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Rocking The House - Coldcut's Matt Black

- Source: ClashMusic.com

Matt Black, stalwart of the warehouse scene, and among the greatest living British producers, pops into Clash to offer some insights on the role technology plays in musical creativity and to show off his hot new Ninja Jamm iPhone App for remixing tunes on the hoof.

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Mining the Audio Motherlode, Volume 180

- Source: WFMU's Beware of the Blog

"Often described as 'a female Lenny Bruce,' sometimes even as 'worse than Genêt and Bataille,' the scandalous performance artist from NYC put conservative America in a state of shock with her outrageous and hilarious one-woman show, and her extreme statements to the press. New York dance producer Mark Kamins recorded with her the now-legendary Tales of Taboo EP (1986) and the album entitled The Truth Is Hard To Swallow , which brought the good word to the forefront of the music scene.... and which have been shamelessly sampled by the likes of 'S-Express, Coldcut, and most of the early Belgian New Beat/Techno scene, for whom she became a kind of heroic figure." "…this morning's [post] features what I can only assume to be Nigerian folk music. The sample track above opens with what sounds like a homemade brass instrument of some kind, not uncommon in Nigerian folk, and Awutolo and Fada laying down a terrific, complex rhythm while singing at times in a kind of call-and-response and at times in unison. The total effect is of an intricate soundscape that snaps, pops, buzzes and honks far enough above the level of ambient to keep the listener's ear keen, while never swerving into catchy hook or melody."

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Return of Le Sac

- Source: Music Like Dirt

Before the iPod and shuffle, the only option if you wanted to flit randomly between musical styles was a compilation CD or a multi CD changer, a machine that once stuffed with your favourite discs would seamlessly blend from one album to another with only a great clanking noise to hint at the switch.

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Ninja Tune & Big Dada

- Source: Caffeine-Headache

Ninja Tune is an independent record label that is based in London, England (with a satellite office on Montreal for U.S/Canada business), created in 1990 by the duo known as Coldcut.

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Musical HEavyweights Sign Up To Cage Against The Machine

- Source: Glasswerk National \ Thirst for Music

On Monday 6th December a band made up of influential artists and musicians of the alternative scene from Pete Doherty to Penguin Prison, Kooks to Coldcut and Crystal Fighters to Dan Le Sac, will be gathered at the legendary Dean Street Studios in Soho to make history by re-recording John Cages's celebrated piece, 4'33", which comprises of four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence.

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Ninja Tune Part 2: The Future

- Source: Drowned In Sound

After taking a look at the last twenty years of London's hugely influential Ninja Tune imprint , chatting to founding duo Coldcut about the way the label's mode of operation has shifted over the years and how they've managed to stay alive and kicking where so many similar collectives have fallen by the wayside.

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Ninja Tune Turns 20: An Oral History of a Legendary Label

- Source: Spinner

Ninja Tune's 'Beats 'n' Pieces' aesthetic, which colours virtually every artist on the 20-year-old British label, began when founders Matt Black and Jon More burst onto the international scene as Coldcut with their 1987 remix of Eric B and Rakim 's 'Paid in Full.' The result was an abstract hip-hop landmark that augmented its slinky beats with movie samples, sound effects and cross-cultural flourishes, such as Israeli folk singer Ofra Haza 's operatic vocals .

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Ninja Tune XX: Coldcut interview, part 2

- Source: Beatportal

Ninja Tune turns 20 this year, and to celebrate, the label has just released Ninja Tune XX , a two-volume compilation featuring new and exclusive material from all the Ninja regulars as well as a host of friends, peers, and influencers.

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