Coldcut meets The Orb (The Return Trip)

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  • Matt and Jon, Alex Paterson and Youth convening at Butterfly studio on the anniversary of JFK‘s assassination along with Coldcut studio accomplice Dor Wand and got down to it. The resulting session produced over 3 hours worth of material and I immediately volunteered to take on the edit job to sculpt it into the shape needed for a Solid Steel mix.

    Luckily they had recorded everything to multi-track and just before Xmas 2012 I sat down to construct a 2 hour show from the chinese puzzle in front of me. After sifting, editing, compressing and discarding over a 3 to 4 week period I finally had something to send the guys. Matt came over to the studio to run through some finishing touches with fresh ears and we had 133 minutes of mind-melting madness.

  • For the Solid Steel 25th anniversary why don’t we get a rematch between Coldcut and the Orb? It’s no secret that their original New Year mash up from the end of 1991 is very high up on my list of greatest mixes ever and the thought of a new sound clash 21 years later was very appealing indeed.

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RELEASED: 23 Jan 2013
FORMAT: DL
LABEL: SOLID STEEL
CAT NO.: n/a
PRODUCERS: Strictly Kev, Matt Black
GUESTS: Coldcut, Dr Alex Patterson, Youth, Dor Wand
EXTRA ZEN: LISTEN Pt.1 & Pt.2