DJ Food - Kaleidoscope Companion

DJ Food - Kaleidoscope CompanionReleased in April 2000, Kaleidoscope marked a new era for the DJ Food alias first conceived by label founders Coldcut. Now under the expert control of fellow Ninjas Kevin Foakes, aka Strictly Kev, and Patrick Carpenter, aka PC, the album broke with the past by reflecting a possible future of beats and pieces. Twenty years later, amid the first national lockdown in England, Kev and PC decided to celebrate Kaleidoscope's 20th anniversary by digging

then the DJ ones

aka acclaimed Merseyside-based producer Matthew Barnes

closer to your ears

Thundercat released his aptly titled album “It Is What It Is” featuring musical contributions from Flying Lotus

‘Resurgam’’s lyrics are deliberately stripped-back

'Stealth' is an alternate version of the Gentle Cruelty remix of 'The Ageing Young Rebel' (also included on Xen cuts) but with Nordine's vocal replaced by a somber voice mulling the disasters of morbid self-attention

separate from the usual demands of which songs work on stage – and then give each song the treatment it deserves

“You spend two years of your life protesting and getting assaulted and arrested—you got a lot of shit to say after that

The lead single

By way of introduction

So here it is

sounds and themes effortlessly brought together by a voice both distinct and timeless in equal measure