James Holden

about

James Holden is an electronic musician and tinkerer who has worn many hats across his twenty year musical career: producer, remixer, DJ, record label boss, synth maestro, band leader, mix engineer, software developer and all round jack of all vaguely musical trades. He lives in London with his partner (in life and business) Gemma, and their rescue Staffy Heidi. Holden was just nineteen years old and not quite finished university when he fell into a professional career in the more commercialised end of dance music, when an early 12” (Horizons) was picked up by a Sony Music-backed imprint in the trance glory days of 1999. A career as an international DJ and remixer to the stars (from Madonna and Britney to Radiohead, New Order and Depeche Mode) opened up before him, aided and abetted by his own proudly DIY Border Community imprint and a certain unstoppable remix of label protege Nathan Fake’s The Sky Was Pink, a bonafide dance anthem which in various corners of electronic music came to define the sound of the mid-noughties. In 2006 he gently flexed his album muscles with the prescient The Idiots Are Winning, an EP of idiosyncratic dancefloor bangers and DJ tools which somehow swelled to album proportions and cemented Holden’s status as a vibrant new force in electronic music. But it was seven years later with the pagan thud of his epic landmark second album The Inheritors in 2013 that his path would take a bold left turn, prompting him to eventually hang up his DJ headphones

top songs

albums

The Animal Spirits

The Inheritors

The Idiots Are Winning

A Cambodian Spring OST

Horizons

Solstice

Balance 005 (Mixed by James Holden) [Mixed Version]

Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities

One For You

Gabriel & Dresden Present Toolroom Knights

At the Controls

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Muzik Awards 2001 Vol.2 - The Future

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