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Timo Maas will release his first compilation in 9 years on October 18th, as the next instalment of the groundbreaking Balance series from Australia – number 17 in the series.

Data Transmission got an exclusive world’s first play of the double CD, and it’s another corker – spanning slower, more melodic grooves on Disc 1 through to the trippy techno sound that typifies his club sets these days and some acid classics too. It’s a reminder as to how he’s comer full circle after several years smashing it in the more commercial world of electronic music. Th compilation is full of exclusive from his studio and his Rockets & Ponies label, with an EP to be released featuring several of them (see tracklisting for details).

“The format of the Balance mix series was always quite appealing to me,” says the Maasmeister, “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")”

It’s not a technical masterclass as Joris Voorn’s intricate effort was – more just good music programmed and mixed well. “The basic rules off DJing haven`t really changed for me. Of course the technical possibilities have, but in the end, it`s all about the selection of music you play - not about the technical skills you`re having when you`re on stage.”

“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.”

Tracklisting:

CD1
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

The release will be available on October 18th 2010.