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Let Us Replay (Ninja Tune/Outside) |
20th Century Ambient Drum And Bass Electronic / Experimental / Industrial Industrial Rhythm Techno Trip Hop, Breaks, Dub, World-Fusion (Very) Alternative Contact |
Much like one of their CD-ROM music mixing games Coldcut offer you new variations on their Let Us Play album. Invited friends and Ninja Tuners, like Mixmaster Morris and the jazzy new comer J. Swinscoe, load up their samplers with Coldcut's breaks and melodies to produce these funk-ily familiar tracks. The disc starts wildly as Japan's Cornelius takes "Atomic Moog 2000" to a new level while scratching up a documentary on electronic instrument inventor Bob Moog. Breakbeat pioneers Shut Up & Dance don't manage to shut Jello Biafra out of "Every Home A Prison," but when have you heard his big mouth over casio funk and Kraftwerk samples? More on the party rockin' tip is DJ Lord Fader's mix of "More Beats & Pieces," a scratchmological tribute to Coldcut's roots, guesting Ofra Haza, Run DMC and MC Alfred Hitchcock. A break in the dance party comes when Mixmaster Morris chills out the environmental advocates sampled in "Panopticon" with his "Irresistible Force Mix." It's not as sublime as his remix of Coldcut's cover of "Autumn Leaves" but the mournful oboes and cellos are getting there. And maybe Morris was saving some dreamy vibes for Carl Craig's gorgeous remix of Coldcut's fusion epic "Rubiyat" - the year zero of future jazz - don't miss it. And not to miss are the limited (7" & 10") vinyl companions to this CD which feature remixes from the Japanese version by producers like DJ Takemura, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and his former homeboy Yukihiro Takahashi. Actually, Let Us Replay is a specially-priced 2CD set that includes a CD-ROM disc presenting a demo of Coldcut's VJAMM software (now available commercialy). This allows the user to do at home what Coldcut does on stage when they scratch both their audio and video samples. Remember when being an audient wasn't so t-t-tricknological? |