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The Qemists - Lost Weekend (feat. Mike Patton)
If crossing genres between rock music and club music was the only task The Qemists had ever set themselves, their work would be done with their new single. When living legend Mike Patton heard “Lost Weekend” he offered his considerable talents on the spot. And not since the days of Faith No More has he delivered such a raw, unadulterated piece of rock vocalry. The style of “Lost Weekend” accelerates from electro-breaks to break-neck drum & bass, all accompanied by ultra-heavy guitar and Patton’s furious vocal. This is possibly the ultimate example of the trio’s trademark sound. The remixes are up to the standard set by the original - “Got Your Money Remix” sees the Qemists going back to their D'n'B roots with a hard and fast roller of a track. For the electro-heads US hype remixers Hot Pink Delorean give the track a perfectly crafted rework for the 4am crowd! Fidget-wonk-bass-houser Killer On The Dance Floor provides the final remix in the bag to get the bloggers twitching and dancefloors jumping; chopped vocals and searing electronics!
The full package; delivering the kind of adrenalin rush which the best of drum & bass and rock music always share in common, “Lost Weekend” is an instant classic.
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Mr Scruff - Ninja Tuna
The Eric Morecambe of contemporary dance music (by which we mean he’s a genius, not that he wears glasses) returns to the long-playing record fray with his first studio album since the scrumptious “Trouser Jazz” and he’s sounding in finer fettle than ever. “Ninja Tuna” is an album that mixes up all of Andy Carthy’s favourite influences and turns them into a funny, unique, amiable and distinctively British sound. From the soul-jazz of “Music Takes Me Up” (featuring the golden lungs of Alice Russell), through the cartoonish tail-swishing of “Donkey Ride”, on into the monstrous bass parps of “Whiplash,” past a superb cameo from Roots Manuva (“Nice Up The Function,”) and across the bit where the bass comes back and is Stronger And More Dangerous Than Ever (“Bang The Floor” with Danny Breaks), this is an album which just keeps on growing on you. Every tune has been roadtested at Scruff’s epic club nights and it shows on the disco-builder “Get On Down”, the muddy funkster “Hold On” (featuring Andreya Triana), the utterly massive “Give Up To Get” and a latino finale held together by “Kalimba” and the endearingly ramshackle “Stockport Canrival”. “Ninja Tuna” is his finest work to date, moving with all the power and grace of a fifty ton whale deep below the ocean, its cavernous belly packed with happy, partying potato people. Cod, it’s good.
Available now on CD, MP3 & WAV download!
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King Cannibal - Aragami Style
A warm welcome please for Ninja Tune's latest signing – King Cannibal aka Zilla aka Dylan Richards. Coming through with a hard-edged, utterly uncompromising industrial mash-up of sounds and rhythms from dancehall and drum & bass, Radio 1's Mary-Anne Hobbs has already declared his music to be "too dark!" Up until a couple of years ago, Zilla was best known for a series of remarkable mix tapes, including "A Friendly Game of Chess" (w/ Buddy Peace), "One Foot In The Fire, One Fist In The Air" and compiling Watch And Repeat Play for Warp Records (again with Buddy Peace). But King Cannibal was born when Richards began experimenting with using the sonic palette of drum & bass over dancehall rhythms. The track he made was "Aragami Style". Not for nothing has Amon Tobin described it as "A great tune...put together like a DJ's wet dream." Over on the flip, "Flower of Flesh & Blood" combines sighing ambience, alien invasion quotes and the most menacing bass attack you'll hear outside of a actual alien invasion. Basically an audio horror movie compressed into six minutes of music, we don't recommend listening to this on your own late at night...
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13.10.08
Killin' Em
XRABIT + DMG$ are, respectively, a Berlin-born producer living in deepest Dalston, and two colourfully-clad, Andre 3000 worshipping Texan MCs. Killin' Em is their debut 12 inch, complete with speaker thrashing sonics and verbals that are literally mic-ripping. Along with a remix from XRABIT himself, which doffs its hat to bassline whilst standing proudly alone, it could not be a brasher klaxon call to the world. Welcome to the new new thing.
26.09.08
Your Slogan Here
Shameless corp-rats and Ninja munging directors Coldcut are selling that valuable eye-ball estate otherwise known as your body. Get a Coldcut ltd edition artwork 'Your Slogan Here' t-shirt and feel free to sell out to the highest bidder. No commission payable, or your money not back. These hi-quality tees are Fairtrade so you can promote capitalism and your bad self guiltlessly. Get the 'Your Slogan Here' on your chest and make money or alternatively, cock a snook at the whole risable brand consciousness, helping drive the planet to destruction. Or both at once. You know it makes sense. No.1 in a series of incredibly limited Coldcut self-help art pieces for justice and outreach awareness.
19.09.08
Solid Steel 20th Anniversary Tickets
Solid Steel announce a special edition 20th Anniversary Party. Thursday 6th November sees Coldcut, DJ Food & DK, Bonobo, Hexstatic & special guests line up to bring past, present & future beat broadness to The End. Get your tickets here. Solid Steel radio continues the celebrations with vintage episodes of the legendary shows. To download vintage sessions go here. Keep It Solid Steel!
12.09.08
Slime & Reason Poster
In our humbles, three of our recent covers have been amongst the very best we've ever had designed for us. Wiley, the Well Deep comp and now, and perhaps best of all, the Roots Manuva 'Slime and Reason' cover. They were all designed by talented chaps Oscar and Ewan, and they all made damn nice posters as well as iconic covers. The Slime and Reason poster is really quite glorious; glossy, clean, simple, perfectly composed, endlessly fascinating and all yours for just a quid!
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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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