Editing Coldcut (section)

{{Short description|English electronic music duo}}
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{{Use British English|date=May 2015}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name            = Coldcut
| image           = Matt Black - Coldcut (Vienna 2006).jpg
| caption         = Matt Black at a Coldcut performance, 2006
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| alias           =
| origin          = [[London]], England
| genre           = {{hlist|[[Electronic music|Electronic]]|[[House music|house]]|[[Hip hop music|hip hop]]|[[trip hop]]|[[downtempo]]}}
| years_active    = 1986&ndash;present
| label           = [[Ninja Tune]]{{small| (current)}}, {{nowrap| [[Tommy Boy Records|Tommy Boy]]}}/[[Reprise Records|Reprise]]/{{nowrap|[[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]]{{small| (former)}}}}
| associated_acts = [[DJ Food]], [[Hex (VJ group)|Hex]], [[Hexstatic]], [[Yazz]], {{nowrap| [[Lisa Stansfield]]}}, {{nowrap| [[The Fall (band)|The Fall]]}}
| website         = {{url| Coldcut.net| Coldcut.net}}
| current_members = * [[Matt Black (DJ)|Matt Black]]
* Jonathan More
}}

'''Coldcut''' are an English [[electronic music]] duo composed of [[Matt Black (DJ)|Matt Black]] and Jonathan More. Credited as pioneers for pop sampling in the 1980s,<ref>{{cite book |title=Spin |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=X1aghtVf0GEC&pg=PA48 |via=1996 |last1=Media |first1=Spin L.L.C. |date= Dec 1996 }}</ref> Coldcut are also considered the first stars of UK electronic dance music<ref>{{cite news|title= After 200bpm, your heart blows up |url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/jan/18/popandrock|newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=2006}}</ref> due to their innovative style, which featured [[cut-up technique|cut-up]] samples of hip-hop, soul, funk, spoken word and various other types of music, as well as video and [[multimedia]]. According to ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'', "in '87 Coldcut pioneered the British fad for 'DJ records'".<ref name=Spin>{{cite book |title=Spin |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Jq-A2xEoAHIC&pg=PA86 |via=1998 |last1=Media |first1= Spin L.L.C. |date= April 1998 }}</ref>

Coldcut's records first introduced the public to pop artists [[Yazz]] and [[Lisa Stansfield]],<ref name="The Omnibus Book of British and American hit singles, 1960-1990">{{cite book|title=The Omnibus Book of British and American hit singles, 1960-1990|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YE5LAAAAYAAJ&q=coldcut+%22Doctorin%27+the+House%22| via=1990 |last1=McAleer |first1=Dave |date= June 1990 | publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn = 9780711921801}}</ref> through which these artists achieved pop chart success. In addition, Coldcut has remixed and created productions on tracks by the likes of [[Eric B & Rakim]], [[James Brown]], [[Queen Latifah]], [[Eurythmics]], [[INXS]], [[Steve Reich]], [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]], [[The Fall (band)|the Fall]], [[Pierre Henry]], [[Nina Simone]], [[Fog (band)|Fog]], [[Red Snapper (band)|Red Snapper]], and [[BBC Radiophonic Workshop]].

Beyond their work as a production duo, Coldcut are the founders of [[Ninja Tune]], an independent record label in [[London]], England (with satellite offices in Los Angeles and Berlin) with an overall emphasis on encouraging interactive technology<ref>{{cite book |title=Billboard |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=vgcEAAAAMBAJ&q=Arista+coldcut&pg=PA28 |via=1996 |last1=Nielsen Business Media |first1=Inc |date= 1996-09-07}}</ref> and finding innovative uses of [[software]].<ref>{{cite news |title= Music Week |date=9 August 1997}}</ref> The label's first releases (the first four volumes of [[DJ Food]] - ''Jazz Brakes'') were produced by Coldcut in the early '90s, and composed of instrumental [[hip hop music|hip-hop]] cuts that led the duo to help pioneer the [[trip hop]] genre,<ref>{{cite news |title= After 200 bpm, your heart blows up |url= https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/jan/18/popandrock |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date= 18 January 2006}}</ref> with artists such as [[Funki Porcini]], the Herbaliser and DJ Vadim.<ref>{{cite news |title= (unknown title) |newspaper= Music Week |date=9 August 1997}}</ref>