Artists
DJ Food has been 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. With over 20 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).
Since then he's been doing constant art and mix work with a rescore of the Monkees' cult film 'Head', an as-yet unreleased album of vintage Sesame Street funk, an exhaustive DJ Food website (www.djfood.org) 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 infringments of copyright.
Now, alongside DK again, he is following up their Solid Steel debut with the sequel - 'Now, Listen Again' and is working on the next DJ Food album solo as well as providing artwork for Ninja artists such as Amon Tobin, The Herbaliser and many others. Kev now DJ’s out regularly, travelling all over the world and creating a stir wherever he plays. He is amazingly versatile, both in the variety of tunes and his skills on the decks, playing a mix of jazzy, funky breaks, bootlegs, hip hop and usually building the set to a drum & bass crescendo that has the crowd going nuts.