Coldcut / Hexstatic

So I flipping love Coldcut & Hexstatic. I have learned a lot from many many AV acts but the real reason I got into video sampling/remixing stuff was because of seeing Coldcut & Hexstatic’s “Timber”. Timber was an awesome track made out of video samples and though I am sure there are other great previous examples of AV Remix this was the first time I had ever seen it.

After seeing Timber I wanted to know how to make shit like this. I started using Coldcut/Camart’s VJAMM software which was basically a video sampler, the first EM shows were done using this software and CDJs. Aside from pioneering AV, Coldcut have been none too shabby in their other areas of work, writing bonafide hits for folk like Lisa Stansfield & Yazz in the 80s then using the money to start the NinjaTune record label which is still a staple of hits today. Fatboy Slim credits them with inspiring his route into hit making in this 80’s interview and The Prodigy’s Liam Howlett calls them the inspiration for  “The Dirt Chamber Sessions”. 

The Future

Psst.  Hey you, come a little closer.  I want to tell you something about the future.  It will either be:  A mind-bendingly awesome; utopian landscape where all of Earth’s problems have been resolved and technology and humanity have evolved to create harmony.  

Or it might be a fucked-up dystopian nightmare. Where artificial intelligence has surpassed that of it’s creators.  Or perhaps humans have ravaged the Earth to such a degree that it has gone into full revolt.  Or A scarcity of resources has humans warring over water.  It depends on which film you watch or what time of day you might have asked Stanley Kubrick’s opinion.

Eclectic Method has supercut some of our favorite scenes from movies that turn a predictive eye to the future. Blade Runner’s Megacities alongside A.I.’s flooded New York and Idiocracy’s run down shanty towns. Some technology predictions in these films have already proven to be accurate and some are still a ways off - or not! … cameras on every corner, oil shortages, massive cultural uprisings in the middle east, retinal scans, X-Rays, flying cars and hoverboards, hybrid humans, robots, A.I., teleportation and so on. Who really watches Sci-Fi for the plot anyway, you wanna see the goodness condensed.

Rest assured though, in the future, as in the present, there will be both Coke and Pepsi!

FILMS USED:

2001
A.I.
Aeon Flux
Avatar
Back To The Future II
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
Blade Runner
Demolition Man
Event Horizon
eXitenZ
The Fifth Element
Idocracy
I-Robot
Metropolis
MIB
Minority Report
Robocop
Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow
Sleeper
Star Trek
Star Wars IV
T2
T3
Terminator Salvation
Total Recall
Ultraviolet