The Way of the Ninja (Ninja Tune XX)

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Various Artists / Mixed by King Cannibal
The Way of the Ninja (Ninja Tune XX)

[ Ninja Tune / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 22 November 2010

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To celebrate 20 years of Ninja Tune here's a different kind of mix CD - 20 tracks made with 256 songs and samples from a multiplicity of recordings from Ninja Tune, Ntone, Big Dada and Counter.

Ninja has a rich tradition of getting creative behind the turntables, from Coldcut's groundbreaking '70 Minutes of Madness: Journeys by DJ' mix to the diverse Solid Steel series, so why not try and up the ante a little? This mix was constructed on planes, trains, hotel rooms and in the studio throughout the months of May, June and July 2010 using vinyl, CDs, Wavs and a DAT in Ableton Live and Logic. A suitably diverse number of locations, formats and tools for a diverse label like Ninja Tune. So three months and a little over 250 tracks later they arrived at 74 minutes of music mixed, blended, sliced, diced, torn up and finally rendered to audio...

There's a lot of classics, personal favourites, some slept on and a few exclusive acapellas and instrumentals care of the Ninja family. Basically a whose who of the electronic world of the past 20 years with The Herbaliser, The Bug, DJ Vadim, Coldcut, Mr. Scruff, Spank Rock, Roots Manuva, Amon Tobin, Diplo, Bonobo, Wiley, The Cinematic Orchestra, DJ Kentaro all appearing in what is one of the best DJ mixes you would have heard in years! 20 perhaps.

Tracks:

1. Intro
2. The Soundboy and the Terrorist
3. Color Dropping
4. Bring That Back
5. Big Tunes. Big Hits
6. Dirty Mouth Music
7. Let's Get Tight
8. Generation Bleep
9. Welcome to Our Ageing Sideshow
10. Darkness Creeps But the Nightmare Crawls
11. We Keep it Straight Bombing
12. Bass Bins Through Broken Glass
13. Tings Get Heat Up, Rewound and Torn Down
14. How About Some Rock 'n' Roll?
15. The Art of Getting Crazy
16. King of the Junglism
17. A Monster in the Music Box
18. I Wanna See All the Hands
19. We are Ninja, Now Cue the Fireworks
20. See You Later

Here's King Cannibal laying it down during the Ninja Tune XX birthday bash @ Ancienne Belgique (via YouTube).