I kinda like it...Not really club music at all. You just have to sit down and listen to it. He plays some weird shit, but Holden's fkin sick. His music just grabs you somehow.

I have to listen to the album a couple of more times before I fully review it. I remember thinking about what I felt when I first heard Balance 005: nothing special, too weird and soft. After I heard it a couple of more times I realized that its the best edm album of 2003.

This album has to be heard more than once in order to be fully grasped, and it shouldnt be compared to Balance 005 becuase apart from the Holdenesque mood that is apparent in both, the man has changed dramatically in sound.

More on the album later....


MT

Holden is an incredible producer... too many good tracks to mention

this cd made me feel the way involver did.

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Originally posted by Marcus007 Holden is an incredible producer... too many good tracks to mention

Too bad he doesnt use innovative technology like sasha!

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Originally posted by Tag Actaully no i dont give him credit for that, his stuff i very much in the box. Otherwise most ppl wouldnt have heard of him. He is THAT experimental.

So you have to be unknown to be creative and experimental?
when people appreciate you, that automatically makes you part of the bandwagon?

He's a helluva lot more creative than Desyn Maseillo.

anyone rip the James Holden Essential Mix from MArch 19 2006?

Nathan Fake & James Holden: Border Community

01.00

Nathan Fake Laptop Set
(All Tracks By Nathan Fake)

'Bumblechord'
'Glow Hole'
'Stops'
'Grandfathered'
'Bridges (Build)'
'The Turtle'
'Long Sunny'
'The Sky Was Pink'

02.00

James Holden DJ Set

Cluster 'Rote Riki' (Spalax)
Depeche Mode 'The Darkest Star (Holden Dub)' Mute)
Motor 'Jizm' (Novamute)
Apparat 'Montreal' (Shitkatapult)
Kate Wax 'Heroine' (Viking Music)
Four Tet 'A Joy' (Domino)
The MFA 'Throw It Back (We Will Destroy You) (Bear Dub)' (Border Community)
Alex Smoke 'Slippers & Slappers' (Vakant)
Crash Course In Science 'Cardboard Lamb' (Press Records)
Petter 'Some Polyphony' (White Label)
7hurtz 'Stokers Motor' (Output)
Holden 'Corduroy' (Border Community)
Black Dog 'End of Time' (Warp)
Solvent 'Science with Synthesizers' (Ghostly International)
Clark 'Frau Wav (Brief Fling)' (Warp)
Black Strobe 'Nazi Trance F*** Off (Holden Remix)' (Crosstown Rebels)

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Originally posted by Bertuzz Apparat 'Montreal' (Shitkatapult)

hehehe i wonder who this is

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Originally posted by Mitsutranza I remember thinking about what I felt when I first heard Balance 005: nothing special, too weird and soft. After I heard it a couple of more times I realized that its the best edm album of 2003.

Wowowowow ayoyoyoye..."YOU ARE SLEEPING" - PQM WITH LUKE CHABLE or whatever it is, THAT song right there is why EDM exists, ok. No question about it, one of the most amamamamamazing tracks I have ever heard and I heard it first from Monsieur Holden AKA Mr.IUseThisLittleSoundPadThatMakesEveryoneGoINSANEAtMyGigs.

He's fkn amazing.

That's all.

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I have the Fake & Holden Essential Mix, haven't had a chance to listen to it yet though. Read good things in the Tracklist forum. Is it good Bertuzz?

Listened to it a few times, cd 2 is my favorite. Took me some time to get used to it, but im starting to like it more and more. Its definitly only James that could come up with a cd like that!

Very original!!!!