Following on from our discussion of Coldcut/DJ Food/alter egos,
Strictly Kev wrote:
quoted 15 lines for your information PC & Strictly are 2 very real people who are most
>for your information PC & Strictly are 2 very real people who are most
>definately NOT Jon (More) or Matt (Black). Your conpiracy theory is
>completely unfounded. Food is an amorphous collective (in the studio) based
>around Coldcut & PC who I have been working with since i arrived a couple
>of years ago (as Jazz Brakes 5 was being released) so you won't see my name
>on the 1st 5 (Foakes being my surname - check 'em out spotters). The reason
>PC & I represent Food live is because promoters constantly want to book
>Food & Coldcut & rather than M & J doing 2 sets as 2 different acts we
>stepped in to do the food business. Please don't get upset because this is
>all a bit different from the norm, we're trying to mash things up in the
>studio and the clubs - we we're DJing as a foursome 'as' Coldcut in
>backrooms in the UK 3 years ago as well as all playing in any configuration
>possible on 'Coldcut Solid Steel' on London's Kiss FM (Sat night 1-3 am)
>most weeks. Hope that's put that one to rest cheers - Strictly Kev (dj
>Food' definately not an alter ego of Jon or Matt - Ninja Tune / openmind)
Kev:
Hey! Didn't mean to turn you into a theoretical alter-entity! There were
a few reasons that my theory was only a theory, for instance you thank
Jon & Matt for their hard drive space on the Blechsdottir CD. By the
way, I gotta say that your work on the 2 Blech comps totally blows me
away every time I listen to it: that and the Coldcut JDJ CD have
convinced me (very belatedly) of just how much of an artform DJ-ing
really is. [Belatedly because I came to idm/electronica/whateverthefuck
via indie/alternative/whateverelsethefuck from classical music, being a
cellist/pianist/whateverist.]
I have the utmost respect for PC & Strictly (by the way I also did
subliminally at least realise you were Kev _Foakes_, really I was just
being silly with the conspiracy...) One thing I just love is the segue
on Blechsdottir from N.O.W.'s What I'm Feelin' into LFO's Shove Piggy
Shove. The way the harmonies match so perfectly as LFO comes in, and
then when the bass comes in in the LFO, it's just beautiful!
Anyway, I guess what you've shown is that DJ Food is as much your
project as Jon & Matt, but hten again if all four of you can be
"Coldcut" sometimes, and can be DJ Food, it still seems that DJ Food is
a differently-structured version of Coldcut... But then obviously the
styles of music are quite different between the two entities anyway.
Well thanks for clearing it up for us, great to hear from you!
Peter.