![]() ![]() ![]() Ninja Tune's inaugural release was Coldcut's (under the name Bogus Order) house break collection Zen Brakes Vol. Īfter Coldcut's success with their first label, Ahead of Our Time, contractual issues prevented them from releasing anything under their name. With their first releases in the early 1990s, Ninja Tune went on to, according to Pitchfork, "usher in trip-hop/instrumental hip hop". Fatboy Slim, then of Beats International, the label lifted its moniker and aesthetic from the Japanese TV shows of the 1950s and 1960s based on the Ninja. The label has since released music from many artists (including The Cinematic Orchestra, Amon Tobin, Bonobo, Kelis, BICEP, The Bug, Machinedrum, and Lee Bannon) and distributes for other record labels – including Big Dada, Brainfeeder ( Flying Lotus' label) and Technicolour Records.įollowing a Coldcut tour in Japan with Norman Cook, a.k.a. They were composed of instrumental sample-based cuts that led the duo to help pioneer new instrumental hip hop beats genres (alongside the Mo'Wax label and Ninja Tune artists such as Funki Porcini, The Herbaliser, and DJ Vadim) and, to this day, are recognized as being indispensable tools for DJs. The label's first releases - the first five volumes of DJ Food's Jazz Brakes - were produced by Coldcut in the early 1990s. It has signed a diverse range of artists, has created its own publishing company, Just Isn't Music and finds innovative uses of the software. The label has been called "visionary" and "reliably excellent". Inspired by a visit to Japan, Black, and More created Ninja Tune in 1990 as a means to escape the creative control of major labels, and as a vehicle to release music of an underground nature, free from the constraints they experienced in their brief stints with Arista and Big Life. ![]() It was founded by Matt Black and Jonathan More (better known as Coldcut ) and managed by Peter Quicke and others. Ninja Tune is an English independent record label based in London with a satellite office in Los Angeles. ![]()
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