- Merzbow: Floating Eloy (Left Channel) | Ladybird: Untitled (Right Channel)
- 1 Floating Eloy 0:11
- 2 Floating Eloy | It Only Takes A Boy 2:58
- 3 Floating Eloy | Automatic Latino 3:40
- 4 Floating Eloy | King Of Shame 4:08
- 5 Floating Eloy | I Feel Summer 3:43
- 6 Floating Eloy | Netlove 4:53
- 7 Floating Eloy | You Lift Me Up 4:21
- 8 Floating Eloy | 25 Ears 3:55
- 9 Floating Eloy | Janie 4:36
- 10a Floating Eloy | Baby James 29:20
- 10b Obsession
- 10c So Dizzy
- 10d Give It To Me (All Your Love)
The album is virtually including 3 CDs in one: left channel is Merzbow album called "Floating Eloy" (38:38), right channel is Ladybird untitled album with 9 tracks (including 3 hidden bonus tracks) and in stereo mode it's called "Balance" - both records playing simultaneously. The actual playing time of the CD is 61:45. First track have silence in right channel (no Ladybird music). "Baby James" includes 3 hidden tracks by Ladybird after 10 minutes of silence: "Obsession (cover on ["Obsession"](http://www.discogs.com/master/34020) by Army Of Lovers), "So Dizzy" (cover on "So Dizzy" by Rehab) and "Give It To Me (All Your Love)" (cover on ["Give It To Me"](http://www.discogs.com/release/1666888) by The Troggs). Left channel is muted on this tracks (no Merzbow music), but for the last 2 minutes the music is stereo again (Merzbow + Ladybird). Hidden tracks aren't named on the cover. Some songs on the album by Ladybird are parody renditions of famous pop tracks: "It Only Takes A Boy" - "It Only Takes a Minute" by Take That mixed with a famous ["Popcorn"](http://www.discogs.com/master/37077) melody "I Feel Summer" - "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer "Netlove" - "Computer Love" by Kraftwerk Merzbow's Floating Eloy recorded & mixed at ZSF Produkt Studio, February 1997.
Digr Archive · balance-1o0purm
Balance
- Label
- Human Wrechords
- Cat #
- HW 015
- Country
- Germany
- Released
- 1998
- Style
- Noise, Experimental, Disco
- Format
- CD, Album