AGORIA – No.13 in RA Poll – Top 50 Mixes of the 00′s

13. Agoria – At the Controls
[Resist Music, 2007]

As with any artistic medium, the mix CD presents the artist with a totally unique array of challenges and opportunities, and Agoria’s At the Controls takes full advantage of all of them.  With anthems like Rone’s “Bora” cozied up next to sophisticated curveballs like Bauhaus’s “Bela Lugosi’s Dead,” the mix is more eclectic than any album ever could be, but held together by an inky aesthetic that makes it sound impossibly coherent.  The mix elegantly unfurls, with each transition occurring like an imperceptible sleight of hand; as diverse as the track selection is, each song sounds like it was tailored to fit into this flawless medley. As beautiful as it is gloomy, the mix plays out like an electronic dirge for the excellent but tragically short-lived mix series.
- Will Lynch

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