Originally posted by 72hrpartyanimal
i disagree. Avalon is a huge club and can be difficult to fill. They constantly offer discounted and free guest list entries for the sake of getting the club filled early. I would assume more people would opt for the cheaper option.
I said King King would sell out lol.
By the way I suggested it because not everyone who might want to see Holden can get into King King that night.
alan
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Originally posted by Kismet7
I said King King would sell out lol.
By the way I suggested it because not everyone who might want to see Holden can get into King King that night.
Good for us James only prefers to play with INCOGNITO then, and doesn't like doing big venues too:tongue3
I guess it shows he really is a purist in terms of the music.
He is playing 12am to 4am.
Kismet7
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Originally posted by alan
Good for us James only prefers to play with INCOGNITO then, and doesn't like doing big venues too:tongue3
I guess it shows he really is a purist in terms of the music.
He is playing 12am to 4am.
Yah he seems purist. Koool.
Miss Julia
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Originally posted by alan
He is playing 12am to 4am.
holy sweet mother of Jesus Christ... a 4 hour set??? :eyes:
alan
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Originally posted by Miss Julia
holy sweet mother of Jesus Christ... a 4 hour set??? :eyes:
last time he spun 1230am to 4am, so yah, it will either be 3hrs 30min or 4hours.
Miss Julia
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Originally posted by alan
last time he spun 1230am to 4am, so yah, it will either be 3hrs 30min or 4hours.
Last time, I *had* to leave 30 minutes into Holden's set, due to my ex situation. But I will NEVER let any man control, ruin, or bring down my life like that again, EVER! And I am definitely NOT going to let him ruin my night at Holden again (if he even goes). :)
So technically, the last time I really saw Holden was in September 2007, in the upstairs room @ Vanguard.
Originally posted by Miss Julia
ID anyone???????????? :eyespop: :eyespop: :eyespop: :eyespop: :eyespop: :eyespop: :eyespop: :eyespop: :eyespop: :eyespop: :eyespop:
This is what james holden wrote, inside the sleeve of dj kicks:
"I suppose this CD is a manifesto, a biased rewrite of history, my tentative solution for the near-future. And my problem now is that it's much easier to say something with a synth and a drum machine, or a pair of decks and a pile of records than it is to try to explain with words what you just did. I'll try.
Let's start with the timing. Thank you fate, the chance to do this came at exactly the right moment. Music moves fast now, scenes and sub-scenes appearing and collapsing through every musician's Darwinian urge to try and be as similar to the successful apes as possible. The quick codification of parameters, the high-speed evolutionary narrowing of possibilities, the walls drawing in on us too fast. Dance music: as trad as four-chord-rock, defended by purist zealots as blinkered and as trapped by the defence of their self-assigned identity as were the fools-in-hindsight who didn't like Dylan's appropriation of electricity. And so precisely which cycle we're at the end of matters much less than the fact, the immutable, unmistakable Truth that we are at the end of a cycle.
No need to stop and mourn whatever scene it was that just dug itself into a hole, for holes are a good place to plant seeds. So here I've looked for people who stood outside the shrinking room, who through naivety or choice neglected to learn the rules as they were written. The artists who appear here are not connected by time or place or intent. Only a few of them would count any of the others as influences. But listen to them. They are connected. Something underlying, a biological urge towards a certain rhythm, a tendency to believe in magic and look for it at the point where the thinking mind gives up and just lets the musician play. The man-sweat and adrenaline of Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid's improvised live-take jazz-rave is 100% the same as the heat and tension James Ruskin conjured from his machines ten years before.
'Dance music' can survive my disappointment, there's someone born evey minute who hasn't heard it all before, but for those that have, here I present my version of music-for-dancing-to. Whether you actually stand up and move around doesn't matter. The music doesn't care because it isn't begging you to with cheap tricks. The dance you do lying in bed or driving your car or riding the bus is still a dance. Caribou's math-hammering chimes may not be backed by a beat, but try and stop your subconscious from moving to them. I realise my malaise and the optimistic polemic that goes with it might rile some: an unavoidable side-effect of needing to define this in opposition - this CD is as fixed by what it is not as by what it is. But I really don't mean to cause any offence, in fact I think we want the same thing: something exciting for our synapses to dance to, wild and free. RIP Steve Reid
JAMES HOLDEN, LONDON, APRIL 2010"
Miss Julia
I miss James Holden :(
rizo
first song is buttons' rough steez (white hot heat remix) and its def not for everyone but i like it and still want to see them live (missed them last time they were here), sweet love for planet earth! :crazy:
enjoyed emeralds and caribou plus four tet on saturday but they are no replacement for holden :)
