Artist: DJ Food
Title: The Shape of Things To Hum
Label: Ninja Tune
Format: 5 track vinyl / 9 track CD
Released: December 14
The welcome return of DJ Food, once a collaborative banner for Coldcut and friends but these days the sole preserve of Camberwell resident Strictly Kev. Once part of the Open Mind collective - see also Mira Calix and fellow member David, who does the artwork here - Kev certainly hasn’t abandoned his twin roots in hip-hop and sonic experimentalism, with the results being an amorphous trip through soundscapes and echoing, multi-layered spoken word all underpinned with a sturdy b-boy backbone.
Forgive the obvious comparison, but sounds like kind of rich, deep ambient trip hop DJ Shadow might have ended up making if he hadn’t got sidetracked by post-rock, UNKLE collaborations and the DJ Hero computer game. Still more modern than most of the week’s postbag - welcome back to the fray.
4/5
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