April News

Seven Years of Balanced
It's hard to believe but April 23rd marked the 7th year of operation for our label! Building on the 5 free tracks we gave away with our 5 for Five campaign two years ago, we'll be giving away two more unreleased tracks from artists on the label. This time around, we have a new Kasm track; "Mimosa", along with The Seed Organization's dub of Solidaze's Lost Touch. Visit the Seven Years of Balanced page to download the music and thanks to all of you for the love over the years!

New Podcasts
We have 2 new podcasts in this update:

Subatomic Sound System - Taken from their live set at the Miambient party at this year's Winter Music Conference in Miami, our friends from NYC's Subatomic Sound System deliver one of their signature sets of bass bin blasting dub and conscious reggae.

DJ Lil' Phil - On the housey tip, our second podcast comes from one of our favorite local DJs - Lil Phil who drops a smooth mix of deep and techy house to round things out.

Bloom Wins
Balanced is very pleased to have contributed music to Boring Games' Bloom video game which recently picked up an award at the Canadian Awards for the Electronic and the Animated Arts.

Upcoming Gigs
We have 2 gigs lined up at the newly revamped Academy (437 Stradbrook) for May.

Saturday May 3 - Solidaze, Kasm & The Seed Organization will bring a mix of afrobeat, dub, dancehall, deep house and broken beat.

Friday May 16 - Join us May Long Weekend to welcome back Rise Ashen who last graced Winnipeg during the 2005 Junofest party. This veteran producer and DJ has collaborated with artists such as Karsh Kale, Bebel Gilberto and Fred Everything and appeared on prominent labels such as Compost, Afroart, Defected (as well as Balanced). He will be joined by Solidaze, Kasm and The Seed Organization. Rise has been busy at work with Kasm & The Seed Organization as part of their Leaf System project.

Both shows run from 10 - 2:30 and are only $5 at the door! We'll be stocked with all our latest merch as well as free DJ mixes to boot.

As always, remember to check our Myspace for the latest on all our gigs.