Coldcut - Cold Krush Cuts
A review of Cold Krush Cuts, a remix album by DJ Krush, Coldcut and DJ Food.
Artist: Coldcut, DJ Food, and DJ Krush · Year: 1997 · Rating: ★★★★★
This is a massive Ninja Tune double-album set of remixes. One disk is mixed by Coldcut and DJ Food; the other by DJ Krush. The master list at the time of this writing assigns a massive 32 tracks to this collection, making it the single largest number of Monkey Radio tracks you can get in a single purchase.
The sound
If attempting to purchase the “sound” of monkey radio, this is arguably one of the best purchases you can make to start your collection.
Cold Krush Cuts is comprised of 2 continuous-mix disks by DJs that drive the Monkey Radio sound. The first disk features an array of “dance” driven mixes, whereas Krush’s Disk 2 is more downtempo-driven. Both are stellar; they feature numerous artists from the Ninja Tune catalog that have become staples in their own rights (Herbaliser, DJ Vadim, Amon Tobin, and more). Hiphop elements are present throughout, but this remains digestible fare end to end; even tracks that weren’t present on Monkey Radio are worth the time for a listen.
Monkey Radio Tracks: 32/42
- Herbaliser - The Real Killer Part 2 (Rooftop Prowler)
- Funki Porcini - Going Down
- The Herbaliser - A Mother For Your Mind
- DJ Vadim - Morning Prayer
- London Funk Allstars - Broadcasting Live From Planet Blapps!
- DJ Vadim - Lounge Shiznitz
- London Funk Allstars - Goodbye Cruel World
- DJ Food - Sunvibes
- Herbaliser - Mr.Chombee Has The Flaw
- London Funk Allstars - Today London, Tomorrow The World
- DJ Food - Spiral
- The Herbaliser - 40 Winks (no sleep vadim mix)
- DJ Food - Bass City Roller
- Drome - Alice Effekt
- DJ Vadim - Headz Still Ain’t Ready
- Luke Vibert - Get Your Head Down
- DJ Vadim - Call Me
- Funki Porcini - Groover
- London Funk Allstars - Give It To Me Raw
- Coldcut - Sign
- London Funk Allstars - Junkies Bad Trip
- Peezee - Nightrous
- DJ Vadim - Aural Prostitution (dj cam mix)
- 9 Lazy 9 - Electric Lazyland
- Hex - Harmonic
- DJ Toolz - Readybrek
- DJ Food - Dark Lady
- Gideon - Glass
- London Funk Allstars - Love Is What We Need
- Coldcut - Naked Leaves
- Blue Note - Deep in Ill-usion (DJ Krush Remix)
- DJ Vadim - B Boy
