- RELEASED: Aug 1997
- FORMAT: 12″ / 12″ / CDS
- LABEL: NINJA TUNE
- CAT No.: ZEN1258 / ZEN1258R / ZEN1258P / ZENCDS58
- DESIGN: Openmind / Coldcut
- PHOTOGRAPHY: Coldcut
- SPOTTERS DELIGHT: 12″ promo with the ‘Daddy Rips it Up’ and ‘Beans & Pizzas’ mixes. Test pressing 12″s of the parts given out to the remixers to make their versions, two pressings: a light and heavy cut.
- EXTRA ZEN: ninjatune page / BUY
I had a vested interest in this as I had helped write it and the original was one of my all time favourite Hip Hop cut up records. I argued hard for the colours to be muted, to make it more of a big deal when the full colour, all singing, all dancing album arrived but also because of the original’s lack of colour (I’ve always seen it as a black and white record). The back cover showed parts of the arrangement of the record and – as usual – I went overboard with the logos, phrases and general detail.
One of my favourite graphics never made it to print; as part of the remix process Ninja made test pressings of a ‘More Beat & Pieces’ DJ battle record and distributed them to the various remixers of the single. At one point there was a plan to release these so I made up some labels based on an old Stereo Test record graphic (this will be a recurring theme) but the idea was dropped.