Coldcut: Jonathan More (left) & Matt Black

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Coldcut is a duo comprising English DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More. During their career they have encompassed a wide range of styles from hip hop and rap to electronica and jazz-inflected sounds. Image File history File links Coldcut_promophoto. ... Cold cuts are precooked sausages or meat loaves that are usually served cold in sandwiches or on party trays. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ... DJ or dj may stand for Disc jockey, dinner jacket The DeadJournal website, or Djibouti. ... Matt Black (real name Matthew Cohen) is a Jewish British DJ and one half of Coldcut (along with Jonathan Moore). ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... Hip hop music is a style of popular music. ... Electronica is a term that covers a wide range of electronic or electronic-influenced music. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form that originated around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in African American musical styles blended with Western music technique and theory. ...

History

Coldcut first came together in the autumn of 1986. Computer programmer Matt Black, carrying a tape recording that featured the inception of "Say Kids, What Time Is It?", a track he had made for a Capital Radio mix competition, browsed in the Reckless Records store on Berwick Street, in London. Ex-Art teacher Jonathan More, who worked in the store at the time, listened to the mix, suggesting a separate edit be made of the Jungle Book's King of the Swingers- Matt had mixed this with the break from James Browns "Funky Drummer". Using his contacts from his Meltdown Show on KissFM and his club night Flim Flam, Jonathan started to get a buzz going on, claiming the mix came from New York. In January 1987 this mix was released on a white label and "Say Kids, What Time Is It?" became their first single. It was the first record to give London Dance culture an identity. Kiss 100 is a radio station broadcasting to London on 100. ... White label records are 12 vinyl records with plain white label stickers. ...

Later that year, spurred on by an enthusiastic rep from Island Records, they released their influential remix of Eric B. & Rakim's "Paid in Full," which made the top 10 and was voted best remix of the year. Featuring a prominent Ofra Haza sample and a slew of other vocal cutups, it is now regarded as both a hip hop classic and a breakthrough in the remix field. Eric B. & Rakim were an East Coast hip hop duo who popularised the jazz-influenced hip hop of the late 1980s. ... A remix is an alternate version of a song, different from the original version. ... Ofra Haza Ofra Haza (עָפְרָה חָזָה born November 19, 1957, died February 23, 2000) was a popular Israeli singer, actress and international recording artist. ...

In 1987 Matt Black joined KissFM with his own mixed based show,the pair eventually joining forces, Jonathan and Matt produced their own radio show, Coldcut Solid Steel. Matt Black (real name Matthew Cohen) is a Jewish British DJ and one half of Coldcut (along with Jonathan Moore). ... Kiss 100 is a radio station broadcasting to London on 100. ... Solid Steel is the name of a series of DJ mix albums issued on Ninja Tune independent record label in the UK. It also applies to the radio station and related live concerts which further showcase the DJing talents of such artists. ...

Their first major hit as Coldcut was the top 10 smash "Doctorin' The House" in 1988, featuring singer Yazz. In the same year, under the guise "The Plastic Population" and again featuring Yazz, they released "The Only Way Is Up", which reached no. 1 in the UK charts. Their other most well-known hit single was the UK top 20 hit "People Hold On", released in March the following year. It featured a then-unknown Lisa Stansfield, who would go on to have a UK chart-topper in her own right later that same year. Yazz. ... Lisa Stansfield on the cover of her debut album Affection Lisa Jane Stansfield (born on April 11, 1966) is an English R&B singer from Rochdale, Greater Manchester. ...

The subsequent 1989 album "What's That Noise", released on Big Life records, featured such luminaries as Junior Reid (on the single "Stop This Crazy Thing") and Mark E Smith. Its follow-up, "Some Like It Cold" released in 1990, featured a collaboration with Queen Latifah. Junior Reidis a Jamaican reggae singer that is best known as the man that released the hit song One Blood as well as being the man that replaced Michael Rose as lead vocalist with Black Uhuru. ... Mark E. Smith (born March 5, 1957) is the lead singer, lyricist and hub of The Fall, a renowned and idiosyncratic offshoot from the UK post-punk/new wave music scenes. ... Latifah on the cover of her 1999 autobiography Also see the Arab singer Latifa Queen Latifah (born Dana Elaine Owens on March 18, 1970) is a Grammy-winning American rapper/singer and Academy Award-nominated actress. ...

In 1991, whilst touring Japan, they conceived and started their own record label, Ninja Tune, which continues to release diverse music by a small army of like-minded artists. In 1997 the duo unveiled their own real-time video manipulation software, VJamm. Coldcut's current live and DJ sets rely on video as much as records, taking the concept of multimedia performance into largely uncharted territory. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Ninja Tune is a London-based independent record label started in 1991 by DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut, with a strong leaning towards Electronic, abstract hip-hop, instrumental hip hop, Nu-Jazz, drum and bass, and chillout music. ...

Conceptually, Coldcut owes as much to the ideas of beat writer and cut-up theorist William S. Burroughs, 1970s art / industrial group Throbbing Gristle, and the religious writings of J. R. "Bob" Dobbs as they do to Hip Hop originators like Grandmaster Flash or later innovators Double Dee and Steinski. The Beat Generation was a group of American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s. ... William Seward Burroughs II (pronounced ) (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ... Throbbing Gristle (formed on September 3, 1975, in London) is a British experimental music and industrial music group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. ... J. R. Bob Dobbs J. R. Bob Dobbs is the figurehead of the Church of the SubGenius. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... Grandmaster Flash (born Joseph Saddler on January 1, 1958 in Barbados) is a hip hop musician and DJ; one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing. ... Doug DeFranco and Steve Stein were Hip-Hop producers who achieved notoriety in the early 1980s for a series of sample-based collages known as the Lessons, which are still well-regarded today as early underground Hip-Hop classics. ...

Recognizing the power inherent in Burroughs' cut-up technique and its presence in hip hop music, Moore and Black have relentlessly pushed the D.I.Y. ethic and an understanding of play as a means of fostering greater interaction with and understanding of the world. The similarities between this ethos and that of hacking need hardly be stated. Ninja Tune uses a corporate facade to communicate via the marketplace itself, an idea first implemented by Throbbing Gristle via their own Industrial Records imprint. The cut-up technique is a literary form or method in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text. ... Hip hop music is a style of music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. ... The DIY ethic (do it yourself ethic) refers to the ethic of being self-reliance as opposed relying on professional to do it. ... Hackers are sometimes portrayed as mysterious and strange. ... Ninja Tune is a London-based independent record label started in 1991 by DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut, with a strong leaning towards Electronic, abstract hip-hop, instrumental hip hop, Nu-Jazz, drum and bass, and chillout music. ... Industrial Records was a record label established in 1976 by art/music group Throbbing Gristle. ...

One of the key aspects of the Ninja Tune ethos, Stealth, implies that their following of DJs and listeners are "agents" in a Burroughsian sense, propagating the D.I.Y. ethic of play as an essentially subversive act by replaying and manipulating media under the radar of mainstream culture. Black has recently (2003) worked with Penny Rimbaud (ex Crass) on Crass Agenda's Savage Utopia project. Coldcut have recently released a new album, Sound Mirrors which has helped build up a massive underground audience thanks to the popularity of the single True Skool. The song itself features an Indian sample from a cult Bollywood era making the track incredibly popular on the bhangra and desi scene and with much of British Asian urban culture. The video for True Skool will be included on the Microsoft Zune at its release; perpetuating the idea of "manipulating media under the radar of mainstream culture." Ninja Tune is a London-based independent record label started in 1991 by DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut, with a strong leaning towards Electronic, abstract hip-hop, instrumental hip hop, Nu-Jazz, drum and bass, and chillout music. ... Penny Rimbaud circa 1977 Jeremy John Ratter (born 8 June 1943, Northwood, Middlesex, England), better known under his pseudonym of Penny Rimbaud, is a drummer, writer, poet, former member of performance art group EXIT and co-founder of the anarchist punk band Crass with Steve Ignorant in 1977. ... For information about the anarchist writer see Chris Crass Crass was an influential English anarchist punk rock band. ... Crass Agenda is the working title of a series of collaborations by ex-members of the anarchist punk band Crass and others. ... Movie poster for one of Bollywoods most popular films—Sholay (1975) Bollywood (Hindi: बॉलीवुड, Urdu: بالیوڈ) is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindi language film industry in India. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

The Coldcut characters from the More Beats & Pieces video

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Partial discography

• Out to Lunch with Ahead of Our Time (1988)
• Stop This Crazy Thing (1988)
• What's That Noise? (April 1989)
• Some Like It Cold (1990)
• Philosophy (1994)
• ColdKrushCuts — Mixed by Coldcut / DJ Food + DJ Krush (1996)
• Journeys by DJ — 70 minutes of Madness (1996)
• Coldcut & DJ Food Fight (January 1997)
• Let Us Play! (September 1997)
• Let Us Replay! (January 1999)
• People Hold On — The Best of Coldcut (2 February 2004)
• Sound Mirrors (26 January 2006)

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External links

• Coldcut
• Ninja Tune: Coldcut
• VJamm — AudioVisual VJ Software
• britishhiphop.co.uk — The original UK Hip Hop History
• Coldcut Albums Reviewed