Stevie Chick – Ninja Tune: 20 Years Of Beats & Pieces

Ninja Tune have been dedicated to publishing inspiring electronic music for the past two decades. Celebrating their twentieth anniversary in 2010, the label was established by two friends who wanted a new label for their venture Coldcut. Matt Black and Jonathan More conceived a label that was unfettered by restraints upon its artists’ work, offering a vibrant and diverse array of inspired minds a broad canvas upon which to paint their masterpieces.The book traces the development of Ninja Tune’s offshoot labels, Ntone (who gave us releases by Hexstatic, Cabbageboy and Neotropic); Hip-Hop imprint Big Dada (home to Roots Manuva, Spank Rock, Ty, Diplo and Infinite Livez); and Counter Records (Pop Levi, The Deathset, The Heavy). The book tells the story of the growth of the label, including setting up a satellite office in Canada, where Ninja Tune’s music developed such a loyal following that every Ninja artist’s show there is attended by one uber-fan who turns up in a foam costume, passing himself off as a Ninja Robot Sentinel.