Dan Good job too as he couldn’t mix a vodka and orange.

Lol!

    Do remember the Medicine Bar, saw Carl Craig there.

    Not the best night I’ve ever had.

    Millsy Yup. I was there also and it was good, but his set at slide at the zodiac in oxford was truly truly appalling

      Got Holden down as an anti-vaxxer.

      Cheers!

      Going by his appearance seems the sort that covid would ravage.

      Watched him live once, the mixing was dire, the track selection not so bad. But he was extremely approachable at the end of the night, and just seemed like a very sweet guy. Letting the punters come in and mess around with his gear and having a laugh.

      He also ended with this, which is an absolute banger… always goes down hard on a club system:

        Wonder if he’s still with that manager girlfriend of his that caused a ton of trouble for promoters, terrible reputation and apparently extremely difficult to work with.

        Cankles-McJeggings Lolz. Edward can tell you all about the scene there. Slide was a pretty good night for the provinces.

          Can’t imagine Dermo working in a record shop I must say.

            Smallman1 lol. All “I’m free!!” on the surface, but underneath a seething pot of white hot rage. An absolute retail time bomb, Falling Down nightmare in other words.

              His bedside manner does leave somewhat to be desired!

              A punter innocently enquires about the latest ADID release and casually mentions to the chirpy shop assistant (Derms) that he thinks it’s ‘the best track Sasha has ever produced’.

              A few hours later he returns home to find his front door kicked in, his family strewn about the living room with their heads caved in with a clawhammer and ‘Cunts’ written in their blood over the fireplace.

                Millsy A punter innocently enquires about the latest ADID release and casually mentions to the chirpy shop assistant (Derms) that he thinks it’s ‘the best track Sasha has ever produced’.

                A few hours later he returns home to find his front door kicked in, his family strewn about the living room with their heads caved in with a clawhammer and ‘Cunts’ written in their blood over the fireplace.

                Lol, spot on!

                  rhouses He also ended with this, which is an absolute banger… always goes down hard on a club system:

                  This has never gone down hard anywhere.

                      Poor James. He’s questioning every aspect of his career, churning out post electro clash slop in the Black Hole of Calcutta, takes a peek at the crowd just to see Rhouses in a crisp Darth Maul tiedye tee shluff to the front of the pack for a look at the booth. Gun in mouth stuff.

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                        zackster

                        The R-man pops his head over the edge of the booth and some half-chewed lamb jalfrezi falls onto the cdj. Raises his arm to offer an apology wave, forgets about the mango daiquiri he’s holding and blows the sound system when it spills all over the mixer!

                          zackster All due respect Zackster, but you are the absolute last person I’d ever consult on matters of music.

                          Stay in your corner and stick to making fun of the British and getting worked up about America’s political situation.

                              He butchered the sky was pink but at least he was authentic unlike so many who got help back then or used ghost producers.

                                Fuck you Dan and fuck you Rhouses! 🖕🏼

                                17 days later

                                His 2002 EM is now back on BBC Sounds app. Still sounds superb

                                2 months later

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                                Smallman1 this is a popular view, however I regret to inform you that it is quintessential historical revisionism. If you deign to examine the record, when he had left silver planet, sasha and digweed were already disowning the merger of trance and house so beloved of the progressive lifestyle and capitulating to pure mnml tech house. Holden kept it alive well into the late 2000s. After all, who was playing Midimiliz - Trace Function in 2005 outside of the psytrance scene? Peak time wrecking ball prog, that one.

                                how could you, for instance, dare to deny that this is quintessential gu013 material, only updated to take account of the technological advances of laptop production in 2007?

                                I should like to agree with you that his new music is disappointing, but this is because the virtuous crusade to keep the real progressive house sound and lifestyle alive was disowned by all the main practitioners. He was a lone warrior. Putting myself in his shoes, if enough music is not coming into my inbox to constantly reenact 1999, what else could I do? and I also regret to inform you that you must take responsibility for isolating him so callously because you became ashamed of liking trance because you could no longer chat up hipster birds.

                                Of course as an older and wiser man your youthful follies can be excused and you may be forgiven, but what is written in tablets of stone cannot be erased.

                                    Amps Clark’s playground in a lake is my favourite album of the last two years.

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                                      pure 2010 peak time wrecking ball prog

                                      It is only recently that your friends mr smallman have realised the error of their ways and are now returning to peak time wrecking ball prog. for instance:

                                        Just to add that Holden’s latest album is a seriously good piece of work