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Mr Scruff - Donkey Ride
As any fool knows, Mr Scruff is more than just a DJ/producer. The bearded Stockport wonder is a cartoonist, purveyor of fine teas, club impresario and general purveyor of a Better Way of Life for Right-Minded Club Folk. "Donkey Ride" is a collaboration with longtime cohort Quantic and pianist Andy Kingslow and a single on which Scruff shows that all his music-making virtues are intact. Coming on like "Roobarb & Custard" on a day out with Ray Charles, it's a green dog leading the blind kind of tune - funny, funky, musically warm and astute, but with some of that cartoonish funfair atmosphere that makes every Scruff release a celebration. Nuff said. Meanwhile, "Giant Pickle" slaps the biggest hip hop break up against hi-life keyboards and moody strings for the most moving ode to large vegetables killed by vinegar since.... erm, well maybe it's a first. Unfeasible bass and cowbell snaps, this will move the floor. It's not for us to say where...
Released Monday 19th May.
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Cadence Weapon - House Music
Cadence Weapon returns with the new single from his breakout second album, “Afterparty Babies". “House Music” is a driving, uptempo party jam that channels the ghosts of go-go, rave and techno into a pummelling, piercing beat, only for Rollie Pemberton to drop lyrics of real depth, wit and wisdom over the top. It’s a combination that makes the Cadence Weapon experience pretty unique and nowhere does the MC and producer push the implications further than on “House Music”. It’s heady, exhilarating stuff – the sound of genres colliding, breaking apart and forming into something new. To make the package truly complete, remix duties are taken up by mysterious producer A1 Bassline, who turns in a perfect slice of, well, bassline, Mr Weapon’s delivery sitting perfectly atop unfeasibly wobbly bottom notes and snapping hi-hats.
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Zero dB - Heavyweight Vinyl
Dirty jazz&bassmeisters zero dB continue their remix project with all the attack, élan, grit and sheer fun associated with their unique brand of club music. Chris Vogado (one of the dBs and Mr. Fluid Ounce, the label that launched these boys back in 1999 with “Come Party”) masterminded the remix album, “Heavyweight Gringos,” released in 2007. Vogado approached 27 members of the Fluid Ounce Friends & Familia crew plus Ninja and Big Dada stablemates and laid the whole “Bongos, Bleeps & Basslines” album at their disposal. These heavyweight remixers plundered the dB drives and picked their perfect partners for the dance. Featured mixes are from: Peter Kruder (Kruder & Dorfmeister), Nwachukwu (Attica Blues then, CD-R founder now) Pez, Saffrolla,and Dave Da Gato. But that is not all - we’ve saved the best till last. Leading out the single is zero dB’s own rather marvellous remix of “Keep On” - a DJ Kentaro tune featuring the still-mighty Pharcyde. With a beat that crashes through your entire body and enough bass to run an international coarse fishing contest, what could make this better? Check the lyrics and you’ll know…
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09.05.08
Pre-Order 'Love To Make Music To'
The dandy returns! Let the final countdown commence... Daedelus' brand, spanking-new album is on the way. Alfred Darlington is a legitimate contender for the Most Adventurous Man in Music title. Renowned for making cerebral, baroque electronic music, his multitude of releases span most genres including several as yet undiscovered but all laced with his own Victorian charm and woven together into otherworldly stories of romance, rave and resplendence. Experimental without ever being dry, clever without ever being academic, romantic without ever being soppy, Daedelus is a starship trooper from the past. Released 9th June, pre-order 'Love To Make Music To' now.
29.04.08
No More Blood
The second single from Ghislain Poirier's debut, No Ground Under, is now available to buy on download. 'No More Blood' once again features Face-T on politically conscious vocals. With mixes from Montreal's minimal dubmiester Deadbeat and Warp's latest glitch darling Hudson Mohawke, there is also a new non-album cut called 'Ignadjossi' featuring hot MC Jhonel from Niger. Check Ghislain out at the end of May when he'll be doing DJ sets in Dublin, Glasgow and Fabric in London on 30th May.
21.04.08
Pink Levi
Pop Levi is back! There are few genuine and single minded musical mavericks in music today, and Pop is one of them. 'Never Never Love' (the first single and title track of the new album, released on 14th July) is a cheeky yet mournful ode to failing love and multiply requited lust with scattered electro toms, taut beats and powering guitar chords. The B-side 'Love You Straight' (Astral version) is a piece of grinning schmaltz, a beautiful lullaby and one that proves the absolute weight of Pop’s talent. Released next Monday, order now on limited edition pink 7" vinyl or MP3 - which features a remix by fellow LA cohort Pink Enemy, a warm throbbing nu-disco vocodered smash. Sexy dance music of the highest order!
07.04.08
Ninja Jeans
Ninja Tune have embarked on a brand new collaboration with top line jeans label Ijin Material. “Denim Innovator” Philip Goss does stuff with selvedge that’s far too technical and magical for us to be able to explain. It’s all to do, if we follow it correctly, with the quality of cloth, the dyeing process, the angles at which you cut it and where you put the seams. Suffice it to say that his jeans feel and look great when you put them on and then just keep getting better and better. The new “Ijin vs. Ninja” range features 2 separate washes with either an embroidered Ninja 'swarm of eyes' or 'eye mask' design on the back pocket. Most importantly of all, they have a cut and quality in keeping with the Ninja ethos (which can be summed up as “wear very nice jeans whenever possible”).
New t-shirts and sweat shirts will follow, but for now feast your eyes and, more importantly, legs, on some low slung stealth denim - with all orders getting free postage!
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Check out a selection of our releases, products and merchandise - all available to buy now.
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Below you will fine a selection of online retailers who are selling the Ninja Tune and Big Dada Catalogues as digital downloads.
Bleep - Ninja Tune's latest releases can be found as DRM-free downloads on Bleep.com
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iTunes - All full-length releases and plenty of exclusive and vinyl-only tracks.
Playlouder - The newer Ninja catalogue accompanied by artist interviews and in depth reviews.
Tune Tribe - Ninja exclusives with the whole catalogue soon to be added.
Wippit - A large selection of Ninja and Big Dada's catalogue can be found here.
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