Various – Xen Cuts
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Ninja Tune – ZEN 49 |
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Country: |
UK |
Released: |
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Genre: |
Electronic |
Style: |
Hip Hop |
Tracklist
| A1 | Steinski– | The Xen To One Ratio (Steinski's Intro) |
| A2 | Big Dada Sound– | Showtime |
| A3 | Dynamic Syncopation– | 2 Tha Left |
| A4 | T Love– | QMS |
| A5 | The Herbaliser– | 8pt Agenda |
| B1 | Mr. Scruff– | Ug |
| B2 | Neotropic– | Memories |
| B3 | Amon Tobin– | Saboteur (Roots Manuva Remix) |
| B4 | DJ Vadim– | Your Revolution (Version) |
| C1 | The Irresistible Force– | Nepalese Bliss (Jimpster Mix) |
| C2 | Kid Koala– | Emperor's Main Course |
| C3 | Coldcut– | Give It Up |
| C4 | Up, Bustle & Out– | Hip Hop Barrio |
| D1 | Quannum MC's– | Blue Flames |
| D2 | The Infesticons– | Night Night Theme |
| D3 | Luke Vibert– | l Hear The Drummer |
| D4 | Fink– | Ninjah (We Are Ninja) |
| E1 | Flexus (7)– | The Joy Of X (Spotters Delight) |
| E2 | Clifford Gilberto– | The 10th Victim |
| E3 | Neptune– | Soul Pride |
| E4 | Up, Bustle & Out– | Los Locos Cubanos (Snowboy's Batarumbaconga Mix) |
| F1 | Amon Tobin– | Down & To The Left |
| F2 | Loka– | My Life's In These Bottles |
| F3 | Chris Bowden– | Original Sins |
| G1 | Clifford Gilberto– | Restless |
| G2 | Animals On Wheels– | Build A Church With Your Fear |
| G3 | DJ Food– | The Ageing Young Rebel (Gentle Cruelty) |
| H1 | Flanger– | Quicksilver Loom (Edit) |
| H2 | Funki Porcini– | Big Sea (Edit) |
| H3 | Arc (2)– | Arcane |
| H4 | Max & Harvey– | Big Amoeba Sound |
Companies, etc.
- Licensed To – Quannum Projects, LLC
- Licensed From – Pickininny Recordings
- Distributed By – Vital Distribution – 0117 988 3300
- Produced For – New Flesh Music Operations
- Produced For – Nam's Illest Entertainment
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Ninja Tune
- Copyright © – Ninja Tune
- Published By – Just Isn't Music
- Published By – Copyright Control
- Published By – Chrysalis Music
- Published By – Like Madd Music
- Published By – Mass Music (2)
- Published By – Reel Love Music
- Published By – Universal
- Published By – Copyright Control
- Published By – Asia's Music
- Published By – Dread Piper Publishing
- Published By – Big Orange Cat Music
- Published By – Westbury Music
- Published By – Index Music, Inc.
- Published By – Obrafo Music
- Published By – Gifted Music
- Published By – Definitive Jux
- Published By – Mr. Len Music
- Published By – MCA Music
- Published By – Rubber Frog Music
- Published By – Freibank
- Recorded At – Blows Yard Studios
- Recorded At – Estudio Sonocaribe
- Produced At – Train Trax Studios
- Mixed At – The Reckless Spenders Social Aid & Pleasure Club
- Mixed At – Blows Yard Studios
- Mixed At – The Infirmary
- Mixed At – Train Trax Studios
- Lacquer Cut At – Alchemy Mastering
Credits
- Lacquer Cut By – Martin Giles
- Mastered By – Voda
Notes
Was released for the 10th anniversary of Ninja Tune Records. Contains four printed inlays with the labels history, credits and complete discography.
On track B2 artist "Shorti" is credited as "Shorti aka Resonance".
On labels:
(p) & (c) Ninja Tune 2000
On inlay 1:
Steinski's Intro 'The Xen To One Ratio' [...] Mixed at the Reckless Spenders Social Aid & Pleasure Club, NYC.
Big Dada Sound 'Showtime' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music, Copyright Control, Chrysalis Music, Like Madd Music (SESAC) [...] Production [...] for New Flesh Music Operations 2012 Recorded & Mixed at Blow's Yard, London. [...]
Dynamic Syncopation [...] '2 Tha Left' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music / Mass Music Mass Influence appear courtesy of Nonstop Music Works
T Love 'QMS' [...] Reel Love Music BMI Published by Universal and Copyright Control Licensed courtesy of Pickininny Records
The Herbaliser [...] '8pt Agenda' [...] Produced [...] for Nam's Illest Entertainment Published by Just Isn't Music / Asia's Music ASCAP / Dread Piper Publishing ASCAP
Mr. Scruff 'Ug' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Neotropic [...] 'Memories' [...] Shorti appears courtesy of Mother Tongues, Thanks to Mother Tongues and Creative Vibes Published by Big Orange Cat Music / Westbury Music / Copyright Control
Amon Tobin 'Saboteur' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music / Chrysalis Music
DJ Vadim [...] 'Your Revolution' Published by Just Isn't Music / Copyright Control
On inlay 2:
The Irresistible Force 'Nepalese Bliss' (Jimpster Remix) [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Kid Koala 'Emperors Main Course' [...] Contains 'Main Title Theme (The Last Emperor)' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music / Index Music Inc.
Coldcut 'Give It Up' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Up, Bustle & Out 'Hip Hop Barrio' [...] Published by Copyright Control
Quannum MC's 'Blue Flames' [...] Published by Obrafo Music (ASCAP)/Gifted Music (ASCAP)/Asia's Music (ASCAP)/Dread Piper (ASCAP) Licensed courtesy of Quannnum Projects LLC
The Infesticons 'Night Night Theme' [...] Published by Like Madd Music SESAC, Definitive Jux SESAC, Mr Len Music SESAC Originally released on 'Gun Hill Road' [BD 017]
Luke Vibert 'I Hear The Drummer' [...] Published by MCA Music
Fink [...] 'Ninjah (We Are Ninja)' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music / Copyright Control
Flexus Intro 'The Joy Of X' [...] Xplored, Xtracted, Xcerpted & Xecuted by [...] miXed at the Infirmary
Clifford Gilberto 'The 10th Victim' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
On inlay 3:
Neptune 'Soul Pride' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Up, Bustle & Out 'Los Locos Cubanos' [...] Recorded at Sonocaribe Studios, Havana, Cuba, April 1998. [...] Published by Copyright Control
Amon Tobin 'Down & To The Left' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Loka 'My Life's In These Bottles' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Chris Bowden 'Original Sins' [...] Produced and Mixed at Traintrax [...] for Nam's Illest Entertainment [...] Flute - Andrew Ross courtesy of the Easy Access Orchestra [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Clifford Gilberto 'Restless' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Animals On Wheels 'Build A Church With Your Fear' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
DJ Food [...] 'The Ageing Young Rebel' [...] Mixed at Blow's Yard [...] Published by Just Isn't Music / Rubber Frog Music
Flanger 'Quicksilver Loom' [...] Published by Freibank / Hamburg
Funki Porcini 'Big Sea' [...] Publishing istered by Just Isn't Music
Arc 'Arcane' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Max & Harvey 'Big Amoeba Sound' [...] Published by Copyright Control
On back cover:
[...] Made in England
On spine:
[...] 10 Years Of Zen [...]
A1: Steinski’s Intro
E1: Flexus Intro
On track B2 artist "Shorti" is credited as "Shorti aka Resonance".
On labels:
(p) & (c) Ninja Tune 2000
On inlay 1:
Steinski's Intro 'The Xen To One Ratio' [...] Mixed at the Reckless Spenders Social Aid & Pleasure Club, NYC.
Big Dada Sound 'Showtime' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music, Copyright Control, Chrysalis Music, Like Madd Music (SESAC) [...] Production [...] for New Flesh Music Operations 2012 Recorded & Mixed at Blow's Yard, London. [...]
Dynamic Syncopation [...] '2 Tha Left' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music / Mass Music Mass Influence appear courtesy of Nonstop Music Works
T Love 'QMS' [...] Reel Love Music BMI Published by Universal and Copyright Control Licensed courtesy of Pickininny Records
The Herbaliser [...] '8pt Agenda' [...] Produced [...] for Nam's Illest Entertainment Published by Just Isn't Music / Asia's Music ASCAP / Dread Piper Publishing ASCAP
Mr. Scruff 'Ug' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Neotropic [...] 'Memories' [...] Shorti appears courtesy of Mother Tongues, Thanks to Mother Tongues and Creative Vibes Published by Big Orange Cat Music / Westbury Music / Copyright Control
Amon Tobin 'Saboteur' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music / Chrysalis Music
DJ Vadim [...] 'Your Revolution' Published by Just Isn't Music / Copyright Control
On inlay 2:
The Irresistible Force 'Nepalese Bliss' (Jimpster Remix) [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Kid Koala 'Emperors Main Course' [...] Contains 'Main Title Theme (The Last Emperor)' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music / Index Music Inc.
Coldcut 'Give It Up' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Up, Bustle & Out 'Hip Hop Barrio' [...] Published by Copyright Control
Quannum MC's 'Blue Flames' [...] Published by Obrafo Music (ASCAP)/Gifted Music (ASCAP)/Asia's Music (ASCAP)/Dread Piper (ASCAP) Licensed courtesy of Quannnum Projects LLC
The Infesticons 'Night Night Theme' [...] Published by Like Madd Music SESAC, Definitive Jux SESAC, Mr Len Music SESAC Originally released on 'Gun Hill Road' [BD 017]
Luke Vibert 'I Hear The Drummer' [...] Published by MCA Music
Fink [...] 'Ninjah (We Are Ninja)' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music / Copyright Control
Flexus Intro 'The Joy Of X' [...] Xplored, Xtracted, Xcerpted & Xecuted by [...] miXed at the Infirmary
Clifford Gilberto 'The 10th Victim' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
On inlay 3:
Neptune 'Soul Pride' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Up, Bustle & Out 'Los Locos Cubanos' [...] Recorded at Sonocaribe Studios, Havana, Cuba, April 1998. [...] Published by Copyright Control
Amon Tobin 'Down & To The Left' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Loka 'My Life's In These Bottles' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Chris Bowden 'Original Sins' [...] Produced and Mixed at Traintrax [...] for Nam's Illest Entertainment [...] Flute - Andrew Ross courtesy of the Easy Access Orchestra [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Clifford Gilberto 'Restless' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Animals On Wheels 'Build A Church With Your Fear' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
DJ Food [...] 'The Ageing Young Rebel' [...] Mixed at Blow's Yard [...] Published by Just Isn't Music / Rubber Frog Music
Flanger 'Quicksilver Loom' [...] Published by Freibank / Hamburg
Funki Porcini 'Big Sea' [...] Publishing istered by Just Isn't Music
Arc 'Arcane' [...] Published by Just Isn't Music
Max & Harvey 'Big Amoeba Sound' [...] Published by Copyright Control
On back cover:
[...] Made in England
On spine:
[...] 10 Years Of Zen [...]
A1: Steinski’s Intro
E1: Flexus Intro
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 5 021392 255180
- Barcode (Scanned): 5021392225180
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, stamped "ZEN 49 A-2 = etched"): ZEN 49 A-2 ZEN 49 A - 2 - 1 -
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, stamped "ZEN 49 B-2 = etched"): ZEN 49 B-2 ZEN 49 B - 2 - 1 -
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side C, stamped "ZEN 49 C-2 = etched"): ZEN 49 C-2 ZEN 49 C - 21xxx - 1 -
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side D, stamped "ZEN 49 D-2 = etched"): ZEN 49 D-2 ZEN 49 D - 2 - 1 -
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side E, stamped "ZEN49 E - 1 = etched"): ZEN49 E - 1 ZEN 49 E - 2 - 1 -
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side F, stamped "ZEN49 F-2 = etched"): ZEN49 F-2 ZEN 49 F - 2 - 1 - 1
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side G, stamped "ZEN49 G-2 = etched"): ZEN 49 G - 2 - 1 - 1 ZEN49 G-2
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side H, stamped "ZEN49 H-2 WE ARE XEN = etched"): ZEN49 H-2 WE ARE XEN ZEN 49 H - 2 - 1 - 1
Other Versions (5 of 10)
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Xen Cuts (2×CD, Compilation) | Ninja Tune | ZENCD49 | UK | 2000 | ||
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Xen Cuts (3×CD, Compilation) | Ninja Tune | ZEN CD 49X | UK | 2000 | ||
| Xen Cuts (6×LP, Box Set, Compilation, Limited Edition) | Ninja Tune | zen 49 BX | UK | 2000 | |||
| Xen Cuts (3×CD, Compilation, Slim Case, Box Set, ) | Ninja Tune | ZEN CD49X, ZENCD 49 | USA & Canada | 2000 | |||
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New Submission
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Xen Rare Cuts (3×CDr, Compilation, Promo) | Ninja Tune | ZENCD49A, ZENCD49B, ZENCD49C | UK | 2000 |
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Everything the guys below me said, plus that Luke Vibert track! "I hear the drummer strike the skyyyyyyyyy...." -
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Edited 13 years agoNinja Tune tracks are a comprehensive menu of cool, using deadly mixing skills to blend ingredients like spoken word, beatboxing, electro-funk, dub, hip-hop samples, classic jazz breaks and scratching into a furious electronic goulash of sound.
There's something eminently respectable about Ninja Tune's volatile formula, which may be most closely approximated in the mainstream by the Beastie Boys' deliciously flexible Hello Nasty. When artists like Coldcut and DJ Food whip irresistible beats together with samples from classic movies, old school Brooklyn rap and artists like the London Funk Allstars, it always seems to work, and the resulting sound is hypnotic, crisp and distinct.
Xen Cuts is a 4 x LP set, and it's a jaw-droppingly diverse sampler of Ninja Tune's history as a label, mixing up bits of back catalog stuff with fresh cuts minted for the set. Acts including The Herbaliser, Amon Tobin, Kid Koala and Funki Porcini throw down electronic and acoustic elements that mesh seamlessly and skillfully, evolving enough from track to track that the set never becomes tiresome or played out. Its first disc concentrates more heavily on hip-hop, while the remaining albums kick up a dense cloud of Latin beats, unstoppable funk and hipster miscellany.
And while all three discs are strong and listenable, certain tracks stand out. Saul Williams, with "Twice the First Time," combines strings, spoken word and hip-hop in an unforgettable manner — when the strings go to pizzacato and the sound fills out, it becomes an irresistably strange and dancey mix.
DJ Food takes a poetic and fairly disturbing bit of spoken word by Ken Nordine to craft "The Ageing Young Rebel," a self-consciously hip bit of techno ephemera that no listener should up.
And Hexstatic's bizarre "Ninja Tune" takes scratching, an insidiously seductive beat, chop-socky kung-fu samples and Asian chords to weave an inexplicably listenable track.
Ninja Tune fans owe it to their label to pick up this bountiful spread of phattening sound. As for Ninja Tune neophytes... Fans of hip-hop, funk and techno who have yet to yet to discover Britain's freshest funk merchants should be legally compelled to give Xen Cuts a try — it's broad enough to satisfy the crowd, but sharp enough to make educated heads spin. -
It almost goes without saying that this collection is hot. You might hear it, like it, buy it, and listen to it, but you don't really realize how good it is until you have listened to it for a couple of years... I think a lot of the tracks on this compilation have a timeless quality to them - I never get tired of hearing them.
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