Pappa maintains the Balance…

Australia's internationally recognised mix compilation series is back with another eagerly anticipated instalment. Following on from Phil Ks and James Holden's inspiring & groundbreaking mixes, the heads down @ EQ have the honour in announcing that UK based Aussie Anthony Pappa has been confirmed as the next DJ to grace the series. With his undeniable talent in mixing and selecting quality underground music, expect to be taken on a journey through musical sound-scapes, and twisted beats.
This Balance mix album is Anthony's 8th in his career so far, with the most recent being the Resolutions release on React. Pappa was also responsible for the acclaimed debut for Global Underground offshoot, Nu-Breed, which saw his face (not to mention blue jacket and brown eyebrows) splattered all over every available poster site in Britain.

Born in the Australian outback and raised by wild dingoes, Anthony Pappa was a child prodigy when the Avalanches were mere snowballs on a mountainside. Having worked in the family business from an early age, he decided to strike out on his own and become an international renowned disc jockey, in the days when international renowned disc jockeys were as rare as tap dancing marmosets.

Anthony was alarmingly good from the off. Annoyingly good. At the tender age of 15, he entered Australia's DMC Mixing Championships. And won. Not content with this, he worked regularly in the clubs in native Melbourne, where he forged a reputation as one of the city's hottest DJs. In 1993, Mixmag organised a mixing competition (it was a forerunner to Muzik's Bedroom Bedlam contest) and he won that, too, with a brilliant and musically clever mix of funky and vocal house.

In 1994, frustrated at being halfway around the world from where the music he loved was happening, he hopped on a banana boat and landed in Southampton docks six weeks later armed with a bag full of records, and a cache of funnel web spiders. Hooking up with Dave Seaman and a sinister enclave of DJs and producers based in Maidenhead and Slough, he plotted his takeover of the world. He struck a friendship up with engineer/producer Alan Bremner and together they formed Freefall: by day mild mannered janitors at the Daily Globe, by evening world beating dance music makers.
Gigs began to arrive as he established himself in the UK. Both promoters and punters noticed something particular about the way he played: smooth mixing, musically complementary, great programming. Trainspotters noticed something else again: that his record box was organised in keys.
Crikey. Who's a clever dick, then-

Anthony Papa : Balance Tour Dates:
Auckland - Friday July 16th
Sydney - Saturday, July 17th
Canberra - Friday, July 23rd
Melbourne, Saturday, July 24th

Balance 006 compiled and mixed by Anthony Pappa released May24th, 2004 on EQ
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