25 Facts About Coldcut

Coldcut are an English electronic music duo composed of Matt Black and Jonathan More.

Beyond their work as a production duo, Coldcut are the founders of Ninja Tune, an independent record label in London, England with an overall emphasis on encouraging interactive technology and finding innovative uses of software.

Duo adopted the name "Coldcut" and set up a record label called Ahead Of Our Time to release the single "Beats + Pieces" in 1987.

In 1988, Coldcut released Out To Lunch With Ahead Of Our Time, a double LP of Coldcut productions and re-cuts, and the various aliases under which the duo had recorded.

Conflicts arose with the major label, as Coldcut's "vision extended beyond the formulae of house and techno" and mainstream pop culture .

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The name Coldcut stayed with Arista so there were no official Coldcut releases for the next three years.

Coldcut videos were made for most songs, often by Hexstatic, and used a lot of stock and sampled footage.

Coldcut began integrating video sampling into their live DJ gigs at the time, and incorporated multimedia content that caused press to credit the act as segueing "into the computer age".

Coldcut's cut 'n' paste method on the album was compared to that of Dadaism and William Burroughs.

Also working with Camart, Black designed DJamm software in 1998, which Coldcut used on laptops for their live shows, providing the audio bed alongside VJAMM's audiovisual samples.

Coldcut continued to forge interesting collaborations, including 2001's Re:volution as an EP in which Coldcut created their own political party .

In 2004, Coldcut collaborated with American video mashup artist TV Sheriff to produce their cut-up entitled "Revolution USA".

Coldcut collaborated with TV Sheriff and NomIg to produce two audiovisual pieces "World of Evil" and "Revolution '08", both composed of footage from the United States presidential elections of respective years.

Coldcut was given access to the BAS archive in order to create sounds and visuals for the short film.

Coldcut returned with the single "Everything Is Under Control" at the end of 2005, featuring Jon Spencer and Mike Ladd.

Coldcut was accompanied by scratch DJ Raj and AV artist Juxta, in addition to guest vocalists from the album, including UK rapper Juice Aleem, Roots Manuva, Mpho Skeef, Jon Spencer and house legend Robert Owens.

Coldcut remixed another classic song in 2007: Nina Simone's "Save Me".

In 2008, an international group of party organisers, activists and artists including Coldcut received a grant from the Intelligent Energy Department of the European Union, to create a project that promoted intelligent energy and environmental awareness to the youth of Europe.

Also in 2008, Coldcut was asked to remix the theme song for British cult TV show Doctor Who for the program's 40th anniversary.

In October 2008, Coldcut celebrated the legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop with a live DJ mix at London's legendary Roundhouse.

In 2010, Coldcut celebrated 20 years of releasing music with its label, Ninja Tune.

In July 2013, Coldcut produced a piece entitled "D'autre" based on the writings of French poet Arthur Rimbaud, for Forum Des Images in Paris.

Coldcut put new music to films from the Russolo era, incorporating original recordings of Russolo's proto-synths.

In 2014 Coldcut did 3 soundtracks as part of the project New City, a series of animated skylines of the near future developed by Tomorrow's Thought Today's Liam Young, with accompanying writing from sci-fi authors Jeff Noon, Pat Cadigan and Tim Maughan.

Coldcut are developing Ninja Jamm further after the Android release garnered acclaim from the Guardian, Independent, Gizmodo and many more reviewers.

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