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Title......: Coldcut - Sound Mirrors

Date.......: Nov 2006       Cat.No.....: ZENCD115R
Style......: Electronic     Label......: Ninja Tune
Size.......: 2.91 GB        Source.....: DVD5
Region.....: PAL 0          Passes.....: N/A
Audio......: DD 2.0         Rars.......: 63

URL........: http://www.ninjatune.com/ninja/release.php?id=1196

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Coldcut have always been fascinated with the fusion of sound and
vision and so the idea of them curating a DVD version of Sound
Mirrors (their stunning and critically acclaimed album) is a
fitting one. In collaboration with freelance music video
commissioner Vez they set about taking the medium of the music
video out of the realm of MTV and the cheesy promo, instead
making the work a purely artistic expression of the music.
In a move that takes the director out of the realm of painter
for hire and giving them the creative recognition they so hugely
deserve not only in the creative brief but in how they are
presented on the DVD and that their fee is an advance against
royalties for their work - the same as if they were a guest
musician - an exciting and bold move.
Individual video directors were specifically invited to add their
creativity to a song, visually interpreting the chosen track in
their own unique way. There was no brief except that if possible
Coldcut were not to feature in the work and there was no pitching
against other directors.
The outcome is a stunningly diverse collection of highly creative
music videos directed by a range of different directors from the
famous to the unknown.
From Clay Lispky s high-tech live action/animation techniques,
the Fuzzy Felt pyrotechnic s of Woof Wan-Bau, Joel Trussell s
Phileas Fogg-flavoured cartooning, Up The Resolution s jellyfish
porn and Andreas Riser s seventies-patina d tale of office despair
the differences of approach and techniques are dazzling, dizzying,
hilarious and moving. Smuggling Peanuts  Gilliamesque animation,
Ne-O s salaryman rap, the vastly different approaches to computer
animation employed by Oceanmonsters and Dianne Harris and Oscar
Wright s surveillance camera epic complete a fantastic package,
where you may have favourites but all are artistically valid.
This has been a really exciting project,  comments Jon More.
Putting your trust in and giving the video directors an open
brief is a leap of faith but I think the results show it was worth
it. The breadth of ideas and techniques are incredible. I think
this shows that treating the directors as artists rather than
hired hands has produced a much stronger and unique package.
Matt Black adds  These videos are reflections themselves, visual
echoes of our music as seen through the eyes and ears of the
collaborating directors. Feeding back their responses lets
Coldcut uncover a bit more about our own motivations and meanings
within Sound Mirrors. Some surprises there. We can take this work
on and assemble elements from the videos into our AV live show.
As happened in music, technology and the DIY attitude are fast
combining to change the world of pop promos. We want this DVD to be
a signpost for that: an encouragement to redefine not only the
relationship of director to record company and artist, but the form
itself.
The flipside of this release is an audio CD collection of remixes
of the singles taken from Sound Mirrors. Running from superb re-rubs
from labelmates Spank Rock, Qemists, Kentaro and Daedelus, plus big
names like Lemon Jelly and Tiga, plus the happeningest Switch/Solid
Groove and Sway, this is a brilliant collection of music and also
includes remixes of bonus track  The State We re In  and the Coldcut
classic,  People Hold On .
A must for any Coldcut fan.
Props to ESC for the CD, now here's the videos.

g r e e t i n g s

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