Free Association

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David Holmes presents the debut album from his band project on his own fast-rising 13 Amp label. Originally conceived by DJ/Producer/soundtrack composer David as a means of taking the music live. Slipcase. 2003.

Free Association,David Holmes,13 Amp [Studio],Dance Music,Pop,Soul/R & B

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Music from the Film Code 46 Free Association Manufacturer: Rykodisc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music ASIN: B000A2GQ0Q Release Date: 2005-04-04

Tracks:

1. Shanghai
2. Platform 23
3. Dreaming on a Train
4. More Than a Kiss
5. Inside/Outside
6. Mother
7. Apathy Drugz
8. What's the Attraction
9. Family
10. Kocham Cie
11. Birthday Party
12. Code 46

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David Holmes Presents the Free Association David Holmes Presents the Free Association Manufacturer: Ume Imports ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Big Beat | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Let's Get Killed Bow Down to the Exit Sign ASIN: B0000CAY42 Release Date: 2005-03-29

Tracks:

1. Don't Rhyme No Mo
2. (I Wish I Had A) Wooden Heart
3. La Dolce Vita
4. Free Ass O-C-8
5. Sugarman
6. Everybody Knows
7. Paper Underwear
8. Pushin' A Broom
9. Whistlin' Down the Wind
10. Le Baggage

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Free Association A-One Manufacturer: Push Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Smooth Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: Music from the Film Code 46 ASIN: B00001OH6H Release Date: 1999-09-14

Tracks:

1. West By South West
2. Don't Hold Your Breath
3. Take Me To The Casbah (Guitar Mix)
4. Fantasy 3-9 (Parts 1 & 2)
5. Wait Wait Wait (Skratch Mix)
6. Flute City
7. Up There
8. Keys To The Kingdom
9. Take Me To The Casbah (Mint Tea Mix)
10. The First Day Of The Rest Of Your Life
11. West By Southwest, Revisted

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Free Association Jim Hall , and Geoffrey Keezer Manufacturer: ArtistShare ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Complete Jazz Guitar ASIN: B000LJLTNW

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New! Original ArtistShare release directly from the artist. Award winning CD!

Average customer rating: Free Ass O-C-8 David Holmes hires a band & sublime music surely follows.... Good Holmes, not great Style vs. substance

David Holmes Presents the Free Association David Holmes Presents the Free Association Manufacturer: 13 Amp [Studio] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Big Beat | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Trip-Hop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: Bow Down to the Exit Sign Let's Get Killed ASIN: B000092Q4G Release Date: 2003-05-20

Tracks:

1. Don't Rhyme No Mo - Sean Reveron
2. (I Wish I Had A) Wooden Heart - Petra Jean Phillipson
3. Baggage - Sean Reveron
4. Free Ass O-C-8 - Charles Fleischer
5. Somedays - Petra Jean Phillipson
6. Everybody Knows - Charles Fleischer
7. Pushin' a Broom - Petra Jean Phillipson
8. Dolce Vita
9. Paper Underwear - David Holmes
10. Whistlin' Down the Wind - Petra Jean Phillipson

Album Description

David Holmes presents the debut album from his band project on his own fast-rising 13 Amp label. Originally conceived by DJ/Producer/soundtrack composer David as a means of taking the music live. Slipcase. 2003.

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Free Ass O-C-8.......2005-06-10

David Holmes' 2002 mix album Come Get It I Got It was created in collaboration with Steve Hilton, who also works as a programmer/composer for Craig Armstrong and David Arnold, and amongst the freaky vinyl and deep soul rediscoveries, featured the pair creating some new linking music under the guise of the Free Association. The decision for the Free Association to become a live act meant expanding the line-up to a core four-piece, with the addition of the Bay Area MC Sean Reveron and the singer Petra Jean Phillipson, and a few months later the band spent 10 days in the basement studio at LA's Sunset Marquis with mix engineer Michael Patterson recording this debut album.
Although it originally came out in 2002, it was re-released the following year with the addition of recent single Sugar Man, featuring backing vocals by 61-year old Mexican-American anti-establishment legend Sixto Rodriguez, whose original 1969 version of the song had been the opening track on Come Get It, I Got It. The song was recorded in New York in April 2003 by David Holmes with Rodriguez, who drove in from Detroit especially for the sessions because he didn't want to risk taking his guitar on the plane. It is just one of many weird and wonderful, often unexpected delights to be found here.
The singles (I Wish I Had) A Wooden Heart (newly re-recorded for this edition of the album) and Everybody Knows perfectly demonstrate the Free Association fusion of sounds with a giddy and powerful rush of craziness and rhythms, crackling with energy and topped by bluesy trip-hoppy vocals and madcap rapping. The band memorably performed both songs on Later With Jools Holland in November 2002 and totally ripped the joint, raising the question, where do these amazing singers spring from?
Sean Reveron (now aka Exodus 77), was born in 1969 and grew up in Hollywood, where his mother waitressed at the Whiskey A Go Go. Too young to leave at home, he would be left in the cocktail booth there but would get out to see all the bands. Kicked out of home for awhile at 15 because of his anti-social lifestyle in the local skate parks where he discovered punk, he moved to San Francisco where Drew Bernstein from the band Crucifix became his legal guardian. Rejoining his mother and spending time in Jamaica, he got involved with a dub soundsystem, later moving in with Augustus Pablo and Junior Delgado in Kingston. Still a teenager, he studied African History at UC Berkeley and discovered hip-hop, working over the next years with Tupac Shakur, KRS-1 and Q-Tip. A period away from music in New York ended when he hooked up with the Beta Band, performing with them in London and Glastonbury, and moving to live in London.
Perhaps unexpectedly, Petra Jean Phillipson has a double life as a conservator at St. Paul's Cathedral. Born in Ashford, Kent in 1973, she formed a band when she was eight, and also spent some childhood years in Australia. Hip-hop was an early love and she was also a fan of KRS-1. A year's art foundation course at St. Martin's was followed by an art degree course in Bath where she produced installations and ran a hip hop night there called The Swamp. She was in various "all girl punk funk line ups" singing and playing guitar, and recorded for Fierce Panda. A period of globe-trotting ended for a while in New York, but she returned to London and over the years has provided session vocals for The Beta Band (perhaps encountering Sean at this time?), Martina Topley-Bird, the Mad Professor, Marc Almond, Grand Drive and others. She met David Holmes through Martina Topley-Bird, a close friend who lived near her London home. One day he phoned her out of the blue to invite her to do some vocals in LA with him.
Though unique, the band's sound would not sit unhappily alongside Death In Vegas or even Primal Scream, marrying a nineties ethic with more contemporary soundboard trickery. Pushin' A Broom stands out with Petra Jean contributing a vocal tour-de-force. Throw into the mix some Hitchcockian orchestration and David Lynch darkness and you have some idea of the heady psychedelic punk-funk odyssey in store

David Holmes hires a band & sublime music surely follows...........2004-01-10

The "Free association" moniker was a playful alter ego of David's, which evolved, into a full live band (consisting of drummers, guitarists, bass player & singer...with David Holmes handling the mixing / D.j ing side of things). First track "Don't Rhyme No Mo" with sees reggae vocalist `Sean Reveron' scatter-shooting funky Hip-Hop styled rhymes over a fat Bass line to great effect. The Free Association get to flex their abilities with track 2 "(I Wish I Had A) Wooden Heart), which sees the band creating a woosy smoked up lounge groove with Vocalist "Petra Jean" seductively understated Jazz style crowing,(in fact Petra Jean's & Sean Reveron's vocals are so astonishing throughout the album, that one truly believes that this album could have been a lacklustre effort without their contributions) Track 3 "Le Baggage", is a brooding Electronica marvel that `Tricky' would be proud of...Thankfully Holmes covers so much new ground in each album release, that you never get the feeling of déjà vu, and this makes him one of Britians most prolific & Consistently superb producers/mixers. Yet his attention to detail & unwillingness to conform to musical trends (instead perfering to go back & reference niche music) in a effort to create something truly great.

Good Holmes, not great.......2003-08-13

This is probably David Holmes' most focused work to date. There is a central feeling of finger-snapping, tongue-in-cheek soul around which his music is operating, whereas his past albums run the gamut of 70s-style dance tracks to dark industrial ambience to spacey acid jazz.
Having said that, I like the other albums more. I'm guessing the focus of this album was deliberate, but it's sometimes more frustrating than his more sprawling 6-minute tracks like "Living Room" and "Bad Thing". Here, every song has an initial groove that is the status quo for the entire song. There is ALMOST an evolution of sound within "Everybody Knows", but Holmes reigns it in before letting it get away (that's not wholly a compliment).
Holmes has always showed enough sense to not let his songs wander to a place where he couldn't pull them back. On this album, he refuses to wander. It's a little disappointing, esp. if you love "Bow Down to the Exit Sign" like I do, but these tracks are still coming from the gut, which is one of Holmes's greatest assets as a musician. Check out "I Don't Rhyme No Mo" "Wooden Heart" and "Everybody Knows."

Style vs. substance.......2003-05-31

The world of dance music is a world of tastemakers. DJs become become famous and achieve success by having a keen ear for good tunes. They play records, and people dance. End of story? Not quite. Pick up any dance rag and some upstart DJ is talking about "getting into producing." Step into your local music provider and your gaze can't help but fall upon the prominent display of yet another "artist album" by a famous DJ. Puh-leeze. Possessing impeccable musical taste will not make you a great producer any less than that reading the New Yorker will turn you into E. L. Doctorow.

Nowhere does the "DJ/producer" cliché feel more at home than with David Holmes. That Mr. Holmes is a selector par excellence is undisputed; in fact, I would submit his painfully out-of-print "Essential Mix" as a work of art which truly captures the essence of what a DJ is supposed to do. However, (following the cliché) the quality of his albums ranges as widely as the eclectic material he puts into his sets. Sure they have their moments--"My Mate Paul" is a gritty lil' piece of funkiness and occasionally Holmes manages to channel the fantastic (and hopelessly obscure) music he is famous for championing--but these are far and few between and much of Holmes' back catalogue stands as sonic wallpaper. It's no coincidence that Holmes the composer is currently enjoying success in Hollywood. His pieces are tailor-made for the movies, his textures the stuff of invisible soundtracks.

So now we have the "Free Association," a true attempt at something substantial. It works, mostly. "(I Wish I Had A) Wooden Heart" is a edgy, fantastic single that just seethes. "Free Ass O-C-8" is another perfect slice of psy-funk, as is the stunning opener, "Don't Rhyme No Mo." Clearly, working with musicians (Sean Reveron, Petra Jean Phillipson, programmer Steve Hilton) has helped Holmes out of a rut. I'm looking forward to the followup.

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Fitty History The Free Association ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000KM3HEY

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Free Association Launchers Manufacturer: Toshiba EMI ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0007IO088 Release Date: 2005-04-11

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Touched by Fire: Bleeding Kansas (Music from the Documentary, A Film by Lone Chimney Productions in Association with Soulsearcher Films) Manufacturer: Touched by Fire: Bleeding Kansas ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAFTRM Release Date: 2005-07-19

Tracks:

1. Star of the County Down
2. Kansas Emigrant Song
3. Steal Away to Jesus
4. Nelly Was a Lady
5. Arkansas Traveler
6. Sweet Betsy from Pike
7. Hard Times (Come Again No More)
8. Sheebeg & Sheemore
9. Freeman's Song
10. Git Up in de Mornin'/Getting Up Stairs
11. Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
12. Ho! For the Kansas Plains
13. Devil's Dream
14. Mrs. McGrath
15. Shenandoah
16. Down by the Riverside
17. Darkey Fisher's Hornpipe/Sailor's Hornpipe
18. Lucy of the Tallgrass

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Free Association Manufacturer: Nomi Yah Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAD7KS Release Date: 2004-11-09

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Everybody Knows Free Association Manufacturer: Ramp ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008PROX Release Date: 2003-03-31

Tracks:

1. Radio Edit
2. Children Remix
3. Edan Instrumental

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