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Coldcut Get Hot

Profile and Interview by Mark Sinker, New Musical Express, 14 November 1987

SONGS HAVE become fragile. The things that held them together – the value of the individual voice, the neat edges of recorded product – are ...

Coldcut: What's That Noise?

Interview by Sean O'Hagan, New Musical Express, 8 April 1989

First grabbing the world's ears with their remix of Eric B And Rakims 'Paid In Full' the COLDCUT crew of Matt Black and Jonathan Moore ...

Coldcut: Ring The Noise

Interview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 20 January 1990

• And they said it wouldn't last! In the pop marriage of the'80s, COLDCUT producers Jonathan Moore and Matt Black invited Mark E Smith to ...

Coldcut: Some Like It Cold (Big Life LP/Cassette/CD)

Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 16 June 1990

RUNNING HOT 'N' COLD ...

Remixing: The DJ's DJ

Report and Interview by Push, Andrew Smith, Melody Maker, 18 August 1990

A couple of years ago, the success of DJ-based groups such as M/A/R/R/S, Coldcut, S'Express and Bomb The Bass heralded a new musical era. Now, ...

Digital Underground, Coldcut and De La Soul Jam The Beat

Interview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, March 1991

DIGITAL UNDERGROUND, De La Soul, and Coldcut make musique concrete for boomboxes. These three bands, all on the Tommy Boy label, have achieved, perhaps unwittingly, ...

A step ahead of fashion — and the law

Report by David Toop, The Times, 26 November 1993

The hottest sounds buzzing around our cities are frequently also illegal. David Toop reports on the wild and wilful world of pirate radio, and its ...

Coldcut: Journeys By DJ (Music Unites JDJCD8 29tks/74mins)

Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 21 October 1995

THE SLICE IS RIGHT Their dazzle may have been eclipsed by newer brilliant stars, but Coldcut never left the party, they just went off on an ...

Coldcut & DJ Food Vs DJ Krush: Cold Krush Cuts (Ninja Tune/CD only)

Review by Keith Cameron, Melody Maker, 1 February 1997

CHILLER ON THE LOOSE ...

Coldcut: Solid Cold

Report and Interview by Calvin Bush, Muzik, September 1997

Ten years in the business and COLDCUT are still sticking firmly to their original philosophy of always being ahead of their time. Revolutionary software. System-booting ...

Heat to the Beat: Coldcut at 333, London

Live Review by Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 6 September 1997

"HOW COLD can Coldcut get?" When sweat is dripping off your nose, your T-shirt has stuck and the most strenuous thing you've done is light ...

Coldcut: Let Us Play (Ninja Tune 13 tks/77 mins)

Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 13 September 1997

Coldcut have come up trumps with a new album full of kitsch delights — and it's bloody good fun too... ...

You Spin Me Round

Overview by Martin Aston, Q, November 1997

"Two turntables and a microphone," are, says Beck, "where it's at." For more than a decade Technics 1200 record decks have provided the backbone of ...

Basement Jaxx, Pet Shop Boys et al: Creamfields, Old Liverpool Airfield

Live Review by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 4 September 1999

THE SCOUSE THAT JAXX THRILLED ...

Coldcut: Shepherds Bush Empire, London ***

Live Review by Lucy O'Brien, The Guardian, 17 November 1999

Ramraiders of the past ...

Ninja Tune: Way Of The Ninja

Profile and Interview by Dan Gennoe, 7, 2000

TEN YEARS AGO COLDCUT DECIDED THEY'D HAD ENOUGH OF TOP OF THE POPS AND SET-UP UP NINJA TUNE. XENCUTS, THE ORGY OF FREE-THINKING DECKS, BEATS ...

Xen Cuts: Ten Years Of Xen (various London venues)

Live Review by Kodwo Eshun, The Wire, November 2000

LONDON's Ninja Tune label celebrated their first decade in the flirty, flighty, faddish, fickle world of UK dance with Xen Cuts — three consecutive nights ...

Coldcut: Cargo, EC2

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 23 January 2006

LONG BEFORE Basement Jaxx or Fatboy Slim, Matt Black and Jonathan More were Britain's original kings of big beats. ...

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