b. Espen Sommer Eide, 1972, Oslo, Norway. ‘The future artist', says Norwegian digital expert Phonophani, ‘will be a genetic engineer.' Phonophani released his debut UK album in 2001, the same year that fertility specialists Panayiotis Zavos and Severino Antinori's predicted that the world's first cloned baby would be born. Intrigued by the possibilities of gene manipulation, Phonophani correlates the aversion people have towards genetic engineering with the distaste with which many view sample-based music. ‘Sampling is a form of gene manipulation where you arrange and re-arran...