Coldcut is the seminal UK hip-hop production team of Jonathan More and Matt Black, a team that can be credited as much as anyone with advancing the hip-hop scene on British shores. Their style tends toward urban breaks, ambient dub, and jungle music, and anyone familiar with Ninja Tune Records can thank these two blokes: they started the label on the success of their early bootleg EPs.
What I've posted here is one of my favorite mixes, "70 Minutes of Madness", compiled by Coldcut as part of the Journeys by DJ series in 1995. Check the way they throw down the hilarious/bad-ass Kung-Fu film dialog in the beginning, move effortlessly into dub/reggae, slide over into urban breaks ("do you like scratchin'?"), and throw down some absolutely sick mixes. Nearly every important hip-hop break is represented on this mix at some point (the ubiquitous Stubblefield break, the Zeppelin break, an Eddie Bo break), as well as a lot of hip-hop artists like Mantronix (dig how they drop just a few moments of "King of the Beats" halfway through).
For hip-hop heads, this thing is geeky fun. The production is pretty slick, totally sick, and for an 11-year-old mix, remarkably fresh. Enjoy!
Posted while listening to Change (Makes You Want to Hustle) by Donald Byrd
2 comments:
Excellent. Thank you. Speaking of influential hip-hop, I just got the soon to be released Ultramagnetic MC's album. It's not very good but I'll post it if there is interest.
There's interest here, yo.
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