[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Around here, cops are nasty but not very brainy, hi-tek, or invested. They will be annoying in more brute ways. The goal is just to not give them too much material to go off, so they find someone else who's easier to pester.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

You seem to be confused about which side in my scenario is the cops.

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First of all, it doesn't take hours to overwrite several text files and a few binaries. Second of all, I think I know better what my local cops would do. It's not NSA or Interpol. Lastly, this hypothetical obviously excludes stuff after which 'motivated investigation' might come. That kind of data lives in encrypted files tucked in odd places, and even that can probably be wiped from the directory entry like it was never there.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Most of really nasty data is text or a few questionable apps, and should take very little time. Video and audio present a problem, but I think they can be speedily wiped by nuking the metadata parts, making recovery and identification difficult. Not sure how resilient modern formats are to data loss, but afaik e.g. AVI is quite reliant on the description of the stream (which iirc is inconveniently placed at the end of the file).

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

This is where I think NFC may finally be useful. If cops show up, I slide my phone by a hidden NFC tag, and an http request is sent to my desktop machine. Everything incriminating is wiped and the computer is turned off, before the cops can walk to the room.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Well, the basswork and rhythm there are 100% post-punk, which was on its short-lived ascent at the moment. However, the punky sax, guitars and vocal are doing their own thing, true to the no-wave genre that brought atonal and dissonant experimentation into rock.

Jazz experiments were big in the ‘downtown scene’ of NYC back then, and in particular John Zorn rose up in that environment in the early 80s.

‘Noise pop’ kinda implies a variation on noise-rock, which is somewhat different and is a topic for another day — although apparently both Sonic Youth and Swans emerged from this scene too.

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‘Contort Yourself’ is probably the best-known track by the band.

James Chance was alternatively known as James White, though neither of those are his real name. He was also in the short-lived band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks with Lydia Lunch, which outfit was influential in New York City's downtown ‘no wave’ scene.

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From the Bandcamp page of the album:

Made as a complete album rather than a collection of tracks, Conservative Apocalypse is a journey through the subconscious. I have experimented with augmenting recorded sound with electronic instruments to give atmosphere to commonplace situations, and originally the record was to be entitled Augmented Aurality. However due to the appalling lurch towards fascism that is taking place in the western world I thought it more appropriate to call the album Conservative Apocalypse after the eighth track. This was made deliberately as an accelerating train journey, I found a picture of the inside of a railway carriage that seemed particularly evocative and after cutting out the window, began the journey of creating the film. Nearly all the material was found online and patched together into this composite of a trip through our confused modern world. The slow start and acceleration of the ride I felt was analogous to how nasty social movements start.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The ‘audience reaction’ existed because the show needed a laugh track from the audience. Justifying one by the other is circular reasoning at its finest.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Have you seen his Bandcamp page? It has over two hundred releases, including his bands like Painkiller. There's also a second Bandcamp for some reason. And of course it's still far from all music in which he was involved, namely most of his production work isn't there, though some artists have individual accounts on Bandcamp.

Although I need to go through much of that stuff again one of these days and rediscover which of the records aren't just his beloved dub-ambient. My collection suffered quite a bit from a hard disk failure.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I've been a fan of Bill Laswell since mid-2000s, and I like Bandcamp a lot. Imagine my elation when I discovered that some poor person was uploading all the nearly-two-hundred of Laswell's releases on his official account, with free access. There are 229 records there currently, though this includes re-releases in 24-bit and such. But that's not even all: there's a second Bandcamp for some reason, much of his production work is not on the main account (possibly under individual artists), and nothing released by John Zorn and his label Tzadik is on Bandcamp at all, save for one album by some fluke.

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Note that you might want to get something supported by the Rockbox open-source firmware, just in case the player's own software is less than ideal.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42642412

Praxis — Sacrifist [1993, jazz-metal / noise-rock / dub / hiphop]

The second album by Bill Laswell's band, with an odd mix of sounds. Although most of the band's oeuvre is centered on more straightforward funk-rock, this record is rather eclectic.

Core band:
Bill Laswell: bass
Buckethead: guitar
Brain (previously of Primus and Guns N' Roses): drums

Guests:
Bernie Worrell: keyboards on ‘Crossing’
Bootsy Collins: bass and vocals on ‘Deathstar’ (both Worrell and Collins were in Parliament-Funkadelic)
Yamatsuka Eye (of Boredoms): vocals
Mick Harris (of Napalm Death and Scorn): vocals
John Zorn: saxophone
Andy Hawkins: guitar
Gabriel Katz: bass
Ted Epstein: drums (Hawkins, Katz and Epstein all from Blind Idiot God, whose albums Laswell has produced)

[-] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Idk what's with the downvotes, man, I appreciate the input.

Also, I've been posting some jazz-fusion in !music@lemmy.world and !jazz@lemmy.world, not all of it is crossposted here — you might find some of the records interesting. People seem to have missed out on James ‘Blood’ Ulmer's ‘Free Lancing’, which is pretty lively.

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The second album by Bill Laswell's band, with an odd mix of sounds. Although most of the band's oeuvre is centered on more straightforward funk-rock, this record is rather eclectic.

Core band:
Bill Laswell: bass
Buckethead: guitar
Brain (previously of Primus and Guns N' Roses): drums

Guests:
Bernie Worrell: keyboards on ‘Crossing’
Bootsy Collins: bass and vocals on ‘Deathstar’ (both Worrell and Collins were in Parliament-Funkadelic)
Yamatsuka Eye (of Boredoms): vocals
Mick Harris (of Napalm Death and Scorn): vocals
John Zorn: saxophone
Andy Hawkins: guitar
Gabriel Katz: bass
Ted Epstein: drums (Hawkins, Katz and Epstein all from Blind Idiot God, whose albums Laswell has produced)

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This record collected the nine ‘hardcore miniatures’ from John Zorn's initial wildly eclectic ‘Naked City’ album, and thirty-three that were later included on ‘Grand Guignol’.

The name comes from ‘Le jardin des supplices’, an 1899 decadent novel by Octave Mirbeau.

Personnel:
John Zorn: alto saxophone, vocals
Bill Frisell: guitar
Wayne Horvitz: keyboards
Fred Frith: bass
Joey Baron: drums
Yamatsuka Eye: vocals

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The band assembled by Zorn for this album later came to be known as Naked City, and released several more records.

The cover art is a 1940 photograph 'Corpse With Revolver' by press photographer Weegee, who's famous for his coverage of 1930s-40s crime and urban life in New York City. The album's name comes from Weegee's 1945 photo book.

Members:

John Zorn: alto saxophone
Bill Frisell: guitar
Fred Frith: bass
Joey Baron: drums
Wayne Horvitz: keyboards
Yamatsuka Eye: vocals

Fred Frith was also in various experimental-rock and jazz-fusion collaborations with Bill Laswell and Zorn, mostly as a guitarist — including Massacre, The Golden Palominos, and his ‘solo’ recordings.

Yamatsuka Eye (later known as Yamantaka Eye) is a founder of Japanese noise-rock band Boredoms that is active since 1986. Among his numerous collaborations, he was in Laswell's Painkiller and some releases of Praxis, and on several of Zorn's records outside of Naked City.

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The three primary members of Painkiller were John Zorn on saxophone, Bill Laswell on bass guitar and Mick Harris on drums. Zorn and Laswell had some other collaborations in jazz and experimental-rock genres, like in The Golden Palominos. Harris was previously in Napalm Death, and later recorded industrial and electronic music as Scorn, Quoit, and Lull.

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The three primary members of Painkiller were John Zorn on saxophone, Bill Laswell on bass guitar and Mick Harris on drums. Zorn and Laswell had some other collaborations in jazz and experimental-rock genres, like in The Golden Palominos. Harris was previously in Napalm Death, and later recorded industrial and electronic music as Scorn, Quoit, and Lull.

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SoundCloud here.

The Golden Palominos was headed by drummer, producer, arranger, and composer Anton Fier. Aside from Fier, only bassist Bill Laswell and guitarist Nicky Skopelitis appeared on every album through 1996 — the rest of the lineup was more ‘revolving doors’ style, and many various guests appeared on individual tracks.

These folks participated on the first album: Michael Beinhorn (member of Material with Laswell at the time), Fred Frith, Thi-Linh Le, Arto Lindsay (very involved in the no-wave scene, and a member of John Lurie's The Lounge Lizards), Mark E. Miller, David Moss, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Roger Trilling, John Zorn.

On the next album ‘Visions of Excess’ the band moved to a more straightforward alt-rock / post-punk style with very 80s sound, but quite warm — largely thanks to Laswell's deep and mellow bass, and Fier's production being similar to that of Material.

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