DJ Food ‘O Is For Orange’

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  • A mix made after an AV night called 'A Few Old Tunes' to celebrate the release of Boards of Canada's 'Tomorrow's Harvest' album. I made videos for a lot of the material so decided to do my first solo video mix. There is also a follow up mix called 'T Is For Trapped' but no accompanying video mix exists as yet.

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RELEASED: 28 Jun 2013
FORMAT: Audio Video mix
LABEL: SOLID STEEL
CAT NO.: n/a
MIXER: Strictly Kev
GUESTS: n/a
EXTRA ZEN: LISTEN / WATCH

Coldcut meets The Orb (The Return Trip)

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  • Matt and Jon, Alex Paterson and Youth convening at Butterfly studio on the anniversary of JFK‘s assassination along with Coldcut studio accomplice Dor Wand and got down to it. The resulting session produced over 3 hours worth of material and I immediately volunteered to take on the edit job to sculpt it into the shape needed for a Solid Steel mix.

    Luckily they had recorded everything to multi-track and just before Xmas 2012 I sat down to construct a 2 hour show from the chinese puzzle in front of me. After sifting, editing, compressing and discarding over a 3 to 4 week period I finally had something to send the guys. Matt came over to the studio to run through some finishing touches with fresh ears and we had 133 minutes of mind-melting madness.

  • For the Solid Steel 25th anniversary why don’t we get a rematch between Coldcut and the Orb? It’s no secret that their original New Year mash up from the end of 1991 is very high up on my list of greatest mixes ever and the thought of a new sound clash 21 years later was very appealing indeed.

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RELEASED: 23 Jan 2013
FORMAT: DL
LABEL: SOLID STEEL
CAT NO.: n/a
PRODUCERS: Strictly Kev, Matt Black
GUESTS: Coldcut, Dr Alex Patterson, Youth, Dor Wand
EXTRA ZEN: LISTEN Pt.1 & Pt.2

DJ Food ‘Trip Out / Flashback Megamix’ (DJ Shadow mx1 & 2)

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  • The main 23 minute mix uses tracks, remixes, productions for others and the odd sample from Shadow's career to date. I took the lesser-known compilation track 'Flashback' as a theme to rapidly look back through his back catalogue.

  • Created for the XFM radio DJ Shadow special 20/09/12 – ‘Trip Out’ is a short mix using a lot of the ambient parts of Shadow’s productions. The ‘cover’ image is a homage to the KLF’s classic ‘Chill Out’ LP.

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RELEASED: 20 Sept 2012
FORMAT: DL
LABEL: n/a
CAT NO.: n/a
MIXER: Strictly Kev
EXTRA ZEN: LISTEN Trip Out / LISTEN: Flashback Megamix

DJ Food, DJ Cheeba, DJ Moneyshot ‘Caught In The Middle Of A 3-Way Mix’

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  • DJs Cheeba, Moneyshot and I had the idea of collaborating on a version of the Beastie Boys‘ ‘Paul’s Boutique’ album made entirely from the original sample sources, shortly after Moneyshot aired his mix of their ‘Check Your Head’ album in the same way.

    3 years in the making, ‘Caught In The Middle Of A 3-Way Mix’ has each of us taking a third of the album to work on and combined our efforts into a mix that will make you hear it in a new way. Aside from the original sample sources we’ve included commentary from the Beasties, vintage interviews, demo versions and much more.

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RELEASED: Aug 2012
FORMAT: DL
LABEL: SOLID STEEL
CAT NO.: n/a
MIXERS: Strictly Kev, DJ Cheeba, DJ Moneyshot
GUESTS: n/a
SPOTTERS DELIGHT: Officially the most listened to mix on Solid Steel with over 140,000 plays as of typing
EXTRA ZEN: LISTEN

2econd Class Citizen ‘The Small Minority Megamix’

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  • A sampler of 2econd Class Citizen's second album 'The Small Minority', released on the now-defunct Equinox Records. This mix is available to download from Bandcamp but it’s only streaming via Soundcloud at the moment.

  • It was a real labour of love and I think I managed to get elements from all the tracks in there at some point including a remix of the single ‘Outside Your Doorway’ – see if you can untangle it all when you listen to the LP.

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RELEASED: 1 May 2012
FORMAT: DL / Promo CD
LABEL: EQUINOX
CAT NO.: n/a
PRODUCERS: Strictly Kev
GUESTS: 2econd Class Citizen
SPOTTERS DELIGHT: Limited promo CDs exist in an edition of 75 copies coupled with 2econd Class Citizen's 'Planetarium Mix' that he made for Solid Steel.
EXTRA ZEN: LISTEN / DOWNLOAD

DJ Food ‘The Search Engine (Fulldome version)’

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  • A more ambient condensation of 'The Search Engine' album used to soundtrack the 360 dome shows I made at the time of release. The 50 minute audio visual show was projected 360 degrees around the domes and planetariums it played at.

    Includes the Deep Space mix of 'GIANT' and 2econd Class Citizen's remix of 'The Illectrik Hoax' as well as a re-recording of 'The Sky At Night' from 'Kaleidoscope' that PC and I made.

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RELEASED: 19 Jan 2012
FORMAT: 360 Fulldome / Planetarium version of 'The Search Engine' album
LABEL: NINJA TUNE
CAT NO.: n/a
PRODUCERS: Strictly Kev
GUESTS: Natural Self, Matt Johnson, JG Thirlwell, PC, DK, 2ndClass Citizen, Dr Rubberfunk
SPOTTERS DELIGHT: Soundtrack only ever broadcast at fulldome shows or exhibitions except a guest spot on the Solipsistic Nation podcast.
EXTRA ZEN: LISTEN

DJ Food ‘Solid Psyche’

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  • Tracklist:
    Sixtoo  • Chainsaw Buffet
    Gaslamp Killer & Computer J • Shattering Inner Journeys
    Diplo • Don't Fall
    DJ Food feat. Natural Self • The Illectrik Hoax
    Diplo • Now's The Time
    Gaslamp Killer & Computer J • Shattering Inner Journeys
    The Slew • Robbing Banks, (Doin' Time)
    Pop Levi • Blue Honey (Amorphous Androgynous Remix)
    DJ Food • All Covered In Darkness Pt.2
    Diplo • Making It Hard (promo only)
    The Dragons  • Sunset Scenery
    Pop Levi • Blue Honey (Amorphous Androgynous Remix)
    Super Numeri • The Spies Of St. Ives
    Loka •  Entrance
    The Dragons • Big Mike Requiem
    The Heavy • Oh No! Not You Again
    Yppah • The Drag
    The Slew • Battle Of Heaven & Hell
    Sixtoo feat. Damo Suzuki • Storm Clouds & Silver Linings
    Super Numeri • The First League of Angels

  • A mix of the more psychedelic side of Ninja Tune, Big Dada, Counter and Brainfeeder, put together for the Japanese release of ‘The Search Engine’ and available from independent stores as a bonus disc. Copies made their way into the Ninja shop for a time and were sold at the Planetarium launch party and Pure Evil exhibition as well.

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RELEASED: 3rd Dec 2011
FORMAT: DL / Japanese Promo CD
LABEL: NINJA TUNE
CAT NO.: ZENCDM176
MIXER: Strictly Kev
SPOTTERS DELIGHT: The disc and album was actually released over a month early in Japan.
EXTRA ZEN: ninjatune.net / LISTEN

Various Artists ’64 Bar Challenge mix’

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  • The 64 Bar Challenge mix I did, 29 tracks in 52 minutes, the brief was for each track to be 110 beats per minute and last 64 bars. The series was originated on the Ninja Tune forum by Kovas and driven over 6 different challenges with entries from all over the world.
    The quality was really high, largely leaning towards the electronic end of the spectrum, and with roughly 50/50 of the entrants being unsigned or never having released anything. Take a listen and see what you think and you can pledge for a vinyl version of the tracks on a compilation over on Beat Delete.

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RELEASED: Sept 2011
FORMAT: DL
LABEL: NINJA TUNE
CAT NO.: n/a
MIXER: Strictly Kev
EXTRA ZEN: ninjatune.net / BUY / LISTEN

DJ Food & DK ‘Now, Look & Listen’

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  • Showcasing the AV mix DK and I performed live on 4 decks and 3 mixers post-'Now, Listen Again'. Using Serato's Video-SL plug-in for Scratch Live, we mix, scratch and blend the sound AND vision for each track.
    Months were spent creating videos for each piece of music, either using the original source material or, in most cases sampling footage to create a new video entirely. We called it 'Video Turntablism', a way to visualize our DJ sets, first performed in late 2008 at Videocrash in London.

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RELEASED: 10 Dec 2009
FORMAT: DL / Promo DVD
LABEL: n/a
CAT NO.: n/a
MIXERS: Strictly Kev, DK
GUESTS: n/a
SPOTTERS DELIGHT: There were 100 copies of a promo DVD made in a slimline case with colour insert made to give out at gigs and use in competitions.
EXTRA ZEN: WATCH

Various Artists ‘You Don’t Know’ (DJ Food’s 1000 Masks mix)

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  • This compilation was long overdue, the last one was way back in 2000 and the only label overview since had been 2006's Zen TV which was more of a retrospective look back than a current mission statement. There's still the Hip Hop, Jazz, Turntablism and Electronica the label became know for. But It's time to see what's behind the Ninja mask NOW - you'll hear drum n bass, folk, dubstep, glam rock, techno and other styles, none of which sum up the label completely.

  • “Don’t be fooled by me, my surface is my mask. Don’t be fooled by the face I wear, for I wear a thousand masks… and none of them are me.”

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RELEASED: Mar 2008
FORMAT: CD / DL
LABEL: NINJA TUNE
CAT NO.: ZENCD150X / ZENDNL150RX
MIXER: Strictly Kev
SPOTTERS DELIGHT: The cover image was painted by Syd Mead
EXTRA ZEN: ninjatune.net / BUY

Various Artists ‘Remember The Future?’

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  • Robots, mecha, androids, simulacra, I love them and, to commemorate the release of the first Transformers film in the summer of 2007 I put together a themed mix called 'Remember the Future' with the emphasis on the machine envisaged in the 50's, 60' and 70's when space travel was still a new wonder of the world. The intro was Transformer-themed and I was doing a gig with Hexstatic a few months later for the release of their album 'When Robots Go Bad'. I decided to make up some artwork to go with it so that I could sell some at the gig. Each one took around an hour to burn, print, score, cut and fold - I managed 75 in total.

  • The outer cover was a folding version of the Autobot logo (I wanted to do a Decepticon but it didn’t lend itself as well to the task in hand). This held the disc inside, each one of which was printed with a different image of a robot cribbed from an online gallery of bots made from found objects.

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RELEASED: Oct 2007
FORMAT: CD
LABEL: n/a
CAT NO.: n/a
MIXER: Strictly Kev
SPOTTERS DELIGHT: 75 copies, each disc has a different image
EXTRA ZEN: LISTEN