来自忍者军团/Ninja Tune旗下的乐队The Cinematic Orchestra,也是这个着名独立厂牌下一个风格迥异的团体。就如同他们乐队名字所想表达的那般,他们的作品在采样拼贴的基础之上,融合酸性爵士,弦乐,以及TripHop的缓慢节拍,从而营造出一个游走在电影原声和前卫爵士乐之间的氛围音乐。聆听他们的作品你会明显感受到比一般普通的电影配乐更强烈的张力和感染力。
照一般业界的说法 Cinematic Orchestra是一个有见识的录音室奇才Jason Swinscoe与四位杰出爵士乐手(包括Phil France (版本龙一/Zero 7)等人)再 加一位唱盘高手,也就是DJ Food的幕后大将之一Patrick Carpenter的超级组合 。Jason Swinscoe深受影史经典配乐大师Bernard Hermann (大国民 Citizen Kane, 惊魂记Psycho , 与计程车司机Taxi Driver)及老爵士影响, 同时却又是当今难得的解构混音奇才,而他们以拼贴取样为体,即兴爵士为用,比电影配乐更具戏剧张力的作品风格,很快就吸引了全球相关产业的注意。
The brilliantly named Cinematic Orchestra is led by composer/programmer/multi-instrumentalist Jason Swinscoe, who formed his first group, Crabladder, in 1990 as an art student at Cardiff College. Crabladders fusion of jazz and hardcore punk elements with experimental rhythms inspired Swinscoe to further explore the possibilities of sampling, and by the time of the groups demise in the mid-90s, he was DJing at various clubs and pirate radio stations in the U.K.
The music he recorded on his own at the time melded 60s and 70s jazz, orchestral soundtracks, rhythm loops, and live instrumentation into genre-defying compositions, as reflected on his contribution to Ninja Tunes 1997 Ninja Cuts 3 collection and his remixes of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Coldcut tracks. The Cinematic Orchestra built on this musical blueprint, letting a group of live musicians improvise over sampled percussion or basslines. The Orchestra included saxophonist/pianist Tom Chant, bassist Phil France, and drummer Daniel Howard, who also recorded the Channel One Suite and Diabolus EPs for Ninja Tune with Swinscoe. The projects full-length debut, Motion, arrived in 1999 to great acclaim, which culminated in the Cinematic Orchestras performance at the Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony for Stanley Kubrick later that year in London. After the collection Remixes 1998-2000, their second album, Every Day, followed in 2002, with vocal features for Fontella Bass and Roots Manuva. Man with a Movie Camera, a 2003 release on CD and DVD, offered a 1999 film score Cinematic Orchestra had provided for the reairing of a 1929 Soviet ary, while four years later Ma Fleur was released.