Re: COLDCUT: More Beats + Pieces
Ninja Tune/Discreet (ninjah@generation.net)
Thu, 14 Aug 1997 20:10:42 -0400
>OK. If Coldcut are truly committed to "saving the vinyl" and the art of
>DJing as a whole (which I think they are), why not allow the average Joe
>DJ access to those loops. If Kid Koala hadn't come up to Coldcut and
>introduced himself, he might have not been discovered. As it is we are a
>dying breed in the sea of modernity, CDs, and hyper-marketed/formulaic
>music. Coldcut have continued to push the envelope when it comes to
>music, and I think a logical progression (not LTJ) would be to give more
>people access to such records and see what many bedroom DJs can do with
>it.
>
>Come on ninjas, release those custom 12" for all of us to play with.
>Also, how about re-releasing the original "Beats and Pieces" and "Say
>Kids" and all those classics. There are a lot of us out here who do it
>for the love of the music only. As it is, it's a really expensive
>hobbie/habit -- one I woulnd't trade for the world!
>
>Just a thought...or two.
C'mon you think we didn't think of this. Watch for an ultra rare release
(with 2 copies in each pack for aspiring scratch dj's) of the original
breaks records that were sent out to be remixed. Just give a chance to get
the proper Coldcut records out first.
As for the original of 'Say Kids' and 'Beats and Pieces'... sorry but way
to many samples that would no doubt land us with a big lawsuit. There's
loads of bootleg copies of these floating around various parts of the world
(for instance, I just scored 20 copies of 'Say Kids' from the vaults of a
US distributor).
Ninjas