Release : VA - James Holden - At The Controls
Artist : VA
Album : James Holden - At The Controls
Genre : Electronic
Source : CDDA
Label : Resist Music
URL : http://www.resist-music.co.uk/
Date : 03/14/2006
Quality : VBRkbps 44,1 kHz Joint-Stereo
Tracks : 02
Time : 119:57 min
Size : 171,3 MB
VA - James Holden-At The Controls - Cd1
01 Apparat - Wooden
02 Plastikman - Cor Ten
03 Massive Attack Vs. Mad Professor - Trinity Dub (Three)
04 Kate Wax - Angel Blues
05 Death In Vegas - Anita Berber
06 Petter - Some Polyphony
07 Vox Sola - Metro Pop
08 Issakidis - Hotter Now (Stripped Down Mix)
09 Holden - Lump
10 Midimiliz - Trace Function
11 Harmonia - Watussi
12 Holden - 10101
13 Skugge + Stravostrand - Medean
14 Nathan Fake - Charlie's House (Apparat Remix)
15 Lucky Pierre - Angels On Your Body
16 Christ - Perlandine Friday
17 Fennesz - Rivers Of Sand
VA - James Holden-At The Controls - Cd2
01 Meta.83 - Opening Titles
02 Paul Kalkbrenner - Gebrⁿnn Gebrⁿnn
03 Motiivi:Tuntematon - 1939
04 Malcolm Middleton - Solemn Thirsty
05 Aphex Twin - Xtal
06 Milky Globe VS. Holden - Sun Spots
07 Kalabrese - Aufm Klo
08 Lazy Fat People - Big City
09 Water Lilly - Lottotron Reboot
10 Trans Am - Cold War (War Is Stupid Mix)
11 Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed
(Boards Of Canada Reprise)
12 Egoexpress - Live At Sirius Prime
13 Black Strobe - Nazi Trance Fuck Off! (Holden Remix)
14 Plastikman - Cor Ten
15 AFX - Every Day
To a music world overly obsessed with scenes, the James Holden success
story reads like a catalogue of contradictions. 2003's collaboration with
vocalist Julie Thompson, 'Nothing', was picked up by legendary UK house
label Loaded, then hailed by trance legend Tiesto as his tune of the year.
Holden has remixed everything from quirky Cologne pop on Crosstown Rebels
to mainstream dance pop on Positiva; New Order to Britney Spears; Black
Strobe terror-electro to System 7 psy-trance and delicate Lo Recordings
electronica; fast-rising young upstart Nathan Fake to Kirsty Hawkshaw's
timeless classic 'Fine Day'. Meanwhile the chunky techno earthquake of 'A
Break In The Clouds', the debut release on his own Border Community label,
has become an underground European techno classic, still flying out of the
warehouse over two years after release, and winning Holden a firm
following amongst the ever forward-thinking German dance fraternity.
However, Holden's DJ sets have been an almost mirror image of not only the
diverse remixes and beautiful dance music that he makes but also reflect
the flowing groove and unclassifiable depths to the different elements and
genres that his productions encompass. Here on this double CD mix set we
find James Holden firmly 'At The Controls', creating and shaping a new
aural environment for us to embrace and get lost in. From the classic
minimalism of Plastikman to the lo-fi electronica of Fennesz we find Aphex
Twin nestling next to Malcolm Middleton the cultural dub of Massive Attack
v. Mad Professor melting into Death in Vegas, new German aesthetics from
BPitch Control rising stars Apparat and Paul Kalkbrenner, new school
electro from Geneva's Water Lilly, trance inducing "lost" gems and of
course the odd smattering of Border Community exclusives from Petter,
Holden and label buddy Nathan Fake.
For Holden this mix also represents a technological evolution from 2003's
'Balance 005' mix which utilised a Cycloops sampler and CDJ-1000 wizardry.
Although on one hand his studio set up hasn't change too much bar the odd
computer upgrade, James is very much aware of the technological advances
being made in both music production and application and is further
bringing these elements in to his DJ sets.
Just turned 26 years old, James Holden now finds himself exactly where he
wants to be. As the digital producer par excellence he is blazing a trail
through as yet unchartered territory, showing those who follow in his wake
how it can, and should, be done. As a DJ he gets to travel the world,
surprising and delighting in equal measures, and enlarging his band of
followers at every port of call. And at the helm of his own buzz label
Border Community he is proving himself to be quite the A&R man,
discovering like-minded souls to help turn his musical vision into reality
and constantly striving to give something special back to the
record-buying public. Underlying these three components of the James
Holden recipe for success is an unerring belief in his own vision and a
refusal to do things the way others tell him they always have been done.
He is well into the process of carving out a niche all of his very own,
and is not about to let anyone stop him now. As the Border Community
Express ploughs on into the future, here once again we find James Holden
steadfast 'At The Controls'.
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