Music is a Journey

BAL-59 Melo T & Rise Ashen Music is a Journey Digital October 27, 2023 Brothers from the day they met at the famed Mercury Lounge in Ottawa, Canada in 2015, Melo and Rise have been collaborating on music together since their initial release on the Costa-Rica-based Merecumbe records in 2019. Both accomplished DJs, they bring…

Universality

Catalogue: BAL-58 Format: Digital Release Date: March 03, 2023 Rise Ashen & Boddhi Satva Boddhi Satva and Rise Ashen come together for this futuristic deep-dive on the topic of unity.  Two big men with big hearts, Rise and Boddhi have been fans of each-other’s production from across the pond for decades and when they met…

Theland and Rise – Same Home

Catalogue: BAL-57Format: Digital ReleaseDate: Jan 13, 2023Theland and Rise – Same Home Intergenerational sensational Theland and Rise (Theland Kicknosway, 19-year old Cree and Potowatomi singer and dancer and 48 year-old 3-time Juno-Award nominated global grooves producer Rise Ashen) come together for this haunting slow-house groover.  Same Home combines Theland’s soaring contemporary vocals with lush bamboo…

20 Years – Clinton Sly, Ammoye and Rise Ashen

Artist: Various Cat: BAL-50 Format: Digital Released September, 2021 The second instalment in our 20 year celebration features new tracks and collaborations by some of our favourite artists. Montreal’s king of the dancehall Clinton Sly starts it off with Croatian sensation Stinky Ranks on “Worldwide Posse”. Multi Juno nominees Ammoye and Rise Ashen’s hit tune…

Kasm – Stargate

Artist: Kasm Catalogue: BAL-46 Format: Digital Released: June 21, 2019 Stargate is a bass driven journey into deep space and inner realities. Revisiting a 2008 jam with label partner Seed Organization, the final iteration combines elements of bass music with dripping dubby leads, lush textured melodies and mystically charged percussive particles. Michael Red, the label…

Various – 15 Years

Catalogue #: BAL–45 Format: Digital Release Date: December 16, 2016 File Under: Dub, World, Deep House, Dubstep, Downtempo, Techno, Balanced music Fifteen years ago, surrounded by an ocean of wheat and snow, Balanced Records was created to harness the talent from a collective of emerging Winnipeg electronic producers. Since that time, the label’s catalogue of…

Silla and Rise – Debut

Artist: Silla & Rise Cat: BAL-44 Format: Digital Released September 28, 2016 Silla and Rise’s debut album is a sonic experiment blending Inuit throat-singing and futuristic dancefloor beats. Silla are Cynthia Pitsiulak (Kimmirut, NU) and Charlotte Qamaniq (Iglulik, NU) their name comes from the word “Sila” in their Inuktitut dialect meaning weather. Sila is what…

Paris to Kyiv – Fragmenti Remixes

Catalog: BAL-42 Released: May 20, 2016 Paris To Kyiv’s Fragmenti recording was originally released in 2005 and is arguably the ensemble’s most soul-baring work. A sonic tapestry of ancient Ukrainian song fragments and contemporary sounds, Fragmenti marked the group’s fourth recording and first international release for singer Alexis Kochan and her primary collaborators; bandurist and…