Print: Letters Dance / Dancing to drum'n'bass / Source Direct

RTomens, 2020

Let us dance - geddit? Of course you do. You're smart, which is why you're here. Ha-ha. It's a print made from typing onto an image.

I dance more at the moment as a way to keep sort of fitter than I would be if I didn't. Without the regular cycle to work I'm getting more slothful. And yes, fatter. I dance to Kraftwerk, James Brown, Rocksteady reggae...whatever I think will get me going; anything but dance class music, or what I presume is dance class music, you know, a regular 4/4 beat with which you're supposed to keep up by flailing your legs and arms around whilst being barked at by a woman/man. 

Drum'n'bass would be too fast. When I DJ'd as part of the Merry Pranksters in the mid-90s someone once approached me saying they didn't know how to dance to D&B, even though they loved it. I told them to go with the bass, not the drums! It's possibly the soundest advice I've ever given anyone. The trouble is, I recently ignored my own advice and tried dancing to the speed of the drums on a Source Direct tune...nearly killed myself.