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Review: Ahead of Our Time, the other label Coldcut run alongside the ever-fantastic (in fact, never been better than it is right now) Ninja Tune, takes a dash of its sister imprint's artist roster, drafts a fine selection of external talent from the drone and ambient world, and unleashes an epic 29 track journey into the spiritual end of electronic music. Then caps it all off by hiring none other than chill legend Mixmaster Morris to put the lot together into one seamless set (available on the DL you get for nothing with the physical compilation).

A project of huge proportions, there are some very familiar names here to anyone with a penchant for contemplative ambience-creating tunes - Julianna Barwick, Sigur Los, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Suzanne Ciani, to list but a few. Perhaps the most exciting part of this delightful aural sedative, though, is the inclusion of heads more associated with pounding club adventures, for example Helena Hauff. Oh, and did we mention every tune has been made for this collection?

Review: Coldcut return with the stand-out single from their critically-acclaimed album, "Sound Mirrors". The pioneering duo take Joe South's classic 70s hit "Walk A Mile In My Shoes" and re-work it in the tradition which started with their own "Autumn Leaves" and incorporates Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy" amongst others. And, as usual, Coldcut know how to pick a collaborator. Robert Owens should need no introduction. One of the true legends of house music, his career as a musical innovator (as well as the possessor of an all-time great voice) runs from pioneer days as one half of Fingers Inc in Chicago in the 80s right up to collaborations with Photek and London Elektricity, via any number of classic tunes including "Tears", "I'll Be Your Friend" and "Ordinary Son". The version of the tune included on the single ties the epic nature of Coldcut's production to a skipping, swinging house rhythm and the kind of anthemic build that leaves you exhausted. It's a truly beautiful piece of music, the contrast between the delicacy of Owens' voice and the weight of the orchestration perfectly realised. And that's before you've even reached the mixes. Tiga takes the original, strips out the music and replaces it with technoid pulses and a harder dancefloor rhythm, with the sweetness of Owens' voice cutting through the intensity. Henrik Schwarz (of Berlin-based Sonar Kollektiv) builds the original into a melancholy, jazzy number which still sets the foot tapping. Tom Belton goes straight for the disco-funk hands-in-the-air jugular, before Timo Garcia hardens up the kick for a full-on club odyssey.

Review: Coldcut have always been fascinated with the fusion of sound and vision and so the idea of them curating a DVD version of 'Sound Mirrors' (their stunning and critically acclaimed album) is a fitting one. In collaboration with freelance music video commissioner Vez they set about taking the medium of the music video out of the realm of MTV and the cheesy promo, instead making the work a purely artistic expression of the music. In a move that takes the director out of the realm of painter for hire and giving them the creative recognition they so hugely deserve not only in the creative brief but in how they are presented on the DVD and that their fee is an advance against royalties for their work - the same as if they were a guest musician - an exciting and bold move. Individual video directors were specifically invited to add their creativity to a song, visually interpreting the chosen track in their own unique way. There was no brief except that if possible Coldcut were not to feature in the work and there was no pitching against other directors. The outcome is a stunningly diverse collection of highly creative music videos directed by a range of different directors from the famous to the unknown. From Clay Lispky's high-tech live action/animation techniques, the Fuzzy Felt Pyrotechnic's of 'Woof Wan-Bau', Joel Trussell's Phileas Fogg-flavoured cartooning, Up The Resolution's jellyfish porn and Andreas Riser's seventies-patina'd tale of office despair the differences of approach and techniques are dazzling, dizzying, hilarious and moving. Smuggling Peanuts' Gilliamesque animation, Ne-O's salaryman rap, the vastly different approaches to computer animation employed by Oceanmonsters and Dianne Harris and Oscar Wright's surveillance camera epic complete a fantastic package, where you may have favourites but all are artistically valid. The flipside of this release is an audio CD collection of remixes of the singles taken from Sound Mirrors. Running from superb re-rubs from labelmates Spank Rock, Qemists, Kentaro and Daedelus, plus big names like Lemon Jelly and Tiga, plus the happeningest Switch/Solid Groove and Sway, this is a brilliant collection of music and also includes remixes of bonus track "The State We're In" and the Coldcut classic, "People Hold On".

Review: Coldcut have always been fascinated with the fusion of sound and vision and so the idea of them curating a DVD version of 'Sound Mirrors' (their stunning and critically acclaimed album) is a fitting one. In collaboration with freelance music video commissioner Vez they set about taking the medium of the music video out of the realm of MTV and the cheesy promo, instead making the work a purely artistic expression of the music. In a move that takes the director out of the realm of painter for hire and giving them the creative recognition they so hugely deserve not only in the creative brief but in how they are presented on the DVD and that their fee is an advance against royalties for their work - the same as if they were a guest musician - an exciting and bold move. Individual video directors were specifically invited to add their creativity to a song, visually interpreting the chosen track in their own unique way. There was no brief except that if possible Coldcut were not to feature in the work and there was no pitching against other directors. The outcome is a stunningly diverse collection of highly creative music videos directed by a range of different directors from the famous to the unknown. From Clay Lispky's high-tech live action/animation techniques, the Fuzzy Felt Pyrotechnic's of 'Woof Wan-Bau', Joel Trussell's Phileas Fogg-flavoured cartooning, Up The Resolution's jellyfish porn and Andreas Riser's seventies-patina'd tale of office despair the differences of approach and techniques are dazzling, dizzying, hilarious and moving. Smuggling Peanuts' Gilliamesque animation, Ne-O's salaryman rap, the vastly different approaches to computer animation employed by Oceanmonsters and Dianne Harris and Oscar Wright's surveillance camera epic complete a fantastic package, where you may have favourites but all are artistically valid. The flipside of this release is an audio CD collection of remixes of the singles taken from Sound Mirrors. Running from superb re-rubs from labelmates Spank Rock, Qemists, Kentaro and Daedelus, plus big names like Lemon Jelly and Tiga, plus the happeningest Switch/Solid Groove and Sway, this is a brilliant collection of music and also includes remixes of bonus track "The State We're In" and the Coldcut classic, "People Hold On".

Review: Ahead of Our Time, the original label Coldcut ran and now run alongside the ever-fantastic (in fact, never been better than it is right now) Ninja Tune, takes a dash of its sister imprint's artist roster, drafts a fine selection of external talent from the drone and ambient world, and unleashes an epic 29 track journey into the spiritual end of electronic music. Then caps it all off by hiring none other than chill legend Mixmaster Morris to put the lot together into one seamless set (available on the DL you get for nothing with the physical compilation).

A project of huge proportions, there are some very familiar names here to anyone with a penchant for contemplative ambience-creating tunes - Julianna Barwick, Sigur Los, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Suzanne Ciani, to list but a few. Perhaps the most exciting part of this delightful aural sedative, though, is the inclusion of heads more associated with pounding club adventures, for example Helena Hauff. Oh, and did we mention every tune has been made for this collection?

Review: Coldcut return with the stand-out single from their critically-acclaimed album, "Sound Mirrors". The pioneering duo take Joe South's classic 70s hit "Walk A Mile In My Shoes" and re-work it in the tradition which started with their own "Autumn Leaves" and incorporates Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy" amongst others. And, as usual, Coldcut know how to pick a collaborator. Robert Owens should need no introduction. One of the true legends of house music, his career as a musical innovator (as well as the possessor of an all-time great voice) runs from pioneer days as one half of Fingers Inc in Chicago in the 80s right up to collaborations with Photek and London Elektricity, via any number of classic tunes including "Tears", "I'll Be Your Friend" and "Ordinary Son". The version of the tune included on the single ties the epic nature of Coldcut's production to a skipping, swinging house rhythm and the kind of anthemic build that leaves you exhausted. It's a truly beautiful piece of music, the contrast between the delicacy of Owens' voice and the weight of the orchestration perfectly realised. And that's before you've even reached the mixes. Tiga takes the original, strips out the music and replaces it with technoid pulses and a harder dancefloor rhythm, with the sweetness of Owens' voice cutting through the intensity. Henrik Schwarz (of Berlin-based Sonar Kollektiv) builds the original into a melancholy, jazzy number which still sets the foot tapping. Tom Belton goes straight for the disco-funk hands-in-the-air jugular, before Timo Garcia hardens up the kick for a full-on club odyssey.

Review: Coldcut have always been fascinated with the fusion of sound and vision and so the idea of them curating a DVD version of 'Sound Mirrors' (their stunning and critically acclaimed album) is a fitting one. In collaboration with freelance music video commissioner Vez they set about taking the medium of the music video out of the realm of MTV and the cheesy promo, instead making the work a purely artistic expression of the music. In a move that takes the director out of the realm of painter for hire and giving them the creative recognition they so hugely deserve not only in the creative brief but in how they are presented on the DVD and that their fee is an advance against royalties for their work - the same as if they were a guest musician - an exciting and bold move. Individual video directors were specifically invited to add their creativity to a song, visually interpreting the chosen track in their own unique way. There was no brief except that if possible Coldcut were not to feature in the work and there was no pitching against other directors. The outcome is a stunningly diverse collection of highly creative music videos directed by a range of different directors from the famous to the unknown. From Clay Lispky's high-tech live action/animation techniques, the Fuzzy Felt pyrotechnic's of Woof Wan-Bau, Joel Trussell's Phileas Fogg-flavoured cartooning, Up The Resolution's jellyfish porn and Andreas Riser's seventies-patina'd tale of office despair the differences of approach and techniques are dazzling, dizzying, hilarious and moving. Smuggling Peanuts' Gilliamesque animation, Ne-O's salaryman rap, the vastly different approaches to computer animation employed by Oceanmonsters and Dianne Harris and Oscar Wright's surveillance camera epic complete a fantastic package, where you may have favourites but all are artistically valid. The flipside of this release is an audio CD collection of remixes of the singles taken from Sound Mirrors. Running from superb re-rubs from labelmates Spank Rock, Qemists, Kentaro and Daedelus, plus big names like Lemon Jelly and Tiga, plus the happeningest Switch/Solid Groove and Sway, this is a brilliant collection of music and also includes remixes of bonus track 'The State We're In' and the Coldcut classic, 'People Hold On'.

Review: Coldcut have always been fascinated with the fusion of sound and vision and so the idea of them curating a DVD version of 'Sound Mirrors' (their stunning and critically acclaimed album) is a fitting one. In collaboration with freelance music video commissioner Vez they set about taking the medium of the music video out of the realm of MTV and the cheesy promo, instead making the work a purely artistic expression of the music. In a move that takes the director out of the realm of painter for hire and giving them the creative recognition they so hugely deserve not only in the creative brief but in how they are presented on the DVD and that their fee is an advance against royalties for their work - the same as if they were a guest musician - an exciting and bold move. Individual video directors were specifically invited to add their creativity to a song, visually interpreting the chosen track in their own unique way. There was no brief except that if possible Coldcut were not to feature in the work and there was no pitching against other directors. The outcome is a stunningly diverse collection of highly creative music videos directed by a range of different directors from the famous to the unknown. From Clay Lispky's high-tech live action/animation techniques, the Fuzzy Felt Pyrotechnic's of 'Woof Wan-Bau', Joel Trussell's Phileas Fogg-flavoured cartooning, Up The Resolution's jellyfish porn and Andreas Riser's seventies-patina'd tale of office despair the differences of approach and techniques are dazzling, dizzying, hilarious and moving. Smuggling Peanuts' Gilliamesque animation, Ne-O's salaryman rap, the vastly different approaches to computer animation employed by Oceanmonsters and Dianne Harris and Oscar Wright's surveillance camera epic complete a fantastic package, where you may have favourites but all are artistically valid. The flipside of this release is an audio CD collection of remixes of the singles taken from Sound Mirrors. Running from superb re-rubs from labelmates Spank Rock, Qemists, Kentaro and Daedelus, plus big names like Lemon Jelly and Tiga, plus the happeningest Switch/Solid Groove and Sway, this is a brilliant collection of music and also includes remixes of bonus track "The State We're In" and the Coldcut classic, "People Hold On".