Border Community’s founding father James Holden is a man of many talents. Kicking off proceedings with the genre-defying melodic anthem A Break In The Clouds, before coming of age with his debut mini-album The Idiots Are Winning in 2006, he is a label boss, trend-setting producer and hugely in-demand remixer (ask Madonna or check Holden’s take on Radiohead). On top of all of this, he finds himself at the head of the pack of that very modern breed of DJ.
Holden is exploiting new technology to the full in order to bring his vision of next-level music-to-dance-to to life by brazenly uniting tracks from music’s past and present, regardless of scene or status, confounding the purists and making club hits out of many an unwitting dancefloor virgin. His supreme and unrivalled command of the modern technology available to him allows Holden to go where other DJs fear to tread, consistently pulling off daring mixes on-the-fly which just wouldn’t be possible on a conventional two turntable set-up.
And so distinct is the resultant sound that your average conservative dance music night can barely contain it. Crossing the border for sure…
