DJ Food ‘Sunspot’

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  • Made in conjunction with Carling Zest, a new drink being promoted one summer. The idea was to take three producers, myself, DJ Yoda and Jaguar Skills, and give everyone sights and sounds of summer to incorporate into a track that had the feeling of summer to it.

    I called mine ‘Sunspot’, after one of my favourite Vaughn Bodé strips, and used some of my home made phenakistoscopes as elements for the video in conjunction with the footage Carling supplied.

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RELEASED: Apr 2012
FORMAT: Promo video / remix tool
LABEL: n/a
CAT NO.: n/a
PRODUCERS: Strictly Kev
GUESTS: n/a
SPOTTERS DELIGHT:
EXTRA ZEN: WATCH

DJ Food ‘In Orbit Every Monday’ postcard record

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  • Released at the opening of the joint exhibition between DJ Food and Henry Flint at the Pure Evil Gallery, London in an edition of 30. The postcard contains an exclusive edit of 'In Orbit Every Monday' hand cut in Poland onto one side of the card.

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RELEASED: 26 Jan 2012
FORMAT: Postcard record
LABEL: NINJA TUNE
CAT NO.: n/a
PRODUCERS: Strictly Kev
SPOTTERS DELIGHT: only 30 copies made

Various Artists ‘Broken Juke Box’

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  • Side A
    1. Raffaella, Raffaella, ecoute ca!
    2. Hello Chris, Hello Duke feat. DJ Oscar
    3. I Have This Record, But it is in Boston
    4. Actually, it is Kind of Cool feat. DJ Mailk
    5. When I was Thirteen, it was a Very Good Year

    Side B
    1. Little Girl Do You Wanna Dance?2. Oh, I Love This Tune  feat. DJ Malik
    3. Sur la bouche, avec la langue
    4. Now This is Funky (for Laura)
    5. Vado Via Remix

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RELEASED: 4th Feb 2010
FORMAT: 12"
LABEL: Broken Juke Box
CAT NO.: BJB 001
MIXED & FIXED: Narrick Peparcett
GUESTS: DJ Oscar & DJ Malik
EXTRA ZEN: You'll have to find a copy

DJ Food feat Ken Nordine ‘The Ageing Young Rebel’ (Musical Comic Book)

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  • I can't remember quite when I was first contacted by Stéphane Courvoisier about this but his personal imagining of the track we did with Ken Nordine on the 'Kaleidoscope' album is pretty amazing. I think he wanted to ask permission to make a book of etchings that would illustrate the story and include a CD with the two different versions of the song to round off the package. He sent me some images of the seven different scenes he had interpreted and told me he was going to print these as etchings as he had access to a printing press at his college in Strasbourg. It was hard to understand how he was going to print them because he had very specific requirements for the paper and ink he needed to achieve the effects he wanted.

    About a year later I met up with him in Paris at a Solid Steel show and he had the finished 'book' with him and it's quite something to behold. 10" x 10" in size, the slipcase has the DJ Food logo and his rebel character de-bossed into the front cover. Inside is a 3 page foldout which houses the etchings, reprints the words to the song and holds the two track CD. The etchings are held between sheets of tracing paper to keep them clean and the photos here just cannot do them justice. They are highly detailed and are printed on heavy paper that is de-bossed on different levels of the images due to the printing process.

    I was amazed at the lengths he'd gone to from being inspired by the track and we talked about how we both interpreted the meaning and images of Ken's words which varied quite a bit from line to line. It turned out that he had interpreted certain elements very differently to me and we swapped notes. One of my biggest regrets is that we never did a video for this song as it lends itself so well to that medium.

  • At the time of release we nearly did and I even did a rough storyboard for an animated version. I dug this out and sent it to Stéphane as he was interested to know how I perceived it back in 2000.

    I sent him lots of Ken’s past work on both vinyl and CD and occasionally I would get an email with attachments where he’d worked on variations of the etchings in his spare time. He also did the odd drawing of diabolic or alternate endings for the set as he wasn’t happy with the final image.

    About six months later out of the blue I received Stéphane’s version of my storyboard via email. He’s taken some of my images and the general direction of the script and added his own take on things and it was beginning to take on the shape of a comic strip now. He even made his own storyboard for a short film for the rebel character based on the dots in the image. You can see his full storyboard in the gallery above.

    These sets of etchings are not for general sale as they are custom made and printed by hand. They are not cheap but if you are interested in obtaining one maybe Stéphane can oblige. Or maybe you might want to commission him to illustrate something for you, he can be contacted here

    all images © Stéphane Courvoisier 2002-2005

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REALISED: 2002
FORMAT: 10"x 10" slipcase. 7 x etchings & CD
LABEL: N/A
CAT NO.: N/A
PRODUCERS: Stéphne Courvoisier, PC, Strictly Kev
GUESTS: Ken Nordine
SPOTTERS DELIGHT: CD includes both versions of The Ageing Young Rebel
EXTRA ZEN: Stephane Courvoisier blog

DJs On Strike ‘Too Hot For Solid Steel’

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  • DK and Strictly Kev appear on track 7 – ‘Interview w/ DJ Food’ – talking to DJs On Strike in the studio

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RELEASED: 2002
FORMAT: CD in DVD case
LABEL: DJs On Strike!
CAT NO.: imp013 / antartica002
PRODUCERS: Johnny Kawasaki & DJ Suspence
GUESTS: DK, Strictly Kev
SPOTTERS DELIGHT: An edited version of this did actually appear on Solid Steel
EXTRA ZEN:

DJ Food ‘Simian’ Pts 1 & 2

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  • Part of the Simian typeface package from the House Industries type foundry. Two ape-‘themed’ tracks to accompany the font ‘Simian’ which referenced the shapes and typefaces in the Planet of the Apes films. These two short tracks came on a 3″ CD housed in a leather wallet, embossed with the Simian type logo. Probably the most expensive DJ Food tracks available

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RELEASED: 2001
FORMAT: 3"CD + wallet
LABEL: HOUSE INDUSTRIES
CAT NO.: N/A
PRODUCERS: Strictly Kev
SPOTTERS DELIGHT: Wallet came in various different wraparound paper covers
EXTRA ZEN: House Industries Simian page

DJ Food ‘Spiral’ / The Herbaliser ‘Get Up 4 The Get Downs’

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  • Specially made for Germany's Popp Comm industry bash in 1995, this was a joint Herbaliser / Food release given away at the event. The B side had a Ninja logo I hand etched into a blank plate. The tracks were 'Spiral' and 'Up 4 The Get Downs' but I heard The Herbaliser title wrong hence the spelling mistake.

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RELEASED: 1995
FORMAT: 12"
LABEL: NINJA TUNE
CAT NO.: ZENKOLN1
PRODUCERS: DJ Food / The Herbaliser
GUESTS:
SPOTTERS DELIGHT: 1 sided, B side contains an etched Ninja
EXTRA ZEN: Discogs page