Coldcut - My Telephone promo (1989)

What this video is

Released in 1989 as a single from Coldcut's debut LP What's That Noise?, 'My Telephone' sits at a pivotal intersection of UK sample culture, acid house euphoria, and crossover pop ambition. Coldcut — Matt Black and Jonathan More — were central architects of the British cut-and-paste sound, having already remixed Eric B. & Rakim and launched the careers of Yazz and Lisa Stansfield. The track's dense sample palette…

Why it matters

A defining artefact of the UK sample-based house-pop moment (1988–1990). The video and track exemplify Coldcut's broader project of collapsing genre boundaries — hip-hop collage methodology applied to house rhythms and soul vocals — anticipating the aesthetic of 1990s Big Beat and trip-hop by…

The director

Big TV! is the working directorial partnership of Andy Delaney and Monty Whitebloom. Andy Delaney is a Goldsmiths College graduate. Together, the duo built a prolific career directing music videos and commercials from the late 1980s onward, working with…