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Balance 13 - SOS
(Demi, Desyn Masiello and Omid 16B)
Worldwide Tour Dates Announced
US Release
Date: April 29th, 2008
After
12 albums of cutting-edge dance music from all corners
of the globe, EQ’s
visionary Balance series has evolved into a never ending
search to find the perfect equilibrium: the happy marriage
of integrity, innovation and entertainment. Balance
013 continues this great tradition but gives it
to you supersized, with three DJs blazing a trail of
56 tracks across three jam-packed CDs.
At the helm of
this voyage is London-based DJ collective SOS (or
SexOnSubstance), featuring Demi, Desyn Masiello and
Omid 16B. As friends, producers, DJs, label owners – and
model clubland citizens – Demi, Desyn and Omid
are three of the most passionate talents working in
electronic music today. Taking inspiration from their
SexOnWax and Deeper Substance imprints to form SOS
in 2004, they’ve built a first-rate reputation
for quality music, inventive mixing and an infectious
party spirit, whether it’s on a boat along the
Thames, deep inside Bedrock or Ministry of Sound, or
glowing in the sun in Ibiza or Miami. Like Danny Krivit,
François K and Joe Claussell’s legendary
Body & Soul connection before them, the chemistry
between the members of SOS makes for a proper three-headed
DJ monster.
Balance 013 marks the first time the trio
has committed their energetic and eclectic sound to
CD, and the result is nothing short of mind-blowing.
Having locked themselves away for weeks, submerged
in their home studios, SOS painstakingly programmed
and pieced together a three-disc opus using many of
their signature re-edits, top-drawer treasures from
underground troves, and a few kinky surprises out of
left field.
The journey begins
with crashing waves and a sublime guitar solo. Omid’s track ‘Seagull’,
made using a simple four-track when he was in an early-90s
band called The Reunion, is heard here for the very
first time. We then glide into a realm of guitar loops
and spaced out disco. And from there we catch a chugging,
hypnotic groove that takes us right into the heart
of the mix. Here the SOS sound snakes cleverly between
cosmic dub, ambient breakbeats, Arabian horns and all
things house. It’s a playground perfect for the
more experimental shades of SOS’s palette.
The next disc
continues where the first left off with The Cure’s ‘Lullaby’. However, this
time it’s a special up-tempo edit that blends
the blissful nostalgia of the original with a new,
dreamy soundscape that lies beyond. (Actually getting
clearance to use ‘Lullaby’ in this context
involved another massive effort by SOS, which ultimately
led to Robert Smith himself helping the guys out!)
Continuing to build the mix, SOS passes through the
deepest analogue territories before hitting the acid
funk running. In true SOS style, things later take
a turn for the surreal when the rude boys splice it
up to ask, in the voice of Queen’s frontman Freddie
Mercury, ‘is this the real life’? After
an infusion of twisted, percussive techno, the energy
flow reaches a climax before dropping back two decades
to the timeless party sounds of Inner City’s ‘Big
Fun’.
The final mix
is every bit as epic and compelling. It’s also more club-orientated, with tracks cherry-picked
from a brotherhood of underground talents. Sure enough
at times it gets pretty intense, with prime dancefloor
cuts from the likes of Aphex Twin, but it’s always
in keeping with the ebb and flow of the project. Effortlessly
organic and seamlessly dynamic, the sequence progresses,
releasing pressure and leading to the atmospheric finale
entitled ‘Full of E_mty’ from Omid’s Like
3 Ears And 1 Eye album.
Fair dinkum, SOS. Individually they are dynamite;
collectively they are the bomb. Taking the art of DJing,
moving it forward and making it truly progressive.
Three DJs, three CDs and an explosive sequence of trip-tech
sounds from right around the world, mixed the way SOS
plays live – welcome to Balance 013!
Balance 013 mixed by SOS Collective: Tracklisting
Disc 1:
- Omid 16b - Seagull
- AN-2 - Wide Open
- Modern Heads
feat Pig & Dan - Gliding (Hypnotherapy)
- Omid 16b - The Final Choice
- Christian
Smith & John Selway - Slow River
- LFO - Nurture (Surgeon Remix)
- Speedy J - De-Orbit
- Jody Wisternoff - Starstrings (Instrumental)
- Aeroplane - Caramellas
- Chymera - Umbrella (Beatless Mix)
- Imagination
- Just An Illusion (Lindstrøm
Dub) (SOS Edit)
- DJ Frtizo - Pimms By The Pool (SOS Remix)
- Bryan Ferry
- Don't Stop The Dance (12" Remix)
(SOS Edit)
- Jan Driver - Kardamoon
- MC Sultan - Der Bauch
- Brandy - The Ritual (Chateau Flight Remix)
- Cocteau Twins – Cherry
Coloured Funk (Seefeel Remix)
- The Cure - Lullabye
Disc 2:
- The Cure - Lullabye (SOS Edit)
- Dusty Kid - Luna
- Josel - Digiboy
(DJ Tarkan & V-Sag Remix)
- Nima Gorji - Whatever
- Spirit Catcher - Brain Candy
- Kollektiv Turmstrasse - Wagnis
- Marsmobil
- Mangia Amore (Makossa & Megablast Remake)
(Lucas Abadi Edit)
- The Blacklight Society - 2028
- Whizz Kidzz - Fly High (SOS Edit)
- Aeroplane / Corporation of One - Aeroplane (Dub)
/ The Real Life (SOS Edit)
- Sugar Caine Pres. Bionik Phunk - Once In A Lifetime
(Dub) (SOS Edit)
- Marc Romboy vs Stephan Bodzin - Atlas
- Slytek - Spin Out (Neon Skin Mix)
- Ink & Needle
- Six
- Middleman - Dum Dum
- Inner City - Big Fun (Edit)
- Joeski - Caribe Elektrico (Outter Limits Mix)
- Henrik B - Logos
Disc 3:
- Speedy J - Fill 17
- Joash - Salome
- Aeroplane - Pacific Air Race (Dub)
- Paul Keeley - A Sort Of Homecoming (SOS Edit)
- DJ Pippi & David
Penn - Do U Feel It (The Piano Mix) (SOS Edit)
- AFX - VBS.Redlof.B
- Dimitri - Here She Comes (Elektrokid Remix)
- Kid Massive - Release (Raoul Dub)
- Levan - Miau
- Ozze - Bend The Rules
- Loco Dice - City Lights (Martin Buttrich Remix)
- Michael Ho - Kiss The Wasp
- Ytre Rymden Dansskola - Kjappfot
- Kingpin Cartel - Moogie Nights (SOS Edit)
- Michael Cassette – Shadow’s
Movement (SOS Edit)
- Bastian - Game Over
- Alessi Brothers - Savin' The Day (SOS Edit)
- Stereo Brains - Luna (Jhonny and Peps Remix)
- The Detroit Experiment - Think Twice
- Omid 16b – Full
Of E_mty
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