Holy Beats

Eyes on your favourite record shop, as any minute now the vinyl-only release of our in-house remixer extraordinaire James Holden‘s double-dose of decidedly epic Kate Wax re-edits is set to surface. After mixing the self-producing Swiss autocrat’s twelve-track album together in his London studio, soon after her departure James seized upon the parts stashed on his hard drive to string out two of the most club-friendly album cuts – ‘Holy Beast’ and ‘Echoes and the Light’ – into the type of dancefloor-optimised hedonistic symphonies that we have come to expect from him. The race is on: Juno currently offers a pair of tantalising clip streams but has yet to reveal a price; Amazon will let you pay for a copy, although their stock is yet to land; whilst poor old Phonica seems to have come down with some kind of malware disease… Get well soon chaps!

But if the suspense is simply killing you, if you head over to Pitchfork today, you are sure of a pleasant surprise: namely, an mp3 of the ‘Holden Woolly Beast edit’ of Kate Wax’s ‘Holy Beast’ for your immediate downloading gratification. And for an even more instantaneous hit of gratification, simply click on the play button on the Soundcloud player below:

33BCE: B1 – Kate Wax – Holy Beast (Holden’s Woolly Beast Edit) by Border Community

The all-important ‘Dust Collision’ album main-event meanwhile is scheduled for November 14th, when the secrets of the Kate Wax musical universe are finally opened up to the outside world, expanding to reveal her own magically realistic cosmology of witches, demons, dreams and ghosts as she guides us like a disco Sherpa through the peaks and valleys of human experience. But whilst we wait patiently for the big bang, the Kate Wax live experience (as well as her new sideline in key-matched DJing) has already begun to be rolled out across Europe: free-range soprano meets laptop digi-grit as the figure of Kate Wax herself becomes the canvas for a slick set of complementary light projections, collectively making for a fully-immersive work of performance art that is worthy of a grand stage. Book yourself in at one of the dates below for the full voodoo:

Kate Wax ‘Dust Collision’ Tour Dates
23rd September: Marie Laveau, Stockholm, Sweden
24th September: Haute Culture Festival, Norrkoping, Sweden
1st October: Bugged Out & Border Community Warehouse Party, London, UK
22nd October: Border Community ADE showcase, Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
18th November: Nuits Capitals Festival, Culture Hall, Paris, France
19th November: Klubd, Nicosia, Cyprus
3rd December: Baalsall, Hamburg, Germany
21st January: Nitsa, Barcelona, Spain