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X-Press 2 Feat. Kele Okereke

Phasing You Out (David Holmes Remix)

    Hot on the heels of their fifth fantastic LP ‘Thee’ - their first for 25 years and debut for Acid Jazz - house stalwarts X-Press 2 have enlisted David Holmes to remix album track ‘Phasing You Out’.

    The original version of ‘Phasing You Out’ features Kele Okereke from Bloc Party and sits at the heart of the new album which again showed that Rocky and Diesel remain dedicated to proper house music.

    David Holmes has had a 25-plus year career in music that has seen him release several vital albums and remix artists like Andrew Weatherall, Primal Scream and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, hold down a cult NTS radio show and turn out a seminal mix for Late Night Tales.

    David Holmes brings plenty of signature musicality to what is a standout remix - his version of ‘Phasing You Out’ is an intense one that unfolds over eight minutes of percussive density, dusty drum work and careful treatment of the original vocal. The whole arrangement is lavishly decorated with wispy pads and glassy sound effects, police sirens and a rhythmic intensity that never lets up and will work any floor into a frenzy.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Phasing You Out (David
    2. Holmes Remix)
    3. Phasing You Out

    David Holmes Feat. Raven Violet

    Blind On A Galloping Horse

      Blind On A Galloping Horse serves as David Holmes’ first solo album since 2008’s The Holy Pictures.

      A 14-track interrogation of the last decade, time spent watching a decaying, fraying Britain visibly buckling in real time while tending to his own battles with mental health. Holmes’ soundtrack to this inquiry is at times claustrophobic, often euphoric, driven by the rattle and snap of analogue drum machines, wild oscillations of droning analogue synths and the voice of Raven Violet which beguiles and commands in a way that could part oceans.

      On this record, there are songs of hope for an age of uncertainty; love songs to leap the barricades to and, on ‘Necessary Genius’, a comprehensive roll call of the great and good - those ‘dreamers, misfits, radicals, outcasts’ that we’ve lost and just a few who’ve managed to cling on in the churn of the 21st century. And there are elegiac electronics evocative of an endless Europe where pulsating, crackling rhythm tracks fuse with dreamlike textures and the underground pulse of psychedelic therapy to form something unique that feels nothing less than radical. 


      STAFF COMMENTS

      Barry says: It's no wonder we (the shop) or we (Manchester) have taken to David Holmes, with the snappy post-industrial synth-gloom of 'Necessary Genius' referencing Tony Wilson by name and by design. It's yet another bit of evidence that Holmes' musical skills know no bounds. Rich, evocative works throughout and produced as you'd expect, perfectly.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. When People Are Occupied Resistance Is Justified
      2. It's Over, If We Run Out Of Love
      3. Emotionally Clear
      4. Hope Is The Last Thing To Die
      5. You Will Know Me By The Smell Of Onions
      6. Necessary Genius
      7. Yeah X 3
      8. I Laugh Myself To Sleep
      9. Too Muchroom
      10. Agitprop 13
      11. Stop Apologising
      12. Tyranny Of The Talentless
      13. Love In The Upside Down
      14. Blind On A Galloping Horse 

      David Holmes

      This England (Original Soundtrack)

        David Holmes (Ocean’s Eleven, Out of Sight, Killing Eve, The Fall, ‘71) new soundtrack to Sky limited series ‘This England’ is released via Stranger Than Paradise Records. The show is co-written and directed by Michael Winterbottom (A Mighty Heart, The Road to Guantanamo) and stars Kenneth Branagh as Boris Johnson and Ophelia Lovibond as Carrie Symonds. The 6-part drama is based on Boris Johnson’s tumultuous first months as Prime Minister and traces the impact on the country of the first wave of the Coronavirus pandemic.

        The plan for the music for This England came in 3 parts.

        1. We wanted to create a theme that was high in tempo. A theme that moved as fast as the virus was spreading. We wanted to always feel that we were chasing the vaccine but were ultimately never catching up as the virus took hold through huge events like Cheltenham & Champions League matches that should never have gone ahead. All the rhythms within the score were created using heart beats, ventilators, defibrillators, ECG machines etc. Even though these weren’t obviously noticeable I felt that it worked great as a linear thread and gave the piece real human movement, emotion and tension that told the story in an original way.

        2. The second theme centred around the virus itself as it creeped, crawled and spread through cities, countries and ultimately the world, the horrific nature of it and how the world practically changed overnight. I wanted to create a sense of danger that was uncomfortable. It also had to work with the recklessness, nativity and ultimately mismanagement that was witnessed day in day out in Downing Street.

        3. Emotionally, we had to be really careful. The last thing we wanted was to be overblown with the emotion. It was very important to deal with the raw human emotion in a very delicate way that had a profound feeling as people of all ages were dying unnecessarily by the 100s every day. The care homes were very tricky because of the hopelessness and obvious outcome of the situation. There was no room for sentimentality. We also wanted to create a darker sense of melancholy as Boris Johnson was not taking the virus at all seriously as he drove off to Chequers week after week.

        David Holmes in his own words:-
        “I’ve been profoundly affected by the sheer lawlessness and the dishonesty of the Tory government. When are the people who vote them in ever gonna learn? Boris Johnson is starting to make Margaret Thatcher look like she wasn’t doing a bad job. And she was the devil.”

        TRACK LISTING

        A1 Welcome To Brexit Britain
        A2 Meanwhile In Wuhan
        A3 AstraZeneca
        A4 Herd Immunity
        A5 Care Homes Catastrophe
        A6 Why? Why? Why?
        A7 Why Are They Not Testing?
        A8 A Very Different Britain
        A9 15,000 Discharged From Care Homes
        B1 No Morality
        B2 National Health Service
        B3 Test! Test! Test!
        B4 Another Break At Chequers
        B5 Jobs For The Boys
        B6 Forget About The Floods
        B7 Human Too Human
        B8 Failure Of Leadership

        David Holmes & Brian Irvine

        Ordinary Love

          Bafta Award-winning modern master of the soundtrack, David Holmes, working in collaboration with composer Brian Irvine. Set in Northern Ireland, directed by Holmes’ longtime friends Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa (Good Vibrations, Cherrybomb), and written by legendary Irish playwright Owen McCafferty (whom Holmes has known for forty years), the film tells the extraordinary story of Tom (Liam Neeson) and Joan (Lesley Manville) - their life and love as they enter the uncertainty and upset of Joan’s cancer diagnosis. In a career rich in highly personal work, Ordinary Love is up there with the most affecting in Holmes’ canon. Recorded between Abbey Road and Holmes’ own Drama Studio, the soundtrack features input from some of his most trusted collaborators. Holmes states: “I worked on the score with Brian Irvine. He is a longtime friend and the first person I ever had studio experience with 27 years ago. It felt important to work with Brian on this as his father (Ronnie), Owen’s father (Gerry) and my father (Jackie) - all now deceased - were great friends through a shared love of Point-to-Point horse racing and their work as bookmakers. For the three of us to work together on this was an opportunity I couldn’t ignore.”

          There is also contributions from Holmes’ bandmates, Jade Vincent and Keefus Ciancia, who comprise the trio Unloved. The group’s sound has been central to the much lauded Killing Eve soundtracks, which saw Holmes and Ciancia pick up a Bafta in 2019. Vincent provides a stand-out performance - lending her haunting and smoky vocals to the albums centrepiece and final track - ‘Isn’t It So’. The score to Ordinary Love wasn’t inspired by any other soundtrack or even musical composition but by a mathematical theory called The Game of Life. Devised by mathematician John Conway in 1970, The Game of Life is not your typical computer game. It consists of a collection of cells which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply as the cells form various patterns throughout the course of the game. 


          TRACK LISTING

          1 . Ordinary Love
          2 . Mammogram
          3 . Good Man
          4 . Power Walking
          5 . Peter And Steve
          6 . To And Fro
          7 . It'll Be Over In No Time
          8 . Check Up 9 . Dreaming
          10 . Mammogram Erased
          11 . Chemotherapy
          12 . More Power Walking
          13 . Normal People
          14 . Love
          15 . Every Moment
          16 . The Haircut
          17 . Debbie
          18 . MRI Again
          19 . Isn't It So 

          Jarv Is

          Must I Evolve? - Inc. David Holmes & Keefus Ciancia’s Unloved Rework

            From Jarvis re the mix: “David Holmes & Keefus Ciancia invited Catherine Rebeiro, Ennio Morricone, The Vampires of Dartmoor, Jean-Claude Vannier, La Düsseldorf, Alan Vega, Sergio Leone, Dario Argento & Jaromil Jireš to our Rave in the Cave.”

            TRACK LISTING

            Must I Evolve (Original Version)
            Must I Evolve (David Holmes & Keefus Ciancia’s Unloved Rework)

            David Holmes Presents The Free Association

            David Holmes Presents The Free Association

              This is the new band project from David Holmes and Steve Hilton, with Sean Reveron and Petra Jean Phillipson providing vocals. Imagine a fantastic mash up of psyche and avant rock, blues, funk, hip hop and general sleazy grooves.


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