| DJ Food | |
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Strictly Kev as DJ Food at Moldejazz, 2009. |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | England |
| Genres | Electronica Intelligent drum and bass Trip hop Hip hop |
| Years active | 1992 to Present |
| Labels | Ninja Tune |
| Associated acts | DK |
| Website | http://www.djfood.org/ |
| Members | |
| Strictly Kev | |
| Past members | |
| Matt Black Jonathan More Patrick Carpenter |
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Originally produced by Coldcut on the Ninja Tune independent record label, the DJ Food project started in 1990 on the premise of providing metaphorical "food for DJs". DJ Food released the Jazz Brakes series, with Jazz Brakes Volume 3 being the most successful. The records consisted of collections of breaks, loops and samples, that could be used for mixing, remixing and producing.
The later DJ Food albums have developed with shades of Latin, dub, techno, ambient, and Jungle.
The 1995 album, A Recipe For Disaster was a conscious move away from the Jazz Brakes volumes to form more of an identity as an artist, and a remix album of tracks from all 6 LPs, entitled Refried Food was released the following year. Their last release, Kaleidoscope, featured guest artists including Bundy K. Brown (formerly of Tortoise, Directions in Music, Pullman) and voiceover artist and jazz poet, Ken Nordine.
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Matt Black and Jonathan More (aka Coldcut) were responsible for starting Jazz Breaks series in the early '90s. Along the way they met Patrick Carpenter, who was listed on the liner notes simply by his initials. A loose collaborative team began to form including Paul Brook, Paul Rabiger, Strictly Kev and Issac Elliston.
Although keeping their hand in as DJs on the albums, Matt & Jon couldn't perform DJ sets twice in one night under both aliases of Coldcut & DJ Food, so they handed the mantle of live DJing over to PC and Strictly Kev. Later, PC became so busy with The Cinematic Orchestra that he decided to quit, at least temporarily leaving DJ Food as a solo project. He then contributed three remixes to the The Shape of Things that Hum EP in 2009.
Refried Food was re-released in 2003 as a double CD, with additional remixes.