"Timber" is a song by UK dance act

Coldcut Coldcut are an English electronic music duo composed of Matt Black and Jonathan More. Credited as pioneers for pop sampling in the 1980s, Coldcut are also considered the first stars of UK electronic dance music due to their innovative style, ...

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Hexstatic Hexstatic are an English electronic music duo, consisting of Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson, that specializes in creating "quirky audio visual electro." Formed in 1997 after Hill and Brunson met while producing visuals at the Channel 5 ...

. "Timber" contains audio samples of logging activities from a Greenpeace film about

rainforest destruction Rainforests are characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire. Rainforest can be classified as tropical rainforest or temperate rainforest ...

, as shown in the original video for the song, and was conceived by the band as a protest against the excesses of the logging industry. The 2001

Guinness Book of Records ''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a reference book published annually, listing world ...

listed the song under ''Most Music Videos For One Song'', since there are five different videos for the song: the original mix, the EBN remix, the LPC remix, the Clifford Gilberto remix and the Gnomadic remix.Guinness book of records 2001 "MOST MUSIC VIDEOS FOR ONE SONG There are five different videos for the 1998 song 'Timber' by UK dance act Coldcut - the original mix, the EBN remix, the LPC remix, the Clifford Gilberto remix and the Gnomadic remix. They offered the ..." The ''Timber EP'' contains 7 versions of the song.

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