Kicking off a new cycle of Coldcut blog...Meet White Noise and more...
Posted by coldcut, 18.9.2007 01:32
Yo.
So we are starting up a blog project. a blogject. whatever. Coldcut will endevour to post some items of interest, funky things for you to play with. Where we've been, doing what, with who, if we've been eating carrots.
Lets start now....
Recently I, Matt, went to John 'Hoppy' Hopkins 70th birthday party. He is veteran 60s psychedelic guru much involved with Pink Floyd, activism, freethinking. Chatted to old cohort Youth, ex-Killing Joke, Orb, and god daddy of psi trance amongst his other sins. Lots of nice people there of all types and ages. Filmed an astonishing Kora player , and have put this up as a test. clip is not good quality, but riff is gorgeous. Amongst the other guests, rapped with David Vorhaus of White Noise, creator of the electronic-psychedelic classic album 'An Electric Storm' which has just been reissued, and is well worth checking. His collaborator on this was synth pioneer Delia Darbyshire of Dr Who theme fame. He lives near me in North London so we thought we should get together for a jam, watch this space. Heres a pic of Dave (left) and me, and NLP Danny, looking quite scary.
Last weekend we did Coldcut 'Journeys by VJ' in Sheffield which rocked, yo to Mike Stirling and friends. Heard Ian Brown was also doing a party there, but didnt have a chance to drop in, boo. Then, there he was at the hotel so we rocked up and introduced ourselves. He fired up a great rant on the evidence for Prince Charles being the AntiChrist, which seems pretty likely (compare his coat of arms and description of the Beast of Revelation). Mind you , Charlie isnt all bad...he can bodypop pretty well, as seen in the clip of him we use in the Coldcut show. Must post that.
Heres a pic of me and IB. We swopped contacts and talked about doing a track with him and CC so thats pretty exciting. In fact, stayed up late next night and did a new track which head A+R Colonel Dom @ Ninja thought could be good for IB...just a sketch at the mo. will keep you posted.
More soon. Now off for 5 days my first ever meditation couse.
Rock Om.