James Holden - Ambient Focus

JAMES HOLDEN - AMBIENT FOCUS 12.08.23 (320kbs-m4a/276mb/2hrs)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 12th August 2023

Find your focus with this two hour ambient music mixtape carefully crafted by British electronic music wizard, James Holden, featuring nueen, Akira Sileas and DJ Plead and more.

One of the most influential producers and remixers of the past twenty years, James Holden was first introduced to electronic music production by a physics teacher at school when he was 19. Since then, Holden has never stopped exploring the infinite possibilities of sound, releasing many successes, most recently his latest album Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities.

In this mix, Holden shares his favourite ambient tracks - plus some of his own productions too.

nueen - Wait Until Then [Quiet Time]
Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Theta Tauri
Akira Sileas - Twilight And Evening Bell
Demdike Stare - Matilda's Dream [Modern Love]
Malibu - Iliad [UNO NYC]
Polypores - Our Tiny Orbits [Castles In Space]
James Holden - The Villagers [Border Community Recordings]
John Also Bennett - Still Inside The Deku Tree [Editions Basilic]
Alice Coltrane - Krishna Krishna [B.Free]
Pataphysical & Gabriel Chips (feat. Gabriel Chips) - Break Lament [Good Morning Tapes]
Waclaw Zimpel - Ebbing In The Tide [Tak Picture]
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Twin Guitar Rhodes Viola Drone (For Lamonte Young) [Kranky]
James Holden - Self Playing Schmaltz [Border Community]
D1G - Into The Light
Brian Eno - Rising Thermal 14° 16' N; 32° 28' E [Editions EG]
DJ Plead - RT6 [Boomkat Editions]
Shabaka Hutchings & Kadialy Kouyate - Ital Is Vital [Impulse!]
TCF - C6 81 56 28 09 34 31 D2 F9 9C D6 BD 92 ED FC 6F 6C A9 D4 88 95 8C 53 B4 55 DF 38 [Pan]
XAM Duo - LGOC [Sonic Cathedral Recordings]
Alchemulator - The Night Screen Glows [Nightwind]
James Holden - Srey Pov's Theme (End Credits) [Border Community]
James Holden - Downturn Medley [Border Community]