went to the launch party of coldcut‘s new album sound mirrors at cargo in london last night. it’s a great venue and was a treat to see coldcut mixing up their music and visuals behind a bank of computers and gadgets. they played several of the old classics – timber, people hold on, revolution, atomic moog… as well as a few off the new album. the new album features several guest vocalists which i suspect is why they didn’t do more of it. house legend robert owens turned up to sing…
the evening had several technical hiccups which was vaguely reassuring. a highlight was actually a freestyle hip hop encore which included some sharp witted battles between the night’s two mcs. feels good to attend the first gig of 2006!
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“Future Music” magazine’s Feburary edition has brilliant DVD with Coldcut talking about their music for over and hour – including the problems of performing live – well worth buying the magazine for this alone. In the interview they disclose that the freestyle sessions are only there cos as a way of covering up techincal failures!
good tip – thanks