Balance 10: Jimmy van M (CD2: Midtempo mix) || BALANCE MUSIC

In 2006, when the borders of progressive house were starting to blur and music started melting into the digital sphere, Balance 010 arrived with almost monastic ambition.

Disc 2 is the heart of Balance 010, the warm midtempo arc that gives the entire three-disc structure its emotional weight. It rises slowly from ambient drift into soft breakbeats, glides through Cocteau Twins shimmer and Speedy J tension, and lands in that hypnotic space where Boards of Canada, Ellen Allien, Aphex Twin and Underworld all feel like parts of the same world.

Critics consistently pointed to this disc as the most replayable, the most cinematic, the place where Jimmy’s instinct for mood and narrative became unmistakable. It moves without forcing momentum, deepens without darkening, and closes on a fourteen-minute Underworld remix that turns the whole project into a pilgrimage.


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CD1: Midtempo Mix

0:00:00 01. E. Shibabaw & Bill Laswell – Ethiopia
0:05:12 02. Bill Laswell – Babylon Ghost
0:10:48 03. Future Sound Of London – Study Of Six Guitars
0:13:29 04. Laika – Coming Down Glass
0:17:10 05. Coldcut – Autumn Leaves
0:25:10 06. Union Jack – Water Drums
0:28:27 07. Casino Versus Japan – Slo Bid Bellwave
0:28:50 08. Nathan Fake – Falmer
0:29:18 09. Boards Of Canada – Dayvan Cowboy
0:31:20 10. Anoushka Shankar – Beloved (Thievery Corporation Remix)
0:35:49 11. Wax Poetic Feat. Norah Jones – Angels (Thievery Corporation Remix)
0:39:28 12. Autechre – Nine
0:42:30 13. Boards Of Canada – Everything You Do Is A Balloon
0:49:10 14. Brian Eno & J. Peter Schwalm – Rising Dust
0:54:55 10 15. Depeche Mode – Halo (Goldfrapp Remix)
0:59:20 16. The Egg – Walking Away
01:05:20 17. Bonobo – Everything You Do

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