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Belfast, Ireland (1992 – present)
David Holmes is a Northern Irish DJ, musician and composer. Holmes was born on 14 February 1969, the youngest of ten children.
Holmes began DJing in the pubs of his native belfast from the age of 15. His first hit was the song “DeNiro”, with Ashley Beedle, in 1992. In the early to mid 1990’s he ran two highly acclaimed and successful club nights in the Belfast Art College known as Sugar Sweet and Shake Yer Brain. Famously, the dance group Orbital wrote the track “Belfast”, released on their debut album Orbital, after playing at Sugar Sweet.
Holmes released This Film’s Crap Let’s Slash The Seats, in 1995, and it received acclaim for being very scenic and chaotic dance music. One of the songs on the album was used in the soundtrack to the film Pi (Pi). At the time he described the album as being inspired by movies and movie soundtracks, a recurring theme throughout the album and of Holmes’ work as a whole. The opening track, “No Man’s Land,” was reportedly inspired by the Daniel Day-Lewis film In the Name of the Father. In the same year, he also provided the ambient links between the songs on the album Infernal Love by the Northern Irish rock band Therapy?.
In 1997, Holmes released Let’s Get Killed, described by some as the soundtrack to an imaginary film. Many of the tracks feature people talking in the streets of New York, recorded by Holmes using a dictaphone.
In 1998, Danny Devito commissioned him to do the score for Steven Soderbergh’s film Out of Sight (Out Of Sight).
He scored a second film for Soderbergh in 2001, including some songs from Let’s Get Killed and Bow Down to the Exit Sign on the Ocean’s Eleven remake (Ocean’s Eleven).
Holmes began DJing in the pubs of his native belfast from the age of 15. His first hit was the song “DeNiro”, with Ashley Beedle, in 1992. In the early to mid 1990’s he ran two highly acclaimed and successful club nights in the Belfast Art College known as Sugar Sweet and Shake Yer Brain. Famously, the dance group Orbital wrote the track “
Belfast”, released on their debut album Orbital, after playing at Sugar Sweet.
Holmes released This Film’s Crap Let’s Slash The Seats, in 1995, and it received acclaim for being very scenic and chaotic dance music. One of the songs on the album was used in the soundtrack to the film Pi (Pi). At the time he described the album as being inspired by movies and movie soundtracks, a recurring theme throughout the album and of Holmes’ work as a whole. The opening track, “
No Man’s Land,” was reportedly inspired by the Daniel Day-Lewis film In the Name of the Father. In the same year, he also provided the ambient links between the songs on the album Infernal Love by the Northern Irish rock band Therapy?.In 1997, Holmes released Let’s Get Killed, described by some as the soundtrack to an imaginary film. Many of the tracks feature people talking in the streets of New York, recorded by Holmes using a dictaphone.
In 1998, Danny Devito commissioned him to do the score for Steven Soderbergh’s film Out of Sight (Out Of Sight).
He scored a second film for Soderbergh in 2001, including some songs from Let’s Get Killed and Bow Down to the Exit Sign on the Ocean’s Eleven remake (Ocean’s Eleven).
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Rachyaar wrote:
This guy is a fucking genius [4] innndeed!
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DymovEugene wrote:
this guy is a fucking genius !![3]
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grin87 wrote:
Great music!
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LusciousSpirit wrote:
This genius man is a connection to real art, to God! I Just travel through all the mysteries while listening to his tracks! And the team he cooperates with, all the coolest people ever! David Holmes is my Top Artist, which has had big impact on my life! Fucking love this guy!
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DJKingpen wrote:
Tess ftw
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HerrFLSH wrote:
A fucking genius indeed, fucking love this guy.
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gidea wrote:
hi energy
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Ambryer wrote:
this guy is a fucking genius !![2]
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Malibu_Marlboro wrote:
Happy B-day!)
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shaantigraphics wrote:
I Heard Wonders
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Gordonflesher wrote:
Wonderful, fine, interesting and it is simple fuckin`great music!
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SonOfThirteen wrote:
i came here to say the exact thing MMW14 said
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MMWXIV wrote:
this guy is a fucking genius !!
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warsoftheeast wrote:
anasını ya.süper
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Mlyukov wrote:
!!!
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ElGatoAmarillo wrote:
@Quentin3: you should try to track down Essential Mix 98/01, which is a re-working of a session he did for BBC Radio 1. I think it's deleted, so is quite expensive second-hand, but it's worth every penny!
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SexWithMinors wrote:
i feel kind of dumb for not knowing about this chap sooner.
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Quentin3 wrote:
Are there any other mix-albums where holmes (or anybody else) mainly mixed some old soul songs besides (!) come on get it? i love that one so much, but his other albums seem to contain mainly chillout-songs (not that it is bad, but i'm in search for great soul mixes).
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DWarsong wrote:
OUT OF SIGHT is funky heaven!
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chinneths wrote:
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The new album 'The Dogs Are Parading' a best of complete with
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The Lower Orders plus 1 brand new remix of 'The Ballad Of Sarah
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