Gilles Peterson described it as being like an African Arthur Russell.
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Shout to @TheNightlark for this killer Toto/Africa cover.
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Incredible record. Up there with Black Christ of the Andes.
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woke up to this on my doorstep:
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Los Hermanos
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Sounds best at -6 on the technics and with bass rolled off 6db
But that might just be my age
He wrote nude photo which most people associate with Derrick May
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Name checked by a few of the Belgian new beat pioneers in an interview with Bill Brewster. The French version b side is the track
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Love the instrumental. A biggie for Tony Humpries at Zanzibar.
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He’s taken them off Bandcamp now, but this was one of the edits Justin Vandervolgen made available for a while on his My Rules page. Killer version from a great editor/selector.
New one on me, didn’t know it wasn’t a Derrick May original
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No, I only found out recently. I mean is a bit contentious. But he maintains he wrote it not Derrick (as with the guy who wrote the motif for strings of life)
Certainly Derrick May was involved I think it’s fair to say… is to what extent which is being debated.
The Discogs page has a transcript of what’s written on the back of the release
https://www.discogs.com/release/109013-Thomas-Barnett-Nude-Photo
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Nice, thanks for the link!
What’s the story on Strings of Life riff?! Don’t ruin things for me 
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Heh… just that a friend wrote the piano part
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Don’t get me started on Steve Poindexter
(Sorry about all this . I disappeared down an Internet rabbit hole a while ago)
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Not a record but bleep have got this back in stock
I got one
Limited numbers
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Got one of those in the first run. Gets the odd trip out, but could do without the windowlicker faces on the underside.
This is a genuine eBay listing description 
APHEX UMBRELLA, AS NEW IN TUBE AS SENT FROM BLEEP,
bought to use, as wanted to dance around the park like in the vid, but showed it to wife and she said the pic on inside would scare the kids.
checked its all in there, impressed by manufacture quality can send any images you require.
nice bit of gear.
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