 FRIDAY 17TH FEBRUARY |
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DJ Food - the present: Strictly Kev
With over 25 years DJing experience and more than a decade serving up Food for DJs, for both Ninja and Coldcut's weekly radio show 'Solid Steel', Kev is now in the Food hot seat. He first met Matt Black at his 'Telepathic Fish' ambient parties of the early 90's, started designing artwork for Ninja Tune and paired up with PC (Patrick Carpenter) to form the public 'face' of DJ Food on 4 decks in clubs around the world. After working on various Food and Coldcut related studio projects with PC (A Recipe for Disaster, Journeys by DJ, ColdKrushCuts and the Blech mix compilations for Warp) they released the album 'Kaleidoscope' in 2000, closely followed by the 'Quadraplex EP' in 2001. Also arriving in 2001 was the first in a series of Solid Steel mix CDs starting with DJ Food & DK (Darren Knott - Solid Steel's producer) and the publicly lauded 'Now, Listen'. Since then he's been constantly art-directing the Ninja Tune label, designing for artists like Amon Tobin, The Herbaliser, DJ Vadim and Funki Porcini. Mix work has included a rescore of the Monkees' cult film 'Head', an as-yet unreleased album of vintage Sesame Street funk, and his magnum opus 'Raiding the 20th Century'. This last hour-long mix/documentary was an internet-only release charting the history of the cut-up and featured journalist Paul Morley reading from his book 'Words & Music'. Not only did it crash servers on several sites that hosted it due to its initial popularity but it was later subject to a cease & desist order from EMI for multiple infringements of copyright. In 2007, alongside DK again, he followed up their Solid Steel debut with the sequel - 'Now, Listen Again' - and the pair spent much of 2008 transferring their mix into a 4 deck audio visual live show. Using Serato's video plug-in - that enables video to be mixed and scratched via turntables the same as records - they christened their efforts 'video turntablism'. Kev is now working on a series of EPs that will make up the next DJ Food album, an exhaustive DJ Food website (www.djfood.org ) and providing artwork for Ninja artists such as King Cannibal and the forthcoming 20 year label celebrations. The man is a joy to watch and great fun to dance along to – look on ye mighty DJs and despair! www.djfood.org www.ninjatune.net |