James Holden
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Hello friends, good news! I've finished an album, it's my best one, it's coming out end of march. The title is IMAGINE THIS IS A HIGH DIMENSIONAL SPACE OF ALL POSSIBILITIES and here's the first single, CONTAINS MULTITUDES. full version is up on streaming and bandcamp already.
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when musicians play together, their brainwaves measured with an EEG appear to synchronise. likewise for audiences moving to music together.
Spontaneous synchronization: "a remarkable collective effect observed in nature, whereby a population of oscillating units with diverse natural frequencies evolves to exhibit collective oscillations at a common frequency."
Video:
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if you're looking to quit sp****y but will miss on-the-go music: there's an app called subsonic that lets you run your own private streaming service. i can stream or dl anything from my library all without giving Ek and his goblin mates any money
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HELLO. so me and my friends made an album, The Animal Spirits, and it is coming out on 3rd November.
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made a playlist of so-called ambient music for the BBC (including motion sickness of time travel,
@polypores
, KFW,
@johnalsobennett
, TCF, XAM duo, shabaka, alice, dj plead, pataphysical,...) :
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About once every three years I turn this thing on and a banger comes out. No promises but yesterday It Happened Again.
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This is where we recorded the LP and about half the gear we used
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so i've got a fun year ahead of me.. :) - i'll be supporting the smile at all their headline shows - these below just announced and a few more earlier in the year - full list on my web site
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Me: synth needs to be louder
BBC engineer: we try and put the 'live' instruments louder in these sessions
Me: my synth IS a live instrument
#synthrights
#fightforequality
etc
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Haven't been in a DJ booth for so long and this shit is freaking me out. Who crushes music? Why? Jet what? Help!
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VERY EXCITING NEWS i am playing some support shows for
@thomyorke
's Tomorrow's Modern Boxes tour. Just me, solo synth + whatever instruments fit in the case, trying out new things / new versions of old music, we'll see.
SUPPORT ANNOUNCED »
@mrjamesholden
is supporting
@thomyorke
at the Tomorrow's Modern Boxes show at
@SECGlasgow
Hall 3 on 19th June! Tickets available NOW!
TICKETS ⇾
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its here!!!!!
Hello friends, good news! I've finished an album, it's my best one, it's coming out end of march. The title is IMAGINE THIS IS A HIGH DIMENSIONAL SPACE OF ALL POSSIBILITIES and here's the first single, CONTAINS MULTITUDES. full version is up on streaming and bandcamp already.
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this is the best thing i've read on this. from the perspective of being a music fan: how badly the uk now treats musicians from everywhere else is as big an issue as our own musicians' new tour costs. and the two are tied together - as the eu and govt both made clear.
Solidarity beyond borders: a Black Sky Thinking on why the artist visa crisis is more than a Brexit issue
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writing a melody and in my head i totally know what the last note feels like but this note is not on the keyboard: i've definitely tried all of them now. do i need a new keyboard or ?? send help pls
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Had a few people asking if we'll be selling vinyl and CDs of my new one via bandcamp, we won't because we don't want to eat independent record shops' lunch, they're a really important part of the culture.
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Imagine thinking "I should pay this guy 50%, but I think I can get away with 18%"? Obscene behaviour. Good luck
@FourTet
The artist and label are currently involved in an ongoing legal dispute over royalties
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Imo these are two of the best of this era, to me this stuff is bigger than afx or any of the rest, just perfect records, untouchable aesthetic, amazing sense of place and time. Can't recommend strongly enough!
PRE-ORDER: The Black Dog Reissues
‘Bytes’ and ‘Spanners’ remain influential slabs of UK electronic through their innovative fusions of Detroit techno, acid, and ambient with hints of hip hop and rave.
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i love talking about the how part of music making, but i've noticed i tend to get overexcited and overwhelm journalists with the massive special interest info-dump.. future music did a good job of making sense of it here!
James Holden: "I got really bored of making music. But the moment I discovered modular and Live and Max/MSP, it all opened up again"
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HELLO! overjoyed to be sharing this, COMMON LAND is single
#2
from IMAGINE THIS IS A HIGH DIMENSIONAL SPACE OF ALL POSSIBILITIES and you can listen to it right now on streaming / bandcamp / and the full video is on youtube
feat
@duffffin
on sax, video by
@innerstrings
☮❤️
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reminder: polls are weighted on an assumption that the young & decent won't vote, it's not hopeless, just get out tomorrow and vote tactically and maybe we don't have to live in the hellscape the boomers want.
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friends could you do me a favour: bordercommunity's twitter has been hacked and renamed and twitter support are ignoring us. apparently if a lot of people report it that helps so please report this account as 'it appears their account is hacked':
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new record! (mine!) out today! holden & zimpel - long weekend ep in all good record shops including this one: i'm proud of this one, hope it makes someone happy 🌲🌲🤪🌲🌲
Holden / Zimpel - Long Weekend EP. Bleep.
Buy Long Weekend EP by Holden / Zimpel on Bleep.
bleep.com
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unplugged speakers while i hoovered round the back of the studio, plugged them back in wrong and as a result did most of a mixdown working in mono by accident and OMG the result is the best mix I've done in ages. (this is a protip.)
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woke up a bit excited about sharing this! here's a clip of the 3rd single from IMAGINE THIS IS A HIGH DIMENSIONAL SPACE OF ALL POSSIBILITIES it's called IN THE END YOU'LL KNOW you can hear all of it in the usual places. i really like this one!
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look! i've done a show for bandcamp weekly! 100 minutes of the softest trances and my dulcet mumblings.
In the latest Bandcamp Weekly
@mrjamesholden
takes us on a deeply immersive audio adventure full of killer discoveries:
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re "stay out of politics, stick to music" : HAVE BORDER POLICE EVER TRIED TO LOOK UP UR ASS ON UR WAY TO WORK? NO? GTF THEN.
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really happy to be on this record! it's the 50th anniversary reissue of harmonia's "musik von harmonia", one of the records that made the biggest impression on my life.
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HELLO here's a recording of an ambient dj set i did at a friend's private party last year:
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WHAT EVEN IS A COUNTRY? STUPID IDEA. THERE ARE 3 COUNTRIES: THE LAND, THE SEA & THE AIR AND ALL THE LIVING CREATURES THEREIN ARE MY COUSINS
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we've put ourselves behind a cultural and economic wall, and the only way it's coming down is if we somehow turn the tide.
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just want to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone who's come to shows this year/bought my music. i am unbelievably excited about what i've got to share next year...
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oh great toby young is trending and i am once again reminded that i saved his life once (he rode out of a junction without looking, i only saw who it was after i'd stopped the vehicle from hitting him) I AM REALLY SORRY EVERYONE
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I've been making a thing, think I'll share progress here to maybe pressure myself into finishing it. It's going to be a 'playing music live maybe integrating with some hardware' max/msp patch.
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sometimes you're working on music, you've heard it a thousand times and any big change feels like an improvement. this is usually an illusion.
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i made a (free) human timing plugin for my live sets, here's a thing i wrote for
@ableton
explaining it:
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Lol busted but in fairness at least one of those people copied me
Just discovered English electronic musicians have a uniform
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side point: if you bought these LPs you paid Kieran a fair rate that he'd agreed to and you still have the music. if you streamed it: neither of those things are true. going to listen to rounds this afternoon because only god can take my mp3 collection off me
I’m so upset to see that
@Dominorecordco
have removed the 3 albums of mine they own from digital and streaming services. This is heartbreaking to me. People are reaching out asking why they can’t stream the music and I’m sad to have to say that it’s out of my control.
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used to think it was pointless to talk politics on here because surely (!) good music taste implies other good opinions BUT at
@unsound
(of all places!) an artist I liked told me over breakfast that he'd "done his own research" and climate change is "another media hoax" so.......
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It's here! Reading my girl a story about transcendence.. So pleased how nice it looks on paper, amazing work
@profgenius
:) out tomorrow!
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Unbelievably excited about this! Michael's a hero to me!
Delighted to announce that
@mrjamesholden
is joining the bill with
@_MichaelRother_
opening the night at the
@BarbicanCentre
in Feb. What a great way to start the year for us. Tickets already 2/3 gone!
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IN THE END YOU'LL KNOW:
About once every three years I turn this thing on and a banger comes out. No promises but yesterday It Happened Again.
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I'm on a plane now. When it lands my record will be out. Happy Thursday everyone!
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producer friends this might be interesting to you (everyone else, maybe not): few weeks ago i went to be the guinea pig trying out a new course my mastering engineer Eric is offering. He calls it 'mastering for mix engineers'. The idea is that after something you've mixed is ..
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Played my first live show of the year on Friday (still buzzing!) Here's what the distancing looked like - this is Amsterdam's Muziekgebouw completely sold out. It's a different thing but its still a good thing.
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it's a weird, exposed kind of feeling being interviewed. but i'm very grateful to
@JahDuran
for this one, because it feels like me.
James Holden’s excellent new album is out next month.
@JahDuran
speaks to him about the etymology of the word trance, the evolutionary purpose of music and maintaining a sense of radical optimism
@mrjamesholden
Interviewed
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My favourite interview with Terry Riley starts with 15 minutes on goat farming and his music is better than mine and yours and everyone who liked this meme ever:
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killed my hammond organ recording bass drones. turned out the noise i liked, and was trying to make it do more of, was it dying.
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WE ARE EATING THE SPRING ONION I GREW ON THE ROOF. I AM A FARMER NOW.
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this has an evolutionary benefit: a group of people synchronising creates a sense of commonality, trust and safety which enables group cooperation.
i really miss going to live shows is what i think i'm trying to say here
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this film's on netflix at the moment (but only for another couple of weeks). amazing movie but the sound system scenes.. omg 🤯
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Was working on new music but I regret to inform you I have "god gave rock n roll to u" stuck in my head so it's on hold til I can find someone to do me a lobotomy
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can't think of many LPs that mean more to me than this one >>>
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reason i'm posting this is i've seen a few music journalists (!) posting about how they pay sp****y to make up for their inability to manage their own music library and... i dunno. EVERY PENNY YOU SPEND IS A VOTE FOR THE KIND OF WORLD YOU WANT. EVERY PENNY.
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fao all the artists who've posted about NOT being creative right now: thanks, i've found that helpful. me too.
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So here we are in my favourite city but (thanks police 😢) can't play tonight. BUT good news we will play tomorrow afternoon at
@ForoIndierocks
more info soon xx
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seems wrong, especially given the current regime.. also i'm not rich enough for that kind of nonsense
so, US fans I really recommend coming to see us when we next play in mexico. wonderful, beautiful country, great audiences.
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I DID A REMIX AND I LIKED IT >>
We've only enticed
@mrjamesholden
out of remix retirement!
Lost Souls Of Saturn - The Awakening (James Holden's Past Life Rave Regression) is a psychedelic masterpiece
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THIS IS OUT TODAY!!!! me vs maalem houssam guinia - 3 live takes
spotify:
boomkat:
i hope it transports/hypnotises/heals you!
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So happy to be returning to
@LeGuessWho
and extra happy about who invited me, I've been a Stereolab fan since I was 18 so 🥰
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I have been thinking about this paragraph a lot: (from ali smith - how to be both)
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i am in an airport. to my horror, i realise i am maskless. crushed by shame, i hide behind a vending machine, feral. OH GOOD, A NEW ANXIETY DREAM. at least this one is topical.
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5 years ago today, me and Sam on the roof of a studio in Marrakech. Back this weekend for
@hotel_beat
playing with Maalem Houssam Guinia :)
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this is beautiful, classic trance tension
My new single THE GRASS featuring Wizard Apprentice is out today! Very happy this is finally out. Listen here:
Visual by
@Infinite__Vibes
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which brings me to: if I do a AMA would that be interesting to anyone at all? am thinking tech stuff because if ppl ask "why u no dj anymore" and i have to explain the pursuit of happiness that will wear me down.
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Happy release day Nathan! Wonderful joyous LP! ♥️
CRYSTAL VISION is out now!
This track is Outsider made with
@throttleclark
, one of my all time musical heroes. I wrote the main riff & drums & Chris added the top synth line. Thanks to
@Infinite__Vibes
for the brilliant artwork.
Listen/stream/buy: 💎👁️💎
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i'm doing this tonight if you're near a radio after 9...
:)
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fascinating read, studio tips goldmine (if you have £700000 to spend on recording an lp lol)
It's been exactly 25 years since Mark Hollis of Talk Talk released his last record and retired from music. I spent the past month writing this deep dive about the production of "Spirit of Eden", "Laughing Stock", and his only solo album. Read it on Reverb:
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been meaning to post this for ages, def one of my favourites of the year, i keep coming back to it again and again. deceptively simple it totally transcends the 'beatless synth music' millieu, such a strong sense of _feeling_ in it, real emotional weight:
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I hope the thief is as bitterly disappointed by the sound of my bose headphones as I was.
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Hi Hello if you're a band/musician I like and you're doing special bandcamp day releases could you please label them as either 'Canon' or 'Scrapings' because having to decide for myself is stressing me out. Thanks for your time and consideration in this matter.
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On my way to Portugal for the first show (sonar Lisbon tonight!) and just inordinately pleased with how neat I got the case foam this time 🤓
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HELLO here's another song from The Animal Spirits, a naive song about naivety:
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Heads up! Did a session for
@tom_ravenscroft
and deb grant's 6 music show, had a great time! new versions of a few LP tracks featuring
@camilo_tirado
and
@duffffin
. Goes out tonight 7pm + on listen again later.
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If you know someone who's planning on voting Tory tomorrow then this afternoon is the optimum time to introduce e. coli to their diet.
#FYI
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HELLO HERE IS A NEW SONG: it's from the EP
@WaclawZimpel
and I have coming on
@bordercommunity
in a fortnight
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this is an amazing set of tools, if you're a music-maker of any kind: have a go! both are for exploring scales and tuning systems, and are an excellent way into a fascinating subject that is often rendered tedious by western musicologists.
This is
#Apotome
a transcultural browser based generative music making environment focused on microtonal tunings and their subsets (scales/modes). Try it out here:
Created by
@ctpt_studio
and yours truly. Launched as part of
@CTMFestival
2021.
#Apotome
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best guitar ever: bit bent, almost impossible to play 'stairway to heaven' on, makes 'real' guitarists angry every time, cost me 2 years' bad prog house promos at the record and tape exchange. handing it to luke was my biggest 'producer' intervention in his lp sessions..
This is where the track was recorded, that guitar belongs to
@mrjamesholden
and I'm pretty sure it's had the same strings on it for 20 years, which is how you get the worst (best) guitar sound ever....
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remember websites?
@bordercommunity
has one, we just revamped it. there is so much content, almost too much: mixes, records, videos, words. perhaps something to help you pass this time.
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On our way to our final Animal Spirits show, feeling quite/very
#emotions
😭 it's been a wonderful trip, many many thanks to everyone involved and everyone that came to see us 🧡💛
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ICYMI i took the tube into town and had a lovely chat with the very kind
@tom_ravenscroft
on Friday evening. There's a short mixtape I did too. Full of no kick bangers. Link in next toot
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seriously though: months ago someone on here i respect pointed out the good days were the ones he started with meditation and that was the push i needed and he was 100% right
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just one date this month, but a nice one, playing on the acousmonium at auditorium san fedele in milan. i'll be touring IMAGINE THIS IS A HIGH DIMENSIONAL SPACE OF ALL POSSIBILITIES the rest of this year, in between the exciting support tour dates (see previous post) c u there💚
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The dummy 25th anniversary interviews remind me of being a kid reading Geoff tearing into some bullshit, holding up the idea of music as something too special to allow charlatans to milk it. Keep going!
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our 6music live session is up on listen again!
near the end - 1:30ish. i'm really proud of this one,
@camilo_tirado
and
@duffffin
played beautifully, my synths sound wild af :)
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on wormwood scrubs just now. small dog comes up yapping at my ankles. woman: sorry, he's just scared of people that look like wizards.
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If you're really tired and everything is too much this record is better than a warm bath:
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