"A rare find….something involving both #BillLaswell AND #KeithLeblanc I had never heard of. Featuring a bevy of a-list guests like Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Gary Mudbone Cooper, and Maceo Parker...This is very indicative of a kind of transitional phase where classic funk musicians and modern hip hop influences were commingling with certain edgier sounds starting in the late 80s that should have had more commercial success, but didn’t for some reason"
There was a period in the first half of the 90s where straightahead/post-bop #jazz structures were married (successfully) to very vascular, propulsive rhythm sections, and this is no exception, from 1991:
Herbie Hancock: piano/keys
Wayne Shorter: saxophones
Stanley Clarke: bass
Omar Hakim: drums
@zeruch this was the period I was just getting into live jazz and lineups of this type were catnip for my ears - Crazy People Music era Branford Marsalis Quartet being my specific entry point. It felt very fresh but was clearly directly in the classic jazz lineage I was just learning to appreciate. This lineup holds up wonderfully well, but how could it not with that group of killers?
#sketchbook May 2024. Even when I'm on another leg of #zeruchontour , I try to keep a drawing practice going as best as I can. In this case a bit of a #drinkanddraw session in an absolutely spectacular boutique Hotel I found in San Luis Obispo, called The Granada. I basically broke out a few old sketchbooks and if I couldn't think of anything new to draw I started painting in very skeletal #doodles from the semi distant past. #beer by #ThereDoesNotExist brewery in SLO. #art#artistsofmastodon
Playing with flame #fractals is a perennial joy (and also confusing as hell, as all the tools I've tried over the years are great for exploring ideas in an open ended fashion but I've never found a really linear/'predictable' approach to using them, regardless of how much fun it is, it still feels a lot like video game "button-mashing".) #art
"#USENET, or NetNews, is a text-only social discussions forum, or rather a set of a great many forums, called "newsgroups," carried by multiple servers around the world. Although the original developers closed down their instance in 2010, that was just one server out of hundreds, and many are still running just fine. It never went away – it's still alive, you can get on it for free, and there is a choice of client apps for most OSes to help you navigate."
#TrevorHorn has an autobiography of sorts. It's actually a pretty decent read so far, and it confirms two things I've long thought about horn. One, he's a musically talented producer with a seemingly endless ability to make a hit song who understands how to make something sound good. And two, he's a narcissistic self-absorbed bell end and not always artist friendly. It's a reputation he seems happy to have earned.
#workinprogress#abstractart which started from the working title project of "thermonuclear cassette" has been something I've been obsessing over off and on for the last two plus weeks and I've rebuilt and re-obliterated it several times. I actually released a version of this as part of the #disquiet series (number 46) last week, but I'm still not happy with it. #art#mixedmedia
"I admit I had no idea who #MalcolmX was when I first heard it. I was 10 or 11, and it played a few times on college radio, which I was only just starting to tune into, but for which so much of the messaging in the music was alien."
This track by #KeithLeBlanc was probably the first solo track of his I ever heard, and it still is as listenable as it was in the mid 80s:
@mxtthxw I literally have had an idea for a "Taxcider" illo for years (think Geof Darrow on funky LSD) and I've been fascinated by Keiths whole process for as long as I can remember. I really love his solo LPs.
When I finally saw Tackhead live (circa 2011), I just about fell over sideways. Watching him was just perplexing, because he was clearly playing these wild-ass parts effortlessly.
He was such a singular, un-reproducible sound machine.
@mxtthxw I just kind of realized (or maybe I'm just delu-gin-al) but Keith is the J Dilla of the classic/electro era of hip hop, just far less known among the public.
RIP Keith LeBlanc, one of the greatest drummers , beat mechanics and production gods the world has barely known by name, but absolutely known by sound.
"#HP CEO Says They Brick #Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of … Hackers
The company says it wants to protect you from “viruses.” Experts are skeptical."
Statements like that sure don't give you a lot of confidence in the tech skills held by a leadership team of what once was a respectable tech company...
@airwhale pretty much. HP has got through the most staggering decline in reputation I have ever seen in this industry. There are plenty of companies that have maintained some level of respectability even though they are generally garbage (MSFT, Google, and most of Wall St. comes to mind) by periodically trying to not be imbeciles. HP of the other hand, came from laudable bona fides, that has done everything in its power, to projectile defecate furiously all over them.
A love letter to #HP: "They are a poster child for how to become a Kafka-grade punchline of incompetence, venality, and naked mendacity.
In this case I actually took the printer related to this, and dropped it from a decent height into a dumpster. The noise of shattering poor-build quality and poorer CX felt almost post-coital."