This months edition of the wire has a feature/interviews on Coldcut and
the rest of the Ninja posse, its a fairly thorough-well-written article
and has got me well in the mood for their gig here (Dublin) on Friday,
Coldcut - Food and The Herbaliser under 1 roof for 1 night... sounds
like raw funk to me!
onwards...
gerry.
np: "Starsailor" -Tim Buckley
"In order to dance 6" - top drum 'n bass compilation.
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>From: bdwyer@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu[SMTP:bdwyer@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu]
>Sent: 13 May 1996 15:44
>To: acid-jazz@UCSD.EDU
>Subject: Coldcut = New wave/ambient?
>
>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?).
>
>Later,
>
>bil
>bdwyer@nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu
>