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NINJA TUNE/A TIMELY INTERVENTION

NINJA TUNE

It's a timely intervention in an otherwise open debate: what's going on in the world of electronica outside of Warp Records? UK Label Ninja tune in association with Crud Magazine offers some massive respect for media.

20/02/2002

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Ninja Tune is an independent record label that is based in London, England (with a satellite office on Montreal for U.S/Canada business), created in 1990 by the duo known as Coldcut. Coldcut were pioneers of the emerging hip-hop/electro scene in the eighties. Inspired by a visit to Japan, Matt Black & Jonathon More (Coldcut) primarily created Ninja Tune to act as a vehicle by which they could release music of a more underground nature, free from the restraints placed on artists by major labels (the same restraints that were put on them via their brief stints with Arista and Big Life).

The first releases were heralded by the music press and aficionados simultaneously. The first four volumes of 'DJ Food - Jazz Brakes', produced by Coldcut, were comprised of instrumental hip-hop cuts, subsequently giving birth to the genre called 'trip-hop', and seen as indispensable tools for DJ's.

The label achieved a level of notoriety quickly, due to its funky style and commitment to eclecticism. Key in the labels success was the constantly growing roster of very different sounding artists.

Without question, Ninja Tune is a massive collective of passionate music listeners and collectors, just putting out what they think sounds good. There is no huge calculated commercial agenda outside of our need/want to put out good records.

Mr Scruff - Get A Move On
Another outing for the fantastic "Get A Move On" track, which has fast become a favourite since it was first released in May 1999. This time, however, the single also features "Ug" a track not previously available except on Ninja Tune's Xen Cuts compilation. The demand for "Get A Move On" has just grown and grown and since it sold out when first released on Ninja Tune. Its subsequent deletion meant that though everyone could hear it (just listen to any TV programme to hear it as backing music) nobody could buy it - which prompted the nice bods at Ninja to re-release it.

Mr Scruff has been reaching more people as he's gone along. France Telecom (the French equivalent of BT) were suitably impressed with him and used "Get A Move On" as part of their national TV advertising campaign, as did Volvo in N. America and Germany - the Scruffy one didn't see it as something to get excited about. And he's got more fans. Most notably, Madonna recently said in Mixmag of music she was playing at home, "And Mr Scruff I love, that weird little album ('Keep It Unreal') that's got so much personality". Mr Scruff was characteristically unimpressed.

The sample track taken from the single is 'Get A Move On'

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Solid Steel presents DJ Food & DK - "Now, Listen!
Hosted by Coldcut "Solid Steel Presents...." will be a long running series of mix albums to come from various Ninja and Big Dada artists - or combination of. First one is by Solid Steel's co creators DJ Food and show producer DK. A multiple deck and effects extravaganza designed to go far beyond the usual concept of a mix album.

It's fitting, then, that these three turntable technicians should be behind the mix that kicks off this series. With a nod and a wink to Coldcut's classic Journeys By DJ mix of 1995 (voted Best Compilation CD Ever in Jockey Slut), Food and DK have cooked up a mix, which actually rewards repeated listening. Drawing on a huge range of (mainly non-Ninja) music, obscure bits of spoken word, exclusively made sections and a whole panoply of derringdo and often seamlessly playing two, even three completely different records at once (check out Jeru Da Damaja versus Cinematic Orchestra, and Neotropic for proof…), these fellows have treated making a mix album like making any other album, so that the difference between the DJ and the producer is finally erased. Or something like that - it's a blind billy of a bouncing baby of a record whether you want to get theoretical or not.

The sample track taken from the album is 'Let's Play Drums'

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ANTIBALAS "Liberation Afro Beat Vol 1
Antibalas (Spanish for "Bulletproof"; literally "Anti-bullets") is the next generation of Afrobeat. They follow in the tradition of the Black President, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, uniting Nigerian highlife, jazz, funk and traditional African elements with unabashed political messages. This Brooklyn-based fourteen-plus piece band hits hard with the left and the right - monstrous horns and bass layered over funky polyrhythmic beats and breaks coupled with furious lyrics challenging and attacking the capitalist system and inciting insurrection in English, Yoruba, and Spanish.

The sample track taken from the album is 'Dirt & Blood'

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