DJ Food

Technically really a collaborative project rather than a one-man affair - at least, that was the case originally, DJ Food first came about as an experimental venture in London in 1992, with Kevin Foakes - or Strictly Kev, as he’s better known with regard to his solo endeavours - decided to start up an electronic music project that would allow him and a slew of collaborators - among them Matt Black, Jonathan More and Patrick Carpenter - to play around not only with the trip hop sounds that would go on to be made huge later in the decade by the likes of Massive Attack and Portishead, but also with latin and dub influences that were perhaps being overlooked at that point by the wider EDM community. Strictly speaking, Foakes now remains the only real member of DJ Food, and was pretty much the solo creative force behind 2011’s The Search Engine, an album that was only the second since DJ Food’s successful Jazz Brakes series of the early and mid nineties. He still occasionally plays live sets under the moniker too, blending new material with classic experimental cuts from Jazz Brakes in a way that shouldn’t really work, but does, uncannily - check it out for yourself next time he pops up in UK clubs.