![]() ![]() We were a bit gutted actually! But that showed us that there was pop mileage in what we were doing and that it was a direction that perhaps had bigger appeal than we realised." ![]() On the basis of that they signed to Blue Note and became US3. We asked if he knew anyone suitable and he made a track with Colin Crook – NW1 and Born 2 B's "The Band Played the Boogie". "A journalist called Geoff Wilkinson reviewed DJ Food and said that he loved all the jazz breaks but suggested we put a rap on it. The pair had returned to their DJ roots, producing jazz-suffused breaks-led instrumental tracks – manna for any crate-digging, wannabe turntablists. Zen Brakes Vol 1 was the label's first release in September 1990, followed swiftly by Jazz Brakes Volume 1 under the pseudonym DJ Food. Flicking through a book on ninjas gave them a new name. The culture clash and other-worldliness of the country reminded them that there was more to music than the mainstream. On a tour of Japan with Norman Cook's Beats International, the pair decided it was time to go it alone again. "It's a bit childish for us to moan on about what a bad deal we got – we did pretty well out of it – but we also saw what an enormous amount of effort and money was wasted by normal record companies." "I think that, in the period when we were sort of trapped in the normal music business contract – in a contractual swamp – we should have been a bit more switched on to what was going on," Black recalls.
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