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Featuring archives: Alex Barnett

An xxjfg archive for posts featuring Alex Barnett.

15th August 2011

Requiem for a dreamer

20jazzfunkgreats was devastated to hear of the recent demise of peddler of nightmares extraordinaire, scion of one of London’s most notorious wizard dynasties and heroic saboteur of Nazi trips to the Himalayas Dr. Benjamin Sprake. We became acquainted with him through our visits to ‘Mysterious of the Worm’, his rather underrated science fiction, horror and…

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21st March 2011

Lull the old one back to its ancient slumber

Featuring:

Alex Barnett & Deep Earth

On 12 March 1981, a Chicago Metropolitan Water Reclamation District maintenance team went missing in the city’s sewer system while investigating complaints about foul smells coming from the water pipes. Mary Ferraro, 61, had even found several dead rats floating in her toilet, drowned while attempting to climb up her house’s service pipes. The rescue party…

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10th May 2010

Gotham Tears

Featuring:

Alex Barnett & Valis

Chicago is one of the cold-spots through which the 20jazzfunkgreats squad strut in their psycho-geographic hallucinations. Through the brutal shadows of a foreboding architecture which develops in 3D the austere scores of a gaunt minimal composer we chase the electronic dragon, that beast forged in the fire of African drums and German machine music, the…

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