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Rating: If My Bloody Valentine had decided to take up synths and drum machines or sit behind a mixer...
If Boards Of Canada had recorded while locked in a nightclub bathroom doing speed...
If Aphex Twin woke up one morning and decided to become a good guy...
This is how this ep (rather long to really be an ep) by James Holden sounds, awaiting the true debut album in the early months of 2007, the very young London-based progressive house producer and the boss of the newborn Border Community.
A wonderful piece of work, overflowing with insights. It sails inspired between techno terror, warm ambient, and irresistible groovy diversions between house and syncopated rhythms. "Lump" is like entering someone else's nightmare and watching with amazement and fear. "Human Corduroy" is pure rhythmic stratification that envelops you in a foreign limbo. "10101" would not have looked out of place in a dark version of "Geogaddi". And the pearl of pearls "Idiot": seven minutes of tension pushed to the limit, squared and relentless, essential and cosmic.
Gosh, behind these tracks lies a mind that calling genius is an understatement: think with me about our James's tender age, only 26, and this gives hope for the future of electronic music. In the meantime, I'm enjoying this spectacular ep and waiting for the full album, ready to shout masterpiece.
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