82-647: Roy Kerr , also known as the Freelance Hellraiser , is an English DJ, producer, remixer and one of the creators of the UK bootleg ( mashup ) scene. Under the Freelance Hellraiser name, Kerr gained fame with a mashup in 2001 called "A Stroke of Genius", which combined an instrumental edit of the Strokes ' track " Hard to Explain " with Christina Aguilera 's pop hit " Genie in a Bottle ". Although originally greeted by
164-685: A cease and desist order by RCA (the label which both Aguilera and the Strokes are signed to), he went on to remix Aguilera's single " Fighter ", as well as tracks for Placebo and ex- Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft . "A Stroke of Genius" was later dubbed as "the song that defines the decade" by The Guardian . In 2006, he released his album Waiting for Clearance , featuring such artists as Jan Hammer , Iain Archer and Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody . The following year, he formed Kid Gloves with Anu Pillai, writing and producing two songs for Ladyhawke 's gold-selling eponymous debut album , including
246-570: A 1973 top 10 hit in the US and Canada by Steely Dan , with Michael Jackson 's number one hit from earlier in the year, " Billie Jean ". It reached number 11 in the UK, and the top 10 in Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands. Another early mashup appeared in 1985, when The Tubes released their studio album, Love Bomb . The second side of the album contained the track "Theme from a Wooly Place", which combined
328-411: A Miracle", initially created by British DJ Vimto in 1999. The mashup movement gained momentum again in 2001 with the release of the 2 Many DJs album As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 by Soulwax 's Dewaele brothers, which combined 45 different tracks; the same year a remix of Christina Aguilera 's " Genie in a Bottle " was also released by Freelance Hellraiser , which coupled Aguilera's vocals with
410-549: A Prison". In 1994, Coldcut and Hex contributed an installation to the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art . The piece, called Generator , was installed in the Fire Gallery. Generator was an interactive installation which allowed users to mix sound, video, text and graphics and make their own audio-visual mix, modelled on the techniques and technology used by Coldcut in clubs and live performance events. It consisted of two consoles:
492-715: A commission for Graz led to a specially built version of Gridio, in a cave inside the castle mountain in Austria. Gridio was later commissioned by O2 for two simultaneous customised installations at the O2 Wireless Festivals in Leeds and London in 2007. That same year, Gridio was featured as part of Optronica at the opening week of the new BFI Southbank development in London. In 2003, Black worked with Penny Rimbaud (ex Crass ) on Crass Agenda 's Savage Utopia project. Black performed
574-502: A customer. The first collaboration between the two artists was " Say Kids What Time Is It? " on a white label in January 1987, which mixed The Jungle Book 's " King of the Swingers " with the break from James Brown 's " Funky Drummer ". The innovation of "Say Kids..." caused More and Black to be heralded by SPIN as "the first Brit artists to really get hip-hop's class-cutup aesthetic". It
656-424: A few exceptions (notable examples include Bill McClintock ), people have never stopped remixing other artists' music without getting their prior agreement. It's been increasingly difficult to get noticed in the music industry due to a combination of relative obscurity and an increasing difficulty in keeping them available online due to automatic copyright detection (through Content ID ) and cease and desist orders from
738-614: A free demo disc of the VJamm software, was one of the earliest audiovisual CD- ROMs on the market, and Muzik claimed deserved to "have them canonized...it's like buying an entire mini studio for under $ 15". In 2000, the Solid Steel show moved to BBC London . Coldcut continued to forge interesting collaborations, including 2001's Re:volution as an EP in which Coldcut created their own political party (The Guilty Party). Featuring scratches and samples of Tony Blair and William Hague speeches,
820-456: A gamut of pristine electronics and breakbeats" (CITATION: Future Music, 2007). The fascinating array of guest vocalists included Soweto Kinch , Annette Peacock , Ameri Baraka, and Saul Williams . The latter followed on from Coldcut's remix of Williams' "The Pledge" for a project with DJ Spooky . A 100-date audiovisual world tour commenced for Sound Mirrors , which was considered "no small feat in terms of technology or human effort". Coldcut
902-539: A grant from the Intelligent Energy Department of the European Union, to create a project that promoted intelligent energy and environmental awareness to the youth of Europe. The result was Energy Union, a piece of VJ cinema, political campaign, music tour, party, art exhibition and social media hub. Energy Union toured 12 EU countries throughout 2009 and 2010, completing 24 events in total. Coldcut created
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#1732880200261984-450: A lot of stock and sampled footage. Their "Timber" video, which created an AV collage piece using analogous techniques to audio sample collage, was put on heavy rotation on MTV. Stuart Warren Hill of Hexstatic referred to this technique as: "What you see is what you hear". "Timber" (which appears on both Let Us Play , Coldcut's fourth album, and Let Us Replay , their fifth) won awards for its innovative use of repetitive video clips synced to
1066-584: A minor legend in ambient music. It has appeared on numerous compilations. In 1990, whilst on their first tour in Japan (which also featured Norman Cook, who later became Fatboy Slim ), Matt and Jon formed their second record label , Ninja Tune , as a self-titled "technocoloured escape pod", and a way to escape the creative control of major labels. The label enabled them to release music under different aliases (e.g. Bogus Order, DJ Food), which also helped them to avoid pigeonholing as producers. Ninja Tune's first release
1148-645: A new game mode titled Fortnite Festival . In the Jam Stage and Fortnite Battle Royale , players can make mashups of over 100 songs. Coldcut Coldcut are an English electronic music duo composed of Matt Black and Jonathan More. Credited as pioneers for pop sampling in the 1980s, Coldcut are also considered the first stars of UK electronic dance music due to their innovative style, which featured cut-up samples of hip-hop, soul, funk, spoken word and various other types of music, as well as video and multimedia . According to Spin , "in '87 Coldcut pioneered
1230-532: A partially random, partially controlled way. The year 1996 also brought the Coldcut name back to More and Black, and the pair celebrated with 70 Minutes of Madness , a mix CD that became part of the Journeys by DJ series. The release was credited with "bringing to wider attention the sort of freestyle mixing the pair were always known for through their radio show on KISS FM, Solid Steel, and their steady club dates". It
1312-547: A production duo, Coldcut are the founders of Ninja Tune , an independent record label in London , England (with satellite offices in Los Angeles and Berlin) with an overall emphasis on encouraging interactive technology and finding innovative uses of software . The label's first releases (the first four volumes of DJ Food - Jazz Brakes ) were produced by Coldcut in the early '90s, and composed of instrumental hip-hop cuts that led
1394-617: A remix by the Qemists. Later that year, a collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) led to the psychedelic art documentary Wavejammer . Coldcut was given access to the BAS archive in order to create sounds and visuals for the short film. Two thousand and four also saw Coldcut produce a radio play in conjunction with renowned young author Hari Kunzru for BBC Radio 3 (incidentally called Sound Mirrors ). Coldcut returned with
1476-543: A series of videos for a longform VHS version of the album. This continued Coldcut and Hex's pioneering of the use of microcomputers to synthesize electronic music visuals. After their success with Lisa Stansfield, Coldcut signed with her label, Arista . Conflicts arose with the major label, as Coldcut's "vision extended beyond the formulae of house and techno" and mainstream pop culture (CITATION: The Virgin Encyclopedia Of Nineties Music, 2000). Eventually,
1558-443: A session band out to reproduce what you put together in the studio using samples. It had a relationship to DJing, but was more interactive and more effective." Excitingly at that time, DJamm was pioneering in its ability to shuffle sliced loops into intricate sequences, enabling users to split loops into any number of parts. In 1999, Let Us Replay! was released, a double-disc remix album where Coldcut's classic tunes were remixed by
1640-681: A standalone VST plugin that could be used in other software, naming it the "Coldcutter". Also in 2002, Coldcut with UK VJs Headspace (now mainly performing as the VJamm Allstars developed Gridio, an interactive, immersive audio-visual installation for the Pompidou Centre as part of the ‘'Sonic Process exhibition. The Sonic Process exhibition was launched at the MACBA in Barcelona in conjunction with Sónar , featuring Gridio as its centerpiece. In 2003,
1722-439: A unifying force in underground experimental electronic music and is still running, celebrating 25 years in 2013. The duo adopted the name "Coldcut" and set up a record label called Ahead Of Our Time to release the single " Beats + Pieces " (one of the formats also included "That Greedy Beat") in 1987. All of these tracks were assembled using cassette pause button edits and later spliced tape edits that would sometimes run "all over
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#17328802002611804-546: A version of Ornette Coleman 's " Lonely Woman " set over the bassline of Roy Orbison 's " Pretty Woman ". In 1991, the Source featuring Candi Staton released " You Got the Love ", based on a mashup created by DJ Eren Abdullah that had been an underground club hit since 1989, placing a Candi Staton a cappella over an instrumental version of Frankie Knuckles and Jamie Principle 's house track, " Your Love ". It reached number four on
1886-560: Is a creative work, usually a song, created by blending two or more pre-recorded songs, typically by superimposing the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the instrumental track of another and changing the tempo and key where necessary. Such works are considered " transformative " of original content and in the United States they may find protection from copyright claims under the " fair use " doctrine of copyright law. The 1967 Harry Nilsson album Pandemonium Shadow Show features what
1968-486: Is arguably one of the first pop promos produced entirely on microcomputers. In 1988, Coldcut released Out To Lunch With Ahead Of Our Time , a double LP of Coldcut productions and re-cuts, and the various aliases under which the duo had recorded. This continued the duo's tradition of releasing limited available vinyl. The next Coldcut single, released in February 1988, moved towards a more house-influenced style. " Doctorin'
2050-629: Is cited as one of the first by a mainstream recording artist to utilise a mashup, and was ranked at number 40 on The Guardian ' s 2011 list of 50 Key Events in the History of Dance Music. The mashup, titled "Can't Get Blue Monday Out of My Head", was later released as the B-side to " Love at First Sight " and was included on Minogue's 2008 remix album Boombox . In the years that followed, mash-ups became more widely used by major artists in their live performances, particularly to update previous material to meld with
2132-520: Is nominally a cover of the Beatles ' " You Can't Do That " but actually introduced the "mashup" to studio-recording. Nilsson's recording of "You Can't Do That" mashes his own vocal recreations of more than a dozen Beatles songs into this track. Nilsson conceived the combining of many overlaying songs into one track after he played a chord on his guitar and realized how many Beatles songs it could apply to. This recording has led some to describe Harry Nilsson as
2214-595: Is regarded as the UK's first breaks record, the first UK record to be built entirely of samples and "the final link in the chain connecting European collage-experiment with the dance-remix-scratch edit". This was later sampled in " Pump Up the Volume " by MARRS , a single that reached #1 in the UK in October 1987. Though Black had joined Kiss FM with his own mix-based show, the pair eventually joined forces on its own show later in 1987 called Solid Steel . The eclectic show became
2296-450: Is said to have "laid the groundwork for hip hop's entry into the UK mainstream", becoming a breakthrough hit for Eric B & Rakim outside the U.S., reaching No. 15 in the UK, and the top 20 in a number of European countries. It featured a prominent Ofra Haza sample and many other vocal cut ups as well as a looped rhythm which later, when sped up, proved popular in the Breakbeat genre . Off
2378-591: The Montreux Jazz Festival , and John Peel 's Meltdown. The "beautifully simple and devastatingly effective" software was deemed revolutionary, and became recognized as a major factor in the evolution of clubs. It eventually earned a place in the American Museum of the Moving Image's permanent collection. As quoted by The Independent, Coldcut's rallying cry was "Don't hate the media, be the media'". NME
2460-454: The Tijuana Brass . First released on home-made cassettes in early 1992, it was later pressed on 7" vinyl, and distributed by Eerie Materials in the mid-1990s. The tracks gained some degree of notoriety on college radio stations in the United States. The name Pop Will Eat Itself was taken from an NME feature on the band Jamie Wednesday , written by David Quantick , which proposed
2542-622: The "Hip Hop Mix" of Climie Fisher 's " Rise to the Occasion " (1987), Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers ' Jive Bunny: The Album (1989),. and Coldcut 's Journeys by DJ: 70 Minutes of Madness (1995). Although described as a medley in its title, " Do It Again Medley with Billie Jean " by Italian music project Club House could be described as one of the first ever commercially released mashups in 1983. The song combines elements of " Do It Again ",
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2624-573: The 1999 album Reich Remixed . Coldcut remixed another classic song in 2007: Nina Simone 's "Save Me". This was part of a remix album called Nina Simone: Remixed & Re-imagined , featuring remixes from Tony Humphries, Francois K and Chris Coco. In February 2007, Coldcut and Mixmaster Morris created a psychedelic AV obituary/tribute Coldcut, Mixmaster Morris , Ken Campbell , Bill Drummond and Alan Moore (18 March 2007). Robert Anton Wilson tribute show . Queen Elizabeth Hall , London: Mixmaster Morris . (28 August 2009) to Robert Anton Wilson ,
2706-525: The 3-track EP included Nautilus' "Space Journey", which won an Intermusic contest in 2000. The video was widely played on MTV . With "Space Journey", Coldcut were arguably the first group to give fans access to the multitrack parts, or "stems" of their songs, building on the idea of interactivity and sharing from Let Us Play . In 2001, Coldcut produced tracks for the Sega music video game Rez . Rez replaced typical video-game sound effects with electronic music;
2788-446: The 60s author of Illuminatus! Trilogy . The tribute featured graphic novel writer Alan Moore and artist Bill Drummond and a performance by experimental theatre legend Ken Campbell . Coldcut and Morris' hour and a half performance resembled a documentary being remixed on the fly, cutting up nearly 15 hours' worth of Wilson's lectures. In 2008, an international group of party organisers, activists and artists including Coldcut received
2870-635: The British Council, in 2005 Coldcut introduced AV mixing to India with the Union project, alongside collaborators Howie B and Aki Nawaz of Fun-Da-Mental . Coldcut created an A/V remix of the Bollywood hit movie Kal Ho Naa Ho . In 2006, Coldcut performed an A/V set based on "Music for 18 Musicians" as part of Steve Reich 's 70th birthday gig at the Barbican Centre in London. This was originally written for
2952-587: The British fad for 'DJ records'". Coldcut's records first introduced the public to pop artists Yazz and Lisa Stansfield , through which these artists achieved pop chart success. In addition, Coldcut has remixed and created productions on tracks by the likes of Eric B & Rakim , James Brown , Queen Latifah , Eurythmics , INXS , Steve Reich , Blondie , the Fall , Pierre Henry , Nina Simone , Fog , Red Snapper , and BBC Radiophonic Workshop . Beyond their work as
3034-456: The CD-ROM portion of Coldcut's Let Us Play and Let Us Replay , in addition to software developed specifically for the album's world tour. Hex's inclusion of music videos and "playtools" (playful art/music software programs) on Coldcut's CD-ROM was completely ahead of the curve at that time, offering viewers/listeners a high level of interactivity. Playtools such as My Little Funkit and Playtime were
3116-539: The Energy Union show for the tour, a one-hour Audio/Visual montage on the theme of Intelligent Energy. In presenting new ideas for climate, environmental and energy communication strategies, the Energy Union tour was well received, and reached a widespread audience in cities across the UK, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Spain and the Czech Republic. Also in 2008, Coldcut
3198-781: The House ", which debuted singer Yazz , became a top ten hit, and peaked at No. 6. In the same year, under the guise Yazz and the Plastic Population, they produced " The Only Way Is Up ", a cover of a Northern soul song. The record reached No. 1 in the UK in August, and remained there for five weeks, becoming 1988's second biggest selling single. Producer Youth of Killing Joke also helped Coldcut with this record. The duo had another top hit in September with " Stop This Crazy Thing ", which featured reggae vocalist Junior Reid and reached number 21 in
3280-597: The Human League 's " Being Boiled ", and " Finest Dreams " (number 8), featuring American vocalist Kelis singing the vocals from the SOS Band's " The Finest " over an instrumental of the Human League's " The Things That Dreams Are Made Of ". At the 2002 Brit Awards held on 20 February 2002, Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue performed a mash-up version of her number one hit " Can't Get You Out of My Head ", combined with New Order 's song " Blue Monday ". The live performance
3362-449: The Police was mashed up with " Peter Gunn " by Henry Mancini , for the 27th episode of The Sopranos , " Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood ". The Grey Album , which mashed up recordings by Jay-Z and the Beatles , also became notoriously popular. With the release of Guitar Hero in 2005, Rock Band in 2007, and those games' sequels, numerous mashup artists discovered that every song in
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3444-555: The Top 40. The fourth album by Coldcut, Let Us Play! paid homage to the greats that inspired them. Their first album to be released on Ninja Tune, it featured guest appearances by Grandmaster Flash , Steinski , Jello Biafra , Jimpster , The Herbaliser , Talvin Singh , Daniel Pemberton and Selena Saliva. Coldcut's cut 'n' paste method on the album was compared to that of Dadaism and William Burroughs . Hex collaborated with Coldcut to produce
3526-509: The UK Singles Chart, and had continued success over subsequent years with several remixes and a cover by Florence + the Machine . In 1994, the experimental band Evolution Control Committee released the first modern mashup tracks on their hand-made cassette album, Gunderphonic . These "Whipped Cream Mixes" combined a pair of Public Enemy a cappellas with instrumentals by Herb Alpert and
3608-526: The UK and was certified Silver. Coldcut's second album, Some Like It Cold , released in 1990 on Ahead Of Our Time, featured a collaboration with Queen Latifah on the single "Find a Way". Though "Find a Way" was a minor hit in the UK, no more singles were released from the album. The duo was given the BPI "Producer of the Year Award" in 1990. Hex - alongside some other London visual experimenters such as iE - produced
3690-500: The UK. The single " People Hold On " became another UK Top 20 hit. Released in March 1989, it helped launch the career of the then relatively unknown singer Lisa Stansfield . Coldcut and Mark Saunders produced her debut solo single " This Is the Right Time ", which became another UK Top 20 hit in August as well as reaching No. 21 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 the following year. As
3772-666: The Year in the NME , The Face , and Mixmag in 1996). In 1991, Hex released their first video game, Top Banana , which was included on a Hex release for the Commodore CDTV machine in 1992, arguably the first complete purpose-designed multimedia system. Top Banana was innovative in that it used sampled graphics, contained an ecological theme and a female lead character (dubbed "KT"), and its music changed through random processes. Coldcut and Hex presented this multimedia project as an example of
3854-409: The audio-visual field. VJAMM rivalled some of the features of high-end and high cost tech at the time. The VJAMM technology, praised as being proof of how far computers changed the face of live music, became seminal in both Coldcut's live sets (which were called a "revelaton" by Melody Maker and DJ sets. Their CCTV live show was featured at major festivals including Glastonbury , Roskilde , Sónar ,
3936-566: The back of its success in clubs, the Coldcut "Seven Minutes of Madness" remix ended up being promoted as the single in the UK. In 1988, More and Black formed Hex , a self-titled "multimedia pop group", with Mile Visman and Rob Pepperell. While working on videos for artists such as Kevin Saunderson , Queen Latifah and Spiritualized , Hex's collaborative work went on to incorporate 3D modelling, punk video art, and algorithmic visuals on desktop machines. The video for Coldcut's 'Christmas Break' in 1989
4018-521: The careers of acts such as Girl Talk and Madeon , with the latter's " Pop Culture " accruing more than 55 million views. Acts such as DJs from Mars and Mashd N Kutcher would go on to make mashups a huge part of their creative output. Launched in San Francisco in 2003, Bootie was the first recurring club night in the United States dedicated solely to the burgeoning art form of the bootleg mashup, and as of 2019 hosted monthly parties in cities around
4100-490: The duo started to enjoy critical and commercial success, their debut album What's That Noise? was released in April 1989 on Ahead of Our Time and distributed by Big Life Records. The album gave "breaks the full length treatment", and showcased "their heady blend of hip-hop production aesthetics and proto-acid house grooves". It also rounded up a heap of unconventional guest features, quoted by SPIN as having "somehow found room at
4182-576: The duo to help pioneer the trip hop genre, with artists such as Funki Porcini , the Herbaliser and DJ Vadim. In 1986, computer programmer Matt Black and ex- art teacher Jonathan More were part-time DJs on the rare groove scene. More also DJed on pirate radio , hosting the Meltdown Show on Kiss FM and worked at the Reckless Records store on Berwick Street , London where Black visited as
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#17328802002614264-594: The duo's album Philosophy emerged in 1993. Singles "Dreamer" and " Autumn Leaves " (1994) sung by vocalist Janis Alexander were both minor hits but the album did not chart. "Autumn Leaves" had strings recorded at Abbey Road , with a 30-piece string section and an arrangement by film composer Ed Shearmur . The leader of the string section was Simon Jeffes of Penguin Cafe Orchestra . Coldcut's insistence on their friend Mixmaster Morris to remix "Autumn Leaves" led to one of Morris' most celebrated remixes, which became
4346-490: The forthcoming convergence of pop music and computer-game characters. In 1992, Hex's first single - "Global Chaos" / "Digital Love Opus 1" - combined rave visuals with techno and ambient interactive visuals. In November of that year, Hex released Global Chaos CDTV, which took advantage of the possibilities of the new CD-ROM medium. The Global Chaos CDTV disk (which contained the Top Banana game, interactive visuals and audio),
4428-542: The games had multitracks with instrument stems and acapellas, meaning that these songs could easily be sampled and kept uncompressed and clear. Among others, American comedian Neil Cicierega used this method to produce his four mashup albums, Mouth Sounds , Mouth Silence , Mouth Moods and Mouth Dreams . DJ Earworm 's annual " United States of Pop " mashups became season events, with his 2009 edition alone garnering critical acclaim as well as racking up more than 53 million views on YouTube. Mashups also helped launch
4510-527: The globe, including Los Angeles, Paris, Boston, Munich, and New York City. The party's slogan, "Music for the A.D.D. Generation" also inspired the creation of "A.D.D", Israel's first mashup-dedicated party. The Best of Bootie mashup compilation series is produced by Bootie creators A Plus D . Released every December since 2005, the compilations are annual Internet sensations, with each album requiring 5,000 GB+ of download bandwidth. Even though mashups mostly remained underground and barely got noticed aside from
4592-432: The guitar track of " Hard to Explain " by New York's the Strokes , in a piece called "A Stroke of Genie-us". In 2001, English producer Richard X had created a bootleg mashup of Adina Howard 's " Freak Like Me " and Tubeway Army 's " Are "Friends" Electric? ", titled "We Don't Give a Damn About Our Friends", which became a successful underground dance track under his alias Girls on Top. He could not get permission to use
4674-592: The inventor of the mashup. Other recordings regarded as early examples of, or forerunners to, the mashup include Buchanan and Goodman 's " The Flying Saucer " (1956), Marshall McLuhan 's The Medium Is the Massage (1967), the John Benson Brooks Trio 's Avant Slant (1968), Grandmaster Flash 's " The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel " (1981), Paul McCartney 's "Tug of Peace" (1983),
4756-431: The last 40 years of US politics were made accessible to download, allowing participants to create a cut-up over a Coldcut beat. Coldcut also collaborated with TV Sheriff and NomIg to produce two audiovisual pieces "World of Evil" (2004) and "Revolution '08" (2008), both composed of footage from the United States presidential elections of respective years. The music used was composed by Coldcut, with "Revolution '08" featuring
4838-549: The left controlling how the sounds are played, the right controlling how the images are played. As part of the JAM exhibition of "Style, Music and Media" at the Barbican Art Gallery in 1996, Coldcut and Hex were commissioned to produce an interactive audiovisual piece called Synopticon. Conceived and designed by Robert Pepperell and Matt Black, the digital culture synthesiser allows users to "remix" sounds, images, text and music in
4920-406: The likes of Cornelius (which was heralded as a highlight of the album, Irresistible Force , Shut Up And Dance , Carl Craig and J Swinscoe. Let Us Replay! pieces together "short sharp shocks that put the mental in 'experimental' and still bring the breaks till the breakadawn". It also includes a few live tracks from the duo's innovative world tour. The CD-ROM of the album, which also contained
5002-576: The mashup, including single releases that climbed high into the dance charts and even the mainstream top-40 charts. Such hits include Linkin Park and Jay-Z 's " Numb/Encore ", Party Ben's " Boulevard of Broken Songs ", Alex Gaudino 's " Destination Calabria ", Mousse T. vs the Dandy Warhols ' " Horny as a Dandy " (originally mixed and produced by Loo & Placido) and Mylo vs Miami Sound Machine 's " Doctor Pressure ". In 2001, " Every Breath You Take " by
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#17328802002615084-537: The more urban sound of her Hard Candy album. In August 2003, Madonna's single " Hollywood " was remixed with " Into the Groove " and performed with Missy Elliott under the title "Into the Hollywood Groove" as part of a promotional campaign for clothing retailer GAP , prompting criticism for exploiting the underground culture of the mash-up for commercial gain. The mid-2000s saw a massive surge in popularity for
5166-505: The multimedia CD-ROM for the album. Hex later evolved the software into the engine that was used on the Let Us Play! world tour. In 1997, Matt Black - alongside Cambridge based developers Camart - created real-time video manipulation software VJAMM. It allowed users to be a "digital video jockey", remixing and collaging sound and images and trigger audio and visual samples simultaneously, subsequently bringing futuristic technology to
5248-478: The music, including being shortlisted at the Edinburgh Television and Film Festival in their top five music videos of the year in 1998. Coldcut began integrating video sampling into their live DJ gigs at the time, and incorporated multimedia content that caused press to credit the act as segueing "into the computer age". Throughout the 90s, Hex created visuals for Coldcut's live performances, and developed
5330-429: The original artists. DJ Hero is a 2009 rhythm video game developed by Activision that includes over 90 pre-made mashups, where the player scores points by hitting notes on the turntable controller. Fuser is a 2020 video game developed by Harmonix that allows the player to create mashups of over 100 songs, using four instrument stems from the master recording . In December 2023, Fortnite introduced
5412-551: The original vocals to release the mashup commercially, so he enlisted the English girl group Sugababes to re-record the vocals. It was released in April 2002, giving the group their first UK number one single, and drawing further recognition, acclaim and mainstream success for the mashup genre. Richard X had continued success with two more mashups reaching the UK top 10: " Being Nobody " (number 3), with pop group Liberty X combining vocals of Chaka Khan and Rufus 's " Ain't Nobody " with
5494-469: The piece with Rimbaud, Eve Libertine and other players at London's Vortex Jazz Club . In 2004, Coldcut collaborated with American video mashup artist TV Sheriff to produce their cut-up entitled "Revolution USA". The tactical-media project (coordinated with Canadian art duo NomIg) followed on from the UK version and extended the premise "into an open access participatory project". Through the multimedia political art project, over 12 gigabytes of footage from
5576-414: The player created sounds and melodies, intended to simulate a form of synesthesia. The soundtrack also featured Adam Freeland and Oval . In 2002, while utilizing VJamm and Detraktor, Coldcut and Juxta remixed Herbie Hancock 's classic " Rockit ", creating both an audio and video remix. Working with Marcus Clements in 2002, Coldcut released the sample manipulation algorhythm from their DJamm software as
5658-460: The prototypes for Ninja Jamm , the app Coldcut designed and launched 16 years later. Playtime followed on from Coldcut and Hex's Synopticon installation, developing the auto-cutup algorhythm, and using other random processes to generate surprising combinations. Coldcut and Hex performed live using Playtime at the 1st Sonar Festival in 1994. Playtime was also used to generate the backing track for Coldcut's collaboration with Jello Biafra , "Every Home
5740-512: The room". The duo used sampling from Led Zeppelin to James Brown . Electronic act the Chemical Brothers have described "Beats + Pieces" as the "first bigbeat record", a style which appeared in the mid-1990s. Coldcut's first mainstream success came when Julian Palmer from Island Records asked them to remix Eric B. & Rakim 's " Paid in Full ". Released in October 1987, the landmark remix
5822-406: The same table for Queen Latifah and Mark E. Smith ". The album's track "I'm in Deep" (featuring Smith) prefigured the indie-dance guitar-breaks crossover of such bands as the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays , utilizing Smith's freestyle raucous vocals over an acid house backing, and also including psych guitar samples from British rock band Deep Purple . What's That Noise? reached the Top 20 in
5904-421: The single "Everything Is Under Control" at the end of 2005, featuring Jon Spencer (of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion ) and Mike Ladd . It was followed in 2006 by their fifth studio album Sound Mirrors , which was quoted as being "one of the most vital and imaginative records Jon Moore and Matt Black have ever made", and saw the duo "continue, impressively, to find new ways to present political statements through
5986-587: The single "Paris Is Burning". In 2004, he was commissioned by Paul McCartney to remix some lesser-known McCartney tracks as preshow entertainment for his tour of that year. Those tracks, and several more, were released under the name Twin Freaks . In 2009, Kid Gloves contributed to Little Boots ' gold-selling debut album, Hands , writing and producing her duet, "Symmetry", with the Human League 's Phil Oakey . Mashup (music) A mashup (also mesh , mash up , mash-up , blend , bastard pop or bootleg )
6068-486: The themes and sounds of their more recent work. For example, on her 2006 Confessions Tour , Madonna incorporated elements of the Trammps 's " Disco Inferno " in the performance of her 2000 hit " Music ", to assist the song in blending in with the tour's disco theme. On her 2008 Sticky & Sweet Tour , she performed a mash-up of her 1990 hit " Vogue " with the instrumental of her recent single " 4 Minutes ", to update it with
6150-513: The theory that because popular music simply recycles good ideas continuously, the perfect pop song could be written by combining the best of those ideas into one track. Hence, "pop will eat itself". Pre-empting the rise of the mashup in the 2000s, German trance act Fragma reached number one in the UK and the top 10 in Australia and across Europe with " Toca's Miracle ", a mashup of their previous single "Toca Me" and Coco Star 's 1996 single "I Need
6232-583: The tunes " Wooly Bully " in one channel and " Theme from A Summer Place " in the other. In 1990, Norman Cook reached number one in the UK Singles Chart with his act Beats International with " Dub Be Good to Me ", essentially a mashup of re-recorded vocals of the SOS Band 's " Just Be Good to Me " with the Clash 's " The Guns of Brixton ", making it the first mashup to achieve significant mainstream success. The 1990 John Zorn album Naked City features
6314-408: Was Bogus Order's "Zen Brakes". The name Coldcut stayed with Arista so there were no official Coldcut releases for the next three years. During this time, Coldcut still produced for artists on their new label, releasing a flood of material under different names and continuing to work with young groups. They additionally kept on with Solid Steel on Kiss FM and running the night club Stealth (Club of
6396-447: Was a forerunner of the "CD+" concept, uniting music, graphics, and video games into one. This multi-dimensional entertainment product received wide coverage in the national media, including features on Dance Energy, Kaleidoscope on BBC Radio 4 , What's Up Doc? on ITV and Reportage on BBC Two . i-D Magazine was quoted as saying, "It's like your TV tripping". Coldcut videos were made for most songs, often by Hexstatic , and used
6478-426: Was accompanied by scratch DJ Raj Pannu and AV artist Juxta, in addition to guest vocalists from the album, including UK rapper Juice Aleem , Roots Manuva , Mpho Skeef , Jon Spencer and house legend Robert Owens . Three further singles were released from the album including the Top 75 hit "True Skool" with Roots Manuva . The same track appeared on the soundtrack of the video game FIFA Street 2 . Sponsored by
6560-580: Was asked to remix the theme song for British cult TV show Doctor Who for the program's 40th anniversary. In October 2008, Coldcut celebrated the legacy of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (the place where the Doctor Who theme was created) with a live DJ mix at London's legendary Roundhouse. The live mix incorporated classic Radiophonic Workshop compositions with extended sampling of the original gear. Additionally in 2008, Coldcut remixed "Ourselves",
6642-431: Was quoted as saying: "Veteran duo Coldcut are so cool they invented the remix - now they are doing the same for television." Also working with Camart, Black designed DJamm software in 1998, which Coldcut used on laptops for their live shows, providing the audio bed alongside VJAMM's audiovisual samples. Matt Black explained they designed DJamm so they "could perform electronic music in a different way – i.e., not just taking
6724-619: Was voted "Best Compilation of All Time" by Jockey Slut in 1998. In February 1997, they released a double pack single "Atomic Moog 2000" / "Boot the System", the first Coldcut release on Ninja Tune. This was not eligible for the UK chart because time and format restrictions prevented the inclusion of the "Natural Rhythm" video on the CD. In August 1997, a reworking of the early track "More Beats + Pieces" gave them their first UK Top 40 hit since 1989. The album Let Us Play! followed in September and also made
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