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This is BALIMORE — written, produced and mixed by Steven Ran Cohen. Full tracks, no sign-up, no download. Four minutes is enough to know whether this is your sound.
- Tempo
- 124 – 134
- Tonality
- Minor
- Track length
- 6 – 8 min
- Where it plays
- Motorway, 2am
Steady tempo beats good tempo
On a long empty road your sense of speed drifts. Music with a rock-solid pulse gives you an external reference and, more usefully, stops the drift toward going faster every few minutes that happens in silence. What matters is that the tempo does not change — not what the tempo is.
Low end has to survive road noise
A car at 110 km/h produces a wall of broadband noise centered low. Tracks that live mostly in the sub — a lot of modern club music — simply disappear. Music that works at night in a car keeps its identity in the mids: a filtered bassline, a percussive top end, a pad with body rather than just weight.
No sudden dynamics
A long breakdown that drops to near-silence and then slams back is thrilling in a club and genuinely bad in a car — you turn the volume up during the quiet part and get hit at the drop. Tracks with a narrow dynamic range are the right choice here, which is the opposite of what you would pick for a room.
Tracks that show it
All written, produced and mixed by Steven Ran Cohen under the name BALIMORE.
- Enter The NightPeak-time
- Desert LoversMelodic
- Into The UnknownMelodic
- No Borders After DarkAlbum · 7 tracks
- After The SunMelodic