Recipe for Disaster [Original recording reissued]

DJ Food | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 9, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Ninja Tune
• ASIN: B0000B1A3D
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #363,016 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 4 decks, 3 blokes, pure funkgasm - go buy it, now!!, May 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Recipe for Disaster (Audio CD)

DJ Food, a team of geniuses, I can`t believe I`m the first person to review this album on this slot, grooves fly like yoyo`s, scratching- feels good... DJ Food , now on Ninja Tunes, is one of a growing number of djs` leading the dance/jazz evoloution. ( I hope i`ve spelt that right ) Inventive eclectic djaying, Low key and up beat, tunes that make you want to smile and hug the person next to you. And live... it`s impossible not to just get up and dance. Also well worth listening to is an album called Cold Krush Cuts, which features a sixty minute cd, Cold Cut vs. Dj Food, playing a ninja tunes back catalogue and one of Dj Krush, it`s got everything an album should have and more. It`s so good it seems criminal to restrict it`s definition to acid jazz, it`s just great music. Alternatively browse through the ninja tunes catalogue yourself and pick just about any cd you like `cos it`s all top quality stuff. Go out and buy it, then tell your friends! =:)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Old School, December 6, 2008

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J. Kendall (Jarrettsville, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Recipe for Disaster (Audio CD)

Yeah this is a classic disc from back in the day. Used to be that there was an avalanche of quality trip hop / house / downbeat jazz music infecting the record store. Those were some of the good old days. DJ Food was pretty consistently of high quality with atmospheric beats, cinematic touches you could really get into, depending on your state of mind. Definitely some DJ Shadow influence here, but Shadow's sound trickled into a lot of music back then, not always with as gratifying results as this. I've listened to this disc probably hundreds of times in hundreds of settings and it never fails to make me nod my head. If looking for a slice of the old school from a time when electronic music was eclectic and fun to listen to, this would be a great place to start.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this while you can, October 15, 2007

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B. Marshall (A small village on a large lake in Queensland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Recipe for Disaster (Audio CD)

This is some of the best to emerge from the Ninja stable - highly recommend this one. If you've enjoyed DJ Food prior, you'll love this. Get it now while it's still in stock. If you're unfamiliar here's a few words to help you gain an impression - jazzy (but in a warm way), cinematic (ditto), musical (i know. "musical music? wtf?"), dreamy, listenable (ie it's foreground music, not background), thoughtful. (That sounds way earnest, which is a pity because it's simply enjoyable - not just for the head-nodders, y'know?) Taking contemporary music trends of the hip-hop, trip-hop flavours, it's circa mid-late nineties stuff I think, but has aged well, and has been on medium rotation for me since I was introduced five years ago. I've since bought everything with DJ Food on the label, and there are many gems in the Food canon. Enjoy.