English DJs Matt Black and Jonathan Moore began working together in the mid-eighties on the pirate radio station KissFM?. Shortly thereafter they released their first single, 'Say Kids, What Time Is It?', followed by a groundbreaking remix of Eric B and Rakim's 'Paid in Full.' In 1991 they started their own imprint, Ninja Tune, which continues to release groundbreaking and extremely diverse music by a small army of like-minded artists. In 1997 the duo's former careers as art teachers and computer programmers payed off with the development of their own real time video manipulation software, VJamm?. Coldcut's current live and DJ sets rely on video as much as much as records, taking the concept of multimedia performance into largely uncharted territory.
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