2003-10-26
... ? museum of techno | Soame collectionThe son of wealthy land-owners, James Soame worked as an architect and engineer, designing buildings and transport systems for the burgeoning colonies of the 19th century British empire. Soame was also a keen collector. Amongst other things, he sent many exotic plant and animal specimens to the young Charles Darwin, and James is mentioned several times in the notebooks from which Darwin was to write Origin of Species. But it is for his collection of hard-assed techno kickdrums that Soame is best remembered: they rock the fucking hut.
