79-638: Kiss Radio may refer to: Kiss (UK radio station) in the United Kingdom Kiss Radio Taiwan CKKS-FM , a radio station in Chilliwack/Abbotsford/Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada See also [ edit ] Kiss the Radio , a South Korean radio program Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
158-549: 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:
237-715: 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
316-502: 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
395-614: 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,
474-456: 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
553-539: 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
632-450: 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
711-584: 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
790-544: A new website for all three Kiss stations , replacing the previous website. The relaunch was implemented simultaneously with the rebranding of Kiss 100's sister dance stations, Vibe 101 and Vibe 105–108 as Kiss 101 and Kiss 105-108 respectively. Changes at Kiss 100 were introduced to address falling listener figures and to keep the station competitive in the highly contested London market. Roberts became its Group Programme Director. A year later, EMAP sold its radio division to Bauer Radio . In December 2010, Ofcom approved
869-532: 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
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#1732868747589948-617: 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
1027-543: 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,
1106-443: 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
1185-464: A small local licence instead of a regional one. The change was approved despite opposition from Nation Broadcasting and Star EMAP took full control of Kiss 100 as early as 1992, but with Mac having left the station in March 1998, EMAP would embark on a rebranding of the station and to align it with the rest of its radio operations. In December 1998, one of the station's most popular DJs, Steve Jackson,
1264-681: 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,
1343-557: A successful London club promoter, Guy Wingate, to discuss ways of improving the Kiss FM profile. As a result, Wingate launched the very successful Kiss nights at the Wag Club (which included the first ever UK acid house party – an idea put forward by Colin Faver and Danny Rampling ), both DJs on the station. These nights increased the station's credibility with its target audience and Wingate joined
1422-439: 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
1501-546: Is a British digital radio station owned and operated by Bauer Media Audio UK as part of the Kiss Network . Kiss broadcasts nationally to the UK via DAB Digital Radio , as well as on Bauer's Rayo platform. The station started in 1985 as a pirate radio station , Kiss FM , before becoming the UK's first legal black and dance music specialist radio station in 1990. As of June 2024,
1580-486: 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'
1659-595: 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
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#17328687475891738-450: 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
1817-505: The Bam Bam breakfast show where consent was not sought from the "victims" and controversial material aired when children were likely to be listening. Kiss 100 said it accepted the findings and apologised for any offence EMAP introduced a second major revamp of the Kiss brand on 6 September 2006. This included a new logo designed by oddlondon, a renewed focus on dance music, more specialist shows and
1896-591: 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
1975-613: The "continued marginalisation of reggae music" on the station. Under Roberts, Kiss extended its stations, launching Kisstory in May 2013. On 26 February 2016, Kiss was launched in Norway rebranded from The Voice Hiphop & RnB Norway and Finland. In January 2023, station owners Bauer submitted plans to Ofcom to change the format of the FM frequencies held by Kiss on 105.6 MHz (Cambridge), 106.4 MHz (Suffolk) and 107.7 MHz (Peterborough). The application
2054-608: 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 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
2133-573: 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 ,
2212-525: 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;
2291-446: 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
2370-635: 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
2449-456: 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
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2528-539: 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
2607-781: 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
2686-469: The Kiss team, followed shortly thereafter by Lindsay Wesker. Kiss would also run its own night at Dingwalls and adopted the slogan Radical Radio . Mac and ten of the DJs on the station including Norman Jay , Jonathan More , Colin Faver , Trevor Nelson , and Tim Westwood would become "shareholders" in a company called Goodfoot Promotions, with Mac heading up the station as its majority holder. By 1988, Kiss
2765-555: 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
2844-526: 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
2923-452: 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
3002-666: 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
3081-409: 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 ,
3160-409: The authorities and so became a weekend operation shortly afterwards. The station developed a cult and committed following across Greater London , with figures in the press at the time stating that the station commanded some 500,000 listeners while operating as an unlicensed pirate station, and an Evening Standard readers' poll in 1987 put Kiss second, behind Capital Radio . Gordon Mac approached
3239-566: 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
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3318-529: The backing and majority investment of media group EMAP . On 17 December 1989, the IBA announced that Kiss had been awarded a licence on their second attempt. Kiss established its new studios and office on Holloway Road , and on 1 September 1990, Kiss began legal broadcasting as Kiss 100 . Gordon Mac led a countdown in the studio to the official launch at 12pm; the first tune played being "Pirates Anthem" by Cocoa Tea and Shabba Ranks , followed by Norman Jay hosting
3397-490: 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
3476-594: 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
3555-645: The early '90s, and composed of instrumental hip-hop cuts that led 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
3634-495: The final broadcast went out with an outside broadcast at Dingwalls. Kiss would submit a strong application with widespread support from listeners, clubs, record labels and music magazines, however on 12 July 1989, the IBA instead awarded the licence to Jazz FM . Despite the temptation to return to the air again illegally, Kiss held off as the IBA had said they would make more licences available, which they did in September 1989. Kiss re-prepared their application, but this time got
3713-721: The final song played on FM. Programming is produced and broadcast from Bauer's London headquarters at The Lantern. Kiss broadcasts nationally via DAB on the 11D Digital One multiplex. It also broadcasts on the London 1 multiplex on channel 12C. From 1985, DJs and presenters have included: Norman Jay , Coldcut ( Matt Black & Jonathan More), Paul Trouble Anderson , Colin Faver , Judge Jules , Tim Westwood , Jazzie B , Trevor Nelson , Lisa I'Anson , Danny Rampling , and Richie Rich . At its legal launch and early 1990s, this would also include Graham Gold , Dave Pearce , David Rodigan , Patrick Forge , Somethin' Else (Chris Phillips & Jez Nelson ), and Gilles Peterson . In
3792-490: 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),
3871-487: 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
3950-549: 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
4029-406: 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
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#17328687475894108-760: 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 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
4187-1066: The mid-late 1990s, DJs and presenters have included: Tall Paul , Matt Jam Lamont , Dreem Teem , Fabio & Grooverider , Pete Wardman, Brandon Block , Jumpin Jack Frost , Kenny Ken , DJ Hype , Ray Keith , R-Solution ( 4hero & Kirk Degiorgio ), Tony De Vit , and Slipmatt . Since 2000, DJs and presenters have included: Bam Bam , Andy C , John Digweed , Ali B , Robin Banks , Adam F , DJ EZ , Carl Cox , Logan Sama , DJ Hatcha , Paul Oakenfold , Armin van Buuren , Rickie Haywood Williams , Melvin Odoom , Charlie Hedges , Hed Kandi , Philip George , DJ S.K.T , Jordan Banjo and Perri Kiely , and Tyler West . 51°30′58″N 0°08′18″W / 51.51598°N 0.13844°W / 51.51598; -0.13844 Coldcut Coldcut are an English electronic music duo composed of Matt Black and Jonathan More. Credited as pioneers for pop sampling in
4266-505: 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
4345-478: 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
4424-469: 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
4503-414: 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
4582-460: 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
4661-540: The request from Bauer to drop local programming content from the three Kiss stations, creating a national service on the condition that Kiss would be available on 35 DAB multiplexes around the UK on the day local information is dropped, rising to 38 within three months of the changes. On 27 December 2012, Kiss 100 appeared nationally on Digital One's national DAB multiplex. David Rodigan , who had been with Kiss since its legal launch in 1990, resigned in November 2012, citing
4740-512: 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
4819-506: 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
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#17328687475894898-421: 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
4977-430: The station has a weekly audience of 2 million listeners according to RAJAR . Kiss FM first broadcast 7 October 1985 as a pirate radio station, initially to South London then across the whole city, on 94FM. Kiss FM was founded by Gordon "Mac" McNamee, George Power (of London Greek Radio ), and Tosca Jackson, with its engineer Pyers Easton. Transmitting seven-days from the start, it would be regularly taken off-air by
5056-577: The station. Over ten DJs have parted company with the station, including Steve Jackson, who won the Sony breakfast show award this year. In the words of Mr Cox [EMAP marketing director], the music on the station has been "smoothed out"." In June 2006, Kiss 100 was fined £175,000 by media regulator Ofcom, a record fee for any UK commercial radio station. Ofcom punished Kiss 100 for "numerous and serious breaches" of broadcasting codes after receiving ten complaints from April to November 2005. They involved prank calls on
5135-549: The stations from Scottish Radio Holdings in August 2005, and rebranded them in September 2006. In July 2023, Ofcom approved Bauer's request to the change the format of Kiss in the East of England. This meant that from the 12th September 2023, Kiss on 105.6 (Cambridge), 106.4 (Ipswich and Suffolk) and 107.7 (Peterborough) would have its format changed and carry Greatest Hits Radio instead. Kiss would however continue to broadcast on FM to Norwich and Norfolk across 106.1 effectively becoming
5214-505: The switch will take place on 23 September, sooner than expected as it was believed that Bauer would wait until the new Media Act became law, eliminating the need to make a format change request to Ofcom. It was also announced that the 97.2 frequency in Bristol will also carry Hits Radio. On 22 September 2024, at 10 pm, Kiss became digital only, with " One Kiss " by Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa being
5293-516: The title Kiss Radio . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kiss_Radio&oldid=1073620352 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kiss (UK radio station) Kiss
5372-555: The very first full show. The Channel 4 documentary Radical Radio followed Kiss as it came off air as a pirate station, gained its licence, built its new studios, and commenced legal broadcasting. Starting out as a Bristol pirate radio station, it became part of the Galaxy Radio network broadcasting to South Wales and the West of England , playing pop , dance , hip hop , urban , R&B and electronic music as Galaxy 101. It
5451-408: 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
5530-447: 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
5609-426: 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
5688-407: Was appointed as the new Director of Music Programming, along with moving the Kiss studios and office to EMAPs main premises at Mappin House, Central London , and creating a new logo. Andy Roberts became Kiss Programme Director. In July 1999, The Independent reported: "In preparation for the new ad campaign, the biggest in the station's history, EMAP has spent twelve months changing the output of
5767-519: Was approved in July 2023, with the frequencies becoming relays of Greatest Hits Radio , leaving Kiss on 100 MHz (London), 97.2 MHz (Bristol), 101 MHz (Severn Estuary) and 106.1 MHz (Norwich). In August 2024, Bauer announced that Kiss would be replaced on FM in London, the Severn Estuary and Norwich by Hits Radio , with Kiss retaining its frequency in Bristol. Then on 20 September 2024, Bauer announced that
5846-580: 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",
5925-597: Was at its strongest with a DJ line-up which had become the cream of London's clubland, and in that December, Mac and the other shareholders would announce that they would decide to close down in order to apply for a legal licence. This was in response to the UK Government and Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) announcement that twenty new " incremental radio " licences would be advertised, including one for London. Stations were told that they would have to voluntarily closedown when applying, and so on New Year's Eve 1988,
6004-453: Was dismissed resulting in a high-profile court case, whilst the changes led to criticism from both former presenters and listeners alike, concerned that Kiss 100 was losing its musical direction. DJs Coldcut , Bob Jones, and Manasseh quit the station in January 1999 in protest at the changes being implemented. Other DJs at this time were being lured away by the increasingly dance-oriented BBC Radio 1 . Mark Story (previously of Magic 105.4 )
6083-602: Was eventually bought by EMAP and became Kiss 101 in September 2006 and part of the Kiss network. The Faze FM group licensed the name and logo from Kiss 100 to launch Kiss 102 in Manchester in October 1994. In February 1997, it expanded into Yorkshire launching Kiss 105 . The group was later sold to Chrysalis Radio , and by September 1997 both stations became part of the Galaxy Radio network. The East Anglian and Severn Estuary versions of Kiss were previously known as Vibe FM with DJs Nikki Elise and Ric Groves. EMAP bought
6162-431: 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
6241-619: 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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