Christian Tjaben does a bi-weekly radio show on byte.fm out of Hamburg. Today at 4pm GMT (5pm local German time) his programme looks at almost 20 years of dj food sounds including music from the new EP.
Tune in here
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Last weeks’ Solid Steel mix – the Kraftwerk Kover Kollection vol.6 – now up on Soundcloud. 1 hour of songs covering, sampling or influenced by the other Fab Four. The full 6 volumes + artwork and track lists are up for the download at BosBos.net too!
Another Kraftwerk post (I’ll have to give them their own category) and time for the sixth installment of my Kraftwerk Kover Kollection to coincide with the final release of the remastered Catalogue box set on Monday.
It’s up for a week, streaming via the Solid Steel site and I’ll be making it available via Soundcloud when the next show replaces it.
For those unfamiliar, I do these hour long mixes every year or so featuring cover versions, sample-heavy tracks or songs that obviously owe a debt to the Dusseldorf quartet. I had the idea to string these sources together several years ago and the more I dug, the more I found, the amount of material out there is mind boggling. Not so strange for such an influential band who rarely release new material, I suppose fans have to fill the gap somehow. For anyone wanting to play catch-up, the first 4 are available here with full artwork and track listings and I’ll be putting 5 up with 6 next week too.
At a festival in Warsaw the other week, DK and I had the pleasure of seeing ex-Kraftwerk member Karl Bartos play. I was surprised at how much of the set was old material mixed with his solo stuff. His stage show pales compared to his former bands’ but he had full visuals and 5.1 sound all mixed live and hearing a new take on classic tracks was well worth the time we took to check him out.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation recently ran a documentary on copyright law in their Background Briefing slot on Sunday nights. They used some clips from my Raiding The 20th Century mix as well as Steinski, Lawrence Lessig, Dangermouse‘s Grey Album, Girl Talk, Good Copy, Bad Copy etc.
You can listen or download it here for a limited time
Last Friday we made No.2 and No.8 with the Ninja Tune and Solid Steel podcast respectively on the iTunes Music chart – whoohoo! Well done to DK and guests who put together the show with so much effort
A Weird World Reader by strictly
A trip through the new DJ Food EP ‘One Man’s Weird Is Another Man’s World’ featuring tracks, samples and influences that make it what it is.
A trip through the new DJ Food EP ‘One Man’s Weird Is Another Man’s World’ featuring tracks, samples and influences that make it what it is.
- Tracklist:
DJ Food feat Natural Self – The Illectrik Hoax (Ninja Tune)
Rare Bird – Hammerhead (ABC / Dunhill)
The Black Keys – Have Love Will Travel (Alive)
The Broken Keys – Razorblade (Tru Thoughts)
Mr Chop – The Infinity Machine (Now Again)
Oasis – Falling Down (Amorphous Androgynous Exploding Bubble remix) (Big Brother)
DJ Food – extract from Stolen Moments (Ninja Tune)
The Dragons – Soul Teacher (Rural Records)
Ken Nordine – Manned Satellite (Dot)
DJ Food – All Covered In Darkness (Ninja Tune)
The The – Giant (Some Bizarre)
Keno-1 and the Hermit – Heavy Heavy (Breakin Bread)
Grace Jones – Corporate Cannibal (Wall of Sound)
DJ Food – Tricky Little Ears (The Cheech Wizard Pays Respect To All Living Creatures Who Inhabit Dark Places remix by Bundy K Brown) (Ninja Tune)
DJ Food – A Trick of The Ear (Ninja Tune)
Grace Jones – Hurricane (Wall of Sound)
Bundy K Brown – Soldier of Fortune (Thrill Jockey)
Dr Rubberfunk – Sunset Breakdown (GPR)
Paul Weller – Sunflower (Lynch Mob dub) (Go Discs)
DJ Food – All Covered In Darkness Pt 2 (Ninja Tune)
DJ Food – Colours Beyond Colours (Ninja Tune)
It’s here, you wait for ages and then three come along at once. Yes I finally got round to releasing another record and it’s out today, a 30 minute EP on Ninja Tune called ‘One Man’s Weird Is Another Man’s World’. It features the vocal talents of Natural Self (yes, I said vocal) on lead track ‘The Illectrik Hoax’ and the nifty drums of Dr. Rubberfunk alongside the sampled vocals of Ken Nordine and The Dragons on ‘All Covered In Darkness’. Bundy K Brown is behind the board for ‘A Trick of the Ear’ and an old collaboration with PC makes it’s first appearance in the form of ‘extract from Stolen Moments’. 2000ad artist Henry Flint graciously provided drawings for the cover art to make it something worth having and holding when it folds out to an A2 sized poster. It’s available in the form of a 5 track 12″ with poster cover and download code or a 6 track mp3 bundle.
You can hear selections from it on my Soundcloud and buy it from iTunes / DJ Download / Play.com / Spotify / we7 / Ninja shop / HMV Digital / Bleep / Tune Tribe / 7 Digital / Juno / Boomkat
There’s an interview in the new Clash Music magazine including a free mp3 and a very nice review by Mark E on Ireallylovemusic
Not only is there a new record but the near mythical DJ Food site is finally ready, choc full of stuff from my Openmind alter ego design work past and present and a full DJ Food discography stretching back nearly 20 years. If you want to know anything about the records connected to this moniker over the years then it will be there along with gig dates, blogs, playlists and more. The site is divided into 4 sections: Diary, Design, Discography and Downloads and you can subscribe to the blog without going through myspace at last. It’s still a work in progress as there is so much to present, especially on the design side of things as most entries provide stories, alternate artwork and release info. A big thanks to Dean at Safe As Milk for all his hard work on making it what it is.
And finally, it’s a Solid Steel takeover this week with an hour long mix from myself based on the EP with tracks from all the contributors, some original sample sources and various things I that inspired the making of it. The second hour is a fantastic mix from The Broken Keys – aka Natural Self and Nostalgia 77 – called ‘Engine Oil and Elbow Grease’, stuffed to the brim with old funk, rock breaks and psyche. You can listen here.