Skilled maker of secret agent music utilizing a plethora of samples from big jazz bands and old movie soundtracks. Depending on which song you are currently listening to, you want to be some kind of special agent - sometimes a space special agent, sometimes a jazz special agent.

Contributed a few songs for the soundtrack to Lost Highway, most notably Something Wicked This Way Comes.

And judging by the cover on 'The Murky World of Barry Adamson' (which is also a very good sampler of his work), he's not in a wheelchair (all of the time, at least).