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Ninja Tune
Ninja Tune is a London-based independent record label started in 1993 by DJs Matt Black and Jonathan More, better known as Coldcut, with a strong leaning towards electronic, alternative hip hop, instrumental hip hop, nu jazz, drum and bass, and chillout music.
The label has developed a number of...
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Coldcut
Coldcut are an English dance music duo comprising Matt Black and Jonathan More. Their signature style is electronic dance music, featuring cut up samples of hip hop, breaks, jazz, spoken word and various other types of music.
In 1986, computer...
Amon Tobin
Amon Adonai Santos de Araújo Tobin (born 7 February 1972), better known as Amon Tobin, is a Brazilian electronic musician and DJ. He is best known for his use of sampling. Tobin is also credited with helping to create the emerging "trip hop" genre...
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- Aug 18, 1971 (age 38 years)
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- 1997
Luke Vibert
Luke Vibert is a British recording artist and producer known for his work in many subgenres of electronic music. He began his musical career as a member of the Hate Brothers, only later branching out into his own compositions. Vibert has recorded...
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- 1973 (age 37 years)
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Kid Koala
Eric San (born 1974 in Vancouver, Canada) , 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...
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- 1974 (age 36 years)
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The Cinematic Orchestra
The Cinematic Orchestra is a British-based jazz and electronic outfit, created in the late 1990s by Jason Swinscoe. The band is signed to Ninja Tune independent record label. In addition to Swinscoe, the band includes PC (former DJ Food member...
Rhys Chatham
Rhys Chatham (born September 19, 1952, New York City) is an American composer, guitarist, and trumpet player, primarily active in avant-garde and minimalist music. He is best known for his "guitar orchestra" compositions. He has lived in France...
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- Sep 19, 1952 (age 57 years)
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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 DJs". DJ Food released the Jazz Brakes series, with Jazz Brakes Volume 3 being the most...
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The Herbaliser
The Herbaliser is a Jazz / hip-hop band formed by Jake Wherry and Ollie Teeba in London, England during the early 1990s. Although currently signed to !K7 Records, they were one of the most well-known acts from the Ninja Tune independent record label...
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 Channel Five launch party, they...
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Up, Bustle and Out
Up, Bustle and Out are musicians and recording artists - DJ D. "Ein" Fell (also known as Clandestine Ein) and producer-performer Rupert Mould (also known as Sêenor Roody) from Bristol, UK. They have released a number of albums and singles on the...
DJ Kentaro
DJ Kentaro is a Hip hop DJ from Japan. He came 3rd in the Technics DMC World DJ Final 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...
Skalpel
Skalpel are nu jazz DJs and musicians, Marcin Cichy and Igor Pudło, from Wrocław in Poland. Their musical style is a distinctive blend of hip hop beats, laced with samples lifted from the rich seam of Polish jazz records of the 1960s and 1970s.
In...
Darren Knott
Darren Knott, also known as DK, is a British disc jockey and record producer on the Ninja Tune independent record label.
DK's began working for Ninja Tune, performing remixes of Coldcut's track "Timber" (1998) and Gamine's track "My Virgin Summer"....
Antipop Consortium
Antipop Consortium are an alternative hip hop group. The group formed in 1997, when Beans, High Priest, M. Sayyid and producer Earl Blaize met at a poetry slam in New York City . They are notable for their stream-of-consciousness lyrics and musical...
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- 1997
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- 2002
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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. Their sound, distinctively more sun than North Sea, is a smoky Mediterranean mix of...
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Alfred Weisberg-Roberts
Alfred Darlington (born Alfred Weisberg-Roberts) is an experimental music producer based out of Los Angeles, California. Daedelus pioneered using the Monome in conjunction with Max/MSP for live performances. He is a part of the groups Adventure Time...
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- Oct 31, 1977 (age 32 years)
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Ghislain Poirier
Ghislain Poirier is a DJ/producer from Montreal working under the Ninja Tune, Chocolate Industries, Rebondir, Shockout, Musique Large, Intr_version and 12k record labels.
His work mainly consists of original instrumental mixes and mixes featuring...
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- Jul 30, 1976 (age 33 years)
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Clifford Gilberto
Clifford Gilberto is a recording artist with London based record label Ninja Tune.
He was signed to the Ninja Tune label in 1997 as The Clifford Gilberto Rhythm Combination as the first non-British act on the label and released an album, titled I...
Snap Ant
Snap Ant (real name James Morgan) is an English musician and producer based in Liverpool. In 1997 he released Omnium EP on Ntone as Omnium. In addition to his solo work, Snap Ant has also worked alongside Pop Levi and Karl Webb as part of Super...
Jaga Jazzist
Jaga Jazzist (also known as Jaga) is an experimental jazz band from Norway that rose to prominence when the BBC named their first album, A Livingroom Hush (Smalltown Supersound/Ninja Tune), the best jazz album of 2002. The core of the band are...
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Fingathing
Fingathing are an instrumental Nu jazz / hip-hop band from Manchester, UK, comprising classically trained Double bass player Sneaky and DJ / turntablist Peter Parker.
Parker was a finalist at the UK DMC DJ Championship, where Mark Rae was on the...
Super Numeri
Super Numeri are an experimental 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...
Pest
Pest are a band on the Ninja Tune independent record label, playing electronic music with tinges of jazz, funk and hip-hop. The band consists of Matt Chandler (guitars), Benjamin Mallott (DJ / keys), Thomas Marriott (trombone) and Wayne Urquhart ...
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Hint
Hint is musician Jonathan James (born 1981), hailing from Sussex in the UK.
Hint's music is at the more chilled-out, downtempo end of the Ninja Tune roster. Several tracks feature looped acoustic guitar and keyboard sounds and his style has been...
Date of birth:
- 1981 (age 29 years)
Hex
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. The group set out to exploit the creative potential of, what was then, the new media technologies...
Roots Manuva
Rodney Hylton Smith (born 1972), better known by his stage name Roots Manuva, is a rapper from Stockwell, South London. He is currently signed to Big Dada.
Smith grew up around Stockwell in South London. His parents were from a small village in...
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- 1972 (age 38 years)
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The Irresistible Force
Mixmaster Morris, real name, Morris Gould, (born in Brighton, England in 1965) is an ambient DJ and underground musician.
Morris Gould was born in Brighton, grew up in Lincolnshire and was educated at Millfield in Somerset and King's College London....
Date of birth:
- 1965 (age 45 years)
Bonobo
'Bonobo is the stage name of Simon Green, a British musician, producer and DJ.
Green has recorded and performed solo DJ sets under the name Barakas, and together with Robert Luis from Tru Thoughts as Nirobi and Barakas.
Bonobos first release was in...
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- 2000
Blockhead
Blockhead (born Anthony "Tony" Simon) is an American Hip hop 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...
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Si Begg
Si Begg (born 1972) is electronic dance music DJ, musician and record producer Simon Begg, from Leicester, England. His music combines elements of Experminetal, Downtempo, Breakbeat Ambient, Drum and bass, Turntablism and Jazz. Begg grew up in...
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- 1972 (age 38 years)
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Funki Porcini
Funki Porcini is musician and DJ, James Braddell, from England. His music is a combination of Downtempo, Breakbeat and Jazz, with elements of Hip hop, Drum and bass, sampling and time-stretched vocals.
He spent ten years in Italy making music for...
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DJ Vadim
DJ Vadim (aka Vadim Peare) is a prolific DJ and producer, born in Leningrad, USSR (now Saint Petersburg, Russia), raised in London and currently residing in both New York and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, whose music combines hip hop, soul, reggae and...
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Fink
Fink, AKA Fin Greenall, is an English 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 (bass) and Tim Thornton (drums).
Fink was born in Cornwall...
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Mr. Scruff
Mr. Scruff is the recording name of Andy Carthy (born in 1972 in Macclesfield, England), a British DJ and artist. He lives in Stockport, England, and studied fine art at the Psalter Lane campus of Sheffield Hallam University. Before he could make a...
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- 1972 (age 38 years)
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Sixtoo
Sixtoo is the main project of a Canadian hip hop DJ, MC and producer Vaughn Robert Squire. Born on January 29, 1974 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Squire rose to prominence in the mid-90's underground hip-hop scene initially as a member of...
Date of birth:
- 1974 (age 36 years)
Joe Corrales
Yppah (pronounced "Yippah"), 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 in rock bands, his later ones as a scratch...
Date of birth:
- Mar 31, 1981 (age 28 years)
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Fog
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...
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- 1999
Flanger
The Flanger project was founded in 1997 by Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom Heart) and Bernd Friedmann (aka Burnt Friedman), who have both been active in the music business since the early 1990s. The two musicians met up to program their first album Templates...
The Heavy
The Heavy are an English indie rock band from Noid, England.
The core of the group, guitarist Dan Taylor and vocalist Kelvin Swaby, became friends in 1990 when they bonded over vintage R&B; and Jim Jarmusch films. The other members of the band are...
Mad Doctor X
Mad Doctor X - the undercover alter-ego of hip-hop veteran DJ Jason Tunbridge (aka Xavier Jones, Funk Wizard Jay Rock, DJ Jason, Monty Props). On the scene for years since he first blew up with Blapps Posse and Don't Hold Back (released in 1990 and...
Kevin Martin
Kevin Martin is a London-based English musician, record producer, and journalist. He has been active for over a decade, in the genres of dub, jazzcore, industrial hip-hop, and dubstep. His main projects include God, Techno Animal, Ice, Curse of the...
The Qemists
The Qemists are a drum and bass band from Brighton, United Kingdom signed to Ninja Tune indie record label based in London. The band consists of Dan Arnold, Leon Harris and Liam Black.
The Qemists were originally the drummer, bassist and guitarist...
