Acid Endless by DJ Food presents Locked Loop Group

Two experimental acid bangers from none other than Strictly Kev aka DJ Food, operating under the Locked Loop Group alias from his Infinite Illectrik imprint.

In his own words:

“These tracks were made during improvised sessions in early 2023 when I was road-testing my custom-made Quadraphon turntable before its solo debut gig. The turntable features three extra tonearms, attached via a frame that fits over the existing deck, enabling me to play four different parts of the same record simultaneously. Having collected locked groove records for decades - discs featured multiple single grooves that loop infinitely - I used a favourite that featured a multitude of acid techno rhythms to build the track live. Each tone arm is fed into a separate channel on the mixer and then through the Ninja Tune Zen Delay FX box if needed. The deck essentially becomes a four track loop sequencer that I can jam with and grooves can be changed on the fly when needed by jumping any needle to a new groove.

These tracks were edited down out of one long recording and what I love about this method is the grit and crunch you get after a needle had been ploughing the same groove for fifteen minutes plus. The sounds start to crack and distort, crunch and break up in that fuzzy way that a diamond hitting vinyl can only do when it’s been wearing down the same path thirty three and a third times a minute. In a digital world it’s nice to hear some analogue grit and hiss occasionally. The addition of the zoetrope picture disc to the lathe cut and the die-cut packaging is just the icing on the cake for me, making this a unique release I’m very proud of."

We're stoked to have DJ Food join us on our journeys into the experimental unknown of ACID LATHE! RIDE THE GROOVE.