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DJ David Attenborough

He’s a hero to eco-conscious hipsters and a Netflix superstar – now, Sir David Attenborough is making his entry into the realm of electronic dance music.

Yes, really. Sir David, who turned 93 last week, has announced he is on the hunt for a cutting-edge trance producer for a collaboration. The environmentalist turned national treasure wants to spin some field recordings he made in 1954 while filming in Indonesia into a club anthem.

While scouring Indonesia for a Komodo dragon in his BBC TV series, Zoo

Quest, Sir David recorded local people playing traditional music known as gender wayang on metallophones and drums. He recalls being struck by the “villagers play this concerted music with extraordinary precision and real zest”.

The naturalist often recorded

sounds and music on his travels, and these have now been made into an album, My Field Recordings from Across the Planet.

Hoping to give the Indonesian chimes a modern twist, Sir David has helped to launch a competition offering Uk-based music creators the opportunity to remix the three-minute recording.

Captured on a “clumsy tape recorder 60 years ago”, Attenborough’s first official foray into trance music might seem a stretch. But he is no stranger to clubland. His voice was sampled by Damon Albarn on the 2012 Gorillaz song Superfast Jellyfish. And there’s even an Attenborough themed rave night – David Attenborough Jungle Boogie – in which DJS throw down excerpts of Planet Earth II and

Blue Planet II over beats. A wild night out if you ask me.

Let’s just say we won’t be lost for words if he’s next seen at Glastonbury dance arena (which, it’s just been announced, will this year be made from recycled plastic).

Move over Calvin Harris, DJ Dave is about to drop his first club banger.