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CD1- Apparat - Wooden
- Plastikman - Cor Ten
- Massive Attack Vs Mad Professor - Trinity Dub (Three)
- Kate Wax - Angel Blues
- Death In Vegas - Anita Berber
- Petter - Some Polyphony
- Vox Sola - Metro Pop
- Issikadis - Hotter Now (Stripped Down Mix)
- Holden - Lump
- Midimillz - Trace Function
- Harmonia - Watussi
- Holden - 10101
- Skugge & Stavostrand - Medean
- Nathan Fake - Charlie'S House (Apparat Mix)
- Lucky Pierre - Angels On Your Body
- Christ - Perlandine Friday
- Fennesz - Rivers Of Sand
CD2- Meta.83 - Opening Titles
- Paul Kalkbrenner - Gebrunn Gerbrunn
- Motiivi:Tuntematon - 1939
- Malcolm Middleton - Solemn Thirsty
- Aphex Twin - Xtal
- Milky Globe Vs Holden - Sun Spots
- Kalabrese - Aufm Klo
- Lazy Fat People - Big City
- Water Lily - Lottotron Reboot
- Trans Am - Cold War (War Is Stupid Mix)
- Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed (Boards Of Canada Reprise)
- Egoexpress - Live At Sirius Prime
- Black Strobe - Nazi Trance Fuck Off! (Holden Mix)
- Plastikman - Cor Ten
- Afx - Every Day
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 James Holden first started his career as a producer only later did he decide to become a DJ. His pieces of music have been constantly setting new trends in house music. Holden’s previous compilation “Balance 005” became a textbook for key mixing and secured him a place among the best DJs in the world. And I must admit that despite the fact that James totally overplays most of the tracks he likes, it’s still worth going to a party with him. Is it worth buying his new compilation “At the Controls” - that’s a different story. Getting through the first 30 minutes of CD1 is true torture. Holden, instead of building up the tension, keeps the listener in a coma through the first 5 tracks, with the anticlimax at Death in Vegas. Only Petter’s “Some Polyphony” saves the situation, but nevertheless I feel like someone wants to turn me inside out. The record changes with productions from Holden, Midmillz and Apparat (a brilliant remix of “Charlie’s House”, absolutely the best track on the entire album). I also have to mention the fantastic DJ work between “Charlie’s House” and “Angels on your Body” – that’s the Holden I wanted to listen to! The second CD starts off very promising and in contrast to the first disc, becomes more interesting with each track. I wish the magnificent series of 3 brilliant German numbers wasn’t interrupted by Middleton’s ghastly ballad, which goes together with the previous three tracks like a peacock’s feathers on a pig. After this disastrous slip-up, the record slowly goes on living its own lazy life and it’s just as easy to immerse oneself in it as it is to forget about having listened to it. Only Holden’s daring remix of “Nazi Trance Fuck Off” rouses from the lethargy, too bad I already know it by heart. If James Holden was once a precursor, he now only struggles to find his own style everywhere between London and Berlin. Having tried to be exclusive, he unfortunately let the boom for German phonography carry him away. The problem is that he doesn’t really know how to handle its products.
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Review: James Holden - At the Controls
