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Balance of the Force
Electronic · 1998 · 10 tracks

Balance of the Force

Waldeck

Smoky trip-hop from Vienna. Submerged piano lines, ghostly vocals, and slow-motion beats that feel like a noir film set in a late-night lounge.

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It's like a 1940s detective movie but the detective is a drum machine in a Vienna basement.

A sophisticated and slightly paranoid late-night melancholy wrapped in velvet textures.

Balance of the Force · vs · Waldeck
Surreal Abstract+1.5σ

The writing leans notably further into surreal abstract than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks
01
Defenceless
4:29
02
Spy Like an Angel
5:19
03
Children of the Ghetto
4:10
04
Slaapwagen
5:22
05
Aquarius
4:55
06
Northern Lights
4:01
07
Wake Up
5:37
08
Superpopstar
4:34
09
Death of a Piano Salesman
5:14
10
Moon
4:11
Moments Worth Waiting For
The haunting, isolated piano line that opens 'Death of a Piano Salesman' before the beat kicks in
The way the vocals on 'Aquarius' seem to float just out of reach behind a thick layer of dub-inflected delay
The sudden appearance of a spy-movie trumpet motif in 'Spy Like an Angel' that cuts through the murky bass
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