10-02-2012, 11:53
online listen
not my thing but it may be yours
spacey trip hop stuff
I guess you're suposed to be on something besides what I use
go for it
1.0 from me and a converted 2.7 from the pros at allmusic
from the album - Percussion Map Pt. 1
DJ Food - The Search Engine - Percussion Map Pt. 1 - 2012 - YouTube
released Feb 7th, 2012
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Bio - from allmusic
DJ Food is a collaborative project between Coldcut/Ninja Tune duo Matt Black and Jonathan More, and second-half PC
(born Patrick Carpenter) and Strictly Kev (Kevin Foakes). Although the moniker originally referred only to Black
and More's several-volumed series of stripped-down breaks records designed for deck use (i.e., "food" for DJs),
club booking demands for the assumedly proper-named DJ Food dictated the pair make an ongoing project of it. Adding
PC and Strictly to spice things up (and differentiate DJ Food from Coldcut when they played the same bill), the
quartet released a series of 12" singles in various combinations starting in 1994 (including
"Freedom"/"Consciousness"), with their proper debut full-length, A Recipe for Disaster, appearing the following
year. The quartet also toured Europe, Canada, and America as DJ Food (mainly DJing) and regularly mashed it up side
by side on Coldcut's weekly KISS FM show Solid Steel. PC and Strictly were also hired by Warp Records to compile
and mix a series of releases entitled Blech, drawing from the influential experimental techno label's back catalog.
More and Black continued to split their time between DJ Food and Coldcut, as well as the day-to-day operation of
their immensely popular Ninja Tune and Ntone labels. DJ Food's second production album, Kaleidoscope, appeared in
April of 2000 to warm reviews. A year later, the pair inaugurated a Solid Steel CD series with the mix album Now,
Listen! The years that followed found More and Black contributing less thanks to their Coldcut obligations, while
PC would find success with his Cinematic Orchestra project, so much so that he resigned as a full-time member.
Strictly Kev revived the project in 2011 and released The Search Engine in 2012. PC would make an appearance,
joining J.G. Thirlwell and The The's Matt Johnson on the album's long guest list.
Album Review - from allmusic
The third proper full-length by the London DJ collective (following 1995's A Recipe for Disaster and 2000's
Kaleidoscope, and not counting the mostly live on radio Now, Listen!) is very different from its predecessors, as
one might hope after a dozen years. The change-a-minute beats-and-pieces approach taken on their early work, which
competed with their Ninja Tune peers Coldcut for complexity and willingness to throw just about anything over a
beat, has been largely abandoned in favor of actual songs and a relative degree of conceptual unity. As its Heavy
Metal-ish (the magazine) cover art might indicate, this is a somewhat sci-fi album, with a movie trailer
announcer's voice muttering stuff about falling stars and space on the interstitial tracks, like a sampladelic take
on Robert Calvert's poetry from Hawkwind's Space Ritual. Guest vocalists like The The's Matt Johnson and J.G.
Thirlwell sing about fear and alienation ("How could anyone know me when I don't even know myself," asks Johnson)
over backing tracks that combine futuristic momentum with an almost retro-Manchester feel (the keyboards on "Giant"
may put some listeners in mind of Charlatans UK) and thick beds of polyrhythmic percussion. "The Illectrik Hoax" is
even built around a '60s-ish garage guitar riff. Surprising as it may be, coming from masters of the quick-cut DJ
collage, The Search Engine is a journey worth taking from beginning to end, uninterrupted.
Track Listing
1. All Covered in Darkness Pt.1
2. GIANT Feat. Matt Johnson
3. Intermission - A New Language
4. The Illectrik Hoax Feat. Natural Self
5. Sentinel Feat. DK (Shadow Guard)
6. Prey Feat. JG Thirlwell
7. In Orbit Every Monday
8. Outermission - Sheer Fiction
9. Percussion Map Pt.1
10. Magpie Music Feat. 2econd Class Citizen
11. A Trick of the Ear (Album Edit)
12. Colours Beyond Colours
not my thing but it may be yours
spacey trip hop stuff
I guess you're suposed to be on something besides what I use
go for it
1.0 from me and a converted 2.7 from the pros at allmusic
from the album - Percussion Map Pt. 1
DJ Food - The Search Engine - Percussion Map Pt. 1 - 2012 - YouTube
released Feb 7th, 2012
Bio - from allmusic
DJ Food is a collaborative project between Coldcut/Ninja Tune duo Matt Black and Jonathan More, and second-half PC
(born Patrick Carpenter) and Strictly Kev (Kevin Foakes). Although the moniker originally referred only to Black
and More's several-volumed series of stripped-down breaks records designed for deck use (i.e., "food" for DJs),
club booking demands for the assumedly proper-named DJ Food dictated the pair make an ongoing project of it. Adding
PC and Strictly to spice things up (and differentiate DJ Food from Coldcut when they played the same bill), the
quartet released a series of 12" singles in various combinations starting in 1994 (including
"Freedom"/"Consciousness"), with their proper debut full-length, A Recipe for Disaster, appearing the following
year. The quartet also toured Europe, Canada, and America as DJ Food (mainly DJing) and regularly mashed it up side
by side on Coldcut's weekly KISS FM show Solid Steel. PC and Strictly were also hired by Warp Records to compile
and mix a series of releases entitled Blech, drawing from the influential experimental techno label's back catalog.
More and Black continued to split their time between DJ Food and Coldcut, as well as the day-to-day operation of
their immensely popular Ninja Tune and Ntone labels. DJ Food's second production album, Kaleidoscope, appeared in
April of 2000 to warm reviews. A year later, the pair inaugurated a Solid Steel CD series with the mix album Now,
Listen! The years that followed found More and Black contributing less thanks to their Coldcut obligations, while
PC would find success with his Cinematic Orchestra project, so much so that he resigned as a full-time member.
Strictly Kev revived the project in 2011 and released The Search Engine in 2012. PC would make an appearance,
joining J.G. Thirlwell and The The's Matt Johnson on the album's long guest list.
Album Review - from allmusic
The third proper full-length by the London DJ collective (following 1995's A Recipe for Disaster and 2000's
Kaleidoscope, and not counting the mostly live on radio Now, Listen!) is very different from its predecessors, as
one might hope after a dozen years. The change-a-minute beats-and-pieces approach taken on their early work, which
competed with their Ninja Tune peers Coldcut for complexity and willingness to throw just about anything over a
beat, has been largely abandoned in favor of actual songs and a relative degree of conceptual unity. As its Heavy
Metal-ish (the magazine) cover art might indicate, this is a somewhat sci-fi album, with a movie trailer
announcer's voice muttering stuff about falling stars and space on the interstitial tracks, like a sampladelic take
on Robert Calvert's poetry from Hawkwind's Space Ritual. Guest vocalists like The The's Matt Johnson and J.G.
Thirlwell sing about fear and alienation ("How could anyone know me when I don't even know myself," asks Johnson)
over backing tracks that combine futuristic momentum with an almost retro-Manchester feel (the keyboards on "Giant"
may put some listeners in mind of Charlatans UK) and thick beds of polyrhythmic percussion. "The Illectrik Hoax" is
even built around a '60s-ish garage guitar riff. Surprising as it may be, coming from masters of the quick-cut DJ
collage, The Search Engine is a journey worth taking from beginning to end, uninterrupted.
Track Listing
1. All Covered in Darkness Pt.1
2. GIANT Feat. Matt Johnson
3. Intermission - A New Language
4. The Illectrik Hoax Feat. Natural Self
5. Sentinel Feat. DK (Shadow Guard)
6. Prey Feat. JG Thirlwell
7. In Orbit Every Monday
8. Outermission - Sheer Fiction
9. Percussion Map Pt.1
10. Magpie Music Feat. 2econd Class Citizen
11. A Trick of the Ear (Album Edit)
12. Colours Beyond Colours
