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James Holden’s excellent new album, Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities, is out next month on his own Border Community label. John Doran speaks to him about the etymology of the word trance, the evolutionary purpose of music and maintaining a sense of radical optimism
Polish jazz musician Wacław Zimpel speaks to British electronic producer James Holden in an exclusive two-way interview that gets to grips with practice and inspiration, speaking from one artist directly to another
Following last year's feral The Inheritors album, Border Community label head James Holden is about to take his newly developed live show on tour, including to Field Day and Sonar Barcelona. Rory Gibb catches up with him to discuss thirteen favourite and formative albums, improvisation and atheist spirituality
With enigmatic and exploratory new album The Inheritors, Border Community boss James Holden trips further beyond the walls of the club into wild, elemental territories. He speaks with Harry Sword about the importance of throwing off limitations of technology, mindset and genre
This summer's Steam Days album found Norfork's Nathan Fake continuing to sink deeper into his own idiosyncratic and woozy take on techno and electronica. In advance of a tour with Orbital next month, he speaks to Jim Keoghan about folk ethics and working solo
From 90s grunge and hip hop to contemporary ambient electronica, DJ Tom Ravenscroft tells Ben Graham about the 13 albums that give him the most listening pleasure, and developing his own musical interest away from the influence of his dad, the late John Peel. Tom Ravenscroft image courtesy of the BBC.