Biography
Hailing from an inland lab on Antarctica, Belle!Funk was a musical collective of cold weather researchers from across the globe.
An international team of scientists funded by the Royerson & Wilkes Co. set up the Kent Research Station in Antarctica, seventy miles inland from the Casey Research Station, in 2002. Led by internationally renowned Scottish Geophysicist and Nobel Laureate Anderson Kent, the research team was Anton Dougrent (Geophysics, France), Suzana Wallace (Botany, Scotland), and Michael R. Dean (Biology, U.S.A.). They discovered in the aftershocks of an earthquake that there were subterrestrial heat pockets far into the mainland of Antarctica that could potentially be used to generate power for a small, self sustaining settlement. They quickly set out to investigate the strange phenomenon occurring much farther inland than any other research base dare go. The four had been working in isolation since March of 2002, attempting to introduce foreign plant life to the small tracks of fertile soil that had been exposed due the subcontinental thermodynamic currents.
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In the early winter of 2005, after months of no transmissions from Kent, there was a distress beacon broadcast. A team from the Casey Research Station set inland to answer the call, but when they arrived at the base there was no sign of the Kent team. Their research equipment and data appeared to have been taken from the base, along with all excess food and emergency survival supplies. All that remained at Kent was a burned CD that only read "Belle!Funk" and what appeared to be crudely sketched maps of a series of tunnels below the surface. This leads some to believe that the four found a way to survive below the surface where the geothermal currents kept the rock and dirt warm. The entrances to these tunnels have never been found, nor has any trace of the Kent research team.
In the spring of 2008, researchers at the Casey Station claimed to have seen Kent, Wallace, and three other "small, squat, and gray" unknown parties fleeing across the snow at night from what looked like "an especially fearsome, fanged creature with exceptionally large and leathery wings." Before they could be approached by the Casey Station team, Kent, Wallace, and the three unknowns disappeared beneath the surface of the snow and the unknown creature soared into the night air.
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Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.