Category: Writing

Our KUMM DJ of the Week article

Our KUMM DJ of the Week article is available on-line, complete with spiffy picture of the three of us in our matching Unhindered by Talent t-shirts :-). I’ve now made good on my promise and posted a link.

Unfortunately the article is a lot more about me than my compatriots (which is at least partly my fault), and I’m willing to bet that WeatherGirl has a righteous grump about that.

All told, this was a really cool honor and I’m quite chuffed.

There are two small factual inaccuracies: I started DJing at KRRC in 1981 (not “around 1990.”), and I only started using the name “Unhindered by Talent” in 1989 or early 1990. (The Sore Throat album I lifted the name from didn’t come out until the Spring of 1989.)

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Charles “Natty Dread” Darwin

In what has to be one of the more unusual concepts for a concept album, the Genomic Dub Collective in Birmingham (UK) is using the text of Darwin’s The origin of species as lyrics in their reggae inspired drum and bass. They apparently premiered this last Friday as the closing event on Darwin Day at the University of Birmingham (where we spent a wonderful year on sabbatical 4.5 years ago). I wish I could have been there.

To quote Professor Pallen (one of the creators) from this article:

When I was thinking about this year’s celebrations, I was very keen not to just play to the creationist versus evolutionist thing.

I wanted to make it very broad.

Both Charles Darwin and his grandfather Erasmus were profoundly affected by the slavery they witnessed in places like Brazil and wrote poetry speaking out against it. I invited the poet Benjamin Zephaniah to read the poems last year and that gave me the idea to do something different.

Kudos to WeatherGirl for pointing this out to me.

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