People have tried to play it as a lead voice, used it in funk bands, and so on. But what I'm doing with it, I think, is really part of a long process, trying to arrange music and a context around it. It's a strange thing. The fact is, there were three or four didg tracks on every tune. It just has a very subtle presence to it.
People come to it as a sound instrument, but it's really much more than that.
Wiggins and his band rely primarily on loops and samples on CD and onstage. Within this framework, of course, he has several liberties to play with. And the result seems to neatly evade the dreary, set-location ponderousness that characterizes most world beat. In fact, Wiggins takes great pleasure in defying some of the conventions that would otherwise restrict his audience and their expectations. I remember playing the Glastonbury Festival back in 1993.