This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Electronica and hip-hop DJs are already a pretty faceless lot, but this British outfit take it to a whole new level.
An outgrowth of the Coldcut collective, DJ Food is basically a name whose members and sound change with virtually every release. For this incarnation, Food’s chefs are two blokes named Patrick Carpenter — aka PC — and Strictly Kev. And oh man, do they cook on Kaleidoscope. Conjuring the laid-back, whacked-out excess of Fatboy Slim after a handful of downers and a shelf of Raymond Chandler novels, Kaleidoscope’s dozen tracks are a multi-course feast of acid-laced hip-hop and freak-out sound collages — pool balls, spoken-word records, blazing bongos, lumpy standup bass lines, poetry from Chicago’s Ken Nordine, squealing tires, doppler-effect car horns and just about any other sonic snippet you can imagine all get sliced and diced Ginsu-style into a cinematic cornucopia of cool for your consumption. All you have to do is tune in, turn on and feed your head.
