Coldcut - Say Kids! (What Time Is It?)

Recent uploads featured the splice up and sample tracks from innovators such as Double D & Steinski and Keith LeBlanc's Malcom X project.

British duo Coldcut formed in the Summer of 1986, when Matt Black and Jonathn Moore entered a radio competition with "Say Kids, What Time Is It?" Reckless Records store worker, Moore arranged a separate edit be made of the Jungle Book's "King of the Swingers" mixed with the break from James Brown's "Funky Drummer". Using his contacts in the music trade, this mix was released on a white label and "Say Kids, What Time Is It?" became their first single. Only 500 copies were ever pressed as it could never be a full commercial release due to the large number of unauthorised samples.
In 1987, spurred on by an enthusiastic rep from Island Records, they released their influential remix of Eric B. & Rakim's "Paid in Full," which made the top 20 and was voted best remix of the year. Featuring a prominent Ofra Haza sample and many other vocal cut ups, it is now regarded as both a hip hop classic and a breakthrough in the remix field. The looped rhythm at the heart of the remix can be seen as an early precursor to the Breakbeats genre (one has merely to speed it up to note the similarity). The tracks "Beats and Pieces" and "That Greedy Beat" were soon to follow on the duo's own Ahead Of Our Time label. These tracks were made by the painstaking assembly of spliced tape edits. I've also included the white label cut of Beats & Pieces for the hell of it!

Tracks:

Say Kids! (What Time Is It?)

Untitled (Funky Drummer meets the Jungle Book)

Untitled (Breakbeats)

Beats & Pieces

Have it!