Re: Coldcut = New wave/ambient?
Mark Turner (mturner@netcom.com)
Mon, 13 May 1996 09:33:39 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Not wanting to get up late yesterday evening, I flipped the tuner on to
> the local public broadcast radio station and caught the beginning of a
> Hearts of Space program. I was paying much attention but thought I heard
> him say Coldcut in the line up for the program. I listened through this
> one, which was pretty typical of the spacey, trippy, mellow kind of stuff
> they do. It's great for drifting off into la-la land, but I was expecting
> something of the typical Coldcut, beat-driven nature. I didn't hear it.
> The program was pretty good, though, with more of an "traditional"
> electronic influence. At the end I listened for the credits and heard
> Coldcut again along a couple of Norwegian artists. He said something
> about the source of the Coldcut piece, but I didn't catch it. So what
> gives? Does Coldcut have a totally ambient, minimal beat-type of product
> out there? I believe he said it was a 95 release. If my memory serves me
> well, the HOS program is titled "Blue Regions II" and it was program 384
> (maybe). If I remember, I'll check their web page (www.hos.com?).
>
What you heard was a Mixmaster Morris ambient remix of an old
Coldcut track called "Autumn Leaves." The original version
is quite mellow, but not *that* mellow. However, Coldcut are
deeply involved with ambient music, primarily on their Ninja
Tune offshoot label NTone. Most of their ambient recordings
are under the name of Hex. However, there are two NTone compi-
lations that are masterfully mixed in an ambient stylee by
the Coldcut boys: TONE TALES FROM TOMORROW and TONE TALES FROM
TOMORROW TOO. Both are highly recommended.
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Mark Turner
mturner@netcom.com