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In 1991 they started their own record label, Ninja Tune, which continues to release groundbreaking and extremely diverse music by a small army of like-minded artists. In 1997 the duo unveiled their own real time video manipulation software, VJamm . Coldcut's current live and DJ sets rely on video as much as much as records, taking the concept of multimedia performance into largely uncharted territory.
Conceptually, Coldcut owes as much to the ideas of beat writer and cut-up theorist William S. BurroughsWilliam Seward Burroughs ( February 5, 1914 August 2, 1997) was a bisexual American author associated with the Beat Generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Jack Kerouac. He is best known as the author of Naked Lunch an unusual novel, 1970sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 Events and trends art/ industrialIndustrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music. First used in the mid 1970s to describe the then-unique sound of Industrial Records artists, a wide variety of artists and labels have since come to be group Throbbing GristleThrobbing Gristle (formed on September 3, 1976 in London) were a British experimental rock group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions''. Their confrontational live performances and use of often disturbing imagery, including porno, and the religious writings of J. R. "Bob" DobbsBob" Dobbs courtesy The SubGenius Foundation, Inc. Bob" Dobbs is the mythological pipe-smoking figurehead of the largely satirical Church of the SubGenius. His image is derived from a piece of 1950s clip-art. According to SubGenius dogma, "Bob" was a dril as much as to Hip Hop originators like Grandmaster Flash or later innovators Double D and Steinski .
Recognizing the power inherent in Burroughs' cut-up techniqueThe cut-up technique is a specialised literary form in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text. At a surrealist rally in the 1920s, Tristan Tzara offered to create a poem on the spot by pulling words at random from a hat. and its presence in Hip Hop music, Moore and Black have relentlessly pushed the D.I.Y. ethic and an understanding of play as a means of fostering greater interaction with and understanding of the world around you. The similarities between this ethos and that of hacking need hardly be stated. Ninja Tune uses a corporate facade to communicate via the marketplace itself, an idea first implemented by Throbbing Gristle via their own Industrial Records imprint.
One of the key aspects of the Ninja Tune ethos, Stealth, implies that their following of DJs and listeners are "agents" in a Burroughsian sense, propagating the D.I.Y. ethic of play as an essentially subversive act by replaying and manipulating media under the radar of mainstream culture. Nowadays Coldcut reach a worldwide audience through their syndicated radio show Solid Steel .
Black has recently (2003) worked with Penny Rimbaud (ex Crass) on Crass Agenda's Savage Utopia project.
See also: Cold cut
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