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Ex-art teacher Jonathan More and computer programmer Matt Black have been a team since the mid-eighties. Both Matt and Jonathan had been building their DJ reputation on the nascent rare groove / warehouse party scene. Jon had a show on the then pirate station Kiss FM and worked in Reckless Records in Londons west end, where he sold Matt a bootleg of ‘Across The Tracks’ by Maceo & the Macks. Matt came back the next day with “Say Kids, What Time Is It?” and suggested they work on it together. Meanwhile Jon helped Matt onto Kiss FM and they soon started the joint “Solid Steel” show. “Say Kids…” was released in 1987 becoming the UK’s first sample-built record. In the same year the duo defined the term ‘remix’ on Eric B and Rakim’s “Paid in Full,” cutting and pasting Israeli singer Ofra Haza’s vocals in a notorious reworking which became a worldwide classic. Coldcut’s talent was recognized by a BPI “Producers Of the Year” award in 1990. Their debut album, “What’s That Noise”, went silver.

As befits a pair of DJs who seem to believe that the whole world is there to be cut and pasted, “we mix things, over as broad a spectrum of activities as possible.” Hence the duo’s label-running activities in the early and mid-nineties were augmented by a plethora of other endeavors: the Stealth club, the pioneering Pipe web site, and a variety of multimedia experiments with Rob Pepperell as Hex.

While spending the early 90s building this collage of activities, Coldcut were preparing their own musical breakout. In 1997 they unleashed their fourth album, “Let Us Play,” the first on their own label. The album featured collaborations with highly political Jello Biafra, legendary funk drummer Bernard Purdie, poet Salena Saliva, and - one of Coldcut’s biggest inspirations - Steinski. 1999 saw the release of remix album “Let Us Replay,” featuring contributions from Cornelius, Carl Craig, Shut Up And Dance and Ryuchi Sakamoto amongst others.

Coldcut’s politics came to the fore again in 2001, when they released “Re:volution” to coincide with the British general election. Characterised by Matt Black as a “celebration/diss of UK politics and the 2001 election. An audivisual PARTY political broadcast cutting up your fave enemies over a steaming punk jungle (pungle?) stomper.” It also inspired American activists to ask Coldcut to become involved in a project for the 2004 US Presidential election. The result was Coldcut v. TV Sheriff, “World Of Evil,” widely acclaimed and somehow regularly shown on MTV.

It is a tribute to Coldcut’s standing as well as the sheer diversity of their output that the last few years have seen them re-work the theme to Dr Who, the music of Herbie Hancock and the Trojan catalogue. They have assembled a group of artists as diverse as Jon Spencer, Robert Owens, Saul Williams, Soweto Kinch and Roots Manuva to appear on their new record.