DJ Food - The Search Engine - out on Ninja Tune
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DJ Food - The Search Engine
(CD/Digital) Ninja Tune ZENCD176/ZENDNL176, 2012-01-23
Eleven years after the last DJ Food album release (Kaleidoscope), Strictly Kev and various friends, associates and like-minded collaborators return with a new full-length. The Search Engine distills the best parts from three EP’s worth of material into a continuous 56 minute album of unbridled creativity and laser-sharp focus. Collaborations abound in the form of vocal appearances from Natural Self (aka Nathaniel Pearn), JG Thirlwell (Foetus, Steroid Maximus etc.) and The The's Matt Johnson. The latter reprises his vocal on a cover of his own track GIANT, nearly thirty years after its first release. Musical hook-ups include 2econd Class Citizen, who trades sample-attacks with Strictly for the suite of nine tracks that make up the 11 minute Magpie Music. Dr Rubberfunk lends his drumming skills to the opening track and old DJ Food partner PC and Solid Steel's DK add their own ingredients to the mix. Perhaps the biggest surprise of all to those who associate the DJ Food name with the early 90s Jazz Brakes records is just how heavy The Search Engine is. Styled as a kind of psychedelic rock album made with samplers, Strictly Kev has not been afraid the frug the fuck out, with thundering drum work and fuzz bass perhaps the central muscial signature of the work.
DJ Food - The Search Engine
(CD/Digital) Ninja Tune ZENCD176/ZENDNL176, 2012-01-23
DJ Food - All Covered In Darkness (Parts 1 & 2) by Ninja Tune
DJ Food - The Illectrik Hoax Ft. Natural Self by Ninja Tune
DJ Food - Sentinel (Shadow Guard) Featuring DK by Ninja Tune
DJ Food - 'Prey' feat. J.G. Thirlwell by Ninja Tune
DJ Food - Colours Beyond Colours by Ninja Tune
Tracklisting :
01. All Covered In Darkness (Pt.1)
02. GIANT feat. Matt Johnson
03. intermission: a new language
04. The Illectrik Hoax feat. Natural Self
05. Sentinel (Shadow Guard) feat. DK
06. Prey feat. JG Thirlwell
07. In Orbit Every Monday
08. outermission: sheer fiction
09. Percussion Map (Pt.1)
10. Magpie Music feat. 2econd Class Citizen
11. A Trick of the Ear (Album edit)
12. Colours Beyond Colours
13. Beast of Prey *
14. All Covered in Darkness Pt.2 *
* japan-only bonus tracks on Beat Records (2011.12.03 release)
01, 04, 11, 12, 14 originally appeared on the One Man's Weird Is Another Man's World EP
05 and the instrumental version of 02 originally appeared on the The Shape Of Things That Hum EP
06, 07, 09, 10 originally appeared on the Magpies, Maps & Moons EP
Links :
DJ Food : official | discogs | facebook | flickr | myspace | parisdjs | soundcloud | twitter
Ninja Tune : official | facebook | french promo agency | myspace | parisdjs | soundcloud | twitter | youtube
Press Release :
Eleven years after the last DJ Food album release ("Kaleidoscope"), Strictly Kev and various friends, associates and like-minded collaborators return with a new full-length. 'The Search Engine' distills the best parts from three EP’s worth of material into a continuous 56 minute album of unbridled creativity and laser-sharp focus.
Collaborations abound in the form of vocal appearances from Natural Self (aka Nathaniel Pearn), JG Thirlwell (Foetus, Steroid Maximus etc.) and The The's Matt Johnson. The latter reprises his vocal on a cover of his own track 'GIANT', nearly thirty years after its first release. Musical hook-ups include 2econd Class Citizen, who trades sample-attacks with Strictly for the suite of nine tracks that make up the 11 minute 'Magpie Music'. Dr Rubberfunk lends his drumming skills to the opening track and old DJ Food partner PC and Solid Steel's DK add their own ingredients to the mix.
While there isn’t a single concept behind the record, certain themes twine their way through the music. In particular, the twin retro-future icons, astronauts and robots, float and bleep their way across the surface of the album, from the Henry Flint cover art onwards. Perhaps best known for his groundbreaking work on the 2000AD comic, Flint gave Kev access to a caché of his personal drawings to colour as well as creating new work specifically for the project.
Perhaps the biggest surprise of all to those who associate the DJ Food name with the early 90s "Jazz Brakes" records is just how heavy "The Search Engine" is. Styled as a kind of psychedelic rock album made with samplers, Strictly Kev has not been afraid the frug the fuck out, with thundering drum work and fuzz bass perhaps the central muscial signature of the work.
Reflecting Strictly’s work as a designer as well as musician (he had to take the whole of 2010 off from recording the record while he did all the design for Ninja’s 20th "XX’ anniversary) the album comes in a number of formats: regular CD digipak, download, comic book with CD and a 7" flexi-disc of a bonus track with an exclusive remix 12", comic and flexi-disc.
As for the title, Kev explains that, "the way we live every day is helped by search engines of many shapes and sizes. Some people think they control and influence how we work and play. In this case, though, the Search Engine could be something waiting to be found out in the vastness of space…" Thrusters on full….
Expect some big announcements about DJ Food over the coming months….
DJ Food - The Search Engine - Promo CD artwork
