"I started spinning records back in 1986 at birthday parties and local functions in South London...My first paid gig was for 20 pounds [$35] and I managed to take my entire record collection in a cycle courier bag! Seventeen years and ten thousand tunes later I'm still rocking turntables and digging for tunes at every available opportunity apart from Sundays when I can usually be found at my mum's house in South London eating obscure African dishes washed down with Guinness and milk."
ABOUT CHARLIE
Founder of the revolutionary Blacktronica collective and one-third of the critically acclaimed ensemble Attica Blues, Charlie Dark is a veteran of the British music scene. In addition to his work as a sound artist and musician, Dark plays a dynamic part in the United Kingdom’s poetry and performance arena as a writer, producer and DJ known for flamboyant gestures and vocal gymnastics.
His recent projects include Freeness, Voyage (2005), an external sound walk as part of the London River Cultures Festival; and Depth (2004), a site-specific soundscape in collaboration with leading architect David Adjaye, within his installation lengthxwidthxheight. Dark was also a music consultant for the film Bullet Boy (2004) and Urban Tribes’ (2005) performance at the Derby Dance Centre, and has been a Poet Coach for the London Teenage Poetry Slam.
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