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What genre this might technically fall into — please ignore the participle hanging on for dear life by its fingernails — is irrelevant to me. SOS's entry in the "Balance" series is a cornucopia of styles. This 3-CD set redefines itself from track to track yet maintains its core being with each new song. One can detect many things contributing to the overall flavor here - trip-hop, house, trance, ambient and more. The music that fills these three discs is simple but elegant. And by simple, I don't mean dumb or uninspired or anything like that. Obviously, or else I wouldn't have coupled that adjective with "elegant." What I do mean is that it lacks pretense, it doesn't feel the need to hammer the listener with unnecessary density. It's clean, in other words. But neither is it minimalist. Sparse yet space-filling, the melodic beauty of this installment in the "Balance" series is a prime factor in its aesthetic value. So is the fact that it's not one driving blitz of numbing house beats disc after disc. I enjoyed SOS' willingness to shift rhythms, to be fluid, to embrace flux. (SOS, by the way, is a 3-DJ collective - Desyn Masiello, Omid 16B and Demi.) By blurring the borders and letting multiple genre colors bleed into the mix — and by focusing on sheer gorgeousness without resorting to dentist-frightening candy to be pretty — SOS has achieved originality, listenability, artistry and accessibility, all in one big audio trek.-- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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