Browse by Label: NINJA TUNE (UK)

Artist:	DJ FOOD
Title:	Jazz Breaks 4
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 006CD

"Originally produced by Coldcut the DJ Food project started in 1990 with the release of Jazz Brakes. Not only are they effective collections of breaks, loops and samples ideal for mixing, remixing and producing -- but also fine collections of funky jazz & hip hop tunes, that cut it just as well on the discerning dancefloor as in the safety of your own home... Since the growth of the abstract hip hop scene recent years the Jazz Brakes albums have proved to be ahead of their time. Jazz Brakes Volumes 4 & 5, co-created with DJ/producer PC, are collections of finely crafted tunes that transcend the breakbeat compilation format to stand as artist albums in their own right. These latter DJ Food albums have developed with shades of Latin, dub, techno, ambient, tribal, African and jungle flavoring the funk."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Ninja Cuts Vol. 1 - Funkjazztical Tricknology
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 015CD

Reissue of the 1995 release. "After many extremely dope releases, it was decided that the Ninja Cuts series should be born. A way to round up some of the best tunes every few years, throw in some rare/un-released stuff, invite some friends from other labels along and generally provide some really good sampler action, It all started out with the modest single CD release of Vol.1, moved to 2CD, and by the time we got to Volume 4, it had turned into a monster 3CD set with 6LP box set. How's that for progression. This one was a monster for it's time." Artists: DJ Food, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Attica Blues, London Funk AllStars, 9 Lazy 9, The Herbaliser, Up Bustle & Out, Coldcut, Ashley Beedle, and Funki Porcini.

Artist:	FUNKI PORCINI
Title:	Hed Phone Sex
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 017CD

Reissue of this 1995 disc, now w/ a bonus CD of extra mixes. "Starting out as one half of 9 Lazy 9, James Braddell branched out solo style to become the undisputed master of fungus inspired perv-beat. When this record arrived on the scene it helped define what would come to be known as trip-hop...and although we all learned to hate that word eventually, we didn't hate on the music, and this records still stands as one of the finest examples of that era. Bonus CD contains rare tracks, and remixes by Plaid, and Dillinja."

Artist:	DJ FOOD
Title:	Recipe For Disaster
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 020CD

"Recipe For Disaster marked a bit of a changing of the guard so to speak. Matt Black & Jon More (Coldcut) had originally started DJ Food as a moniker they could record under while the Coldcut name was in legal limbo. Over the years they recorded 5 volumes of the fabulous Jazz Brakes series, picking up collaborators along the way. Two of these collaborators were P.C & Strictly Kev. This record was the one that all four of them worked together on, and once it was finished the DJ Food name was officially passed on to P.C & Strictly."

Artist:	DJ FOOD
Title:	Refried Food
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 021CD

"After A Recipe For Disaster was released, it was agreed that the time was right to hand over the parts to the DJ Food catalog to some of our favorite producers at the time to have a stab at re-working some classic shit. And deliver these people did. Some of these mixes sit as some of the best stuff to ever come out on Ninja. Remixes by Squarepusher, Wagon Christ, Autechre, Dr. Rockit, Ashley Beedle, and more. When this was first released it was a 1 CD set. A lot of mixes were only available on vinyl. However what kind of classic re-issue would it be if we didn't grab every extra mix and put it on a bonus CD. So for the first time ever mixes by Mr. Scrutf, Lemon D, Coldcut, Neotropic and more and seeing the light on CD."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Ninja Cuts Vol. 2 - Flexistentialism
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 022CD

Reissue of 1996 release. "Volume 2 contains tracks that have been in DJ boxes ever since its' release. Most notably Luke Vibert's contribution 'Get Your Head Down' (you know the one 'hip-hop will rock and shock the nation...')." Artists: DJ Food, Funki Porcini, The Herbaliser, Up, Bustle And Out, Coldcut, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Luke Vibert, London Funk Allstars, 2 Player, Ashley Beedle, The Uchi Classen Band, DJ Vadim, 9 Lazy 9, Illuminati Of The Hedfuk, and Funki Porcini.

Artist:	CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA
Title:	Every Day
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 059CD

"At a time when the chill out thing substitutes blandness for maturity, when so called 'nu-jazz' groups loop up some flutes with a boring beat and have the nerve to call it jazz, and electronic music seems to be searching for its dummy again, J. Swinscoe's Cinematic Orchestra return to blow away all your expectations. Back in 1999, the group's debut record Motion set critical tongues wagging with its unique take on modern electronic music production techniques and the sheer visual energy of its sound. Now the group return with a follow-up which is deeper than the ocean, packing a tremendous emotional punch, by turns mournful and celebratory and with a rigor that is so often lacking in contemporary cut and paste. Across seven sweeping, dramatic tracks, the group take you through classic soul, jazz, choral pieces, sinking horn riffs, throbbing harp b-lines, minimalism and more. All imbued with a contemporary edge and an intellect that keeps things as far as possible from lazy wallpaper wank. And with guests of the caliber of Fontella Bass (the writer and performer of '60s soul masterpiece 'Rescue Me' and sometime performer with jazz renegades the Art Ensemble of Chicago) and Roots Manuva (whose contribution to 'All Things To All Men' involves the kind of lyrics that stay in your head for weeks)... you know that you're in for something special."

Artist:	FLANGER
Title:	Outer Space/Inner Space
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 061CD

"Once again two of the most prolific producers in electronic music, Atom Heart & Bernd Friedmann, team up as Flanger to create 8 more tracks of avant-garde electro-jazz. As Flanger the two pair up to create electronic jazz in a way that blurs the lines between analog & electronics. Between them both they play all instruments and then mash it all up in the computer. One minute you think you're listening to vintage Miles, Marc Moulin, or Nucleus (the good Nucleus aka Ian Carr, not the new crappy Nucleus), and the next you're listening to some weird techno bridge in the track which all crashes back into jazz territory... nice."

Artist:	FOG
Title:	Fog
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 062CD

"Andrew Broder aka Fog started to make this album with one simple question on his mind. Is there more to using a turntable to make your music than as a vehicle for showing how good you are at playing the turntable? The answer is complicated, but it's also beautiful, as well as funny, sometimes sad and, in its own downbeat way, sort of uplifting. Or to put it another way, the answer can be yes. Influenced by post-rock, folk and blues as much as hip hop, Broder has aimed to make a record which moves you, rather than just making you bob your head and your mind reveling in the technique. It's a risky strategy, leaving Fog open to all manner of snide asides, but we think he succeeds admirably. This is still a cut and paste album but it also uses guitars and Broder's singing to make a unique sounding record of single-minded strangeness."

Artist:	THE HERBALISER
Title:	Something Wicked This Way Comes
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 064CD

"Emotive words from the distant past applied to the invention of something wholly of the now. Herein, episode four, featuring 13 monster chapters of verse, rhyme and riff. The Herbaliser's Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba weigh in with all the required and acquired experience, ability and know how, to produce arguably their finest album work to date. Sample based dons they remain. Although, this time round many of the samples are their own and the dons tag extends out to the family of musicians and collaborators whose arrangements helped shape this extraordinary LP."

Artist:	MR. SCRUFF
Title:	Trouser Jazz
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 065CD

"Hotter than one of those display cabinet things they put the fish that's just come out of the fryer in at the chippy, Mr Scruff has underlined his undoubted status as Britain's finest open minded DJ. The album Keep It Unreal -- released to universal acclaim in July '99 -- cemented his status as maverick with the crankiest tunes on the the playground. Even Madonna name checked Mr Scruff, claiming Keep It Unreal had been a regular spin on her hometown Hi- Fi. Big up yerself, Madge. You've heard the first single lifted from this record 'Shrimp'- an inspired fusion of Mizell Brothers cool and Roger Troutman's squelchy funk. The forthcomingO delivers on the promise of that single. Featuring collaborations with highly touted homegrown rap talent Braintax on 'Vibrate', Homelife's octave defying Seaming To singing on another genre-defying carve up and I see we've not run out of great titles if 'Come on Grandad' is anything to go by..."

Artist:	ANTIBALAS
Title:	Talkatif
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 066CD

"New record by Brooklyn's hardest working afro-beat collective. Antibalas (Spanish for 'Bulletproof,' literally 'Anti-bullets') is the next generation of Afrobeat in the tradition of the Black President, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. This fifteen plus piece band hits hard with the left and the right -- monstrous horns and bass layered over funky polyrhythmic beats and breaks coupled with furious lyrics challenging and attacking the dehumanizing capitalist system and inciting insurrection in English, Yoruba, and Spanish. Antibalas formed in May 1998 from members of Desco Records' Soul Providers and the Daktaris. They were quickly joined by like-minded New York musicians active in the worlds of jazz, rock, improvised music, and traditional drumming from Cuba and Brazil. This union of Latinos, whites, African-Americans, Africans and Asian-Americans is based in Brooklyn, NYC."

Artist:	BOWDEN, CHRIS
Title:	Slightly Askew
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 067CD

"First off we have to say that the four (yes four, four very long tracks) compositions that square the circle of Bowden's new album Slightly Askew pick up from where Time Capsule, his debut long player on Soul Jazz, left off. The trademark sonic sculptures develop over four epic studies in harmony and counterpoint and present angular themes that are deconstructed to their minimalist origins before new mutations take us to a wholly new place. The beats of Tom Gordon and Andy Hamill lay down the funk for layers of horns, strings, woodwind, keyboards and percussion to extrapolate in the vertical and the horizontal to the max... whew! This is a truly organic journey that challenges us to examine the preconceptions of our musical reference."

Artist:	DJ VADIM
Title:	U.S.S.R. The Art Of Listening
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 068CD

"Hip hop's favorite Russian ex-pat returns with his third album. ...Listening has all of the angular abstractions of Vadim's earlier work, but here it is combined with a new depth of musicality, a love of bass and an interest in music and words from around the world. So, alongside US MCs like Slug, Gift of Gab, Motion Man and Vakill, and the cream of underground UK wordspitters Taskforce and Phi Life Cypher, can be found Polish jazz legend Urzula Dudziak (a favored sample source for A Tribe Called Quest back in the day), Gruff from Super Furry Animals, Ade Soma and the Rev'd Clevie Brown. Tablas and djembe drums mix with Japanese flutes, Brazilian guitars, spoken word, obscure scratched sound bites all build the whole into something unusual and special. It makes for a heady mixture, a record which Vadim describes as 'a very grown up but cheeky and extremely musical album.' Urban but experimental, fresh and different, this record goes beyond not only what he has done before, but beyond much of today's hip hop. With its global view of music, its new emphasis on soul, and its concrete feel for the aesthetic of the sample, The Art Of Listening is funny, serious, unique."

Artist:	DJ VADIM
Title:	USSR: The Art Of Listening (Instrumentals)
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 068RLP

"Hear all your favorite cuts in all their naked glory. Put new vocals over the cuts and pretend that for one shining moment you too got smuggled out of Russia when you were young and went on to be an internationally known hip-hop producer... Okay, enough. This is some handy shit. Kids got to have it. As an added bonus there's some tracks on here that are instrumentals of cuts that never even made the original version of the album."

Artist:	D.S.P.
Title:	In The Red
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 069CD

"DSP are Jonny Cuba & the Loop Professor, long-time contributors to South London's growing Hip-Hop scene. Both share a love of dusty old record shops, 45s, sci-fi films, funky blues, soul & jazz. Their sound is inspired by Hip-Hop mega-producers like Pete Rock, DJ Premier & Diamond D as well as older innovative producers like Quincy Jones, David Axelrod & James Brown. In The Red combines the lyrical skills of UK and US emcees going toe to toe with DSP's heavyweight beats. Favorites from the last LP Mass Influence & Juice Aleem are back in action, along with old school legend Chill Rob G the Original (I got the Power). Added to the mix are rising stars like Apathy, Def Tex & Phi-Life Cypher."

Artist:	TOBIN, AMON
Title:	Out From Out Where
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 070CD

"Amon Tobin continues his adventures with the breakbeat on this, his fourth album. Darker, more complex, even more rhythmically driving and intense than before, this huge record will cement Tobin's reputation as one of the most innovative and important names in music today. Out From Out Where differs from its predecessor in that was made using only found sounds (most of them generated by Amon himself) while here he steps back to some slightly more traditional sources (displaying in particular, a love of guitar licks). When Tobin takes a sample source he is never happy until he has warped, filtered and fucked with it until it sounds like something straight from his head; and not just anywhere in his head, but that dingy, cob-webbed corner where no one should go. Lots of new sounds and instantly recognizable as Amon."

Artist:	SUPER NUMERI
Title:	Great Aviaries
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 073CD

"Super Numeri specialize in long, intense journeys into music that recall Miles Davis' seventies experiments and the work of Can without seeming beholden to either. The product of a unique communal collective, the results are languorous soundscapes, with a use of live instruments and spiky intelligence, which take them a million miles from lazy 'ambient' music. Self-avowed avant-garde traditionalists, the three core members of Super Numeri gathered together ten others for the making of a record which they describe in the following terms: 'Sometimes it's ugly. Sometimes it's immensely beautiful. At all times it's high and glorious!' Listen to a new sound coming from an old place."

Artist:	PEST
Title:	Necessary Measures
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 074CD

"Expect: ridiculous bass, a low attention threshold, George Benson being murdered by men with big sticks, huge bass, drill & bass reworked as bass & bass, cartoon music made psycho-nasty, garage rock into UK garage. You could point to the Blockheads or Tackhead (why is it always 'Heads'?) but this is a band that genuinely sounds unlike any other you've ever heard -- or like the greatest, most fucked up UK punk 'funk' band since... Don't expect: any arty-fartsy nonsense, knowing winks, to have time to get bored."

Artist:	HEXSTATIC
Title:	Listen & Learn
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 075CD

"The 2nd installment of the Solid Steel series. Based on Coldcuts worldwide syndicated radio show. Throw in (why not?) a brand now exclusive track in Telemetron, with specially made video on the CD, an extensive journey through the boys' first love -- electro, plus funk, reggae, rock, hip hop and must-have porn groaning and you have a killer mix. 0f course you get all the Solid Steel goodies too, like special intros, custom made tracks, special edits." Features: DJ Food, Grandmaster Flash, David Holmes, Toots & the Maytals, Boards of Canada, Shirley Bassey, Man Parrish, Incredible Bongo Band, etc.

Artist:	JAGA JAZZIST
Title:	A Living Room Hush
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 076CD

"Worlwide re-issue of this Norway act's amazing debut. The comparisons reached for by the press were as broad as they get -- from Talk Talk, Soft Machine, Eric Satie, John Coltrane and Don Cherry to acts like Aphex Twin, Stereolab, Squarepusher, Isotope 217 and Tortoise. This range sums up the breadth and originality of the group's sound. Jaga Jazzist are indeed a musical one off who's arsenal includes trumpets, trombone, electric guitar, bass, tuba, two bass clarinets, Fender Rhodes and vibraphone, and it is the mixture of these instruments with a sometimes harsh electronic edge that really makes the music stand out. It is melodic, delicate and subtle but a million miles from wallpaper music. It is music that demands and rewards attention, further proof that you don't have to shout to avoid being lazy chill-out-by-numbers. It's a journey into sounds and moods that manages to sound both classic and contemporary and is an oasis to anyone interested in music which combines iconoclasm with beauty, melody with avant gardism and, in general, a complete lack of interest in anything other than good music."

Artist:	FOG
Title:	Ether Teeth
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 077CD

"Ether Teeth, Fog's second LP, is, in his own words, 'a heavy-headed hopeful opus, an urban vaudevillian symphony about birds, war, mystery, jealousy, old tyme dudes and most importantly L-O-V-E. (I know, I know...)'. So what does it sound like? We could give you some trite Neil Young-meets-Kid-Koala-and-Randy-Newman-at-the-Anticon-house straw to grasp at, but it would only piss you off and wouldn't get you any closer to where Broder's going. Let's just say that it's a pretty unique record from a pretty unique man, a great big American symphony made out of scraps and after-thoughts, somehow sophisticated and naive in equal measure."

Artist:	JAGA JAZZIST
Title:	The Stix
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 081CD

"The Stix was released in Norway in August 2002 through Smalltown. Now it sees worldwide release via Ninja Tune. As with their first album this was produced by Norwegian super producer Jorgen Tr�en, the man behind Duper Studios in Bergen(home of Royksopp, Kings of Convenience, Sondre Lerche et.al.) but this time Jaga wanted to push their musical limits even further and really create sound they could genuinely call 'Jaga Jazzist'. The proof of their efforts is in the record The Stix with a greater electronic influence never looses the organic nature of a live 10 piece and is the perfect balance between (hu)man and machine. Genuinely original music."

Artist:	KID KOALA
Title:	Some of My Best Friends are DJs
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 082CD

"His 2nd full length. A cross between his first mix tape and his debut record. More short attention span theatre covering ground that ranges from jazz standards as played by drunken horn players from New Orleans, funeral marches involving crickets, ska tracks that Byron Lee could have never imagined, some straight up instrumental hip-hop stompers, behind the scenes looks at his previous hits, and lovely odes to lonely office girls on vacation."

Artist:	THE HERBALISER
Title:	Herbal Blend
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$22.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 083CD

"The Herbaliser are ace production duo Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba and they have two distinct sides to their story. There's the many headed funk machine that is The Herbaliser live band that has rocked sweaty crowds worldwide and then there's the rootsier 4 deck show with head honchos Jake & Ollie just mashing things up old school DJ style. On this CD you get them in DJ mode showcasing their influences and favorites and, hell, just tracks that sounded good with the other tracks. The chaps take us on a whirlwind tour dropping everything from spooky film soundtracks, classic hip hop, greasy funk, go-go and even party monsters like 'Groove Is In The Heart'. All beautifully mixed with the Solid Steel extras you've come to expect like custom made tracks, edits, special intros and plenty of scratchy biznizz."

Artist:	MR. SCRUFF
Title:	Keep It Solid Steel Vol. 1
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 084CD

"Although there is no specific musical plan for the series (you can't pigeonhole Scruff), the first CD is a rock solid foundation for the others to build on and covers in its 74 fantastic minutes, bouncy reggae, classic hip hop, deep soul, rare funk, dancefloor jazz, heavy beats and leftfield electronic nuggets. You get tracks from Big Youth, Just Ice, Ultramagnetic M.C's, Showbiz & AG, Lords Of The Underground, Tipper, Prefuse 73, Soul to Soul, Pharoah Sanders, The Arsonists, and loads more. 31 tracks in all mashed in there."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Zen: A Retrospective
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 085CD

"SO Repeat After Me: 'Ninja is not a trip-hop label', 'Ninja is not a dance label', 'Ninja is not a big beat label', 'Ninja is not an electronic label', 'Ninja is not an instrumental label', 'Ninja is just a shit hot label that just puts out dope shit that they like'. There. Got it out of my system. So it you think of us fondly as some trip-hop label you used to like in 1998 but lost track of, then re-live your love with these 2 sets, then get over it and check out some of our releases from the last few years. If you think we sucked back in 1998, then don't buy either of these sets, and then get over it and check out some of the stuff we've released in the last few years." Artists: DJ Food, Coldcut, Amon Tobin, Bonobo, Mr Scruff, Wagon Christ, Kid Koala, Luke Vibert, Hexstatic, Cinematic Orchestra, Funki Porcini, DJ Vadim, The Herbaliser, 9 Lazy 9, Up Bustle & Out, Jaga Jazzist.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Zen TV
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	DVD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 085DVD

"Every video we've ever made all compiled together. Over three and a half hours of material. Extras include a video mix/mash-up by Hexstatic, and a gallery of all Ninja Tune album sleeve art. Comes packaged with a 16 page book which gives detailed history on the videos." Artists: Kid Koala, Jaga Jazzist, Coldcut, Hexstatic, Amon Tobin, Mr Scruff, Bonobo, Herbaliser, Skalpel, Funki Porcini, DJ Vadim, Blockhead, Wagon Christ, Cinematic Orchestra, Pointer Sisters, Flanger, Animals On Wheels, Pest, Homelife.

Artist:	SIXTOO
Title:	Chewing On Glass & Other Miracle Cures
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 086CD

"Now signed to Ninja Tune, Sixtoo has come through with a whole new type of record, easily the best record of his career so far. Yeah, it's still hip hop in some senses, but it's also a whole lot more. Can's Damo Suzuki, Norsola and Thierry from Godspeed You Black Emperor, Matt Kelly, Eric Craven from The Hanged Up and many more can all be heard programmed and chopped in the signature Sixtoo style. And sometimes the audio tricks are left alone in favor of some straight quality live playing. All brought together to create what is essentially a psyche rock/jazz masterpiece as made by a long time hip-hop producer."

Artist:	BLOCKHEAD
Title:	Music By Cavelight
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 088CD

"On Music By Cavelight the downtown New Yorker with production credits for the likes of Aesop Rock and Slug of Atmosphere fame, comes through with some of the most sublime, understated, melancholic hip hop you're likely to hear this year. From the anti-fanfare of opener 'Insomniac Olympics', through the elegiac strings and slomo disco-bass of 'Carnivores Unite' on into the two-minutes-to-midnight atmospherics of 'You've Got Maelstrom', the spread out reggaephonics of 'A Better Place', and right on up to the flute and eastern violin anomie of Music By Cavelight, this is a record that establishes its own emotional space and holds it from start to finish. First 5000 copies of the record contain a bonus CD/Bonus 12" containing 6 instrumental cuts that originally appeared on Aesop Rock records."

Artist:	LOKA
Title:	Fire Shepherds
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 089CD

"It seems that Karl Webb (member of the sprawling Super Numeri, hear 'The Welcome Table' for more details) and Mark Kyriacou haven't been wasting their time at their Merseyside studio, they have instead been busy creating a music which at times sounds like Miles Davis jamming with Carl Craig and the Kronos Quartet. Only a lot more fun. Fire Shepherds is an album outside of time, immune to trend.You could argue that like Cinematic Orchestra the duo share an interest in the movie soundtrack as something to set our own lives to.You'd be on safe ground stating that like Jaga, Loka are concerned with the point where rhythms cease to be generic and just become propulsion. But neither of these references can fully do justice to Loka's love for cascades of emotive strings and the jazz/rock experiments of the late sixties and early seventies."

Artist:	WAGONCHRIST
Title:	Sorry I Make You Lush
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 091CD

"Luke Vibert aka Wagon Christ is back (once again). Behold. The only man to have recorded full length albums for Warp, Mo' Wax and the mighty Ninja, the Cornwall School's answer to Marcel Duchamp (only kitscher), the man who put the sticky wet patches into ambient, the magic tricks into drill 'n' bass, the rip into, erm, instrumental hip hop, the only living musician trying to keep Vicks' market share up. Sorry I Made You Lush displays all the trademark Wagon Christ tricks -- woozy, gaudy, beautiful kitschtronica, the tightest, tidiest funk drummage and anus-wobbling sub bass. But there is, of course, a little more than that. Mr Vibert does it again -- before you know it you're gulping down endless handfuls of sugar coated avant garde pills and not even noticing the levels of cleverness, the sheer range of inventiveness, the subtlety of this West Country music machine."

Artist:	HEXSTATIC
Title:	Master View
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 092CD

"New release from arguably the top audio/visual collage artists out there (although Coldcut might have something to say about that, but we keep it friendly around here). CD & DVD set. In true Hexstatic style they've not only come out with 11 new bangers, but they've made a video for each track. Which is only fitting really considering that they get their sound sources from video and their video sources are synched with their sounds." NTSC All-region DVD.

Artist:	9 LAZY 9
Title:	Paradise Blown
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 009CD

Artist:	UP BUSTLE AND OUT
Title:	One Colour Reflects Another
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 019CD

Artist:	FINGATHING
Title:	And the Big Red Nebula Band
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 053CD

Artist:	BONOBO
Title:	Dial 'M' For Monkey
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 080CD

Artist:	VA
Title:	Zen Remixes
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 085RCD

Artist:	SKALPEL
Title:	Skalpel
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 087CD

Artist:	AIRBORN AUDIO
Title:	Good Fortune
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD