This summer, UK trip-hop institution Ninja Tune is celebrating their 20th anniversary with a new site, ninjatunexx.com, and a series of special treasures from the vault—each one available for one week—leading up to the release of the XX box set this fall. This week’s prize is a r15-minute radio mix, recorded by label founders Coldcut with ambient pioneers The Orb. Here’s the story according to the site:
On New Year’s Eve 1991, a fairly new group called The Orb visited Coldcut in their studio at Kiss FM, to put together a live radio mix. The former were working on the album that would top the charts the following year. The latter had just set up Ninja Tune. The resulting mix is a gold standard of cutting edge dance, experimentalism and sound-collage. As Matt Black recalls; ‘”I remember a couple of things from that show… Yes, we recorded it live at Kiss in Holloway Rd… looking at each other, not knowing quite how to begin, and then saying ‘fuck it. Might as well start, shall we?’ The Orb played a lot of abstract, cool, spoken word and cutup stuff, which seemed really impressive and weird… We were like ‘fuck, how did they make that?’ It was just quite arty and clever and odd… A lot of it was just done in a one-man live mix, literally running round the studio, turning decks on and off! Raw but fun. Those were the days.’
[Download] Coldcut Meets The Orb Minimix
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