get to someone’s place and borrow their phone charger.
RA: But what about your records?
JZ: I’ve lost them four times – they always come back. And I’m not too worried about my toiletries and underwear, they can keep that. I can get some more pants.
RA: Maybe someone took them on purpose.
JZ: Maybe I’ll see them on Ebay!
RA: At least you can buy them back …
JZ: If they wash them for me, I’ll think about it.
RA: So. Moving onward from your pants. What’s been happening over the past year? Or rather, what have been the best bits of what’s happened over the past year?
JZ: Um, probably the residency I had in Ibiza in Space last year. I started just after my Australian tour last year and I did that for seven weeks. I remember the first time I played there, I played some breakbeat records, and I don’t know if you are familiar with Ibiza very much, but breakbeat is not the synonymous sound. I kind of got some weird looks the first few times I played there.
RA: Because the terrace is quite cheesy.
JZ: Yeah. Well it’s known for its … housey house stuff and funky … I don’t know – but whatever sound is synonymous with Ibiza, it’s certainly not gnarly breakbeat and acid house.
RA: But it went down OK in the end.
JZ: Yeah. Eventually. [Laughs]. The first couple of times I played there it was like, ‘who is this guy, who’s, like, playing these weird records?’ It’s hardly summer music, but it did [go OK] in the end and I learnt a lot about, you know, reading the crowds.
I guess the other important thing was the DJ Mag poll, um, getting into that quite high was kind of a shock.
RA: Quite high? Don’t you want to say what number?
JZ: Eleven [laughs]. I certainly didn’t expect that. I remember from the last time I spoke [to RA] that was kind of the big thing.
[Interrupts self] Sorry if I sound a bit funny, I’m just eating baked beans – I’m going to smell even worse in a minute. I’m at a friend’s house in London and I’ve got to go and master this Renaissance CD today. I’ve already mixed it but I have to go in and fix all the sound levels.
RA: So … the album – tell us about it.
JZ: I called it Alive, because, unlike any other CDs I’ve done in the past, I wanted to capture a live set more than a studio mix. I mixed it all live, which is like, something I always swear by, and I did it all on three CDJ1000s and effects units and stuff. And just basically jammed in my bedroom at home where my decks are, just like I would in a club.
It’s got tracks by Jeff Bennet, Si Begg, and… who else? Tom, help me out – you’ve listened to the CD more than me. [Tom – the friend – says something in the background]. Oh, yeah, I’ve done like a live mash-up of Underworld – what’s the other famous guys on there? I can’t remember… I always do interviews and forget everything; it’s really terrible.
RA: Well, the CD must be wonderful!
JZ: [Laughs] I’m fairly happy with it, I tell you what I’ll do – I’ll email the tracklist.
RA: So where have you mostly been over the past year?
JZ: Actually, I’ve been in America a bit – quite a few two-week tours, at least every couple of months. I’ve just come back from Canada – I did my first tour of Canada. I’ve been to Toronto a couple of times and Montreal once, but I went to Vancouver this time and I also went to Windsor, which I’m told in the armpit of Canada. But I actually thought it was really good. In fact, it was the best gig out of all of the gigs.
RA: Any bad gigs?
JZ: I’ve been to gigs obviously where it’s not been so busy. I played Dubai to about ten people. It’s quite funny, ’cause everyone’s kind of really wealthy in Dubai and I just think the promoters thought, ‘oh, you know, we’ve got this money to waste, we’ll bring a DJ over and you know, we’ll have him play for us tonight – and five of our friends.’
It’s quite funny; I always fly economy everywhere I go and they paid for a Business Class flight, sent me over and actually had me there for three days in this really expensive hotel. I couldn’t stay there ’cause I had another gig – but I get there and there’s absolutely no one there, everyone was at the Enrique Iglesias concert down the road. I think he’s got a bit more sex appeal than me – I don’t know what it was.
RA: Have you considered DJing with your shirt off a bit more?
JZ: Yeah, exactly, get a tattoo or something.
RA: Date a tennis player.
JZ: She was there as well – there was actually an after party that they asked me to go to and it was like, ‘Anna Kournukova’s going to be there’ – that was the big selling point. I didn’t go – I’ve got a girlfriend and she’s got a boyfriend. I don’t think she’d fancy me anyway, not if she likes Enrique Iglesias. But then, I reckon I could write better lyrics than him.
RA: Maybe that’s something to consider in the future.
JZ: I could be a warm up, support act. Get some 303s on the go before he gets on.
RA: So, do you still practise?
JZ: Yeah, all the time. It’s not practise, you know, it’s just fun. Like mucking around. I’ve got these DVJX1s – have you heard about them?
RA: Yeah, sure. What were they again?
JZ: Well, they’re a new thing that Pioneer have just made and you use them like a CDJ1000 but you put DVDs in. If I put Blade Runner in, it comes up on the screen and the audio comes through the mixer. I can start like scratching Blade Runner and Harrison Ford will be flying all around the screen. You can have storm troopers, like, doing crazy dances. It’s really good fun, actually.
It’s quite silly. We have some sort of home video that we made with our friends and stuff – if you have a loop you can have them going back and forwards really fast – kind of like Benny Hill.
RA: Will you be bringing these down to Australia?
JZ: No, I’m gonna try and use them on some of the tour, but I don’t know if I’m going to be able to use them in Australia, just because of the shipping thing. I’m going to Japan as well, and obviously that’s the home of where they’re made, so I’m going to try and sort out something for that. Just to sort of road-test it to see how it goes.
RA: You’ll need eight arms soon, just to deal with your DJ set-up.
JZ: Yeah, tell me about it. You can use them just like CDJ1000s as well, just put a CD in and it will respond in the same way. It’s getting quite mad and exciting as well. I’m a proper geek when it comes to this.
RA: Apart from these DVJX1s, what else have you learnt this year?
JZ: I guess I’m still learning all the time. Every time you think you’ve got it sussed, you learn something new, whether it’s some sort of technical skill – I mean, technical skills are limitless, you can take DJing as far as you want to take it. Anything from that to reading the crowd.
I’ve learnt more in the last year about playing out than I have ever, since I first started DJing. I’ve progressed more in that short space of time than I have in the three years, prior to that. I dunno, maybe I’m trying too hard.
RA: Do you analyse your own sets afterwards and wish you’d done things differently?
JZ: All the time. Yeah, and I hate it when the promoter’s secretly recorded you and it’s ended up on the internet and it’s a mix that you hate, or you’ve done something that you’re really ashamed of. Like, I don’t know, played the records you shouldn’t have played or done a really terrible mix or all the records are not in the right order. Or that you can’t hear what you’re doing ’cause the monitor’s bad, but obviously people on the internet don’t know that, so they get the wrong impression.
Actually, when I played in Canberra last year, they recorded me. I didn’t realise it would go all over the internet, but it did and luckily for me, it was an alright set and I could hear what I was doing and stuff. It kind of worked as a massive PR tool – I couldn’t believe it. I have emails all the time: ‘Oh, the set you did at Lot 33, Canberra – I still get people coming up to me at gigs now, saying, ‘I downloaded this set from you in Canberra – it’s great.’ It’s like a year later.
RA: So what did you particularly like about the tour last year?
JZ: Just the people. It was almost like playing in England in some respects but they’re more into breakbeat [in Australia], which is great. I really pushed my luck with that. I could play breaks, techno, house and they would just go with it. I think that’s the one thing I really loved about playing in Australia last year, I felt really free to do what I wanted. It wasn’t like an after party in Montreal and I had to play a certain way, and I wasn’t just playing after Judge Jules and after Tiësto and I have to keep the energy up. I could start where I wanted and go down, and then go on and from last year it was really good and the crowd was fantastic.
RA: So when do you think all this is going to go to your head?
JZ: Um, I dunno. I got loads of good friends that still tell me I’m crap. And there’s always room for improvement, and so long as I’m still getting new toys to play with… I’m just a super nerd, really.
Hopefully I won’t be too big headed. You’ll phone me up next year and I’ll be like, ‘yeah, talk to the hand, talk to the hand.’ You’ll have to talk to my PA.
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Hehe grappig interview :cool: |
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| oe oe, klinkt wel leuk:toothless |
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| magrec |
| quote: | Originally posted by Optimus
oe oe, klinkt wel leuk:toothless |
mjah cd 1 van anthony pappa cd 1 damnn wat is dat een gruwelijke diepe melodische cd zeg, wel net zo vet als die van james holden maar dan toch weer anders. Erg veel break-beat ook had ik niet verwacht van pappa.
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Noem cd 1 maar de beste cd van 2004 tot nu toe...beter dan hernan cattaneo renaissance cd die ook al geweldig was
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Ik ben me pas sinds kort een beetje aan het orienteren in progressive . En ik moet zeggen , het gaat me steeds beter bevallen . Maar er moet voor mij toch wel een beetje temp bevatten . Zo vind ik persoonlijk Sandra Collins en Steve Lawler bijvoorbeel erg goed .En dan van Steve Lawler vooral de lights out cd's .
Kunnen jullie mij nog meer namen geven van dj's die dit soort progressive draaien of cd's die progressive met een beetje uptempo bevatten ? |
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| quote: | Originally posted by SaBi
Ik ben me pas sinds kort een beetje aan het orienteren in progressive . En ik moet zeggen , het gaat me steeds beter bevallen . Maar er moet voor mij toch wel een beetje temp bevatten . Zo vind ik persoonlijk Sandra Collins en Steve Lawler bijvoorbeel erg goed .En dan van Steve Lawler vooral de lights out cd's .
Kunnen jullie mij nog meer namen geven van dj's die dit soort progressive draaien of cd's die progressive met een beetje uptempo bevatten ? |
Eh....Fred Numf? Lucien Foort maybe.. Lemon8. Ik roep maar wat...
Verder in het nieuws:
L.S.G. een van de vele tientallen projecten van de meester Oliver Lieb, de man die gerekend mag worden tot de top 3 van de meest invloedrijkste producers in de Dance ooit. Van Techno tot Ambient tot Trance tot Rave tot Acid.
Vanaf de jaren 80 is de man al bezig met electronische muziek en enkele pseudoniemen klinken ons als muziek in de horen, zoals ook het L.S.G. project.
Sinds 1993 is dit project de blauwdruk voor de Trance geweest, de pure Trance wel te verstaan. Wie herinnert zich niet Hidden Sun Of Venus, Netherworld, Fragile en meer van de prachtig zwevende meesterwerken van meestal tegen de 10 minuten.
CD1
01. Hearts (Reworked)
02. Blueprint (Reworked)
03. Shecan (Reworked)
04. My Time Is Yours (Reworked)
05. The Train Of Thought (Reworked)
06. Transmutation (Reworked)
07. Cubic (Reworked)
08. Netherworld (Reworked)
09. Risin' (Reworked)
CD2
01. Fragile Part 3
02. Hearts Part 2
03. Netherworld (Vinyl Cut)
04. Hidden Sun Of Venus (Oliver Lieb Remix)
05. Transmutation 2
06. My Time Is Yours (Club Mix)
07. Hearts
08. Blueprint - Version 1
09. Odyssey (Single Version)
10. Fragile (Gravity Fools The Magician Remix)
The best of 11 jaar L.S.G. !!!! |
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| SnuggLe |
| Die Balance006 rockt echt wel de pan uit! Vooral cd 2! :) |
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| magrec |
| In september staat een nieuwe release van everybody gepland... |
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| quote: | Originally posted by SnuggLe
Die Balance006 rockt echt wel de pan uit! Vooral cd 2! :) |
Ik ben zeer benieuwd! Ga hem zeker ff checken...
| quote: | Originally posted by magrec
In september staat een nieuwe release van everybody gepland... |
Dan pas...moeten we nog zo lang wachten! :crazy: :sadgreen: |
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| basvh |
Schop, leuke sig he mannen!!
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| kolkiewolkie |
| Lovely :disbelief |
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| Optimus |
| Ik heb Balance vandaag geluisterd, ben er (nog) niet enthousiast over, ff meerdere malen luisteren:) |
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