Counter Records/Ninja Tune artist The Heavy has been wrongfully affiliated with a political campaign without their consent. Their song ‘How You Like Me Now?’ was used - without permission - in Newt Gingrich's recent rally in Tampa on January 23, 2012. The majority of media has mistakenly credited it as a Toby Keith song of the same name. 

Counter Records/Ninja Tune would like to officially state that The Heavy do not endorse this usage, nor do they wish to be associated with any political party without consent. The band has requested that this usage stops immediately. 

Solid Steel in association with Serato (27th January)

Coldcut step back into the hot seat this week, straight in with heavy beats with an Eastern twist from Beats Antique, before stepping up the pace with DJ Rashad and Ital Tek on a mutant footwork tip. We delve deeper with music from U Roy, Muddy Waters and Rocky & The Riddlers and their classic West Coast garage sound. Afro beat comes courtesy of Future Warriors and more from the electronic end with Om Unit, Objekt and Dark Sky, wrapping up a tidy first hour.

In hour 2 it's the return of Pepe Deluxe with a mix celebrating the release of his highly anticipated 'Queen of the wave' album, out on the 30th January. It's a concept album,with the usual Pepe elements of late 60's vinyl influenced sound, plus weird instruments and equipment, including The Great Stalacpipe Organ (the largest instrument in the world). 

His mix is full of inspirations ranging from the Brit heavy rock of Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden, to pseudo-classical music, some 60's pop and a little garage rock, plus we get a taste of the new album and an exclusive spin of a Husky Rescue remix for Pepe Deluxe.

Daedelus recently hit 50,000 followers on his Soundcloud page, and to celebrate he's put up a selection of remixes of the likes of Bjork, New Order, Aphex Twin and more for free download - head over to Soundcloud to grab the set!

DJ Food and Henry Flint will present an exhibition of artwork from the upcoming Food album The Search Engine and Henry Flint's book Broadcast, at the Pure Evil Gallery in London between 26 January and 12 February 2012. 

The exhibition will feature drawings and elements used to create most of the artwork surrounding the album, with high quality signed giclee prints available to buy as well as a limited edition postcard record made specially for the show. An audio visual installation in the basement, based around the album, will also be present.

Upon buying some art from Henry a few years ago, Kev discovered several postcards with crazed characters and abstracts included in the package, promotion for a small local exhibition in Exeter of Henry's 'doodles'. The images were exactly what he had been looking for as the starting point for the artwork on a series of EPs he was making, later to form an album on Ninja Tune. Henry sent a stack of images for Kev to pick from and gave him permission to colour them for the artwork, which were issued as foldout poster covers on three 12" EPs. 

By the time the album was ready to be compiled Kev had a solid visual direction and commissioned Henry to draw "a cosmonaut, hanging in space, strapped into an unfeasibly large backpack, the kind you could only wear in zero gravity". The result became the cover of The Search Engine. Coupled with press shots of Kev in a replica astronaut suit, shot by photographer Will Cooper-Mitchell, this completed a sci-fi theme with Kev's colours fleshing out the black and white line drawings. Incidentally, since the start of the collaboration, Henry was approached by a publisher with a view to compiling these drawings into a book, which has just been published under the title Broadcast by Aam Markosia.

You can check out photos by Emma Gutteridge from DJ Food's recent audiovisual shows at the London Planetarium here, and listen to an album edit of "GIANT" from The Search Engine on Soundcloud. The Search Engine, a new digital compilation The Good Food Guide, and a Solid Psyche mix CD are all available now at the Ninjashop.