- RELEASED: March 1996
- FORMAT: 3xLP / 2xCD
- LABEL: NINJA TUNE
- CAT No.: ZEN22 / ZENCD22
- DESIGN: Openmind
- PHOTOGRAPHY: Nancy Brown
- EXTRA ZEN: ninjatune page / BUY
This one worked out a little better than the previous Ninja Cuts comp and the idea was to expand the turntables idea from two to four as both Coldcut and Food had become known for this in the clubs in the intervening time. Also there was a budget for full colour this time round and a gatefold as it was a triple album. Nancy Brown and I shot a series of images in the Ahead of Our Time studios (during the time just after we had recorded ‘Journeys By DJ‘ I think) and shot some tasteful images of mixer details, effects pedals and tonearms etc.
The deck montage on the cover was put together from a series of different shots to form a ring of turntables and my Mac couldn’t handle the size of the photos at all so I had to bring the quality down, hence the weird quality of the image. More successful was the back cover with the cutting board background (ninja cuts – geddit?) I really like the labels on this one and the CD on bodies were full colour too which was later changed because it was expensive.