more from
Ahead of Our Time
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/
  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Heavyweight black 10” vinyl. Matte varnish sleeve and printed inner. Includes download code.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Kajra via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $10.50 USD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $3.30 USD  or more

     

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

about

May 2017 saw the long-overdue collaboration between Coldcut and Adrian Sherwood, two giants of the UK’s underground music scene. Releasing electronic dub-pop opus ‘Outside The Echo Chamber’, bringing together these longstanding innovators who – after innumerable crossed paths over the past 30 years – finally got into the studio together. Announcing new single ‘Kajra’, it arrives alongside Coldcut’s 30th anniversary tour. Performing a new, cutting-edge audiovisual show, they’ll be using Coldcut-built audio and visual apps to deliver performances touching on their innovative legacy – while facing firmly forward to the future.

This new single ‘Kajra’ (taken from the LP released in May), accompanied by Shobhan Shah’s artwork, is given the full dub and rework treatment in a bumper-pack of mixes. A reimagining of Hindi-Urdu love song ‘Kajra Mohabbat Wala’, it features vocalist Hamsika Iyer (whose credits include Bollywood films and trance act Juno Reactor), recruited and recorded for the track by the late, legendary Mumbai guitarist Babu Choudhary. Seeking to work with something that captured the spirit of Bollywood music, Babu, a friend of Matt Black’s wife who is from Mumbai suggested this track. The single includes an extended 10” mix, a ‘Maximum’ dub, a ‘Cosmic’ dub, an acapella and a remix from psychedelic dub don Ott that’s digi-only. Sherwood reports big reactions to playing it out and the album version was playlisted by Bobby Friction (BBC Asian Network).

Matt Black, recalling how the track came to fruition, says: “It sat on our hard drive for a year until Jon suggested we bring it into the Sherwood sessions. Ade fired the riddim up, Celloman reinforced the riffs superbly and suddenly we were all dancing round the studio. Indian love song, JA rhythm called the Egyptian, dubbed in Ramsgate…Outernational!”

credits

released October 20, 2017

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Coldcut London, UK

Most people come into music, do the same thing for a few years, slowly sink back into obscurity and spend the rest of their life collecting publishing royalties and re-forming for tribute tours. Their biographies can afford to be quite short – most of us aren’t that interested in golf or angling. ... more

contact / help

Contact Coldcut

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Kajra, you may also like: