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1998-11-10 21:41Jeff Waye/Ninja Tune>On the brighter side of things, I loved seeing NY (never been before); I >bought some koo

From:: Jeff Waye/Ninja Tune <ninjeff@generation.net>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Tue, 10 Nov 98 17:41:48 -0400
Subject:: Re: (idm) A Big "Fuck You!" To CMJ/Giant Step

quoted 4 lines On the brighter side of things, I loved seeing NY (never been before); I

>On the brighter side of things, I loved seeing NY (never been before); I >bought some kool records, did a little sight-seeing, and overheard someone >at Other Music saying the Ninja show was disappointing. BTW, anyone else >go? How was it for you?

Just let me clarify that it wasn't really our show. We had 2 acts booked into the opening party. The show was pretty good. It was a bit 'showcase' like. Running order of the acts probably should have been a bit different so that it flowed better but what can you do. Unfortunatly Coldcut's set got pushed back later and there set was cut short due to scheduling, but they rocked anyway. If anyone caught it, the software they were using to mix the audio and visual is what we are releasing next year. As for CMJ. It's always that way. As with any confernece (Midem, Pop Komm, etc...) if you really want to see a particular show it involves a whole lot of early lineups. Not always so easy in NY as you've usually spent most of the evening waiting in line to eat, stuck in cross-town traffic, etc... Oh well, I'm glad to be back home Jeff

1998-11-10 23:23Tom TongerAt 17:41 10.11.98 -0400, Jeff Waye/Ninja Tune wrote: >so that it flowed better but what ca

From:: Tom Tonger <tom.tonger@uni-koeln.de>
To:: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Date:: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 00:23:20 +0100
Subject:: coldcut, was Re: (idm) A Big "Fuck You!" To CMJ/Giant Step
Reply to:: Re: (idm) A Big "Fuck You!" To CMJ/Giant Step

At 17:41 10.11.98 -0400, Jeff Waye/Ninja Tune wrote:

quoted 4 lines so that it flowed better but what can you do. Unfortunatly Coldcut's set

>so that it flowed better but what can you do. Unfortunatly Coldcut's set >got pushed back later and there set was cut short due to scheduling, but >they rocked anyway. If anyone caught it, the software they were using to >mix the audio and visual is what we are releasing next year.

they played live in cologne on the final night of the 10-day battery park cologne festival last month, 1 hour by themselves and 1 hour vs. air liquide. the visual effects matched to their music were excellent, but sadly that was about all that was good about their show (just my personal opinion here, no disrespect to the ninja crew). IMO their music was a rather sad mix of uninspired big beats and a total overload of samples wrongly aimed at a mainstream audience (all the usual jungle book and classical music samples and stuff). fortunately air liquide's entering the ring completely changed the scene. they kept cranking everything from dr walker's trademark ultra-crunchy hip hop beats to jammin unit classics from deaf dub and blind, and for all i could see coldcut's function was reduced to taking care of the visuals. occasionally a sorry-ass disney sample would be dropped in, only to be drowned out by air liquide with even sicker terror loops. all in all, nothing against coldcut, i'm sure big beat fans would've had a great time, but this act clearly didn't fit into the rest of the battery park lineup. good thing you had strobocop and the modernist in the basement to escape to. cheers, tom

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