Originally produced by Coldcut on the Ninja Tune independent record label, … Read Full Bio ↴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, ideal for mixing, remixing and producing the trademark Ninja Tune blend of jazz & hip hop.
Volumes 4 and 5 of the Jazz Brakes series, co-created with DJ / producer PC transcend the breakbeat compilation format to stand as artist albums in their own right. The later DJ Food albums have developed with shades of Latin, dub, techno, ambient, and Jungle flavouring the funk.
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).
With a seemingly single DJ name, it is often wrongly assumed that DJ Food is single person. In fact, a whole host of DJs, producers and musicians have performed under the name, so the evolutionary nature of the DJ Food sound comes as no surprise. Matt Black and Jonathan More (aka Coldcut) were responsible for starting Jazz Brakes series in the early 90s. Along the way they met Patrick Carpenter, who, being listed on the liner notes simply by his initials, was often mistakenly thought to be a Personal computer. A loose collaborative team began to form as more like-minded people arrived at the party, 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 Strictly Kev solo project.
In addition to The Cinematic Orchestra, PC also recorded with J. Swinscoe under the band name Neptune. Strictly Kev has recorded under the name Flexus.
Album Discography
* Jazz Brakes Vol. 1 (Oct 1990, Cat No. ZENCD 001)
* Jazz Brakes Vol. 2 (Sep 1991, Cat No. ZENCD 002)
* Jazz Brakes Vol. 3 (Jul 1992, Cat No. ZENCD 003)
* Jazz Brakes Vol. 4 (Jun 1993, Cat No. ZENCD 006)
* Jazz Brakes Vol. 5 (Oct 1994, Cat No. ZENCD 010)
* A Recipe For Disaster (Oct 1995, Cat No. ZENCD 020)
* Refried Food (remix album) (Jan 1996, ZENCD 021)
* Kaleidoscope (Apr 2000, Cat No. ZENCD 047)
* Quadraplex EP (Febr 2001, Cat No. ZENCDS 091)
* One Man's Weird is Another Man's World EP (July 2009, Cat No. ZEN232)
* The Shape Of Things That Hum EP (Dec 2009, Cat No. ZEN252)
Refried Food was re-released in 2003 as a double CD, with additional remixes.
DJ Mix albums
Quadraplex was recorded on the same session as Kaleidoscope and is it's accompanying EP.
* Blech II: Blechsdottir (1996, released on Rough Trade in Germany, Cat No. RTD 126.3175.2)
Mixed by PC and Strictly Kev.
* Plastic Apple (Oct 1996, released on Aura Surround Sounds, Cat No. SUCD 005)
Disc 1: a 56 minute mix by DJ Food. Discs 2 & 3 are by the artist MLO
* ColdKrushCuts (Feb 1997, Ninja Tune, Cat No. ZENCD 026)
A mix album collaboration between Coldcut, DJ Krush and DJ Food
* Solid Steel Presents DJ Food & DK: Now, Listen! (October 2001, Cat No. ZENCD055)
Mix album for Ninja Tune's Solid Steel mix series, with producer, DK.
* Various - Raiding The 20th Century - Words & Music Expansion (Jan 2005, Ninja Tune, Catalog No. none)
Originally aired January 18th, 2004 by Strictly Kev on XFM's The Remix show in London, Raiding the 20th Century is an attempt to catalogue the history of cut up music - be it avant garde tape manipulation, turntable megamixes or bastard pop mash ups.
Shortly after he had played it, Strictly Kev read Paul Morley's Words & Music and was amazed how certain chapters mirrored parts of his mix. Apart from the fact that the title, Raiding the 20th Century, was coined by Morley 20 years before for a future Art of Noise project, he also featured Alvin Lucier, who - purely by chance - was sampled on the opening track of the mix.
Kev thus decided to expand his idea and make it a defnitive document on cut up music, including many other parts formerly omitted by the constraints of the original radio session. After months of research, he tracked Morley down and they recorded passages from Words & Music specially for the mix in an attempt to marry the two and finish something that neither of them actually started. A year to the day of the original airing, the newly expanded version was ready, gathering 167 tracks in a 59 minutes long DJ mix.
*DJ Food & DK - Now Listen Again (Ninja Tune ZENCD123, 2007-04-02)
Solid Steel mix album.
(2) 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. ~ Sean Cooper, Rovi
Volumes 4 and 5 of the Jazz Brakes series, co-created with DJ / producer PC transcend the breakbeat compilation format to stand as artist albums in their own right. The later DJ Food albums have developed with shades of Latin, dub, techno, ambient, and Jungle flavouring the funk.
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).
With a seemingly single DJ name, it is often wrongly assumed that DJ Food is single person. In fact, a whole host of DJs, producers and musicians have performed under the name, so the evolutionary nature of the DJ Food sound comes as no surprise. Matt Black and Jonathan More (aka Coldcut) were responsible for starting Jazz Brakes series in the early 90s. Along the way they met Patrick Carpenter, who, being listed on the liner notes simply by his initials, was often mistakenly thought to be a Personal computer. A loose collaborative team began to form as more like-minded people arrived at the party, 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 Strictly Kev solo project.
In addition to The Cinematic Orchestra, PC also recorded with J. Swinscoe under the band name Neptune. Strictly Kev has recorded under the name Flexus.
Album Discography
* Jazz Brakes Vol. 1 (Oct 1990, Cat No. ZENCD 001)
* Jazz Brakes Vol. 2 (Sep 1991, Cat No. ZENCD 002)
* Jazz Brakes Vol. 3 (Jul 1992, Cat No. ZENCD 003)
* Jazz Brakes Vol. 4 (Jun 1993, Cat No. ZENCD 006)
* Jazz Brakes Vol. 5 (Oct 1994, Cat No. ZENCD 010)
* A Recipe For Disaster (Oct 1995, Cat No. ZENCD 020)
* Refried Food (remix album) (Jan 1996, ZENCD 021)
* Kaleidoscope (Apr 2000, Cat No. ZENCD 047)
* Quadraplex EP (Febr 2001, Cat No. ZENCDS 091)
* One Man's Weird is Another Man's World EP (July 2009, Cat No. ZEN232)
* The Shape Of Things That Hum EP (Dec 2009, Cat No. ZEN252)
Refried Food was re-released in 2003 as a double CD, with additional remixes.
DJ Mix albums
Quadraplex was recorded on the same session as Kaleidoscope and is it's accompanying EP.
* Blech II: Blechsdottir (1996, released on Rough Trade in Germany, Cat No. RTD 126.3175.2)
Mixed by PC and Strictly Kev.
* Plastic Apple (Oct 1996, released on Aura Surround Sounds, Cat No. SUCD 005)
Disc 1: a 56 minute mix by DJ Food. Discs 2 & 3 are by the artist MLO
* ColdKrushCuts (Feb 1997, Ninja Tune, Cat No. ZENCD 026)
A mix album collaboration between Coldcut, DJ Krush and DJ Food
* Solid Steel Presents DJ Food & DK: Now, Listen! (October 2001, Cat No. ZENCD055)
Mix album for Ninja Tune's Solid Steel mix series, with producer, DK.
* Various - Raiding The 20th Century - Words & Music Expansion (Jan 2005, Ninja Tune, Catalog No. none)
Originally aired January 18th, 2004 by Strictly Kev on XFM's The Remix show in London, Raiding the 20th Century is an attempt to catalogue the history of cut up music - be it avant garde tape manipulation, turntable megamixes or bastard pop mash ups.
Shortly after he had played it, Strictly Kev read Paul Morley's Words & Music and was amazed how certain chapters mirrored parts of his mix. Apart from the fact that the title, Raiding the 20th Century, was coined by Morley 20 years before for a future Art of Noise project, he also featured Alvin Lucier, who - purely by chance - was sampled on the opening track of the mix.
Kev thus decided to expand his idea and make it a defnitive document on cut up music, including many other parts formerly omitted by the constraints of the original radio session. After months of research, he tracked Morley down and they recorded passages from Words & Music specially for the mix in an attempt to marry the two and finish something that neither of them actually started. A year to the day of the original airing, the newly expanded version was ready, gathering 167 tracks in a 59 minutes long DJ mix.
*DJ Food & DK - Now Listen Again (Ninja Tune ZENCD123, 2007-04-02)
Solid Steel mix album.
(2) 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. ~ Sean Cooper, Rovi
Nevermore
DJ Food Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Nevermore' by these artists:
1 I′m sitting by the fire drinking wine Staring at your portra…
A Monster Under My Bed At the edge Of the coldest of midnights Unable to feel…
A.R.D.I. Nevermore, nevermore I can't fuck with you anymore Get ignor…
A.R.D.I. Allam Sorrow nevermore A favor to myself I'll put you on a shelf F…
A.R.D.I. feat. Allam Sorrow nevermore A favor to myself I'll put you on a shelf…
Absence of Truth Let me sit and think for a moment I'll never let…
Alesana Memories saved destined to capture decades passing by A way …
Anaka Look around And tell me what you see Settle down…
Art of Dying Burning all the memories And watch 'em fade away Fade away, …
Backyard I believed when you said forever I never thought you would…
Battery Gravel beats bone Mouth full of sand Pushing out into the …
Beneath the Massacre Face down. Obey to who is ordering: God and master. Each…
Beyond the Black Long time ago, far and gone An old man would…
BIALYSTOCKS I don′t wanna love you, my baby I don't wanna love…
Booze Control Once the night falls dark and eerie Sinister shadows black a…
Bullseye I once felt afraid of being who I am Black flames…
By Heart Fell into a blizzard and it covered me with ice I…
C.B.F. Nevermore, nevermore I can't fuck with you anymore Get ignor…
Celestial Ruin I walk alone, always want more. Defend my heart, against…
Chicros When we're walking down the street You see the tears I…
Chronic Nostalgics I've seen your life go by and maybe it seems…
Conducting From The Grave Lowly do I sit, the night lay dormant as I…
C_Matt - Queen There's no living in my life anymore The seas have gone…
Dark Moor Demons in my mind Bind to write the world World forevermore …
Diary of Dreams Help me letting go help me holding on Guide me step…
Domina Noctis If you leave me this way I′ll sink into my sorrow And…
Dragon Throne In time, king of the gods, terrible sin A bride, Goddess…
Dside Band the hell is not over nevermore nevermore the PAIN is…
Dwell in Doom Why are you here after all these years? To ask for…
Elf Can't remember how I got From here to there Isn't any reason…
Eyes of Ligeia I'm shrouded in the Darkness from the Silence of your…
f.o.d Sorrow nevermore A favor to myself I'll put you on a shelf…
f.o.d. If there's a way to go on If there's a path…
Genie Santiago Was this morning real Was it you who Took this space and…
Heat Affected Zone I'm living in neibourghhood with the thieves Blackmailing my…
i.D.D.Q.D Sorrow nevermore A favor to myself I'll put you on a shelf…
J. Elliott A quiet evening with nothing to do Just watch the ceiling…
Jandek Been goin' too tight You're rotten, you know Got iron buzz a…
Johnny Hates Jazz I used to be strong, strong as a tree I stood…
Jubilee Напиши мне письмо пеплом от сигарет. Ты всё ищешь мой дом…
Kudo Oh what do we do When the fire burns out…
Lana Lane Last night the rain swam with my teardrops They journeyed f…
Michael Cassette All my love for you makes me hazy But I’m not…
Midge Ure There's no living in my life anymore The seas have gone…
Milk Bone I'll be lost for a while in this conversation You and…
MJ Noble So many moons since i held you near... We gazed into…
monowave Nevermore, nevermore Evermore, evermore…
Morbid Angel Born to be master of the world Fear my ever-pounding words …
Morifade (Music: J. Johansson / F. Eriksson) (Lyrics: J. Johansson) …
murda killa Senpai Ё**ный отброс без денег и мечты (отброс) Безразлич…
Mute Stabbed in the back, then we face the axe. Lost in…
mylittlethumbie ksiaze W ciemności mówisz nic nie widać więc Wychodziłam z płaczem …
Naked SuperHero All this time waiting for, Don't miss this time for nevermor…
Noël Coward Let our affair be a gay thing And when these hours…
Nothing Nowhere I'm the light on your shed Shining through your bedroom wind…
nothing nowhere. I′m the light in your shed Shining thru your bedroom window …
Nothingnowhere I'm the light on your shed Shining through your bedroom wind…
Nox Arcana And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is…
Ofln - Lamb Of God Driving down blistered severe The rapacious maw of our despa…
One Un1ted I don't wanna go there, where I was before so lost,…
Open Sea O can you remember? That night in the sand, That night That …
Past M.D. If there's a way to go on If there's a path…
Paul Schwartz I dream a darker seeking ocean shore The moon has drawn…
PlagueBringer Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and…
Prompto I love the way that you smile I ain’t seen it…
Proto-Kaw Beneath the sea, above the sky Behind the veil, our darkened…
Queen There's no living in my life anymore The seas have gone…
Rage Her mother told her everyday: "Never lose control Whatever t…
Rizon In desperate times it's easy to act amiss while people…
sasalasa Sasakure.Uk & lasah Nevermore The sight black forest Cool moonlight Blue shadows…
Sitra Thy hands were open, Embraced my soul. Foretold allacy, N…
Soundtrack Of Our Lives Nevermore Everybody's knockin'on you door Nevermore Everybod…
Suburban Tribe I borrow time I borrow time To fall behind From today Ye…
symphony x From the skies, across the sea of lies To the dungeons…
The Accident Experiment Flying on a midnight plane Just to keep away from sanity Tak…
The Paul Schwartz Project I dream a darker seeking ocean shore The moon has drawn…
The Soundtrack of Our Lives Nevermore Everybody´s knockin´on you door Nevermore Everybod…
TrineATX One thing, leads to another A tear shed, for a brother I…
Tystnaden Wheels of tanks smashing their soil and What do they leave…
U&K Nevermore The sight black forest Cool moonlight Blue shadows…
xTyrantx cut out my love. cut out my love when dusk…
We have lyrics for these tracks by DJ Food:
A Little Samba there is no division between the conscious and the subconsci…
Akaire once again men of wealth and authority happen to turn…
Bass City Roller music is so relaxing and the percussion instruments make …
Break The break was so loud That it hushed the crowd they…
Fungle Junk COME ON…
Fuzzy Freaky Rose is tattooed in the perfect place She bears the burden…
Half Step that's fantasy with honor that's fantasy with love so call …
Little samba there is no division between the conscious and the subconsci…
Mella you might as well come down jack there's no one left…
Nocturne (mummuring in background) who are you? Are you good enough t…
Nocturne ) (mummuring in background) who are you? Are you good enough…
Poison Dart Do nuh test Yeah! Weh me say! mesay It’s all about the bu…
Spiral thanks to discovery of science which has advanced more in…
Strange Taste doesnt the food taste a little strange to you?…
The Ageing Young Rebel DJ Food Kaleidoscope The Ageing Young Rebel (Gentle Cruelt…
The Ageing Young Rebel (feat. Ken Nordine) DJ Food Kaleidoscope The Ageing Young Rebel (Gentle Cruelty)…
The Breaks The break was so loud That it hushed the crowd they…
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