Coldcut & Hexstatic "Timber" Ninjatune ZEN CDS65 1998 (38:01)

Timber (Chopped Down Edit) (3:26)
Timber (DK Recut) (Remix by Darren Knott) (6:09)
Timber (Future 3 Rework) (5:34)
Timber (Clifford Gilberto Remix 2 "cracked timber") (Remix by Florian Schmitt) (4:30)
Timber (As One Mix) (Remix by Kirk DeGiorgio) (5:51)
Timber (Journeyman Mix) (Remix by Paul Frankland) (5:28)
Timber ("the Cheech Wizard's Polythump Requiem for the Ancient Forests Mix) (Remix by Bundy K Brown) (7:02)
     videos by Hexstatic, EBN, LPC, Protean Vision Quest and Clifford Gilberto

Overall impression: excellent. I was a bit skeptical about this single, I wasn't sure if "Timber" (a song constructed from video samples) really warranted 7 mixes, but I'm not disappointed. The 6 re-mixes are nice and varied, they use samples from the original Timber and re-work them into new beats and patterns. Several of the tracks are practically all new songs, most are laid back, a few are aggresive. As with most Coldcut product, this disc is part audio, part data and comes in nifty packaging full of liner notes and environmentalist propaganda. The 5 Quicktime video re-mixes alone are worth the cost of this single, they're incredibly cool, and the remix music is different for the vids (and possibly even better than the audio side of the disc). Coldcut and friends are bringing the future of music and multimedia to us today. Highly recommended ... a very nice companion to the excellent album, "Let Us Play".

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