DJ KICKS

A1. Luke Abbott - Soft Attacks A2. Mordant Music - Olde Wobbly B1. Mogwai -The Sun Smells Too Loud (Holden Remix) B2. Caribou - Lemon Yoghourt C1. MIT - Rauch (Luke Abbott Remix) C2. Lucky Dragons - Open Melody D1. Grackle - Disco (Musiccargo Remix) D2. Ursula Bognor - Punkte D3. Eric Copeland - Auto Dimmer James Holden's status as an exemplary DJ free-spirit makes him the perfect choice to mix the next in the legendary DJ-KiCKS series. His tireless dedication to hunting down the next wave of young production talents meets his own sense of exemplary taste when record shopping to bring his unique vision of what a DJ mix in 2010 should rightly be. Barely coming up for air between his non-stop sampler and CDJ wizardry, this mix proves that Holden is a very modern sort of DJ, brazenly uniting tracks from music's past and present, disregarding genre, confounding the purists and making club hits out of many an unwitting dancefloor virgin. While many of these tracks would be an unlikely presence in a "club" context, Holden wishes to make it clear that this is in fact dance music, even if it hasn't yet been branded with that label. "If you look at the tracks, you'd put them in different boxes," he admits. "It is loose and free, maybe more so than if you were playing in a club. But to me this is dance music." And although Holden does find himself slightly liberated in the album format, it is true that the mix nonetheless beats with a vital lifeblood throughout. Limited 12" features exclusive track 'Triangle Folds', it's the first solo Holden single in 4 years.