From NinjaTune.Com:

The Ninja Tune XX box set contains the following stuff which is 100% exclusive to the set and unavailable anywhere else in the world:

- 2 x CDs + 6 x 7″s featuring new tracks from Mr Scruff, Toddla T, Kid Koala, Wagon Christ, Jaga Jazzist, King Geedorah, DJ Food, Kyle Hall, The Heavy, The Qemists, King Cannibal, Blockhead and unreleased archive tracks from The Cinematic Orchestra and Roots Manuva AND new remixes from Modeselektor, Cut Chemist, Zomby, Scuba, Dorian Concept, EL-P, The Bug, King Jammy, Matthew Herbert, Rustie, Prefuse 73, cLOUDDEAD, 808 State, The Orb, Tom Middleton, Gold Panda, JME, Alix Perez, Joe Goddard (Hot Chip), Doomed (Richard Russell) and Roots Manuva.

- Membership of Ninja Tune VIP, which entitles you straightaway to two FREE 12″s (delivered to your door) which are not for sale and unavailable to non-VIP members containing unreleased tracks (tracklists below) and access to a free download of King Cannibal’s landmark mix album ‘The Way Of The Ninja’ featuring over 250 Ninja Tune tracks. Membership also entitles you to free music and promotional goodness in the future and early bird prices on new releases, gig tickets, merch and all sorts of other Ninja-related stuff.

- Hardback edition of the new Ninja Tune book – ‘Ninja Tune – 20 Years Of Beats & Pieces’ (Black Dog Publishing, 192 pages)

- Ninja Tune ‘Family Tree’ poster and Ninja Tune artwork poster

The box set also contains all the Ninja Tune XX CD releases that are available to the general public:

- Two double CD compilations ‘Ninja Tune XX Vol.1 Two Decades and a Mixer’ and ‘Ninja Tune XX Vol.2 20 yrs of Beats and Pieces’ featuring mostly new and all killer music from Amon Tobin, Roots Manuva, Toddla T, Mr Scruff, Dorian Concept, Daedelus, Zomby, The Bug, Floating Points Ensemble, Eskmo, Lorn, Fink, Shuttle, Bonobo, Andreya Triana and more. Remixes from Benga, Seiji, Autechre, Flying Lotus, Four Tet, Mark Pritchard, The Cinematic Orchestra, Micachu, Diplo, Daedelus, Joker, Rustie, Metronomy, Dan Le Sac, Todd Edwards, Hot Chip, Gaslamp Killer Mala, (the) King Jammy and Slugabed.

At last count that is 106 tracks in the box set, all housed in limited edition hi-spec packaging designed and conceived by Ninja artwork legend Openmind. Only 3500 Ninja Tune XX box sets have been produced, a lot of which are already sold. You can pre-order a copy from the Ninjashop.

Tracklist:

CD1

* Two Fingers ‘Fools Rhythm’ *
* Roots Manuva ‘It’s On’ *
* Toddla T ‘Want U Now’ (feat. Ms Dynamite) *
* Dorian Concept ‘Her Tears Taste Like Pears’ *
* Zomby ‘The Forest’ *
* Offshore ‘Jen At The Station’ *
* Emika ‘Double Edge’
* Toddla T ‘Sky Surfing’ (Benga Remix) *
* Big Dada Sound ‘Signs’ *
* Coldcut & Hexstatic ‘Timber’ (Seiji Remix) *
* Andreya Triana ‘Lost Where I Belong’ (Flying Lotus Remix)
* The Bug ‘Catch A Fire’ *
* The Bug ‘Tune In (Version)’ *
* Eskmo ‘Cloudlight’ *
* Daedelus ‘LA Nocturne’

CD2

* Roots Manuva ‘Dub Styles’ (Micachu’s M.A.T.H.E.S. Remix) *
* Diplo ‘Summer’s Gonna Hurt You’ (Diplo 2010 Remix) *
* The Heavy ‘How You Like Me Now?’ (Joker Remix)
* Stateless ‘Ariel’ (Rustie Resmak) *
* Diplo ‘Newsflash’ (Metronomy Remix) *
* PRDCTV ‘Metropolis’ (Dan Le Sac Remix) *
* Dark Sky ‘Leave’ *
* The Long Lost ‘Woebegone’ (Flying Lotus’ Like Woe Remix)
* Spank Rock ‘What It Look Like’ (Todd Edwards Remix) *
* Shuttle ‘Lion’ *
* Poirier ‘Get Crazy’ (Mark Pritchard Dub) *
* Jammer ‘One Over Me’ *
* Fink ‘This Is The Thing’ (EL-B Digital Edit) *
* Amon Tobin ‘Lost & Found’ *

CD3

* Lou Rhodes ‘One Good Thing’ (The Cinematic Orchestra’s New York Quartet Version) *
* Bonobo & Speech Debelle ‘Sun Will Rise’ *
* Grasscut ‘Blink In The Night’ *
* Bonobo & Andreya Triana ‘Wonder When’
* Quincy & Xen Cuts Allstars ‘I Hear The Drummer’ (Tunng Edit) *
* Yppah ‘Never Mess With Sunday’ *
* Jaga Jazzist ‘Endless Galaxy’ *
* Cougar ‘$64k Rainbow’ *
* Amon Tobin ‘Eight Sum’ *
* DJ Vadim ‘The Terrorist’ (Gaslamp Computer Killer Remix) *
* Roots Manuva ‘Witness’ (1 Hope) (Slugabed Remix) *
* Andreya Triana ‘A Town Called Obsolete’ (Mala Remix) *
* Coldcut ‘Man In A Garage’ (King Jammy Vocal) *
* Lorn ‘Soft Room’ *
* Loka ‘The Beauty In Darkness’ *
* Paris Suit Yourself ‘I’ll Let You Know’ *
* Jono McCleery ‘Tomorrow’ (Edit)
* Floating Points Ensemble ‘Post Suite’ *

CD4

* Eskamon ‘Fine Objects’
* The Bug ‘Skeng’ (Autechre Remix) *
* Emika ‘Drop The Other (Daedelus Fragments Into A Thousand Little Pieces) *
* Amon Tobin ‘Bloodstone’ (King Cannibal Remix) *
* Amon Tobin ‘Foley Versions’ (Kronos Quartet Interpretation) *
* Anti-Pop Consortium ‘Volcano’ (Four Tet Remix)
* DELS ‘Eating Clouds’ *
* Mr Scruff & Kirsty Almeida ‘Pickled Spider’
* Jaga Jazzist ‘Toccata’ (Grasscut Remix) *
* The Death Set ‘Impossible’ (Shuttle Remix)
* Daedelus ‘Trouble With A Capital D’ *
* Roots Manuva ‘Let The Spirit’ (Hot Chip Remix)
* Mr Scruff ‘Believe’ *
* Bonobo ‘Eyesdown’ feat. Andreya Triana (Floating Points Remix)
* Shuttle ‘Tunnel’

CD5 (all music only available in the box set, except track 1 also on forthcoming 12″)

* Floating Points Ensemble (Almost In Profile) *
* The Cinematic Orchestra ‘Familiar Ground’ (Solid Steel version) *
* Bonobo ‘Stay The Same’ Welder remix *
* Bonobo ‘Eyesdown’ (feat. DELS) *
* Coldcut ‘Sound Mirrors’ (Grasscut Dub) *
* Jaga Jazzist ‘Synchronise Your Watches’ *
* Kyle Hall ‘Golden Moments’ *
* Roots Manuva ‘The Falling’ (Doomed remix) *
* The Herbaliser ‘Something Wicked’ (Roots Manuva’s Haunted House Dub) *
* Roots Manuva ‘Shake Your Money Maker’ *
* Fink ‘See It All’ (Scuba Remix) *
* DJ Food ‘African Rhythms’ (Tom Middleton Remix) *
* Coldcut ‘This Island Earth’ (Joe Goddard Remix)
* The Qemists ‘Don’t Lose It’ *

CD6 (all music only available in the box set)

* Roots Manuva ‘Witness’ (1 Hope) (Modeselektor’s Troublemaker Rmx) *
* Coldcut ‘True Skool’ (Zomby Remix) *
* The Bug ‘Poison Dart’ (Prefuse 73 Broke Moog Version) *
* DJ Food ‘Dark Lady’ (Alix Perez Remix) *
* Blockhead ‘The Music Scene’ (EL-P Remix) *
* DJ Food ’20/20 Rhythm’ *
* Clifford Gilberto ‘Deliver The Weird’ (Dorian Concept Remix) *
* Shuttle ‘Rotten Guts’ (Gold Panda Remix) *
* DJ Food ‘Dark Lady’ (808 State Remix) *
* Coldcut & Hexstatic ‘Timber’ (Super Sargasso Orb Mix) *
* King Cannibal ‘The Grind & Crawl’ *
* Wiley ‘My Mistakes’ (JME Remix) *
* DJ Vadim ‘Yea Man They Listening’ *
* Roots Manuva ‘Join The Dots’ (Cut Chemist Remix) *
* Blockhead ‘Ugly Brown’ *
* Cedell Davis ‘Been Through Some Stuff’ (cLOUDDEAD Remix) *
* Kid Koala ’3 Bit Blues’ *
* The Heavy ‘What’s So Good Bout Goodbye’ *

6 x 7″ singles: (all music only available in the box set)

1. Bogus Order ‘Chillin With My Zen’
Bogus Order ‘Zen Bones’
2. Kid Koala ‘Skanky Panky’ (Wrongtom Dub)*
Coldcut ‘Boogieman’ (King Jammy Dub) *
3. King Geedorah ‘Snakecharmer’ (feat. Kurious as Biolante) *
Daedelus ‘Impending Doom’ (Rustie Remix) *
4. Two Fingers ‘Bad Girl’ (The Bug Dub) *
Spank Rock ‘Sweet Talk’ (Matthew Herbert Remix) *
5. Mr Scruff ‘Wriggle’ *
Toddla T ‘Pum Pum’ *
6. Wagon Christ ‘Sloth Gets Paid’ *
Coldcut ‘Not Paid Enough’ (DJ Kentaro Turntable Mix)*

PLUS box set owners will receive the following 12″ singles for free (in the post):

ZEN160XX1

* a. Roots Manuva ‘Witness’ (1 Hope) (Modeselektor Remix), Coldcut ‘True Skool’ (Zomby Remix), Stateless ‘Ariel’ (Rustie’s Pentagram Remake)
* b. DJ Food ‘Dark Lady’ (Alix Perez Remix), The Herbaliser ‘Something Wicked’ (Roots Manuva Dub)

ZEN160XX2

* a. Pop Levi ‘Blue Honey’ (A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Mix by The Amorphous Androgynous)
* b. Coldcut ‘More Beats & Pieces’ (United States Of Audio Remix), Flanger ‘Psy Sound’

    The main difference longtime listeners will pick up on immediately is the abundance of vocal tracks over instrumentals. While Let Us Play only offered a handful of songs with guest vocalists, here the opposite is true. Let Us Play found Coldcut speaking with their samplers, with environmentalist messages coming through on “Timber”, or preaching an anti-war sentiment of “Atomic Moog 2000″. However their snarky views on club culture (“Noah’s Toilet”) and paranoia of big brother (“Every Home A Prison”) were demonstrated vocally by Selena Saliva and Jello Biafra, respectively. 

     The Gorillaz-esque approach to Sound Mirrors – that is, essentially hip-hop producers getting people to sing over their beats – means a broader message is spread, with many of the same themes running throughout this LP that ran through Let Us Play. They strap their political boots on for songs like the abrasive “Everything Is Under Control”, a brilliant, Bomb Squad-esque mash of white noise and rock guitars (courtesy of Jon Spencer), while emcee Mike Ladd finds himself in his most defining moment yet.  Again on the Annette Peacock featured, up-tempo spoken word piece, “Just For The Kick”, which is anything but “Girls On Film”. Instead, it’s rhythmic camera flashes imply hidden government cameras, rather than paparazzi, from an institution that wants to keep us dumb, dancing, and spending.  “Aid Dealer” is classic, acid-jazzy Coldcut, finding UK artist Soweto Kinch discussing the downside of military aid in between blowing his sax. 

    But not every song here has a motive, or at times, at least not a clear one. The melodic “Man In a Garage” (featuring John Matthias), coupled with “A Whistle and A Prayer” (feat. Fog) are a bit more cryptic in nature, and can be chalked up as acceptable, mellow indy rock cuts. The Roots Manuva helmed “True Skool” is also pretty cut and dry, as is the catchy “This Island Earth” (with Mpho Skeef), but both will keep heads nodding and toes tapping. Perhaps the crown jewel of vocal cuts here is “Walk A Mile In My Shoes” (feat. Robert Owens), a soulful dance tune that’s sure to have the clubs packed, once it’s released into the wild (overseas, at least).

     As far as the album’s few instrumental selections are concerned, it’s a wonder why they didn’t include more. “Boogieman” is the sole “cut-and-paste” cut on the album, with an electric dancehall riddim, meshed with layers of samples and sounds, really letting Coldcut shine and take the spotlight from their collaborators. The same can be said for the album’s finale, “Sound Mirrors”, which builds a simple two-bar loop into a massive symphonic climax by the song’s end, sure to leave every instrumental artist on the Ninja Tune label with their jaws on the floor.  

     Sound Mirrors takes an entirely different approach than Let Us Play – one that may be a little less friendly to fans of hip-hop.  Truthfully, this listener felt let down after the first listen, but subsequent listens proved that Sound Mirrors has the strength to stand on it’s own. Sure, it’s a different album than Let Us Play, but ten years between albums has allowed Black and More tremendous room for growth, and the fact of the matter is, these guys have incredible skills behind the boards, weather cutting & pasting, or building soundscapes for the next generation of Ninjas. Different and good.