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A month on from my first classic album post (Entroducing by DJ Shadow) I felt like doing another! I've had no feedback if anyone is actually reading but it keeps me busy I guess!

After a bit of inspiration in the form of the suggestion Febake might blog about "Say Kids What Time Is It" by Coldcut, this months album is "Journeys By DJ - 70 Minutes Of Madness mixed by Coldcut" and it does kinda follow on where Entroducing left off, if not chronologically (Journeys by DJ pre-dates Entroducing by some 12 months) then rhythmically, starting with a crunchy breakbeat and Coldcuts trademark scratching and sampling and progressing trough old-school jungle, reggae and breakbeat this mix CD definitely did not follow the trend of 1995!

Far from the all-the-latest-tunes-mixed-on-two-cds type compilations that were just starting to gain favour this CD includes 35 tunes in just 70 minutes, alluding to the cutup nature of a Coldcut mix CD and boy does it do it well! Switching from old-school jungle over a reggae backing to scratched up dub, beatboxing, bubbling 303s, brass band stabs more scratchy vocals and back to flanged and phased old-school jungle all in a matter of a few minutes! The CD includes a four track segue of Coldcuts own tunes in the middle (Beats And Pieces, That Greedy Beat, The Music Maker and Find A Way) which still rates as one of my favourite ever!

If you're in anyway interested in jungle, breakbeat, hip hop or just want to hear something different from back in the day this truly is an essential album to have in your collection, some copies do command quite a price (see Here) but thanks to it's 2002 re-issue on V2 recordings you should be able to find it for more reasonable money (See Here).

"I got rhythms I haven't used yet!"