Although James Holden’s contribution to !K7’s seminal DJ-Kicks series may appear eclectic on the face of things, his is a mix that beats with a vital lifeblood, united by feeling and mood, if not by pigeonhole. “It is all about catching a moment,” the man himself explains. And so, primal, pagan, hedonistic, wild and free, Holden sets about assembling an hour of music-for-dancing-to that draws upon our most basic human instincts to do so as opposed to the formalised cues and cheap tricks that the dance music beast has evolved and refined to the point of redundancy. Avoiding dance music’s most tired clichés remains of the utmost importance to Holden, both in his DJ performances and on solo productions like the DJ-Kicks exclusive ‘Triangle Folds’ - the first Holden offering for over four years. Naturally it displays all of the trademark Holden musical perversions: loose, live-feeling rhythms, quirky time signatures and the bare minimum of pandering to the dictates of the conservative DJ. As if the A-side wasn’t unconventional enough, B-side ‘Triangle Folds Inside Out’ gets a DJ-unfriendly tambourine-Schaffel rework, dipping a toe into Steve Reich’s sound palette on its folk-tinged psychedelic way. Both versions are the edited-down result of heady late night analogue jam sessions improvising on an electronic theme using his enviable modular synthesizer collection: “Trying to catch the moment, not trying to make the moment,” explains Holden. “Like it was already there.” In the DJ-Kicks mix, ‘Triangle Folds’ seamlessly bridges the gap between the poles-apart worlds of Lucky Dragons’ DIY organic electronics and James Ruskin’s manly techno pounding, which perhaps says everything about where Holden’s production head is currently at. The connection to his 2006 debut ‘The Idiots Are Winning’ is clear, but since a follow-up album is still very much a work-in-progress, this is as close as we are going to get to a sneak preview of his thought processes alo