David Holmes by Steve Gullick
David Holmes to release 31 remixes three volumes.
David Holmes has started a trio of remix collections centred around last year’s Blind On A Galloping Horse album today.
Completed on April 17th, the first set features new takes on Stop Apologising by Horse Meat Disco, Necessary Genius by Decius and Yeah Yeah Yeah by X-Press.
In our review at the time of its release, Live4ever summed up Blind On A Galloping Horse as, ‘no comfortable soundtrack to a comfortable life David Holmes could’ve chosen’:
“As well as saluting those terrorised by conflict, Necessary Genius picks up the mantle of offering love and respect to the, ‘dreamers, misfits, radicals, outcasts’, that have passed in the last few years – figures such as Terry Hall, Sinéad O’Connor and Ennio Morricone.”
Whilst in this vein the producer then summons up the spirit of one of the greatest mavericks of all in Sugar Sweet regular Andrew Weatherall via the post-punk mining I Laugh Myself To Sleep, emphasising a bond between the two which has transcended the absence of one.
“Perhaps some of the album’s evident frustration is that every step forward seems to be followed by two back; released originally eighteen months ago, It’s Over, If We Run Out of Love – with its fizzing lo-fi electro groove and mournful refrain, ‘I remember back when we were young/they said the people’s day would surely come’, – is a mournful signpost of hope unfulfilled.”