DJ Food - One Man's Weird Is Another Man's World
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The DJ Food project was conceived as a way to provide disc jockeys with musical sustenance (“food for DJs”) by the members of Coldcut, Jonathan More and Matt Black. It was initially a collective studio project and more than half a dozen people have been involved over the years, but it has been a solo effort headed by Strictly Kev since 2002. One Man's Weird Is Another Man's World is the first of three EPs that they plan to release before the spring of 2010, when the tentatively-titled Stolen Moments album is scheduled to come out. The last new material from DJ Food was Quadraplex – a “concept EP” filled with sounds related to glassmaking – over eight years ago.
The running time of One Man's Weird Is Another Man's World is a bit longer than a standard EP – which is usually between 28 and 36 minutes – but since there are only 5 tracks it kind of balances out. There are several guest artists this time around, starting with “The Illectrik Hoax,” which has backing vocals by Natural Self. “Extract from Stolen Moments” is apparently a remixed version of a previously shelved track that was co-written with PC for the Kaleidoscope album. “All Covered In Darkness” features Ken Nordine, The Dragons and Dr. Rubberfunk and the heavier second half of the track is the best part of the EP. Bundy K. Brown, a founding member of Tortoise, mixes “A Trick Of The Ear” which he also remixes as “Tricky Little Ears,” an extra song that comes after “Colours Beyond Colours” on the download-only version of the EP.
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It’s been way too long since any new material was released under the DJ Food moniker – the excellent You Don’t Know - 1000 Masks Mix doesn’t count, being a mix and all – and the last time the music was this consistently good was on A Recipe For Disaster. (There were better tracks on Kaleidoscope, but the bad songs on that album canceled out the good stuff overall.) The good news is, we can apparently (supposedly?) look forward to two more EPs before all three of them are collected on a full-length record.
