Recipe for Disaster

Jazz Brakes Originally produced by Coldcut , the DJ Food project started in 1990 with the release of Jazz Brakes. Jazz Brakes Volume 3 being the label's most successful early album. Not only are they effective collections of breaks, loops and samples ideal for mixing, remixing and producing - but also fine collections of funky jazz & hip hop tunes, that cut it just as well on the discerning dancefloor as in the safety of your own home... Since the growth of the abstract hip hop scene recent years the Jazz Brakes albums have proved to be ahead of their time Jazz Brakes Volumes 4 & 5, co-created with DJ/producer PC, are collections of finely crafted tunes that transcend the breakbeat compilation format to stand as artist albums in their own right. These latter DJ Food albums have developed with shades of latin, dub, techno, ambient, tribal, african and jungle flavouring the funk.

The last Food album in October '95 titled 'A Recipe For Disaster' was a conscious break from the 5 Jazz Brakes volumes to form an identity as an artist, and a remix album of tracks from all 6 LPs 'Refried Food' was released Feb '96. "Kaleidescope" was prepared by PC and Strictly Kev in various top secret kitchens across London and was released April 2000. Collaborations with guests on this include Bundy K. Brown (ex-Tortoise, Directions in Music, Pullman) and Ken Nordine (60's word jazz poet).

Who is DJ Food?

Who indeed? The most often asked question in interviews and most widely misunderstood concept in reality, which we will clear up once and for all. First off; DJ FOOD is a person? wrong, DJ Food is many persons, of who we will come to in a moment. DJ FOOD is best described as Food for DJs, simple as that, just flip it around and it begins to mean something entirely different.

But who makes this food then? Most of you will know that Matt Black & Jonathan More (aka Coldcut) are responsible for starting the DJ FOOD series of Jazz Brakes back in the early 90's. Along the way they met Patrick Carpenter (PC) who was commonly misconstrued as the computer that they made the tracks on for a while. A loose collaborative team began to form as more likeminded people arrived at the party; Paul Brook, Paul Rabiger, Strictly Kev and Issac Elliston to name a few. Whilst keeping their hand in as DJs, Matt & Jon couldn't / didn't want to DJ twice in one night under both aliases of Coldcut & Food so PC & Strictly stepped up to represent the Food club-wise. Over the years various combinations of people appeared as 'Food' in public and in music magazines the world over. Then everyone got confused.

So who is DJ FOOD now? For the purpose of "Kaleidescope", and for the time being at least, we would like you to think of it as PC & Strictly Kev as the band leaders / conductors, in conjuction with guest performers, producers & collaborations by the likes of Bundy K. Brown, Ken Nordine, & J. Swinscoe. (Jon & Matt having relinquished control to concentrate on Coldcut now that contractual restraints don't forbid them to use their original moniker)

We hope this has cleared up any confusion ... thank you and bon appetit!