Spartacus, according to Roman legend, was a slave who attempted to mount a revolt against his oppressors, and was for sometime successful. At the end, however, he was the last of his army to be crucified by the roadside. Barraworn is a koori name which means magpie, and according to the book Buckleys Hope, was the totem name for William Buckley, the convict who escaped from the early penal settlement near Portsea, Victoria; the camp that later left and settled the township of Hobart. Buckley, when discovered twenty years after his escape, was pardoned and he tried to form links between his old community and his new one. In the end he was scorned by both races, and history has by and large forgotten him, a man who survived when so many other much commemorated pioneers died on missions much less worthwhile, like the opening up of pastoral lands and the expungement of native tribes.

The Spartacus Barraworn is a name to remember our sublime slaves of the past.

It is a mythological password.

The Spartacus Barraworn is comprised of three people. They are David Cox, Damian Mason and Martin Sharkey. The band has existed since 1994. In that time, it has performed at 3 Big Days Out, 3 Earthcore Parties, 2 Technofests and an absolute host of other events, both large and small in venues and at parties around Melbourne and Sydney. We create a diverse range of electronic music.

David Cox (the Fugmonster) who began his musical career in 1975 as a travelling DJ in England, has in his own words gone full circle, and seen much of the rapid change and development in contemporary underground culture over time. Punk, New Wave and the Techno Revolution all fuse into one in his post electronic mutation. From David comes much of the slow sampled drum'n'bass, the deep analogue beats and the found language samples that are to be heard in this album. David is responsible for the design and layout of the artwork. He also creates and administers this web site.

Damian Mason (Grazzhooper) Damian's grainy synthesis and sharp resonances create texture in the deep and wide aural techno cavity which is this album. In his mutation as the Grazzhooper, Damian is responsible for Paradigm Replacement Therapy's hard disk edit. Half of the music on Paradigm Replacement Therapy is edited from much longer studio jam recordings, The soundtrack for the film "First Love" (John Crawford, 1998), which he co - produced with the Director and Phillip Okerstrom won the best sound prize in the St. Kilda Film Festival of 1999. Damian is widely known about Melbourne for his membership of Zaibatsu, who also self released their album "All The Things I Don't Want To Be" in the Autumn of 2000.

Martin Sharkey (Anticraft) is well known across the Australian East Coast as dubbing Audio Engineer for the band High Pass Filter, and as house technician for events such as Global Warming, Glitch, Big Day Out, Earthcore and Technofest. His work with a myriad of contemporary audio artists from all over the world has exposed him first hand to the many and fast developing currents in music in this period. This is used as a backdrop in his own composition in the Spartacus Barraworn. Martin is responsible for the recording and remixing the material which has been used and filtered into this project. His and Damian's patient exploration of the digital editorial form over the period of a year has resulted in Paradigm Replacement Therapy, the essence of the development of The Spartacus Barraworn over the last five years.