DJ Food

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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”, (with a similar meaning as “Fish Food” or “Dog Food”.) 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 Moore (aka Coldcut) were responsible for starting Jazz Brakes series in the early 90s.

Jazz Brakes Volume 4
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Jazz Brakes Volume 3
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Jazz Brakes Volume 5
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A Recipe for Disaster
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Top Tracks

1	Turtle Soup (Wagon Christ mix) full track	385
2	The Crow	344
3	Dark Lady full track	329
4	Spiral full track	284
5	Break	254
6	The Riff	236
7	Full Bleed	223
8	Gold in My Pocket	219
9	Consciousness full track	202
9	Strange Taste full track	202
11	A Nice Blunt full track	195
12	Ninja Walk	193
13	Bass City Roller full track	186
14	Dark Blood full track	182
15	The Sky at Night	181

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Jaked00d wrote:
Wednesday evening

Awesome...

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Jazzoro wrote:
last month

damn good

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mechanicalsteer wrote:
last month

Mechanical Steering new album "10:10pm"! http://www.lastfm.pl/music/Mechanical+Steering

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nicatnecef wrote:
last month

great)))

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SteQ wrote:
last month

the sky at night ...

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dukon wrote:
August 2008

Solid Steel forever

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SONIKSENSEI wrote:
July 2008

THE CROW , une vrai tuerie

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asmodeus88 wrote:
July 2008

so dirty, so funky....

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red-green-blue wrote:
July 2008

I have started a fan group: http://www.last.fm/group/DJ+Food/join

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szyszkowski wrote:
July 2008

It taste strange, but it's damn good!

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DustyJohnston wrote:
July 2008

i have some great new music from Dusty Johnston. If you like electronic pop, then check out his stuff. http://www.last.fm/music/Dusty+Johnston

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Nagsworth wrote:
July 2008

Calling all funky soul brothers, move yer feet and feel the beat down at the hottest new group in town, Brotherhood of Funky Soul Breaks! Help a dude out in his quest for the ultimate lovers of funk, and sign yerself up!

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aradriel wrote:
June 2008

The DJ Food&DK Sessions are outstandig masterpices! Both of them!

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leitemossa wrote:
June 2008

if you constantly have music on, join us! bring your diversity.

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Zsigner wrote:
May 2008

doesn´t the food taste a little strange to you!

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8m2stereo wrote:
May 2008

Strictly Kev - Raiding the 20th Century - A History of The Cutup : http://www.ubu.com/sound/dj_food.html

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asmodeus88 wrote:
May 2008

the riff...

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morrissimo wrote:
April 2008

DJ Food - builds strong tones and healthy beats

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kazotaja wrote:
April 2008

kaleidoscope is terrific :)

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thestr8sounds wrote:
April 2008

really seriously

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