Reply to: RE>>(idm) Coldcut
cannot agree more with what zenon's saying about coldcut - legendary radio show
on london's kiss fm every saturday night/sunday morning ("solid steel") is just
phenomenal - they are (imho) the best 4-deck mixers in existence, as evidenced
by their blinding performance at wetlands (nyc) about 4/5 weeks ago -
n-tone/ninja tune is their hot, hot label - their "stealth" nights at the blue
note (hoxton square, london) were amazing - they are old school and new school
and, in my opinion, a cut above the rest - and their new "coldkrushcuts" double
mix cd (one them with dj food, one dj krush) is awesome (well, their cd is
awesome, krush's not as good) - as you can tell i like 'em and i respect them
for their talent and their scruples (by which i mean they seem to be motivated
only by the music)
iain
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Date: 3/21/97 3:08 PM
To: Iain Newton
From: Zenon M. Feszczak
At 14:36 -0500 21.03.97, you wrote:
quoted 13 lines At 11:26 AM -0800 3/21/97, Chris Fahey wrote:>At 11:26 AM -0800 3/21/97, Chris Fahey wrote:
>>I think this was someone else who remixed Paid In Full and put in all
>>the cool extended stuff (the original song is like a minute long) that
>>EricB&Rakim hated. Unless Coldcut's been around (and remixing) for ten
>>years. Is that possible?
>>
>>-CF
>
>They've been around longer than that. Their first album came in 1987 or '88
>I think and they had a couple 12"s before that. They were pioneers of the
>sample cut/up house scene that immediately preceded and combined with acid
>house. Same two guys who are Coldcut now.
>
Right on.
Coldcut's early material is all good fun also.
They/it basically launched Lisa Stansfield's career with the typically
house "People Hold On" and the atypically (for Lisa) rapful "My Telephone",
which uses a phone bell sample to brilliant effect.
Also infamous for the Jetsons' sample in the reggae-toasting "Stop this
Crazy Thing".
I'm partial to the jazzier side of Coldcut, from "Philosophy" into the
Ninja catalogue. Trippy jazz for moody bohemians.
If I recall, it was also Coldcut who introduced Ofra Haza to the Western
audience via the sample on "Not Paid Enough", which MARRS (aka A.R. Kane
and the Colourbox gents, one of whom recently passed away, last work being
a brutal remix of a Wolfgang Press track) also even more mercilessly and
merrily mangled into the mutation of "Pump Up the Volume".
If nothing else, one must appreciate Coldcut's sense of humour, always
subversive in a likable way.
That's all Ancient Sampling Prehistory, no?
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