![]() ![]() ‘Creating music was a bit of a black art,’ Cunningham remembers. Luckily he met Matthew Parsons, who not only knew what he was playing, but had a basic studio set up in his student digs. “I got some turntables and taught myself how to DJ, built up a small record collection and then started to DJ at student house parties in Wolverhampton.”Ī devotee of Detroit techno and particularly, Derrick May, Carl Craig and Kevin Saunderson, Cunningham had no real sense how far outside the mainstream he stood. Luckily for music, the injury caused a sudden change in direction. Indeed, if it wasn’t for a career-ending injury while a promising young player with West Bromwich Albion, football may well have remained his abiding obsession. If his first obsession was drawing, his first love was football. I create sketches, essentially like these fabrics, and I collage them together…once I see the picture it’s embellished further and the proceeds repeats.” I was asked to create this massive mural of Guru Nanak using different forms – using sequences, dipped painted cotton wool, Sikh fabrics.” He pauses as he thinks it through. At school you’d have projects for the term and we were looking at Sikhism. I was able to perfectly recreate pictures. ![]() “I was a very good counterfeiter – good at copying pictures. "When I was at school, I was always being creative,” he remembers. Even when Darren Jordan Cunningham was just a kid, DAZ or DAZ AUTOMATIC, growing up in Wolverhampton, there was something about him which stood out. ![]()
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