Balanced Records

25/04/2025

RCola "Drifting" is out today on Balanced. 🔥🔥🔥

https://orcd.co/rcola-drifting

08/04/2025

TSO's "Stellar Space" on Bandcamp.

18/03/2025

25/10/2024

Out today! Link in bio~

Canadian-Bermudan poet, musician and writer Dane Anthony Swan and Ottawa musician and DJ Rise Ashen started collaborating together over 20 years ago. At the time, Dane was living in Ottawa and DJing with Bellyful Soundsystem. Rise became an instant fan of Dane’s cool personality, music, DJing and drum n bass dancing :-) and the two collaborated on several songs on Rise Ashen’s classic Earth Dragon album… 

Dane moved to Toronto and the two rarely saw each other, but there was a demo-version of a song Dane had penned which stayed on Rise’s mind over all of those years. It was sung over a dub instrumental, and it was a haunting and mystical song describing a utopian relationship and dance between a mixed-race couple. The song was always in Rise’s crate and periodically he would drop it in lounge gigs, or sometimes as a last song of the night after a long house set. For Rise, the lyrics of the song always embodied the spirit of house, despite it being in a slower tempo.

The stems were lost on a harddrive somewhere, so a remix was not possible. Enter AI and stem extraction technology over the last 5 years. With an acapella in hand that came from that old MP3 Rise had, he started working on a house version of the song.

The result is a truly unique sounding track, ready for the dancefloor, a spiritual house banger where a steelpan performance by Rise exists in tandem with real handclaps and a honking feel… Dane’s voice and lyrics are the heart of the song… an uplifting underground house anthem FOR THOSE WHO KNOW.

25/10/2024

Out today! Link in bio ~
Canadian-Bermudan poet, musician and writer Dane Anthony Swan and Ottawa musician and DJ Rise Ashen started collaborating together over 20 years ago. At the time, Dane was living in Ottawa and DJing with Bellyful Soundsystem. Rise became an instant fan of Dane’s cool personality, music, DJing and drum n bass dancing :-) and the two collaborated on several songs on Rise Ashen’s classic Earth Dragon album…

Dane moved to Toronto and the two rarely saw each other, but there was a demo-version of a song Dane had penned which stayed on Rise’s mind over all of those years. It was sung over a dub instrumental, and it was a haunting and mystical song describing a utopian relationship and dance between a mixed-race couple. The song was always in Rise’s crate and periodically he would drop it in lounge gigs, or sometimes as a last song of the night after a long house set. For Rise, the lyrics of the song always embodied the spirit of house, despite it being in a slower tempo.

The stems were lost on a harddrive somewhere, so a remix was not possible. Enter AI and stem extraction technology over the last 5 years. With an acapella in hand that came from that old MP3 Rise had, he started working on a house version of the song.

The result is a truly unique sounding track, ready for the dancefloor, a spiritual house banger where a steelpan performance by Rise exists in tandem with real handclaps and a honking feel… Dane’s voice and lyrics are the heart of the song… an uplifting underground house anthem FOR THOSE WHO KNOW.

02/08/2024

Coming soon from RCola !!

RCola's latest release on Balanced Records introduces a fresh, jazzy twist to his Drum and Bass style, showcasing his evolving musical journey.