Tommy Holohan returns to Steel City Dance Discs with new ‘Temple Theatre’ EP

Tommy Holohan has shared his latest EP, ‘Temple Theatre’, via Steel City Dance Discs.

Each of its five tracks are particularly unique and sees the Irish producer and DJ, predominantly associated with techno, showcase his versatility as an artist as he explores soundscapes from garage and breakbeat to jungle, trance and house.

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Lead single ‘Show Me The Sky’ – a collaboration with Stockholm’s Megra released in June – perhaps epitomises this sonic evolution for Holohan most prominently, as its euphoric rave energy couples with an addictive garage bassline to cement the musician’s sonic evolution.

Elsewhere on the EP, its eponymous track channels trance energies whilst chanting sequences are layered with rave stabs and a pulsating breakdown, and ‘Make Me Feel’ offers a breakbeat-driven affair.

There’s also two instalments of cut ‘Lovin Arms’ – both the ‘Warehouse Mix’, which marries a hurtling four-to-the-floor drum sequence with an orchestral breakdown and frenetic chords, and the ‘Jungle Mix’, which sees the track’s vocals laid over an intriguing broken-beat backdrop.

“‘I was listening to Mauro Picotto mixes trying to find some new track IDs when I came across one from Temple Theatre in 1999,” Holohan tells Mixmag. “Trance had Ireland in a chokehold back then and got me thinking how I can bring some of Dublin’s history into the new age. I think trance is inherently in every Irish person’s bones; listen to some Clannad or Enya and try tell me it’s not.”

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‘Temple Theatre’ by Tommy Holohan is available now via Steel City Dance Discs, check it out here.

Niamh Ingram is Mixmag’s Weekend Editor, follow her on Instagram