eightball.ie proudly presents David Holmes

Sunday, April 30
Wicked Chicken

David Holmes is the among the best in a growing cadre of invisible-soundtrack producers inspired by the audio verité of classic film composers as well as the usual stable of dancefloor innovators and a large cast of jazz/soul pioneers to boot. Holmes’ productions are appropriately spacious and theatrical, though usually focused on future club consumption as well. “Let’s Get Killed” hardly disappointed, gaining critical and artistic success given the constraints of instrumental dance music.

Born in Belfast the youngest of ten children, Holmes listened to punk rock as a child and began DJing at the age of 15. Back-and-forth contact between England and Northern Ireland brought Holmes into contact with leading DJs Andrew Weatherall, Darren Emerson, and Ashley Beedle. After familiarizing himself with the studio, the began recording with Beedle to produce the single “DeNiro”, a sizeable dancefloor hit in 1992. That first taste of success brought David Holmes much remixing work during 1993-1994, for Weatherall’s Sabres of Paradise, St. Etienne, Therapy?, Fortran 5, Sandals, and Justin Warfield, among others. He followed with the remix collection Stop Arresting Artists, and in 1998 scored Steven Soderbergh’s A-list Hollywood feature Out of Sight with a prescient set of groove-funk.

Holmes issued his third studio effort, Bow Down to the Exit Sign, in September 2000. One year later, Soderbergh tapped him to produce another feature-film soundtrack, Ocean’s Eleven, and it pushed a single — Elvis Presley’s “A Little Less Conversation,” as remixed by Junkie XL. Holmes’ next project was a studio band, the Free Association, introduced on the 2002 mix album Come Get It, I Got It. On the record, Holmes mixed and matched older tracks with new productions from him and his lab-mate, Stephen Hilton.

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