Timo Maas is a master of reinvention. Emerging during the excess of trance’s heyday in the late ‘90s with his self-labelled ‘Wet & Hard’ style that fused techno, progressive house and funk in a rivetingly futuristic manner, he quickly became the remixer du jour for both the club underground and the commercial big leagues.

Balance 017 is the sound of Timo in 2010. Behind the decks, he packs one of the hardest punches around, pulling you inside his hypnotic world and creating sets that live, breath and thump as one cohesive, gargantuan entity. This exclusive mix from the German don should get you primed for the full double-disc affair, reviewed here on inthemix.