Timber

Coldcut

A 5 track ep () — released October 12th 1998 on NINJA TUNE

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TIMBER IS THE FINAL PART OF THE NATURAL RHYTHMS TRILOGY BY THE COLDCUT AND HEX COLLECTIVE, WITH STUART WARREN It was inspired by the possibilities of video sampling, as demonstrated by the work of other media hackers such as Steinski, Emergency Broadcast Network and Lucky People Centre. Their tape-edited pieces with simultaneous cutting-up of audio and video in a fun and funky style were clearly related to Coldcut's and other early samplers use of sound. Timber is the next step. In Timber all sound components are linked to their video sources. Whole rhythms have been painstakingly edited out of individual beats and video frames. The result: an intimacy of sensory stimulation that is compelling and hypnotic. Check the chain saw solo! Timber has been a high point of the Coldcut & Hex live show for which they designed their own VJ/DJ software, allowing creation of real time (i.e. live) 'remixed Televsion'. Video can now be jammed or scratched with as easily as sound, and the generally gob-smacked reactions to the recent 30 date tour has confirmed this direction. Timber is a protest song. Its creators, like all 'intelligent' beings, are concerned by our abuse of the Biosphere and its lifeforms. Timber is an attempt to voice these concerns in an effective way, using direct sensory communication rather than words... Footage for Timber was made available by Greenpeace who are campaigning for an end to industrial logging in the world's last temperate rainforests in Canada and for protection for tropical rainforests. The largest threat to ancient forests comes from the logging industry, both directly because of the damaging effect of roads and logging, and indirectly as the forest is opened up to hunting, fuel-wood gathering, agricultural clearing, energy companies (oil, gas, dams) and the mining industry. Over the last six years, campaigning has focused on old growth forest areas in Western Canada and Russia; the UK is Europe's largest importer of rainforest timber from Canada, buying about 240,000 cubic metres of timber annually. British paper mills and industrial pulp users also import around 160,000 tonnes of rainforest wood pulp from Canada every year.'

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