With Ninja Tunes celebrating their 20th birthday recently we took a moment to ask some of the current roster of Ninja artists what their personal favourite album from the past two decades is and where they were at when it all kicked off way back in 1990.
Dj Food
What's your personal favourite album on Ninja Tunes from the last 20 years?
Super Numeri - The Welcome Table
20 years ago was 1990. What were you wearing, listening to, and hoping to be?
Bad student clothes probably, listening to Kiss FM's Max & Dave show for Hip Hop, Colin Faver and Colin Dale for Techno and electronic music, The Stone Roses' first album, the Jungle Brother's second, Dee-lite and Hip House. Studying graphic design and illustration, no idea what I wanted to do except that it would hopefully involve art and music somehow
Emika
What's your personal favourite album on Ninja Tunes from the last 20 years?
Spank Rock Yoyoyoyoyo
20 years ago was 1990. What were you wearing, listening to, and hoping to be?
I can't remember, I was only four then :)
Grasscut
What's your personal favourite album on Ninja Tunes from the last 20 years?
Blockhead's 'Music By Cavelight' or Amon Tobin's 'Chaos Theory'. Can't choose.
20 years ago was 1990. What were you wearing, listening to, and hoping to be?
Wearing many mulitcoloured hooded tops, listening to De La Soul & Nick Drake. Playing the guitar, but very intrigued by this 'sampling' thing.
Leon from Qemists
What's your personal favourite album on Ninja Tunes from the last 20 years?
The big one for us was Let Us Play by Coldcut. We would finish rehearsing with the band then stick that on full blast. I remember we used to actually burst out laughing at points in those songs, they were just so good and so crazy!
20 years ago was 1990. What were you wearing, listening to, and hoping to be?
In 1990 we were 9 years old, I can't remember what I was listening too. Me and Liam were at the same primary school. We refused to sing hymns like they wanted us too though! Even it that age hymns seemed pretty lame! I'm glad we were too young to go to clubs in the era of Snap! and 2Unlimited!
Eskmo
What's your personal favourite album on Ninja Tunes from the last 20 years?
Supermodified by Amon Tobin
20 years ago was 1990. What were you wearing, listening to, and hoping to be?
Hypercolor tshirts, mc hammer pants, hoping to be an artist (drawing or painting)
Thavius Beck
What's your personal favourite album on Ninja Tunes from the last 20 years?
The album Amon Tobin did for the video game Splinter Cell.
20 years ago was 1990. What were you wearing, listening to, and hoping to be?
20 years ago I was still listening to Xclan, Public Enemy, Poor Righteous Teachers, NWA, Geto Boys, Eric B. and Rakim, etc. I was enmeshed in "golden age" hip hop, wearing baggy ass pants and big shirts, hoping that some day I would be a musician...
Death Set
What's your personal favourite album on Ninja Tunes from the last 20 years?
Spankrock and the motherfuckin Death Set of course! Lets keep it fam!
20 years ago was 1990. What were you wearing, listening to, and hoping to be?
Holdin a McGill shreding the local spine ramp. Maybe not shredding just yet. And listening to my brothers record collection... The Cure, Sunnyboys, The Cult, Prince, and anything on my skateboarding and surfing videos. Hoping to be in 1990? Yikes man... I was just a kid hoping school was over soon so I could terrorize the streets.
Poirier
What's your personal favourite album on Ninja Tunes from the last 20 years?
Definitely Roots Manuva's Brand New Second Hand. I still highly enjoy listening to it today. It had a major impact on me because when it was released I wasn't yet making music. But listening to it again and again give me the necessary push to start producing a few months later. That's the true story. I was trying to emulate that sound!
20 years ago was 1990. What were you wearing, listening to, and hoping to be?
I was mostly listening to hip-hop (Public Enemy, Black Sheep, Gang Starr). However, I remember well 1991 because it was the beginning of french hip-hop (IAM, MC Solaar) and also i was big into Aphex Twin, The Orb, The Prodigy. A part of that, I was playing basketball every day!
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