DJ food

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DJ food
Strictly Kev live at Moldejazz 2009
Strictly Kev live at Moldejazz 2009
General information
origin London
Genre (s) Downbeat , electronic music , jazz
founding 1990
Website djfood.org
Current occupation
Kevin Foakes ("Strictly Kev")
former members
Matt Black (until 2002)
Jonathan More (until 2002)
Patrick Carpenter ("PC") (until 2002)

DJ Food is a British music project whose publications can be assigned to electronic music in the broadest sense .

history

The project was founded in 1990 by Coldcut members Matt Black and Jonathan More and DJs Patrick Carpenter (PC) and Kevin Foakes (Strictly Kev). Initially, the members only wanted to release records with breakbeats , loops and samples as "DJ feed", which is where the name of the project comes from. From 1990 Black and More released a series entitled Jazz Brakes on the Ninja Tune label under the name DJ Food .

After both of them received initial requests for DJ performances, they brought the DJs PC and Strictly Kev on board, who gave the project a "face" during the performances. The first 12 "singles were released in 1994 and the first" real "studio album A Recipe For Disaster in 1995. Numerous appearances followed in Europe and America. In 1996 the remix album Refried Food was released with reworking of DJ food tracks by Fila Brazillia , Autechre , Squarepusher , The Herbaliser , Doctor Rockit , Wagon Christ , Ashley Beedle and other musicians.

PC and Strictly Kev then mixed the sheet metal series for Warp Records . Matt Black and Jonathan More split their activities between Coldcut and DJ Food from the late 1990s. In 2000 the next studio album Kaleidoscope was released . In 2001 the mix album Now, Listen! .

After that, Black and More withdrew further and further from the project and PC devoted himself more to his activities with The Cinematic Orchestra and then left DJ Food for good.

Since then, the project has only been continued by Kevin Foakes. After a few singles and DJ mixes in self-distribution, the album The Search Engine was released on Ninja Tune in 2012 .

Discography (selection)

Albums

  • 1990: Jazz Brakes Volume 1 ( Ninja Tune )
  • 1991: Jazz Brakes Volume 2 (Ninja Tune)
  • 1992: Jazz Brakes Volume 3 (Ninja Tune)
  • 1993: Jazz Brakes Volume 4 (Ninja Tune)
  • 1994: Jazz Brakes Volume 5 (Ninja Tune)
  • 1995: A Recipe For Disaster (Ninja Tune)
  • 1996: Refried Food (Ninja Tune, remix album)
  • 2000: Kaleidoscope (Ninja Tune)
  • 2001: DJ Food & DK - Now, Listen! (Ninja Tune)
  • 2007: DJ Food & DK - Now, Listen Again! (Ninja Tune)
  • 2011: The Search Engine (Ninja Tune)

DJ mixes

  • 1996: Coldcut & DJ Food vs DJ Krush - Cold Krush Cuts (Ninja Tune)
  • 2004: Raiding The 20th Century - Words & Music Expansion (UbuWeb / Ninja Tune)
  • 2007: Remember The Future? (Self-distribution)
  • 2009: A Weird World Reader (self-distributed)
  • 2009: Blech 20.1 (own distribution)
  • 2010: Blech 20.2 (self-distribution)
  • 2010: A Shape Of Things Reader (self-distribution)
  • 2010: More Volts: The Funky Eno (self-distribution)
  • 2012: Solid Psyche (Ninja Tune)
  • 2015: Solid Steel (Selected Aphex Works) (Ninja Tune)

Singles & EPs

  • 1994: Peace (Ninja Tune)
  • 1995: Freedom (Ninja Tune)
  • 1995: A Dub Plate Of Food (Ninja Tune)
  • 2000: A Dub Plate Of Food Volume 2 (Ninja Tune)
  • 2001: The Quadraplex EP (Ninja Tune)
  • 2009: The Shape Of Things That Hum (Ninja Tune)
  • 2009: One Man's Weird Is Another Man's World (Ninja Tune)
  • 2011: Magpies, Maps And Moons (Ninja Tune)
  • 2012: DJ Food & The Amorphous Androgynous - The Illectrik Hoax (Ninja Tune)

Web links