Matt Black (real name Matthew Cohn) is a British
DJ and one half of music duo
Coldcut
Coldcut are an English electronic music duo composed of Matt Black and Jonathan More. Credited as pioneers for pop sampling in the 1980s, Coldcut are also considered the first stars of UK electronic dance music due to their innovative style, ...
(along with
Jonathan More), which founded the
Ninja Tune
Ninja Tune is an English independent record label based in London. It has a satellite office in Los Angeles. It was founded by Matt Black and Jonathan More (better known as Coldcut) and managed by Peter Quicke and others.
Inspired by a visit ...
record label.
As a student at
New College,
Oxford
Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...
, he was a member of a band called ''The Jazz Insects'', whose first single was played by
John Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey (DJ) and radio presenter. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly fr ...
in his radio show.
Black is one of the inventors of the
VJamm software used in the Coldcut live shows and also co-developed a "granular video synthesizer" titled Granul8.
He is also a founding member of the (now defunct)
VJ group
Hex, and of the VJ group The VJamm Allstars with whom he continues to perform shows and has also worked alongside
Crass Agenda as part of the Savage Utopia project.
References
English DJs
English electronic musicians
English record producers
VJ (video performance artists)
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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