Aceasta saptamana este una speciala pentru toti cei interesati de muzica buna, intrucat Ninja Tune XX pune la dispozitia fanilor mixuri care au revolutionat industria muzicala.

In ajunul anului nou, in 1991, un grup relativ nou pe atunci, numit The Orb, ii vizitau pe cei de la ColdCut in studioul lor de la Kiss Fm, pentru a mixa live impreuna. Primii lucrau la albumul care avea sa devina numarul unu in topuri, anul urmator, iar ceilalti puneau bazele Ninja Tune.

Iata ce zic cei de la Ninja Tune:

For anyone claiming even a passing interest in dance music, this week’s Ninja Tune XX giveaway will be gold dust. A mix that harks back to the explosion of ideas that resulted in the rise of dance music itself. As such, it’s thrilling.

On New Year’s Eve 1991, a fairly new group called The Orb visited Coldcut in their studio at Kiss FM, to put together a live radio mix. The former were working on the album that would top the charts the following year. The latter had just set up Ninja Tune. The resulting mix is a gold standard of cutting edge dance, experimentalism and sound-collage. As Matt Black recalls; ‘”I remember a couple of things from that show… Yes, we recorded it live at Kiss in Holloway Rd… looking at each other, not knowing quite how to begin, and then saying ‘fuck it. Might as well start, shall we?’ The Orb played a lot of abstract, cool, spoken word and cutup stuff, which seemed really impressive and weird… We were like ‘fuck, how did they make that?’ It was just quite arty and clever and odd… A lot of it was just done in a one-man live mix, literally running round the studio, turning decks on and off! Raw but fun. Those were the days.’