Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Coldcut
Journeys By DJ
(JDJ, 1995)
Or, a ’70 Minutes Of Madness’ DJ-mix chestnut from the deck tagteam who go the distance.
We’ve all done it – prevented guests from hearing songs all the way through by jumping up every thirty seconds to change what’s on the stereo and saying “you’ve got to listen to this.” Coldcut, AKA long-serving DJs and occasional hitmakers Jonathan More and Matt Black, did something similar when collating this masterful hour and ten minutes of beats, bass, speech and sound, except with structure, grace and style. With such names as Boogie Down Productions, Harold Budd and Jello Biafra thrown into the blender alongside mid-’90s dance producers such as Photek, Jedi Knights and Coldcut themselves, the result is undeniable; a heavily rhythmic jungle of polyrhythmic perversity, with drum and bass, techno, funk, hip-hop and more all tweaked and augmented with sound effects, deck dexterity and dialogue from old movies (Ed Wood Jr’s fave spooky psychic Criswell is one contributor). Comic and dark by turns, it attains a state of foaming mentalism when Ron Grainer’s original theme for Doctor Who shimmers into earshot, but finally winds down into anaesthetised contentment. With shout outs to such pioneers of the cut-up as William Burroughs, Grandmaster Flash and Double Dee and Steinksi, it still cuts the mustard as proof of what can be done with a pile of records and some decks, if you’re prepared to make the effort. And if it’s possibly problematic in the common or garden club environment, if consumed in an armchair, brain cells will dance.
Ian Harrison
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 12/01/2009
Further Listening
2 Many DJs – As Heard On Radio Soulwax (PIAS, 2003)
DJ Yoda – How To Cut and Paste Vol.1 (Antidote, 2002)
Solid Steel Presents Hexstatic – Listen & Learn
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
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Yes! Nice choice. This delightful mix cd sits on my shelf cloaked in memories and gets a dusting down once in a blue moon. It really is one of the best 'dance' mixes I've come across. Very inventive, full of humour, a proper journey constructed with love and care. Highlight - when Loving You wafts in. I played this plenty of times on my walkman when on a year out travelling in Oz and Asia.
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