SOLID STEEL (2001) (MIXED BY DJ FOOD & DK )

Product Summary Label: Ninja Tune UPC: 00625978105528 Release Date: 9/18/2001 Buy.com Sku: 60501761 Item#: MR74DD Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Solid Steel Theme - (Deluxe Version) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 2. Come Clean / Channel 1 Suite - (with Jeru The Damaja/The Cinematic Orchestra) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 3. Bleached - (with Neotropic) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 4. X-1 - (Underdog mix, with Ice) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 5. Musica Negra (Black Music) - (Accapella, with The X-Ecutioners) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 6. Taking Of Pelham 123 - (End Title, with David Shire) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 7. Solid Steel Intermission - (with Ray Bradbury/Marionettes Inc.) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 8. Ug / The Terrorist - (Accapella, with Mr. Scruff/DJ Vadim/Motion Man) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 9. Miles From Home - (Underdog mix, with Peshay) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 10. Mirror In The Bathroom / Square Off - (with The Beat/Mask) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 11. Hotel Alyssa-Sousse, Tunisia - (with Sabu Martinez) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 12. Ritmo 2 - (with Dominic Dalcan) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 13. Lucy's Song - (with Flying Fish) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 14. Calm Down / Solid Steel School Assembly Line - (Accapella, with Most Wanted/The Commodores) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 15. House Of Mirrors - (with David McCallum) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 16. Solid Steel School Break - (with Let's Play Drums) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 17. Alphabet Aerobics - (Cut Chemist 25 Minute Workout, with Blackalicious) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 18. Glass Head - (with Four Tet) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 19. Nobu - (with Herbie Hancock) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 20. Amenity - (with Link) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 21. Moments in Love - (with Art Of Noise) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 22. Color Of The Fire, The - (with Boards Of Canada) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica) 23. Riding High - (with Faze-O) ~ DJ Food/DK (Electronica)   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info This is a continuous in-the-mix CD compiled and mixed by DJ Food & DK. For those lucky few able to tune it in or dig up the session CD-R's passed from fan to fan, Coldcut and DJ Food's Solid Steel program has been, bar none, the leading light of the turntablist underground since its 1988 inception. As freewheeling as American crews like Invisibl Skratch Piklz or Beat Junkies but able to cast a much wider net over the font of musical knowledge on record, the Ninja Tune collective have blown up London's airwaves -- first on the pirate station Kiss-FM and later on BBC -- with mix after invincible mix of the broadest beats in the world. Finally, in 2001, Ninja Tune inaugurated a (hopefully long) series of Solid Steel mixes with Now, Listen!, the results of a 60-minutes-of-madness session featuring DJ Food (aka PC and Strictly Kev) plus DK. Though it wasn't recorded entirely live, the results are far too thrilling to bother quibbling over technicalities. The musical mind-melds include ska-revivalists the Beat over an early Roni Size production, the Commodores' "Assembly Line" mixed up with educational records, a Mr. Scruff track over a Motion Man rap, and Cut Chemist's ironically Coldcut-referencing "2.5 Minute Workout" of Blackalicious' "Alphabet Aerobics," plus snippets of everyone from Ray Bradbury to Herbie Hancock to Perrey-Kingsley to Man from U.N.K.L.E. star David McCallum to Innerzone Orchestra to Four Tet to David Shire's score to the 1974 heist film The Taking of Pelham One-Two-Three. No surprise -- it's also one of the best-paced mixes heard on an official release since Coldcut & PC's 70 Minutes of Madness tape from 1996. Showcasing the best in dance and groove no matter which historical or musical boundaries they obliterate in the process, Now, Listen! is one of the best mix albums released to date. ~ John Bush Producer: PC; Strictly Kev; DK Engineer: PC; Strictly Kev; DK   Compilation Appearances Cold Cut/Dj Krush-Cold Krush C Ninja Cuts 3-Funkungfusion Let Us Replay Xen Cuts Solid Steel Mix-Herbal Blend Zen Zen Remixes Record Live: solid Steel Presents On The Wheels Of Solid Steel (w/ Bonus DVD)   Technical Info Release Date : 09/18/2001 Original Release Date : 2001 Catalog ID : 55 Label : Ninja Tune (USA) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00625978105528   Professional Reviews Q (11/01, p.133) - 4 out of 5 stars - "...Pretty incredible...flat-out, mind-mangling fun..." Uncut (11/01, p.108) - 4 1/2 stars out of 5 - "...The mix album of the year..."    Product Image