- Audio CD (27 May 2002)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Journeys By DJ
- ASIN: B000065CU1
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 29,663 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Bola - Philorene | |||
| 2. Street Beats Vol.2 - The Truper | |||
| 3. One Blood - Junior Reid | |||
| 4. Jam On Revenge - Newcleus | |||
| 5. Extreme Possibilities - 2 Player | |||
| 6. King Ashabanapal - Funki Porcini | |||
| 7. Noddy Holder - Jedi Knights | |||
| 8. Fuk - Plastic Man | |||
| 9. No Beats - Coldcut | |||
| 10. Manganese In Deep Violet - Bedouin Ascent | |||
| 11. African Drug - Bob Holroyd | |||
| 12. If There Was No Gravity - Air Liquide | |||
| 13. Beats And Pieces - Coldcut | |||
| 14. Greedy Beat - Coldcut | |||
| 15. The Music Maker - Coldcut | |||
| 16. Find A Way - Coldcut | |||
| 17. King Of The Beats - Mantronix | |||
| 18. Mag - Gescom | |||
| 19. Blood Vibes - Masters At Work | |||
| 20. Trumpet Riff - Raphael Corderdos | |||
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Why if it isn't the best DJ mix ever created! On paper, you wouldn't think that a mash up of dub, drum & bass, house, techno, old skool breaks, experimental electronica, jazzed up breaks and Dr Who would sound pleasant at all when put in the mixing blender. Especially in 70 minutes. But remember Coldcut are at the controls. You can tell this is a piece of art by the way that you don't hear the blends, you suddenly find yourself listening to a different track to the one that was playing 2 minutes ago. And it really does jump from the likes of drum and bass to techno utterly seamlessly without you noticing. Fantastic. Shows the likes of Soulwax who the daddy is.
From a typical moody DJ point of view, the mixing is out of this world. The vision to create a journey like this, the ability to dig through a record collection and find such an array of tracks to lay over each other like that is the way they were always meant to be heard in the first place. I remember playing this to a mate in a car which chonking around Hemel countryside and he said he'd never heard anything that was this good, ever.
This compilation used to fetch up to £100 on Ebay before it finally got re-issued due to overwhelming demand. Snap it up and find out why.
Oh and if you like this, check out Cold Krush Cuts/Back In The Base. A wee little Ninja Tune compilation with Coldcut at the controls mixing up a similar amount of madness plus the bonus of DJ Krush taking control of a disc for his blend of smoked out beats!
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
As a DJ, I have often quarrelled with the notion that I am an artist. I am not, and there are very few DJs in the world who are. There are DJs who can program a set to produce some form of atmosphere, and there are others who can do all forms of trickery that is undoubtedly very clever. However, there are very few DJs who can do both. But moreover, there are very few DJs who are experimenting with the whole concept of Decks and Mixer; Coldcut have always been the shining light. I had the extreme pleasure of witnessing them live on decks and many computers, and it was simply the most fiercly inventive stuff I've witnessed. It was then that I remembered my treasured Journeys By DJ...
When you think that Coldcut were upto these tricks over 10 years ago, it is simply a phenomenal achievement, and the pinnacle of this was their 70 Minutes of Madness. Within these 36 tracks are every genre of music available. Long before the hype surrounding "eclectic" or "bar-club" DJs, Coldcut were doing it. But its so much more than this: yes there is everything on this mix, but you cannot notice. It is seamless and inticately woven with all manner of samples. So many individual moments stand out from this mix: the overlaying of Junior Reid's dub with storming Drum n Bass; the Jhelisa accapella over DJ Food; the simply sublime construction using "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and Luke Slater's sweeping pads. So many moments of hilarity also, most notably: "Can your heart stand the shocking truth of grave robbers from outer space?".
But within these moments of brilliance is an overall structure that is fresh and inventive and brilliantly executed. Opening with Drum n Bass, moving through to Avant-garde techno, to Jackin' Hip-Hop beats, and finishing with laid-back, deep Trip-Hop, this is programming at its finest. We are assaulted with varying emotional states and intensity. We voyage from intensity to humour to grooves to funk to beauty to dark claustrophobia to political musings to relaxed and dream-like states, all with an overt lucidity. But these changes are not harsh or abrasive; they simply provide the structure of the piece...
I say "piece" because that is what it becomes. You begin to realise that this isn't just a collection of Coldcut's favourite plates, but is a whole, a unified piece of music. Thus, it works on the higher level as a 70 minute symphony. At points, it is easy to get lost amongst the huge tracklisting, and this only fuels the intrigue of the piece. It is simply fluid, and yet a swirling, ever-changing fluidity that has never been matched by any DJ anywhere, anyhow, anytime. To be blunt: it is the greatest production of any DJ, and unfortunately it may never be equalled.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Seminal is right. This is quite simply the best mix album I've ever heard. It encompasses a huge number of styles melded seamlessly into an audio journey that you'll never forget. Sometimes chill, sometimes kicking, always atmospheric and completely masterful, with this album Coldcut created a musical phenomenon that has never yet quite been equalled - waxploitation at its best! :) I lost my copy of the original release tape and found that the album had been discontinued, so have been bugging Ninja and JDJ for a re-release ever since. My prayers have now been answered.. :D
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This is undoubtedly the best mix album i have ever come across, work of absolute genius. had it for a number of years now, felt obliged to write a review as a i noticed it while... Read more
Published 5 months ago by craigc80
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This mix has such good reviews for reason: it's outstanding. This was a staple of my uni days in the mid-late 90's and has been a pleasure to rediscover. Read more
Published 15 months ago by chumplord
Buy it. End of.
This is, without any question, the best mix album there has ever been. Everything works, from the music styles/genres, to the mixing, which is just unbelievably good. Read more
Published 15 months ago by R. Hawkridge
The most astounding thing you have ever heard.
I have had this mix for a few years now and it never gets old. It truly is mastery of the turntables. Read more
Published 18 months ago by RCMP
This is going to be the most astounding thing you've ever heard...
... and I say this knowing a man of your caliber and profession.
Still is one of the most fun, funky, beautiful, and out-there mixes ever. Read more
Still is one of the most fun, funky, beautiful, and out-there mixes ever. Read more
Published 21 months ago by HangWongsSon
Just Too Good
The soundtrack of my college days that has followed me through life ever since. Indescribably good.
Published on 13 July 2009 by R. Newman
One of my most listened to of all time
I acquired this recording way back in '97 or so, right after its release. It was literally impossible to get in the United States, so I had to acquire a bootleg. Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2007 by R.G.
70 Minutes of Madness . . .
Madness indeed! I was put onto this mix and Ninja Tune as a whole a while ago by my friend. The most accuarte review of this record that i have read is that it is "the greatest... Read more
Published on 13 Dec 2006 by Mr. A. C. Dickie
Genuinely groundbreaking
Re-issued classic and timeless free-wheeling mix from the masters...Up til this point, no DJ mix had cast it's nets so wide stopping at Hip Hop, Dub, The Radiophonic Workshop, R&B,... Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2006 by John Tree
15 reviews so far and all of them five stars
That says it all really, doesn't it?
I wouldn't say that this album is entirely flawless, because I slightly prefer the first side to the second one. Read more
Published on 28 Sep 2005 by Mr. G. P. D. Ingram
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