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Ninja Tune is a London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
-based independent record label
Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels....
 started in 1991 by DJs Matt Black
Matt Black

Matt Black is a United Kingdom DJ and one half of music duo Coldcut .As a college student, he was a member of a band called The Jazz Insects, whose first single was played by John Peel in his radio show....
 and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut
Coldcut

Coldcut are an England dance music duo comprising Matt Black and Jonathan More. They are well known for their pioneering technique of using of hip hop style samples in dance music....
, with a strong leaning towards electronic
Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology....
, alternative hip hop
Alternative hip hop

Alternative hip hop is a form of hip hop music that is defined in greatly varying ways. Allmusic defines it as follows:Alternative Rap refers to Hip hop music groups that refuse to conform to any of the traditional stereotypes of rap, such as gangsta rap, Miami bass, hardcore hip hop, and party rap....
, instrumental hip hop, nu jazz
Nu jazz

Nu jazz is an umbrella term coined in the late 1990s to refer to music that blends jazz elements with other musical styles, such as funk, soul music, electronic dance music, and free improvisation....
, drum and bass
Drum and bass

Drum and bass , also known as jungle, is a type of electronic dance music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast Break #Break beat , with heavy sub-bass lines....
, and chillout music.

The label has developed a number of DJs, producers
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
, and live acts. Ninja Tune's sister imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
s, Ntone
NTone

NTone is a sister imprint to the independent record label, Ninja Tune.The imprint is based in London, United Kingdom and specialises in experimental electronic music....
 (now defunct) and Big Dada
Big Dada

Big Dada is the Hip hop music imprint of London-based independent record label, Ninja Tune. It is best known for being the home of prominent British hip hop artist Roots Manuva....
, specialise in experimental electronic music
Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology....
 and hip-hop, respectively. The label has a satellite
Satellite

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an Physical body which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
 office in Montreal, Quebec, owned and managed by Jeff Waye.

In 1994 Matt Black
Matt Black

Matt Black is a United Kingdom DJ and one half of music duo Coldcut .As a college student, he was a member of a band called The Jazz Insects, whose first single was played by John Peel in his radio show....
's close friend Mixmaster Morris
Mixmaster Morris

Mixmaster Morris, real name, Morris Gould, is an ambient disc jockey and underground musician....
 introduced Matt to Openmind - a DJ & design collective in Camberwell - at the Telepathic Fish chill-out club they were running.






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Ninja Tune is a London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
-based independent record label
Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels....
 started in 1991 by DJs Matt Black
Matt Black

Matt Black is a United Kingdom DJ and one half of music duo Coldcut .As a college student, he was a member of a band called The Jazz Insects, whose first single was played by John Peel in his radio show....
 and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut
Coldcut

Coldcut are an England dance music duo comprising Matt Black and Jonathan More. They are well known for their pioneering technique of using of hip hop style samples in dance music....
, with a strong leaning towards electronic
Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology....
, alternative hip hop
Alternative hip hop

Alternative hip hop is a form of hip hop music that is defined in greatly varying ways. Allmusic defines it as follows:Alternative Rap refers to Hip hop music groups that refuse to conform to any of the traditional stereotypes of rap, such as gangsta rap, Miami bass, hardcore hip hop, and party rap....
, instrumental hip hop, nu jazz
Nu jazz

Nu jazz is an umbrella term coined in the late 1990s to refer to music that blends jazz elements with other musical styles, such as funk, soul music, electronic dance music, and free improvisation....
, drum and bass
Drum and bass

Drum and bass , also known as jungle, is a type of electronic dance music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast Break #Break beat , with heavy sub-bass lines....
, and chillout music.

The label has developed a number of DJs, producers
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
, and live acts. Ninja Tune's sister imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
s, Ntone
NTone

NTone is a sister imprint to the independent record label, Ninja Tune.The imprint is based in London, United Kingdom and specialises in experimental electronic music....
 (now defunct) and Big Dada
Big Dada

Big Dada is the Hip hop music imprint of London-based independent record label, Ninja Tune. It is best known for being the home of prominent British hip hop artist Roots Manuva....
, specialise in experimental electronic music
Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology....
 and hip-hop, respectively. The label has a satellite
Satellite

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an Physical body which has been placed into orbit by human endeavor. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
 office in Montreal, Quebec, owned and managed by Jeff Waye.

In 1994 Matt Black
Matt Black

Matt Black is a United Kingdom DJ and one half of music duo Coldcut .As a college student, he was a member of a band called The Jazz Insects, whose first single was played by John Peel in his radio show....
's close friend Mixmaster Morris
Mixmaster Morris

Mixmaster Morris, real name, Morris Gould, is an ambient disc jockey and underground musician....
 introduced Matt to Openmind - a DJ & design collective in Camberwell - at the Telepathic Fish chill-out club they were running. Openmind included Kevin Foakes aka Strictly Kev of DJ Food
DJ Food

Originally produced by Coldcut on the Ninja Tune independent record label, the DJ Food project started in 1990 on the premise of providing metaphorical "food for Disc Jockey"....
. After submitting a re-styled company logo he was employed by Ninja Tune in the capacity of overall design consultant.

In 1995 Shadow Records
Shadow Records

Shadow Records was launched in 1995 as an Instinct Records sub-label to focus on the more organic side of the underground electronic music scene....
 start to collaborate with Ninja Tune. This partnership introduced the likes of Funki Porcini
Funki Porcini

Funki Porcini is musician and Disc Jockey, James Braddell, from England.His music is a combination of Downtempo, Breakbeat and Jazz, with elements of Hip hop music, Drum and bass, Sampling and Audio timescale-pitch modification vocals....
, DJ Food
DJ Food

Originally produced by Coldcut on the Ninja Tune independent record label, the DJ Food project started in 1990 on the premise of providing metaphorical "food for Disc Jockey"....
, 9 Lazy 9
9 Lazy 9

9 Lazy 9 is an acid jazz/downtempo group on the Ninja Tune label. Operating out of Italy in 1992, they soon gained respect for their first album Paradise Blown....
, Up, Bustle and Out
Up, Bustle and Out

Up, Bustle and Out are musicians and recording artists - DJ D. "Ein" Fell and producer-performer Rupert Mould from Bristol, United Kingdom. They have released a number of albums and singles on the Ninja Tune independent record label....
, Hedfunk
Coldcut

Coldcut are an England dance music duo comprising Matt Black and Jonathan More. They are well known for their pioneering technique of using of hip hop style samples in dance music....
, London Funk Allstars
Mad Doctor X

Mad Doctor X - the undercover alter-ego of hip-hop veteran DJ Jason Tunbridge . On the scene for years since he first blew up with Blapps Posse and Don't Hold Back the Mad Doctor X has been busy working in the lab conducting his illicit experiments and concocting his ill beats in various disguises ever since: London Funk Allstars a...
 to US audiences.

In 2006, a new imprint, Counter Records, was set up to release the début album of Pop Levi
Pop Levi

Pop Levi , also known as Mozambique Courier, is an England singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer and filmmaker. Pop Levi's career started in Liverpool....
 (of Super Numeri
Super Numeri

Super Numeri are an Experimental music instrumental group based in Liverpool and signed to the Ninja Tune label. The band was created by Pop Levi, Snap Ant and Karl Webb, who have recruited several other musicians in their recordings and live performances....
), with artists to follow in a rock music vein. The first release on the imprint was Pop Levi's single "Blue Honey" in September 2006, which was followed by Pop Levi's first LP The Return To Form Black Magick Party in February 2007. Subsequent releases have included cross genre, punk rockers The Death Set
The Death Set

The Death Set is a music group originally formed mid 2005 in Sydney, Australia. Just six months after its inception it moved to the East Coast of the United States spending most of its time in Brooklyn, Baltimore and Philadelphia where the band found more of an audience for its style of spastic, cross genre, punk rock....
.

In May 2008 Mr. Scruff
Mr. Scruff

Mr. Scruff is the recording name of Andy Carthy , a British DJ and artist. He lives in Stockport, England, and studied fine art at the Psalter Lane campus of Sheffield Hallam University....
 launched a new project: Ninja Tuna. The first release was Donkey Ride, a collaboration with Quantic, which came out on May 12.

Artists

  • 9 Lazy 9
    9 Lazy 9

    9 Lazy 9 is an acid jazz/downtempo group on the Ninja Tune label. Operating out of Italy in 1992, they soon gained respect for their first album Paradise Blown....
  • Airborn Audio
  • Ammoncontact
  • Amon Tobin
    Amon Tobin

    Amon Adonai Santos de Ara?jo Tobin , better known as Amon Tobin, is a Brazilian people electronic musician, and Disc jockey. He is best known for his use of sampling ....
  • Animals On Wheels
  • Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
  • The Bug
  • Blockhead
    Blockhead (music)

    Blockhead is an United States Hip hop music Record producer based in Manhattan, New York. Aside from his solo efforts released on the Ninja Tune label, he is most associated with producing for Aesop Rock, a rapper for the Definitive Jux Independent record label hip hop Record label....
  • Bonobo
  • Chris Bowden
  • Cabbageboy
  • Chocolate Weasel
  • The Cinematic Orchestra
    The Cinematic Orchestra

    The Cinematic Orchestra is a United Kingdom-based jazz and electronic music outfit, created in the late 1990s by Jason Swinscoe.The band is signed to Ninja Tune independent record label....
  • Clifford Gilberto
    Clifford Gilberto

    Clifford Gilberto is a recording artist with London based record label Ninja Tune....
  • Coldcut
    Coldcut

    Coldcut are an England dance music duo comprising Matt Black and Jonathan More. They are well known for their pioneering technique of using of hip hop style samples in dance music....
  • Daedelus
    Daedelus (musician)

    Alfred Darlington is an Experimental Music Music_producer#Producers_and_modern_recording_technology based out of Los Angeles, California, California....
  • The Death Set
    The Death Set

    The Death Set is a music group originally formed mid 2005 in Sydney, Australia. Just six months after its inception it moved to the East Coast of the United States spending most of its time in Brooklyn, Baltimore and Philadelphia where the band found more of an audience for its style of spastic, cross genre, punk rock....
  • DJ Food
    DJ Food

    Originally produced by Coldcut on the Ninja Tune independent record label, the DJ Food project started in 1990 on the premise of providing metaphorical "food for Disc Jockey"....
  • DJ Toolz
    Mad Doctor X

    Mad Doctor X - the undercover alter-ego of hip-hop veteran DJ Jason Tunbridge . On the scene for years since he first blew up with Blapps Posse and Don't Hold Back the Mad Doctor X has been busy working in the lab conducting his illicit experiments and concocting his ill beats in various disguises ever since: London Funk Allstars a...
  • DJ Kentaro
    DJ Kentaro

    DJ Kentaro is a Hip hop music Disc Jockey from Japan. He came 3rd in the Technics Disco Mix Club in 2001 and won it in 2002 at the age of 20. In doing so, he became one of the first ever Asians to win the DMC World DJ Final, receiving the highest score in DMC history in the process....
  • DJ Vadim
    DJ Vadim

    DJ Vadim is a prolific Disc jockey and Record producer born in St. Petersburg, Russia, raised in London and now residing in New York and Port au Prince -Haiti....
  • DK
    Darren Knott

    Darren Knott, also known as DK, is a British disc jockey and record producer on the Ninja Tune independent record label.In 2001, along with DJ Food, he released the first album in the Solid Steel mix series, Solid Steel Presents: Now, Listen!, and the most recent, Solid Steel Presents: Now, Listen Again!....
  • The Dragons
  • Dwight Trible
  • Dynamic Syncopation
  • Fink
    Fink (music)

    Fink, AKA Fin Greenall, is an England singer-songwriter, producer and DJ from Brighton. It is also the name given to the touring trio fronted by Greenall himself, completed by Guy Whittaker and Tim Thornton ....
  • Flanger
    Flanger (music)

    The Flanger project was founded in 1997 by Uwe Schmidt and Bernd Friedmann , who have both been active in the music business since the early 1990s....
  • Fog
    Fog (band)

    Fog is a band fronted by Andrew Broder , which includes members Mark Erickson and Tim Glenn. For most of their existence, material released by Fog had been produced largely by Broder alone, combining both traditionally performed instruments and turntablism-derived sampling, until the switch to a traditional three-piece rock band format was a...
  • Funki Porcini
    Funki Porcini

    Funki Porcini is musician and Disc Jockey, James Braddell, from England.His music is a combination of Downtempo, Breakbeat and Jazz, with elements of Hip hop music, Drum and bass, Sampling and Audio timescale-pitch modification vocals....
  • Ghislain Poirier
    Ghislain Poirier

    Ghislain Poirier is a Disc jockey/Record producer from Montreal working under the Ninja Tune, Chocolate Industries, Rebondir, Shockout, Musique Large, Intr_version and 12k record labels....
  • The Heavy
    The Heavy (band)

    The Heavy are an England indie rock band from Noid, England. Combining crunchy guitar, funky horns, and Prince -like vocals, The Heavy play a mix of guitar heavy, hip-hop soul....
  • The Herbaliser
    The Herbaliser

    The Herbaliser is a Jazz / Hip hop music band formed by Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba and in London, England during the early 1990s. Currently one of the most well-known acts from the Ninja Tune independent record label, they have released 8 LPs, including two Disc Jockey mixes: one for Ninja Tune's Solid Steel series and the other for Fabric...
  • Hex
    Hex (VJ group)

    Hex, or Hex Media, were a London-based multimedia group founded in the early 1990s by artist Robert Pepperell, coder Miles Visman and the DJs Coldcut....
  • Hexstatic
    Hexstatic

    Hexstatic is a UK music duo, consisting of Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson, that specializes in creating "quirky audio visual electro ." Formed in 1997 after Hill and Brunson met while producing visuals at the Five launch party, they decided to take over for the original members of the Ninja Tune multimedia collective Hex that had disb...
  • Hint
  • Homelife
  • The Irresistible Force
  • Jaga Jazzist
    Jaga Jazzist

    Jaga Jazzist is an experimental jazz band from Norway that rose to prominence when the BBC named their first album, A Livingroom Hush , the best jazz album of 2002....
  • Kid Koala
    Kid Koala

    Eric San , who records under the name Kid Koala, is a Montreal, Quebec based DJ and turntablist. He is signed to the British Ninja Tune record label, is a member of jam band Bullfrog and alternative hip hop Supergroup Deltron 3030....
  • King Cannibal
  • Loka
  • London Funk Allstars
    Mad Doctor X

    Mad Doctor X - the undercover alter-ego of hip-hop veteran DJ Jason Tunbridge . On the scene for years since he first blew up with Blapps Posse and Don't Hold Back the Mad Doctor X has been busy working in the lab conducting his illicit experiments and concocting his ill beats in various disguises ever since: London Funk Allstars a...
  • The Long Lost
  • Max & Harvey
    Woob

    Woob is the stage name of British ambient music-dub music musician Paul Frankland....
  • Mr. Scruff
    Mr. Scruff

    Mr. Scruff is the recording name of Andy Carthy , a British DJ and artist. He lives in Stockport, England, and studied fine art at the Psalter Lane campus of Sheffield Hallam University....
  • Neotropic
  • One Self
    DJ Vadim

    DJ Vadim is a prolific Disc jockey and Record producer born in St. Petersburg, Russia, raised in London and now residing in New York and Port au Prince -Haiti....
  • Pest
    Pest (music)

    Pest are a band on the Ninja Tune independent record label, playing electronica with tinges of jazz, funk and Hip hop music.The band consists of Matt Chandler , Benjamin Mallott ...
  • The Qemists
  • Rainstick Orchestra
  • Roots Manuva
    Roots Manuva

    Rodney Smith , better known by his stage name Roots Manuva, is a rapping from Stockwell, South London. He is currently signed to Big Dada....
  • Sixtoo
    Sixtoo

    Sixtoo is the main project of a canadian Hip hop music DJ, MC and producer Vaughn Robert Squire. He was born in 1978 in Halifax Urban Area, Nova Scotia, Canada....
  • Skalpel
    Skalpel

    Skalpel are nu jazz Disc jockey and musicians, Marcin Cichy and Igor Pudlo, from Wroclaw in Poland. Their musical style is a distinctive blend of Hip hop music beats, laced with Sampling lifted from the rich seam of Polish jazz records of the 1960s and 1970s....
  • Spank Rock
    Spank Rock

    Spank Rock is an United States rap group. Their style is generally described as a mix of underground alternative rap and Electro music....
  • Super Numeri
    Super Numeri

    Super Numeri are an Experimental music instrumental group based in Liverpool and signed to the Ninja Tune label. The band was created by Pop Levi, Snap Ant and Karl Webb, who have recruited several other musicians in their recordings and live performances....
  • The Poets of Rhythm
  • T Love
  • Treva Whateva
  • Up, Bustle and Out
    Up, Bustle and Out

    Up, Bustle and Out are musicians and recording artists - DJ D. "Ein" Fell and producer-performer Rupert Mould from Bristol, United Kingdom. They have released a number of albums and singles on the Ninja Tune independent record label....
  • Wagon Christ
  • Yppah
    Yppah

    Yppah , aka Joe Corrales Jr., is electronic/rock musician signed to Ninja Tune records. He currently resides in Houston, Texas.His early teen years were spent playing guitar and bass guitar in rock bands, his later ones as a scratch DJ who mixed Hip hop music and House music in club sets, produced weird Mashup and was part of a Turntabli...
  • Zero db


Ninja Tune Compilations

  • The Original Sampler (July 1993, BS001)
  • Ninja Cuts Funkjazztical Tricknology (March 1995, ZENCD15)
  • Ninja Cuts Flexistentialism (24 March 1996, ZENCD22)
  • ColdKrushCuts - Mixed by Coldcut
    Coldcut

    Coldcut are an England dance music duo comprising Matt Black and Jonathan More. They are well known for their pioneering technique of using of hip hop style samples in dance music....
     / DJ Food
    DJ Food

    Originally produced by Coldcut on the Ninja Tune independent record label, the DJ Food project started in 1990 on the premise of providing metaphorical "food for Disc Jockey"....
     & DJ Krush
    DJ Krush

    , commonly known as DJ Krush, was born in 1962 in Tokyo. He's a producer and DJ known for his atmospheric instrumental productions which incorporates sound elements from nature along with extensive use of jazz and soul samples....
     (February 1997, ZENCD26)
  • Ninja Cuts Funkungfusion (28 April 1998, ZENCD33)
  • Zentonedada (sampler from Ninja Tune, Ntone and Big Dada) (1999, ZENTONEDADA 001)
  • Xen Cuts
    Xen Cuts

    Xen Cuts is a compilation album released by Ninja Tune independent record label on their tenth anniversary. The album was released in two and three disc versions, with the third disc "Xen Cuts Missed Flipped and Skipped" also released separately ....
     / Xen Cuts Missed Flipped and Skipped     (September 2000, ZENCD49, ZENCD49X, ZEN49)
A three-disc version of Xen Cuts was also released (ZENCD 049X) which included Xen Cuts Missed Flipped and Skipped.
  • Solesides Greatest Bumps
    Solesides Greatest Bumps

    Solesides Greatest Bumps is a compilation album produced, mixed and otherwised created by a fairly wide group of DJs and artists. It was released October 31, 2000 by Quannum Projects, on the Ninja Tune independent record label....
     (31 October, 2000)
  • Urban Renewal Program (August 2002, ZENCD72)
  • Zentertainment 2002 (August 2002, ZEN2002)
  • ZENtvDVD - Video Retrospective (2003, DVD containing 2 hours of Ninja Tune videos, ZENDV85)
  • ZEN CD - A Ninja Tune Retrospective (January 2004, ZENCD85)
  • ZEN RMX - A Retrospective of Ninja Tune Remixes (January 2004, ZENCD85R)
  • Zentertainment 2004 (March 2004, ZEN2004)
  • Zentertainment 2006 (July 2006, ZENCD2006)
  • You Don't Know: Ninja Cuts (March 2008)


Former Employees

Alastair Nicholson
Son Records

Son Records was set up in 1998 by Son_Records , to provide an outlet for hip-hop coming out the UK, whether by established names or more often than not, up and coming talent....
 - Head of Legal Affairs

Solid Steel

Solid Steel Logo
Solid Steel
Solid Steel

Solid Steel is the name of a series of DJ mixs issued on Ninja Tune independent record label in the United Kingdom.Solid Steel also has a radio station webcast and related live concerts which further showcase the DJing talents of such artists....
 is the title of a series of DJ mix CDs, a radio show
Radio programming

Radio programming is the content that is Broadcasting by radio stations.The original inventors of radio, such as Nikola Tesla and Guglielmo Marconi, expected it to be used for one-on-one communication tasks where telephones and telegraphs could not be used because of the impossibility of stringing wires from one point to another, such as in...
, weekly podcast and live nightclub
Nightclub

A nightclub is a Alcoholic beverage, Dance and entertainment Music venue which does its primary business after dark. People who frequent nightclubs are known as clubbers....
 events showcasing the talents of a number of Ninja Tune artists.

Footnotes


Reviews



External links

  • featuring interviews with Jonathan More and Peter Quicke.
  • Promotion agency of Ninja Tune in France.
  • Podcast. Interview with Jonathan Shedletzky on Ninja Tune and a mix of new and old music from the record label.


See also

  • List of record labels
    List of record labels

    This is a list of notable record labels.Owing to the large number of entries, the list has been divided by the first letter of the label's name, with labels starting with a number added to this page:...
  • List of electronic music record labels
    List of electronic music record labels

    This is a list of notable electronic music record labels:...
  • List of independent UK record labels
    List of independent UK record labels

    This is a list of notable independent record labels based in the United Kingdom. These labels are independent from the World music market and typically specialize in different forms of indie rock, punk rock, and styles of alternative rock, electronica, jazz, uk garage and Hip hop music....
  • Quannum Projects
    Quannum Projects

    Quannum Projects is a Hip hop music collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has been active since 1992 in music, when it was formed at UC Davis under the moniker Solesides....
  • List of Quebec record labels
    List of Quebec record labels

    This is a list of notable record labels from Quebec.* 7i?me Ciel Records* Alien8 Recordings* Ambiances Magn?tiques* Audiogram * Constellation Records...