Brock @ Motormouthmedia (@)
Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:58:39 +0800
>>For the longest time, I thought "DJ Food" meant "Food for DJs" (meaning,
>>'here's some stuff you DJs can scratch with, mix up or sample from') rather
>>than the name of an actual DJ. I thought it was a sample CD that just
>>happened to have these neat little demos to sample from, and they gave you
>>the BPM (which is mostly inaccurate!), I bought it for the "Sexy Bits"
>>portions...
>>
>
> Actually Elson, it's a little of both. DJ Food is the name for the
> Ninja Tune Collective--each has a turn and do their weird side
> projects. But, they also did mean for it to be DJ Toolz(as the last
> in the series is called) as they do put out stuff like that--I've got
> the Trumpet album with various trumpet stuff for sampling.
One of the most confusing Ninja ?'s of all, here's some more clarification:
Food began as a side project by Matt Black and Jon More of Coldcut.
Eventually they started getting billed to play a lot of gigs on the same
night as Coldcut *and* DJ Food, thought it was a bit lame to mislead folks
by performing as two acts when in actuality it was the same two blokes up
there spinning rekkids the whole time. They also wanted to bring in a few
more influences to the whole project, so along came PC (Patrick) and
Strictly Kev (Kevin). Apparently that even caused some mixups as people
thought PC wasn't an actual person and instead the computer (PC) that they
created their music on. But he is a walking talking human, I can vouch for
that one :) - at the moment, Matt and Jon are concentrating on their work as
Coldcut and PC and Strictly Kev are heading up Food on their own.
The new Food LP, "Kaleidoscope", is all PC and Kev with help from J.
Swinscoe (Cinematic Orchestra), Bundy K. Brown (ex-Tortoise), and Ken
Nordine (legendary word jazz swinger guy!). It's a dope record, much
different from "Recipe for Disaster," and is out April 4. In my words, I'd
call it freeform breakbeat with heavy jazz influences that go way beyond the
typical "sample a horn and call it jazz" approach. It's got a moody,
cinematic feel and is quite dark in spots, also flows amazingly well from
track to track. Worth checking into...Brock
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