Coldcut & Hexstatic - Timber 1998

Ninja Tune ZEN CDS65A

My apologies the soulies but I have a diversion today. Sorry, This Just Isn't Music!

No, this is Coldcut (again) and this time they have teamed up with Hexstatic and their on a mission. Timber comes from the Let Us Play album and it has a purpose. The aim of the 'song' is to raise awareness to the disappearing rainforests around the globe. It's a good cause and its a good bit of music but you need to be open minded. Click on the graphics below and read more about the campaign and the project. It is interesting, honest!

Timber has been built from sound samples taken from a documentary about the deforestation of the rainforests around the world. Included in the rar are the Video Remixes also which explains why it's 285 MB. This is an incredible piece of experimental music harking way back to the Steinski & Mass Media project. A collection of rhythms and melodies built from media soundbytes and layered to form a song. The original Chopped Down Radio Edit is perfect and no amount of tinkering can improve it. It is what it is! The remixes are mostly Drum & Bass ventures Quant's Shaggy Dog Story being my fav. They are all well put together but unnecessary. Clifford Gilberto's Jazz trips are way out there. If your head can get around it, this is a great experience.

• Chopped Down Radio Edit
• Quant's Shaggy Dog Story
• DK Recut
• Future 3 Network
• Clifford Gilberto Remix 2 "cracked timber"
• Hexstatic Video
• EBN Video
• Clifford Gilberto "a different forest" Video

The Download Link is here: Download
Filename: Coldcut & Hexstatic.rar Filesize: 285.48 MB

Eric B & Rakim - Paid In Full (Promo) 1987

4th & Broadway 12 BRX 78

In 1987 when Eric B & Rakim could do no wrong, Coldcut was called upon to remix Paid In Full. Seven Minutes Of Madness turned out to be the most popular mix that year, from the dancefloor point of view at least. It was, quite deservedly, played to death! Eric B was not a happy man though, even though it must have doubled, if not quadrupled the sales of his album. He hated that remix, suggesting that Ofra Haza's Hebrew vocal sample from "Im Nin'Alu" could have been saying "Fuck You" for all we knew. The thing that probably irked him most was that he had no say about the remix and its release.

The real shame was that nobody else got a look in. This promo 12" (handed out at the DMC Convention if I remember rightly) is a remix created by South London's own Derek Boland. Boland had been a DJ on the pirate stations (LWR 92.5) for sometime where he created his own remixes for his show. This remix of Paid In Full uses a nice sample from John 'Cougar' Mellancamp's - Jack & Diane and a chunk of Chuck Brown's - We Need Some Money. That's Rock Music and Go-Go in this Hip-Hop mix. It's a great version and it deserved more airplay. Try it, you'll like it.

• Paid In Full (Derek B's Urban Respray)
• Paid In Full (Album Mix)
• Eric B Is On The Cut

The Download Link is here: Download
Filename: Eric B and Rakim.rar Filesize: 21.18 MB

Coldcut - Find A Way/Say Kids 1987

Ahead Of Our Time CCUT 8 TL

This White Label was highly sought after and is still in demand (I think?) Very little info, the letraset title was added by me. 'ADRENALIN' is etched into the runout on both sides and that's it. The A-side is a rap by Queen Latifah (one of the De La Soul posse) that was probably known only for its inclusion here. It sure as hell wasn't the reason this 12" sold.

For those that haven't heard of this, it's a cut up in the same style as the Double Dee & Steinski Lessons. Kicking off with "Say Kids, What Time Is It?" we have Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Rupert The Bear dialogue & King Of The Swingers from Disney's Jungle Book, amidst a whole host of infectious beats and samples.

• Find A Way (featuring Queen Latifah)
• Say Kids!
• Bonus Beats 1
• Bonus Beats 2

The Download Link is here: Download
Filename: Coldcut - Say Kids.rarFilesize: 24.71 MB

Coldcut - Beats + Pieces 1987

Ahead Of Our Time CCUT 1

1987 was a great year for interesting new ideas. PC's were becoming more available and Cut'n'Paste technology became the new thing. Hot on the heels of Double Dee & Steinski, came Coldcut.

Jonathan Moore & Matt Black have taken the concept to a whole new level nowadays but back in '87 they delivered this slab of vinyl to an unsuspecting world. Featuring Floormaster Squeeze, but doing what, I ask?

Note the logo on the sleeve....

"SORRY, BUT THIS JUST ISN'T MUSIC"

• Mo' Bass Remix
• Edit
• More Beats

The Download Link is here: Download
Filename: Coldcut Beats.rar Filesize: 22.16 MB

Apple - Believe 1993

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This is, to my limited knowledge, the only release by Apple, of whom I can find no information at all. Featuring the vocal talent of Marvin Springer. Springer has a wonderful falsetto voice and it's criminal that it has not been more widely used. This release is a Coldcut Production, with lyrics written by Springer, that is filed under Acid Jazz. A soulful house tune would be an unfair description but its more accurate than Acid Jazz. Think Deep Gospel House?

• Opus 1
• Opus 2
• funkjazztickle
• Radio Edit
  

The Download Link is here: Download
Filename: Apple - Believe.rar Filesize: 39.19 MB