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DJ Food

Another year over and what have I done?

About Me

1990 - Coldcut - Ninja Tune Jazz Breaks 1-5 + PC + Paul Brook + Strictly Kev. 1995 - Recipe For Disaster - Stealth Food = PC & Kev 1996 - Refried Food remixes of previous 6 LPs - Coldcut hand over. 2000 - Kaleidoscope. 2001 - Quadraplex + Now, Listen (mix CD w DK of Solid Steel) PC joins Cinematic Orchestra. 2002 Food = Kev solo plus guests, frequent collabs w. DK, 2004 - Raiding the 20th Century (1) + Head live performances. 2005 - Raiding the 20th Century (2) 2007 - Now Listen Again (mix CD w DK of Solid Steel) Much, much more inbetween...

My Interests

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Member Since: 5/30/2006
Band Website: djfood.org
Band Members:
Influences: Music: Kraftwerk, Eno, Double Dee & Steinski, The Bomb Squad, Marley Marl, Duke Bootee, DJ Cheese, Beastie Boys, Coldcut, Foetus, Big Black, Fishbone, The The, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Adam & The Ants, Meat Beat Manifesto, Tackhead, Negativland, The Tape Beatles, John Oswald, Christian Marclay, The KLF, The Orb, FSOL, Herbie Hancock, ZTT - way too many to list...Art/Design: Delta, Seen, She-1, Darco, Daim, Lokiss, Mode 2, Bando, Pride - basically TCA, Futura 2000, 2000AD, Vaughn Bodé, Robert Crumb, Robert Williams, Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso, Victor Vasarely, Bridget Riley, Charles E. Murphy, Dave McKean, Ashley Wood, Kevin O'Neill, Henry Flint, Brendan McCarthy, Mike McMahon, Ian Gibson, Gundam, Terry Gilliam, Sesame Street...
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Record Label: Ninja Tune
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Vintage Solid Steel: King Megatrip vs Coldcut

For this week's vintage session we turn the tables over to Solid Steel's US ambassador: King Megatrip. For those who don't know, Megatrip has been first a fan, then a show archivist, amassing possibly...
Posted by DJ Food on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:00:00 PST

Coldcut - Best of the K Mixes pt.1 TX: 1990-92

During 1990 Coldcut were very active if a little less in the spotlight than the previous couple of years when they achieved superstar status across the world with their music. Ninja Tune was started i...
Posted by DJ Food on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:21:00 PST

On the Road to Yekaterinberg

It's been a long time since I wrote last because I've either had my head down editing video or I've been on the road. Well, I'm still on the road, or to be more precise, in the air, on a plane from St...
Posted by DJ Food on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 03:40:00 PST

Archive Solid Steel double header

Yeah, yeah, sorry, I'm crap, been doing other things these past weeks and forgot to post the archive mix by DK two weeks ago (sorry mate) Just got back from Lyon where we played a great festival along...
Posted by DJ Food on Sun, 11 May 2008 11:55:00 PST

’Now We Come To The Payoff’ - Double Dee & Steinski special TX: 26/08/02

Back in the spring of 2002 I visited New York for ten days on a kind of research meets shopping meets work trip. My main reason was to go through the archives and gather material at Sesame Street for ...
Posted by DJ Food on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:16:00 PST

Vintage Solid Steel - Strictly Kev - ’War Is...’ TX: 10/02/03 & 07/04/03

2003 wasn’t a great year in terms of feeling proud to be British as the UK joined the US in ’The War On Terror’, despite the biggest public protest the country had ever seen. On the ...
Posted by DJ Food on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:58:00 PST

Hard luck at the Hard Sell

It’s been a while since I last wrote, apart from the recent Solid Steel archive posts, and lots has been going on with a few things about to come to fruition. The ’You Don’t Know 100...
Posted by DJ Food on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:05:00 PST

Solid Sphinx TX: ?/11/93 & ? 1994

Periodically in the early to mid-nineties Solid Steel would give up it’s traditional mix / talk / ad break / mix... format and morph into a Sphinx for two hours. The first time I ever heard of t...
Posted by DJ Food on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:19:00 PST

Saul Bass vs Star Wars

A friend just sent me this - too good not to share (thanks Elisa) :) Also - people should listen to Foetus more - the guy is a goddam genius and not rated highly enough even with a 25 year...
Posted by DJ Food on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:46:00 PST

Fourtet, Bonobo, DJ Food & DK Tour Retrospective TX: 07/01/2002

Solid Steel began the new year in 2002 with a stonker of a show comprising the best vinyl finds of a recent tour to the States and Canada by the four individual's listed above. Food & DK's 'Solid ...
Posted by DJ Food on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:51:00 PST