Balance 030

During this incredible 118-minute odyssey you’ll hear field recordings, brooding soundscapes, hypnotic piano modulations, deep atmospheric techno, heavenly melodies, glitchy electro-pop, hazy ambient passages, ravey breakbeats, glitchy drum & bass and even some Thom Yorke, Nils Frahm and Tim Hecker. Complex yet succinct, by turns expansive and intimate, it’s the portrait of an ever-evolving artist with a wide gaze, and it’s one hell of a listen.

Exclusives come in the form of Coopers’ own Balance (Perc Tool) — self-explanatory — and the blissful depths of Music of The Tides, constructed using an intricate binaural particle cloud simulator plugin created by Rob Clouth. “I wanted to create moving clouds of sound and similarly swelling clouds of melodic synthesis with soft pads and delays” Cooper says of the majestic composition. Clouth also provides three other tracks on the mix (“you can spot which tracks are his by the mastery of intricate productions and beautiful sound design”).

More unreleased material comes via Deapmash’s Blocks — a fixture in Cooper’s sets of late — and fellow Balance compiler Patrice Baumel’s remix of Cooper’s Organa, which Baumel wanted to scrap until he witnessed the amazing reactions when Cooper played it at a festival they both featured at last year. New English act Brecon provide sumptuous broken beat electronica on another exclusive, Half Light, and Cooper’s remix of Nils Frahm’s Juno-60 based live jam, For, which finally gets an official release.