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Comprised of ex-art teacher Jonathan More and computer programmer Matt Black, Coldcut have been active in the UK electronica scene since the heyday of Acid House in the mid-1980s: releasing the first UK "sampling" disc ("Hey Kids"), launching the careers of
Yazz and
Lisa Stansfield, and establishing a formidable reputation as producers and remixers. Their fourth album--and the first on their own Ninja Tune label--
Let Us Play is at once as dizzyingly eclectic yet as consistent in tone as one would expect from these innovators. Who else would (or, for that matter, could) bring together guests as diverse as ex-
Dead Kennedys frontman
Jello Biafra, legendary funk drummer Bernard Purdie and poet Salena Saliva? Hardly surprising: in applying the cut-and-paste aesthetics of multimedia, Coldcut delight in collisions of form and meaning: "Timber," for example, is an audio-visual collage that manages to be both a protest song (campaigning for an end to industrial logging, and using footage supplied by Greenpeace) and a hypnotic dance track. Electronic music at its most intelligent.
--Andrew McGuire
Mojo, September 1997
A bravura, genre straddling journey into sound. Scores of Collaborators feed multiple influences into their "Funkjazztical tricknology"
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