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Personnel includes: Matt Black, Jonathon More, PC, Strictly Kev. The Ninja Tune label is partially responsible for creating a market for open-ended hip-hop compositions. These combined the jazz influences big in '90s hip-hop with the art of turntablism, and whatever else their artists threw in the mix. DJ Food is one of the label's strongest forces, a collaborative effort between popular DJs/producers Coldcut, PC, and Strictly. A RECIPE FOR DISASTER is the quartet's 1995 debut album, and a welcome contribution to hip-hop. Relying on a curious recipe of hip-hop drum loops, otherworldly synth sounds, and hints of jazz, the crew squeezes out tasty treats like "Insofan" and "The Dusk." If unfamiliar incarnations of hip-hop are your cup of tea, tracks like " Dark River" and "Scientific Youth" will make you happy that there aren't any mediocre emcees present to mess it all up. RECIPE is a must have if you've been searching for imaginative experiments in hip-hop.
Reviews
JazzTimes (5/96, p.63) - "...A RECIPE FOR DISASTER is an intriguing slab of breakbeat alchemy..." Option (3-4/96, p.101) - "DJ Food, of the producing team Coldcut, has concocted a tasty album of beats and bass out of more by-products than a convenience store frankfurter..." NME (Magazine) (11/11/95, p.45) - 8 (out of 10) - "...it sounds like a party in full flow...A party fuelled by hip-hop and drum 'n' bass beats fatter than Norman Lamont and funk licks that clock in at `Heinz' on the sauce scale...[fills] the gaps between funk, hip-hop, jungle, chill-out, techno and soul..."
