Artist: David Holmes
Genre(s):
Dance
Rock
Rock: Electronic
Soundtrack
Discography:
David Holmes Presents The Free Association
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Come Get It I Got It
Year: 2002
Tracks: 26
Bow Down to the Exit Sign
Year: 2000
Tracks: 15
This Film's Crap Let's Slash The Seats
Year: 1999
Tracks: 9
David Holmes is the among the charles Herbert Best in a growing cadre of invisible-soundtrack producers divine by the sound verité of classical flick composers -- Lalo Schifrin, John Barry, Ennio Morricone -- as good as the common stable of dancefloor innovators and a big cast of jazz/soul pioneers to boot. Similar to the work out of Howie B, Barry Adamson, and Portishead's Geoff Barrow, Holmes' productions ar appropriately spacious and theatrical, though normally focussed on future social club intake as well. His number one record album, hotly tipped in England, rosebush the wager significantly for his second. Let's Get Killed scarcely foiled, gaining critical and esthetic success given the constraints of instrumental dance music. The increased exposure even helped him engage in on Hollywood's roll to provide the score for the 1998 feature plastic film Out of Sight.
Natural in Belfast the youngest of ten-spot children, Holmes listened to punk rocker rock music as a child and began DJing at the long time of 15 -- his sets at pubs and clubs around the city during the adjacent few old age embraced a range of grooves including soul-jazz, mod john Rock, Northern soul, and disco music. Holmes also worked as an resistance concert showman and wrote a fanzine as easily, though he was still precisely a stripling when the firm and techno boom hit Britain in the former '80s. Soon he was integration the new dance music into his mixture, and his golf club night Sugar Sweet became the first locus for serious dance music in Northern Ireland. Back-and-forth contact betwixt England and Northern Ireland brought Holmes into contact with leading DJs Andrew Weatherall, Darren Emerson, and Ashley Beedle. After familiarizing himself with the studio, he began recording with Beedle (by and by of Black Science Orchestra) to produce the single "DeNiro" (as Disco Evangelists), a sizeable dancefloor hit in 1992. The following year, his Scubadevils project (a coaction with Dub Federation) appeared on the first volume of the germinal compilation series Enchantment Europe Express.
That first gustation of winner 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 by and by signed to Go! Discs and in 1995 released his debut record album, This Film's Crap, Let's Slash the Seats. Besides the cinema-terrorist persona evoked in the title, the album featured other ties to the movie house: the single "No Mans Land" had been written in response to the controversial Guildford 4 film In the Name of the Father. Television film director Lynda La Plante complete up victimization many of the tracks from the album for her series Provide & Demand, and matchless rail was used in the Sean Penn/Michael Douglas film The Game. Holmes' first proper soundtrack, the Marc Evans film Resurrection of Christ Game, appeared in 1997. The feel inspired Holmes to travel to New York and gather a riches of urban-jungle environs recordings, compiled and interracial into his secondment proper album, Let's Get Killed.
He followed with the remix assembling Stop Arresting Artists, and in 1998 scored Steven Soderbergh's A-list Hollywood feature Out of Sight with a prescient set of groove-funk. (The attention likewise earned him a topographic point in Entertainment Weekly's list of the Top C Creative People in Entertainment.) His single "My Mate Paul" even featured as the paper music to the Sony Playstation game Psybadek. Indispensable Mix 98/01 followed later that year, and in 1999 This Film's Crap, Let's Slash the Seats was reissued with a fillip phonograph record of rarities and unreleased tracks. Holmes issued his third studio exploit, Bow Down to the Exit Sign, in September 2000. One year subsequently, Soderbergh tapped him to acquire some other feature film soundtrack, Ocean's Eleven, and it pushed a undivided -- Elvis Presley's "A Little Less Conversation," as remixed by Junkie XL -- into the charts (as well as the top spot in many countries).
Holmes' adjacent send off was a studio band, the Free Association, introduced on the 2002 ruffle album Come Get It, I Got It. On the criminal record, Holmes interracial and matched old tracks with new productions from him and his lab-mate, Stephen Hilton. Late that same year, a full album of new tracks (Jacques Louis David Holmes Presents the Free Association, which was reissued with a new caterpillar tread order in 2006) followed it onto the racks, and in 2004 Cherrystones: Hidden Charms came out.
