{"id":12270,"date":"2026-06-08T11:34:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/06\/08\/in-prison-i-made-a-little-studio-in-my-head-it-kept-me-sane-ibrahim-alfa-jr-british-technos-great-survivor-culture-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:34:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T11:34:04","slug":"in-prison-i-made-a-little-studio-in-my-head-it-kept-me-sane-ibrahim-alfa-jr-british-technos-great-survivor-culture-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/06\/08\/in-prison-i-made-a-little-studio-in-my-head-it-kept-me-sane-ibrahim-alfa-jr-british-technos-great-survivor-culture-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018In prison, I made a little studio in my head. 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He was suffering from anaphylaxis, a severe and potentially fatal allergic reaction: moreover, he had a pulmonary embolism that was causing his lung to fill up with blood. \u201cI thought: oh my God, that\u2019s literally what killed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2020\/feb\/18\/andrew-weatherall-obituary\">Andy Weatherall,<\/a>\u201d he says today. Like Weatherall once was, Alfa Jr is a veteran star of British rave culture. \u201cSo, like, <em>wow<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The embolism treated, he was sent home, but still wasn\u2019t feeling right. The weekend after, a second pulmonary embolism was found on his other lung. The weekend after that, he had a heart attack. Then he had a second heart attack. Returning home, he discovered he\u2019d become \u201callergic to everything. Even water was swelling my face,\u201d he says. \u201cYou just don\u2019t know what you can eat, so I just lived on porridge and lettuce leaves for three months, and didn\u2019t see anybody. I just locked myself in a room, and a friend would bring me porridge and lettuce leaves. I only went out to go to the doctors. Any type of social life, of seeing other humans just disappeared. It was that visceral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/jun\/08\/ibrahim-alfa-jr-british-techno-infinite-black-inside\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/jun\/08\/ibrahim-alfa-jr-british-techno-infinite-black-inside\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/da0337af72ca806bd2ba9fa2edf5175fbb09d7f3\/0_662_2000_1600\/master\/2000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=406ce83de03ffee9756002db04261f5a\" title=\"\u2018In prison, I made a little studio in my head. 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