Coldcut: Sound Mirrors
CML call number: CD/ROCK/Coldcut
Scott Thill wrote in Wired: "Remix legends Matt Black and Jon More are back with a stacked plate of dance blasts. Jon Spencer's explosive guitar updates 'Everything Is Under Control' with a welcome shot of grungy rock. And Saul Williams' poem about a suicidal businessman makes 'Mr. Nichols' a classic. Stunning work" ("Play: Reviews," Feb. 2006, p. 74).
Coldcut's website is http://www.coldcut.net. It includes a "VIP area" that you can access by inserting the Sound Mirrors CD in your computer, which offers Instant Messenger icons, MP3s, and wallpaper for downloading, plus lyrics, a chance to win a signed poster, and other features.
According to the record label, Ninja Tune: "Ex-art teacher Jonathan More and computer programmer Matt Black have been a team since the mid-eighties. … [Their first collaboration] 'Say Kids, What Time Is It?' … was released in 1987 becoming the UK’s first sample-built record. In the same year the duo defined the term ‘remix’ on Eric B and Rakim’s 'Paid in Full,' cutting and pasting Israeli singer Ofra Haza’s vocals in a notorious reworking which became a … classic."
Scott Thill wrote in Wired: "Remix legends Matt Black and Jon More are back with a stacked plate of dance blasts. Jon Spencer's explosive guitar updates 'Everything Is Under Control' with a welcome shot of grungy rock. And Saul Williams' poem about a suicidal businessman makes 'Mr. Nichols' a classic. Stunning work" ("Play: Reviews," Feb. 2006, p. 74).
Coldcut's website is http://www.coldcut.net. It includes a "VIP area" that you can access by inserting the Sound Mirrors CD in your computer, which offers Instant Messenger icons, MP3s, and wallpaper for downloading, plus lyrics, a chance to win a signed poster, and other features.
According to the record label, Ninja Tune: "Ex-art teacher Jonathan More and computer programmer Matt Black have been a team since the mid-eighties. … [Their first collaboration] 'Say Kids, What Time Is It?' … was released in 1987 becoming the UK’s first sample-built record. In the same year the duo defined the term ‘remix’ on Eric B and Rakim’s 'Paid in Full,' cutting and pasting Israeli singer Ofra Haza’s vocals in a notorious reworking which became a … classic."
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