#20: The History Of Cut-Up

A grand blog post title indeed, however...

Having not heard it for a good 12 months or so, today I stumbled across DJ Food a.k.a. Strictly Kev's 'History Of Cut-Up' that appeared originally as a Superchunk on Xfm's The Remix show.

Appearing under a number of different names including 'Raiding The 20th Century', Kev's mix took every important part of remixing, sampling and mixing and condensed into a manageable 40 minutes.

As the below article explains "Shortly afterwards he read Paul Morley's recently published book 'Words & Music' and was amazed that certain chapters mirrored parts of his mix...

After months of further research he tracked Morley down and they recorded passages from 'Words & Music' specially for [a new version of the mix]"

If you've never heard this hour-long track, I urge you to download it from the link below and listen on headphones. It's an amazing piece of work that encapsulates every building block of Shoplifters' foundations.

Simply a work of genius.

Read more, listen and get the full tracklisting here

MP3 Strictly Kev - Raiding The 20th Century

Hold steady
JC