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Dave McKenna was a jazz pianist born in Woonsocket, RI in 1930 who eventually settled in Cape Cod, MA. He was known for a trademark left-hand bass style and mastery of a wide range of jazz styles, from big band to salon piano. McKenna began his career with the Boots Mussulli Band and then the Charlie Ventura band, followed by a stint with Woody Herman. After two years in the army, he returned to Charlie Ventura's band, then worked with Gene Krupa, Stan Getz, and Zoot Sims and Al Cohn. He often worked with Bobby Hackett, including some gigs at...

Terence McKenna (1946-2000) studied the ontological foundations of shamanism and the ethnopharmacology of spiritual transformation for a quarter century. He grew up in Paonia, Colorado. At age sixteen, he moved to Los Altos, California, where he was first introduced to psychedelics by Aldous Huxley's "The Doors of Perception." Inspired by Huxley's rapturous depiction of the psychedelic experience, he "got started" on Heavenly Blue morning glory seeds. An innovative theoretician and spellbinding orator, Terence emerged as a powerful voice for the psychedelic movement and the emergent societal tendency he called the Archaic Revival. Poetically dispensing enlightened social criticism and new theories...

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Terence Fixmer, born in Lille (north of France at the Belgium border) in 1972, discovered the EBM (ELECTRONIC BODY MUSIC) when he was 15 and became a NITZER EBB-, FRONT 242-, KLINIK-, - AND DAF- fan. At the beginning of the 89-90's he was a party freaker and his interest for the electronic sound increased with the apparition of the New-Beat and Techno in Belgium. At this time he started to buy records and " flashed" on VORTREX from FINAL EXPOSURE(+8). In 1992, he decided to produce his own music and he started to throw parties called "Cosmos" and "Space"...