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Heat to the Beat: Coldcut at 333, London

Neil Mason, Melody Maker, 6 September 1997

"HOW COLD can Coldcut get?" When sweat is dripping off your nose, your T-shirt has stuck and the most strenuous thing you've done is light a cigarette, you can only hope Matt Black and Jonathan More can do sub-zero. So ferocious is the heat in 333, Old Street's, erm, coolest venue, it could strip paint. Which may explain why nobody is leaning against the walls. Order of the day is dancing like bonkers. Mad as brushes, the lot of 'em, but then it's not often the band who made dance music funky, fun and accessible do it live.

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