Label of love: Ninja Tune

Dreamed up on tour by duo Coldcut, Ninja embodies eclecticism – epitomised by its 20th-anniversary 'futurespective' boxset"It was our first Japanese tour," recalls Jonathan More, who founded the Ninja Tune label along with his Coldcut partner Matt Black back in 1990. "We were supporting Beats International: Norman Cook and Lindy Layton. Matt and I got into ninjas while we were there, watching old black-and-white TV programmes in hotel rooms, sound turned down. These ninjas were theatrical- smo...

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