What are your favourites from Ninja Tune XX Vol. 1 & 2?

Wow, so many quality tunes, such a mixture of vibes all throughout both discs, it's a good relaxing evening session to get through them both, I'm not a wine man but if I was it would be the perfect time to pop out some of the vintage stuff and sit back, I swear I was in the zone listening to this.


Lemme break some of the tracks down disc by disc.. why not!

My first pick from Volume 1 is the Todd Edwards remix of Spank Rock's 'What It Look Like'. The vocal manipulation is gorgeous and just a tight production on the beat by Todd but would u expect anything less, he's just a don! My second and third mixes are tracks I've already talked about but still get rinsed out in the background while I'm doing my work, 'Leave' by Dark Sky which drops in like a rainbow of colourful noise and 'Cloudlight' by Eskmo which is just beautifully clanky, haunting and I hope you know what I mean when I say this is the wettest tune I've heard in some while (sorry if you don't). My last pick is 'Lost and Found' by Amon Tobin, you really have to hear it for yourself, all I can say is that it's bloody hypnotising, straight out a fururistic western in my view.

Eskmo and Amon Tobin are monsters together, like a fucking multicoloured Power Ranger for creating 'Fine Objects' under the alias Eskamon. Some people aren't fans of that clanky sound but it just keeps me really interested, people don't see how I can get excited over an Eskmo tune, maybe not enough people 'get it' yet? I dunno. My second pick is also Amon Tobin, but the King Cannibals Clockwork Wolfen... a beautiful piece of music that just gets savaged, it's lovely. My last pick from Volume 2 is the somewhat awkward DELS with 'Eating Cloud' beat is sick, lyrics are flawless, happy to see Ninja Tune taking him down the 'right' route.. but honestly, if I could I work pick like 85 of the tracks on volume one and two...


...and while we're here talking about DELS, why don't you have a look at the video for 'Shapeshift' produced by Joe Goddard of Hot Chip.. happy days!