Ninja Tune, the label founded by Coldcut, is turning 20 years old. The Ninja Tune XX boxset is a beast.   You’ve got wo days left to pre-order it at $130.00

Hit the link for the truly frightening details (6 CDs, 6 7″s, stickers, hardback, etc. etc.) and here’s the remarkable track lineup:

Tracklists: * = New + Exclusive

CD1

* Two Fingers ‘Fools’ *
* Roots Manuva ‘It’s On’ *
* Toddla T ‘Want U Now’ (feat. Ms Dynamite) *
* Dorian Concept ‘Her Tears Taste Like Pears’ *
* Zomby ‘The Forest’ *
* Offshore ‘Jen At The Station’ *
* Emika ‘Double Edge’
* DELS ‘Eating Clouds’ *
* Big Dada Sound ‘Signs’ *
* Eric B & Rakim ‘Paid In Full’ (Switch meets Coldcut Remix) *
* Andreya Triana ‘Lost Where I Belong’ (Flying Lotus Remix)
* The Bug ‘Catch A Fire’ *
* Eskmo ‘Cloudlight’ *
* Daedelus ‘LA Nocturn’

CD2

* Roots Manuva ‘Dub Styles’ (Micachu Remix) *
* Diplo ‘Summer’s Gonna Hurt You’ (Diplo 2010 Remix) *
* The Heavy ‘How You Like Me Now?’ (Joker Remix)
* Stateless ‘Ariel’ (Rustie Remix) *
* Diplo ‘Newsflash’ (Metronomy Remix) *
* PRDCTV ‘Metropolis’ (Dan Le Sac Remix) *
* Dark sky ‘Leave’ *
* The Long Lost ‘Woebegone’ (Flying Lotus’ Like Woe Remix)
* Spank Rock ‘Tell It What It Look Like’ (Todd Edwards Remix) *
* Shuttle ‘Lion’ *
* Poirier ‘Get Crazy’ (Mark Pritchard Remix) *
* Jammer ‘One Over Me’ *
* Fink ‘This Is The Thing’ (EL-B Remix) *
* Amon Tobin ‘Lost & Found’ *

CD3

* Lou Rhodes & The Cinematic Orchestra ‘One Good Thing’ (Version) *
* Bonobo & Speech Debelle ‘Sun Will Rise’ *
* Grasscut ‘Blink In The Night’ *
* Bonobo & Andreya Triana ‘Wonder When’
* Quincy & Xen Cuts Allstars ‘I Hear The Drummer’ (Tunng Edit) *
* Yppah ‘Never Mess With Sunday’ *
* DJ Food (Title TBC) *
* Jaga Jazzist ‘Endless Galaxy’ *
* Cougar ‘$64k Rainbow’ *
* Amon Tobin ‘Eight Sum’ *
* DJ Vadim ‘Terrorist’ (Gaslamp Computer Killer Remix) *
* Roots Manuva ‘Witness’ (Slugabed Remix) *
* Andreya Triana ‘A Town Called Obsolete’ (Mala Remix) *
* Coldcut ‘Man In A Garage’ (King Jammy Dub) *
* Jono McCleery ‘Tomorrow’ (Edit)
* Floating Points Ensemble ‘Post Suite’ *

CD4

* Eskamon ‘Fine Objects’
* The Bug ‘Skeng’ (Autechre Remix) *
* King Cannibal ‘The Grind & Crawl’ *
* Emika ‘Drop The Other’ (Daedelus Remix) *
* Amon Tobin ‘Foley Versions’ (Kronos Quartet Interpretation) *
* Antipop Consortium ‘Volcano’ (Four Tet Remix)
* Mr Scruff ‘Pickled Spider’
* Jaga Jazzist ‘Toccata’ (Grasscut Remix) *
* The Death Set ‘Impossible’ (Shuttle Remix)
* Daedelus ‘Trouble With A Capital D’ *
* Roots Manuva ‘Let The Spirit’ (Hot Chip Remix)
* Mr Scruff ‘Believe’ *
* Bonobo ‘Eyesdown’ feat. Andreya Triana (Floating Points Remix)
* Shuttle ‘Tunnel’

The following material will only be available (in any format) in the the box set, except where indicated:

CD5

* The Cinematic Orchestra (Title TBC) *
* Coldcut ‘Autumn Leaves’ (2010 Budapest Mix) *
* Floating Points Ensemble (No.2 title TBC) (to be released on 12″ single also) *
* Jaga Jazzist ‘Synchronise Your Watches’ *
* Coldcut ‘True Skool’ (Zomby Remix) *
* Bonobo ‘Eyesdown’ (feat. DELS) *
* Clifford Gilberto ‘Deliver The Weird’ (Dorian Concept Remix) *
* The Bug ‘Poison Dart’ (Prefuse 73 Broke Moog Version) *
* Fink ‘See It All’ (Scuba Remix) *
* Roots Manuva ‘Shake Your Money Maker’ *
* cLOUDEAD vs Fat Possum (Title TBC) *
* The Heavy (Title TBC) *
* Blockhead ‘Ugly Brown’ *

CD6

* Roots Manuva ‘Witness’ (Modeselektor Remix) *
* Toddla T ‘Sky Surfing’ (Benga Remix) (to be released on 12″ single also) *
* Roots Manuva ‘Join The Dots’ (Cut Chemist Remix) *
* Kid Koala ’3 Bit Blues’ *
* Pop Levi ‘Blue Honey’ (Amorphous Androgenous Remix Edit) *
* Blockhead ‘The Music Scene’ (EL-P Remix) *
* Coldcut & Hexstatic ‘Timber’ (The Orb Remix) *
* DJ Kentaro ‘Paid In Full’ *
* Coldcut ‘This Island Earth’ (Joe Goddard Remix) *
* Qemists ‘Don’t Lose It’ *
* DJ Food ‘African Rhythms’ (Tom Middleton Remix) *
* DJ Food ‘Dark Lady’ (808 State Remix) *
* Herbaliser ‘Something Wicked’ (Roots Manuva Dub) *

6 x 7″ single:

1. Bogus Order ‘Chillin With My Zen’
Bogus Order ‘Zen Bones’
2. Mr Scruff ‘Wriggle’ *
Coldcut ‘Boogieman’ (King Jammy Dub) *
3. King Geedorah ‘Snakecharmer’ (feat. Kurious as Biolante) *
Daedelus ‘Impending Doom’ (Rustie Remix) *
4. Two Fingers ‘Bad Girl’ (The Bug Dub) *
Spank Rock ‘Sweet Talk’ (Matthew Herbert Remix) *
5. DJ Vadim ‘Bang it Out’ *
Toddla T ‘Pum Pum’ *
6. Wagon Christ ‘Sloth Gets Paid’ *
Shuttle ‘Rotten Guts’ (Gold Panda Remix) *

OOOFF!

From WFMU DJ Frank O’s recent trip to Ghana

http://www.subpop.com/cybersex

An important distinction: We’re not looking for everyone’s favorite albums or songs, but rather ones that had some sort of historical significance. These are the game-changers — ones that signaled some sort of shift in music, or ones that were particularly influential in some way. We’re looking for the albums and singles people will still buy, share, listen to and talk about for years or decades to come.”

NPR: The Decade’s 50 Most Important Recordings is the plain, unadorned, list. You can see a written discussion of the list here. They take pains to say that these are “important” choices rather than “favourites”. But, given that they solicited input from their listeners, it’s no surprise that the list plays pretty safely within the limits of middlebrow, educated, white American tastes. Of course, by specifying “important” the NPR staffers get the chance to incorporate a salting of “outsider” stuff. I’d really have to try hard to find ways in which Juanes’ Fijate Bien” can be claimed as influential.

The NME, on the other hand, decides to sit around the pup and scribble a list of guitar and indie rock items on the back of a coaster and give it to an intern for a couple of hours so that (s)he can add some of the “yoof” influence and make sure the items were actually released in the 00′s. Then they spread The Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade over a bunch of web pages in order to boost their page view numbers.

Paste Magazine has another, somewhat less predictable list.

Earlier, Pitchfork concluded their 200 Albums of the 2000s with the final 20

Can’t find the Uncut Magazine original list, but Stereogum has the top 20 here

Someone will probably put these all together. If you know a link lemme know.

Oh, yeah, f**k Radiohead

Not content with having critical success, these attention seeking songsmiths have finally been given the ultimate accolade, having a major civil engineering project named after them:   New Brisbane bridge named after Go-Betweens

Zimboo first came to our attention with his contribution to the Major Lazer record earlier this year. Despite the brevity of the track, it was obvious that the Prince was onto something…

Then I heard Toddla T play “Love Diareha” on the “In New DJs We Trust” show on BBC Radio1 at the end of August. It was just soooo different from everything else that I tortured my sister by insisting on listening to it over and over.

Just like the Major Lazer conceit, Prince Zimboo is a made-up character. He is an African Prince “from the bush” and he’s actively looking for his 1000th wife…

And yes, I do want a t-shirt which just has “Heh!” on it.

Glued to a working turntable.

TT lid inscribed with lyrics and monogram.

Nuts!

Bob Hund – Fantastiskt.

And:

Which is more like a mash-up of old.