Artist	Song
Coldcut	Say Kids, What Time is It?
Grandmaster Flash	The Adventures of Grandmaster on the Wheels of Steel
Coldcut feat. Floormaster Squeeze	Beats + Pieces (Original Mix)
Eric B. & Rakim	Paid in Full (The Coldcut Mix - Seven Minutes of Madness)
Matt Black & The Coldcut Crew	That Greedy Beat
The Big One Crew feat. Cutmaster M.C.	Reggae Got Soul (The Scratch-Mix Showdown)
Society	Love It (A Coldcut Mix)
Eric B. & Rakim	Move the Crowd (Beatmix by the Democratic 3 feat D.J. Slack)
James Brown	The Payback Mix (Mixed by Coldcut)
M/A/R/R/S	Pump Up the Volume (Remix)
Simon Harris	Bass (How Low Can You Go) (Mixed by Griff from Public Enemy)
Bomb the Bass	Beat Dis

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For those out there who thought that ,Bastard Pop" or ,bootlegging" (a term which, in the good ol' days of the 60s, 70s and 80s, stood for illegally recording a live concert and putting it out on tape or record and today means mixing the vocal track of one song with the playback of another; also see Ion Moe's excellent ,Introduction to Bastard Pop" on this here site) was a recent phenomenon, I have two words: learn otherwise. It all started in 1981, when Flash released his ground-breaking ,Adventures of Grandmaster", very probably the first record to make use of the sampling technique (albeit in a fully analog way, i.e. he physically mixed various records, working on three turntables, real-time, and then edited the whole thing on a 4-track, `cos unfortunately, they didn't have samplers or PCs in those days), creating something totally new, original and formerly unheard-of from ,old" material. When Matt Black and Jonathan More aka Coldcut's ,Say Kids, What Time is It?" (taking its title from the theme song of ,The Howdy Doody Show") and, even more so, the brilliant ,Beats + Pieces" came out in early 1987, the dam broke and myriads of similar records (and remixes) followed, most notably maybe M/A/R/R/S's ,Pump up the Volume" (in turn sampling Coldcut) which, although using the same production techniques as hip hop, basically marked the advent of House music and created the Hip House style which was fashionable for about six months in 1988 (and lead to a mass of mediocre rip-off discs by rightfully long-forgotten artistes such as S-Express, The Beat Pirate, Code 61, Chilli & the Groove Gangsters, Twin Beat, Capella etc). The mighty Coldcut went on to establish their own label Ninja Tune which has gladdened and delighted us with their unrelenting output of excellent records for over ten years. So here's a compilation of most of the seminal records of this golden olden period for your enjoyment and edification. P.S.: For lack of a better word, I settled for ,abstract hip hop", a term I impudently culled from Colin Larkin's ,Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music". Please note that there wasn't a ,brand name" for this kind of music at the time, terms like ,turntablism" or ,DJ culture" hadn't been coined yet. P.P.S.: Like several of my mixes, this contains a hidden bonus track.

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