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After recent outings on the dark side, like Amon Tobin/Two Fingers’ album Two Fingers and The Bug and mindscape of King Cannibal’sLet The Night Roar, the first new music from DJ Food in 8 years still comes as a surprise!

So what are the best Rock meets Hip-Hop Culture experiments? ‘Walk This Way’ by Run DMC/Aerosmith collab is the most obvious success whilst to the questionable link up of DJ Shadow and Stateless always ‘problematic’ to say the least.

The second half of ‘All Covered In Darkness’ has that ‘problematic’ weirdness that your either going to a go-go love (not the sixties go-go but the 80s Chuck Brown/Trouble Funk style a la the live drumming of the ever excellent Dr. Rubberfunk!) as it electronically trips out on post BBC Radiophonic workshop.

And then it’s straight into the 13+ minute long ‘A Trick Of The Ear’; part Yes prog, part NASA poetry, part Indo-Jazz, part Jah Wobbled (so to speak) - I’ve finally fallen in on this one; this is definitely one to file under Jazz Chronicles of 2009; fantastic percussion to trick the ears and move the feet. Also reminds me a touch of Byrne/Eno’s zenith of My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts whilst the Bundy K. Brown (who?) remix is available as a ‘The Cheech Wizard Pays Respect To All Living Creatures Who Inhabit Dark Places’ download gets chilled out as

And the highlight should have been the rare vocals of Natural Self (you’ll know his latest album is now out on Tru-Thoughts called My Heart Beats Like A Drum) ont ‘The Illectrik Hoax’ but it’s so out of character in a almost Gong-esque ‘Pothead’ pixie weirdest, could it be the oddest 4 minutes on Ninja Tune ever?

At the end of the day, One Man’s Weird Is Another Man’s World and I thought I was weird, but in the end, it turns out I’m world; or should that be global? This is the first part of 3 courses leading up to the album and check out for the poster cover drawn by 2000AD comic artist Henry Flint.

Reviewed: DJ Food - One Man’s Weird Is Another Man’s World (Ninja Tune) Cat. No: ZEN12232 Release date: 12th October 2009
Tracklisting:
A1. The Illectrik Hoax (3:57)
A2. Extract From Stolen Moments (2:52)
A3. All Covered In Darkness (Parts 1 & 2) (7:39)
B1. A Trick Of The Ear (13:21)
B2. Colours Beyond Colours (2:55)

Links:
www.myspace.com/kingcannibal
www.jahcoozi.com
www.myspace.com/jahcoozi
www.ninjatune.net
www.myspace.com/daedelusdarling
www.beggars.com
Banquet Records. Address:, 52 Eden Street, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey. Phone: 020 8549 5871. Times:, Open from 10:00 to 18:00 Monday to Saturday www.banquetrecords.com
Slices - Issue 3-09 Rober Koch vs. Cerebal Vortex www.eb-slices.net
6th February 2010 - Simon S, Martin Gordon & Gerry Hectic : Jazz Chronicles @ Sixty Million Postcards, Bournemouth 3 to 8pm www.sixtymillionpostcards.com