David Holmes

As a DJ and producer, David Holmes is highly respected in both the dance and alternative/indie worlds, but he’s achieved his greatest success as a film composer, having written music for over 20 motion pictures since the late ’90s. After beginning his career by spinning at clubs in his native Belfast since his teenage years and issuing several techno and progressive house singles during the early ’90s, he issued his ambitious, cinematic debut album, This Film’s Crap, Let’s Slash the Seats, to acclaim in 1995. Follow-up Let’s Get Killed (1997) was a bigger hit, and established Holmes’ name in the United States. Soon after, he began producing Hollywood film scores, starting with the 1998 feature film Out of Sight and continuing with the 2001 blockbuster Ocean’s Eleven, as well as its successful sequels. Aside from his soundtrack work, he has remained busy as a DJ and musician, programming several Essential Mixes on BBC Radio 1 and releasing albums, such as 2008’s The Holy Pictures, that owed more to psychedelic pop than dance music. During the 2010s, Holmes co-founded the dream pop group Unloved, who debuted with Guilty of Love in 2016, and continued releasing mix compilations such as a volume of the Late Night Tales series.