Timo Maas mixes Balance 017

With masterful efforts from Agoria, Will Saul, Joris Voorn, Lee Burridge, Phil K and more, the Balance Series is a highly respected release, with a knack for picking the right artist at the right time, while staying true to quality over quantity. The next installment, due for release in October, comes from Mr Timo Maas.

“The format of the Balance mix series was always quite appealing to me; to spread myself out over 2 CDs without essentially having to 'rock' a crowd from the beginning is a very good thing. I was able to also include deeper, downbeat, "earlier set" material, that I personally like to listen to, but am not essentially playing out on a normal club night. For me 'the trip' is quite important to create, with a mix of brand new, even exclusive material, but also tracks that rock my world at the moment and most essentially have rocked my world for many years (the so called 'classics')” – Timo Maas

Timo has been Djing and producing since the late 90's, both on his own and as one half of Mutant Clan with Santos, and this Balance release will be his first compilation in 9 years. As the Balance crew put it themselves, "Only a DJ and producer as innovative, technically brilliant and downright loveable could be worthy of an undertaking as prestigious and lauded as the mixing of a Balance compilation."

Timo begins his epic journey with 2 exclusive new cuts from his own hands, Morning Beauty and A Day After George, both will be released on a special Balance EP at a later date. From here he slides into the melting beauty of Time For Us by Nicolas Jaar. This tune could very well be one of the biggest hits of the last year, with good reasoning too. The 1st disc carries you off with melodic, charismatic and emotive cuts from Dj Koze, Toby Tobias and Henrik Schwarz before upping the ante with Danny Tenaglia, Carl Craig and a finish with Timo Mass & Santos' remix of William Orbit and Elgar.

“It was quite an intense process spread out over 4 month to listen, re-listen, collect and choose the music for my Balance CDs. I don't know how many tracks I was listening to with my 'compilation ears' - maybe a few thousand - and thanks to my amazing production partner Santos, I was even able to fill spaces on the mix with the right tracks that we wrote in the production process just for Balance. Nearly everything exclusive was road-tested over the month before I mixed it too. I'm very happy with the result.” - Timo Maas

The second act makes no delay in getting down to business and listeners are treated to many Timo Maas and Mutant Clan treats along with cuts from his new label Rockets & Ponies. Things get layered, trippy, psychedelic, deep, weird and wonderful... Enjoy!

Balance 017 is out through Balance Music:

UK/EU | 18th Oct
USA |  26th Oct
AUS/ASIA | 8th Oct

Tracklisting:

CD 1
01 Timo Maas - Morning Beauty *
02 Timo Maas - A Day After George **
03 Nicolas Jaar - Time For Us (Original Mix)
04 Dana Bergquist & Peder G - Acapulco (Sasse Remix)
05 Solvent - Loss For Words (Vector Lovers Remix)
06 Random House Project - The One For Ever (Toby Tobias Dub Mix)
07 Phattivan - Man From Ternopil *
08 Deetron - Sing
09 Mathias Kaden – Kawaba (DJ Koze's Kosi-San Remix)
W/ DJ Koze - Blume Der Nacht
10 Henrik Schwarz & Kuniyuki - Once Again (Kuniyuki Version)
11 Giorgio Roma - Across The East Side *
W/ Timo Maas - Spacemooger Experience *
12 Alex Flitsch meets Mutant Clan - Imanah (Patrick Chardronnet Deep Mix)
13 Mathias Schaffhäuser - The 1st Thing *
14 Danny Tenaglia - Elements (The Dtour)
15 Santè & Adam Port - Solano *
16 The Crystal Ark - The City Never Sleeps (Instrumental)
17 Florian Hollerith - Fluxus
18 Carl Craig - At Les
19 William Orbit, Elgar - Nimrod (Timo Maas & Santos Remix)

CD 2
01 Timo Maas - Latenza *
02 Marc Romboy & Stephan Bodzin – Luna (Mutant Clan Laser Gun Remix)
03 Kenny Larkin - Glob (Kenny Larkin Mix)
04 Alex Niggemann - Take Control (Matthias Tanzmann Remix)
05 Alex Dolby & Santos - To Be Large *
06 The Mole - Nervous Disid
07 Mutant Clan - Totally Wet (Santè & Adam Port Remix) *
08 We Fell To Earth - Lights Out (Timo Maas Remix)
09 Timo Maas - Kick 1 Kick 3 *
10 Mutant Clan - Arcadia **
11 Santè & Adam Port - Faire Des Siennes (Mutant Clan Caraibic Remix) *
12 Santos - Matinèe
13 Rockets & Ponies - Chinese Massage (Alex Dolby: Porno Dolby Remix) *
14 Timo Maas - Clouds **
15 Lost Veteranos - It's Wronger
16 Emmanuel Top - Somewhere
17 Hardfloor - Acperience 1
18 Placebo - Ashtray Heart (Timo Maas Remix) * unreleased remix

* denotes exclusive to this compilation
** denotes exclusive to this compilation and to be released on a special Balance EP