The Genomic Dub Collective

March 3, 2005 1:12 AM

The Genomic Dub Collective"aim to create a new musical genre, Genomic Dub, that celebrates recent successes in the field of genomics and evolutionary biology." Samples, lyrics.
posted by dhruva (7 comments total)

As an ecologist and a dub fan, I've got to say, ROCK ME SELECTA!

[This is good]
posted by Jimbob at 3:28 AM on March 3, 2005

This is great, thanks dhruva.
posted by Tarrama at 4:47 AM on March 3, 2005

musician: "let's rock!"
scientist: "wait, write a grant proposal first."
musician: "ok, but it has to rhyme and be written in Jamaican Creole."
scientist: "awesome!"

i like that they're looking into "encoding macromolecular (protein and DNA) sequence data into dub music".
posted by carsonb at 9:32 AM on March 3, 2005

Wow, this is totally what we're playing in the lab from now on.
posted by Mercaptan at 11:08 AM on March 3, 2005

Ha! This is brilliant!

Thanks dhruva, for this and for all your great posts.
posted by vacapinta at 11:48 AM on March 3, 2005

This is amazing. I am tempted to buy the CD.
posted by painquale at 7:28 PM on March 3, 2005

It took me ages to get "natural selecshun" out of my head :)
posted by dhruva at 9:05 PM on March 3, 2005