Back along, Crawling Chaos were asked by Curly Jhon and Mackie to do some background music for a performance they intended to do under their moniker Zyklon B Zombies. The performance was called Dionysian Heights, the name appearing as a band name on the Foetus Products’ compilation Blood Samples From The Pox Clinic.
I’ve just found a tape with most of the performance on it…… So I’m digitising it for release. And pretty cool it is too. Watch this space!
CJ with Dionysian Heights Props
The tape is the actual performance tape, I think, with the first minute or two being either my old racing car noises, some set-up test tones for, and the final major bounce track (sans vocals) of “Sex Machine”. This latter is actually very, very good, and shows the guitar overdubs done by Jeff (Doomage Khult) very clearly and wonderfully – I may release this as it is just so folks can hear the guitar work.
The Actual Performance
Curly Jhon (CJ) has recently found a photo of one of his props. It’s a little white bull, prior to its coat of gold paint. I mentioned it here last month on the Crawling Chaos website… Curly John Pops Up with Dionysian Heights Props
Other stuff I recall is heaps of ivy and copious amounts of offal. The guys were doing some sort of Dionysian re-enactment for folks’ entertainment. The offal stunk under the hot lights. Bacchus was in on it as well….
Description of the Music
The two pieces Jeff & I created are called “Life” and “Death” and the boys used them as they saw fit, synchronising it with their dialogue and actions. CJ & Mackie directed us, in a general way, as to the feel of the sounds for a given amount of time. Hence each section is fairly drawn and thus doesn’t particularly matter too much where it’s fed in or out as the performance demanded.
Q. Why have I called this post “Zyklon Zombies B, Life and Death Work”?
A. Because that’s what’s written on the tape! Jeff’s handwriting.
I’ve cleaned up the above track a bit although it’s still 14Meg in size and lasts quarter of an hour. It’s classed as Crawling Chaos although only two members took part in this version. This version of Zombie Dance is part of a commission given to Rees and Jeff by some chums, Zyclon B Zombies,...
Cupboard cleanout. Dust of ages. Mists of time. Tape of hissiness. This is the Crawling Chaos, Magnum Innoninandum cassette cover, the second hard release from Crawling Chaos, producers of innovative music originating from Northumberland. This follows on from the Green tape. It is really a statement of intent. Q. How do I feel about it,...
Under intense lobbying from the entertainment industry behemoths, the law, far from protecting copyright holders like myself, will actually make it a simple process for any person or organisation with enough ‘clout’ to close down whole websites or force them to change content without any call to the process of law which has been bloodily built up over centuries in our Western world.
This means that those with ‘clout’ can censor – anyone – for anything – on their own whim.
This is draconian. This is bad. Very bad. Essentially, it’s the beginning of end of what little civilisation we have and the start of a dark dictatorial era which can only end badly.
Internet Content
The internet started and spread because content is king. If SOPA goes ahead, content will be at the behest of and regulated by vast faceless pan-global entities.
You will see what they want you to see.
You will read what they want you to read.
You will think what they want you to think.
My websites are just a pimple in the sea of internet content. But many others are also closing for the day. The 18th of January 2012 is the day the internet self-censors. Many large websites are closing too. It shows us what the future could become.
For all you yanks reading this, follow the links to find out how you can help.
For the rest of us, because the USA has traditionally and historically been a bastion of freedom, pray hard – because what the USA does affects us all.
The Rise of Internet Porn One of the chief drivers of change in the technological arms race of the internet has been the porn industry. Most of the ‘benefits’ that users and owners now expect e.g. interaction, user activity sensing, easy and secure anonymous on-line payments, on-line adverts and click-through promotions, on-line community spaces, forums,...
Introduction The 9/11 period, (or 11th September in some places), has been interesting of late with regard to internet marketing and litigation as it applies to certain entities not unfamiliar to these pages. Pacific WebWorks (PWW) A Randy Guffey is named as the class action plaintiff against the “business” of PWW. The nature of the...
Many a time you and your UNIT chums saved the world from horrible alien monsters. It wasn’t always “The Doctor” and your calm panic and belief in the Doctor’s powers (despite himself) always pulled us through. You acted with just the right amount of authority. Saturday tea-times were never the same once you “retired” and Doctor Who was pulled from the schedules….
It’s grief innit? Consider this. You care for someone dearly and they get ill and go on a life support machine. Now you are not a doctor and don’t know how the life support machine works. Occasionally, the patient wakes up, says strange things, and then goes back into a coma on the life support...
Crikey! I Never Realised! Maybe certain days have relevance above their station and mere numerical nomenclature? Who knows. So read on. See what happened today! 622 AD – The Hijra of Muhammad Muhammad runs away from Mecca to escape persecution. From this point forward, huge swathes of the globe took up Islam, Islamic empires spread...
What is the Best Backup for Windows in a Small Home or Office?
Which Windows Backup? A History.
Over the years I’ve tried many systems for backing up crucial Windows data. Currently for small-scale backups I use the ubiquitous and almost bullet-proof flash drives, my current one tipping the scales at 8Gb. But for major backups, as the years have passed, I’ve used;
Floppy discs – 1.4Mb
Iomega Zip discs – 100Mb
CDRW – 650Mb
DVD-R – 4.7Gb
Western Digital My Book Home Edition – 1Tb
They all had their problems and limitations. The last one looked good with Firewire, USB2, ethernet & eSATA connections – but it overheated and broke…..
Best Windows Backup!
My current system is from Synology and is a “DS210j – Budget-friendly 2-bay NAS server for Home and Small Business”
I can heartily recommend the thing. It has so much gubbins within it and far exceeds my limited expectations. I installed two green 2Tb drives from Western Digital in mirrored RAID for security and use the auto-backup software provided as well as Windows’ own. This is extremely relevant for the large number of hits I’ve had to this posting where a major part of the problem is the time taken to do a backup! In my case, the 750Gb just takes a few hours to copy across the Gigabit speed ethernet that the unit can use.
Addendum June 2011: The tool is a seriously capable bit of kit and I cannot recommend it enough. Get one!
It does everything it says on the tin, and more! The whole thing cost me about 200 quid, plus an hour of my time to install.
Even its firewall is more configurable than any router I’ve used! It can be used as a server for FTP or the web. It comes with software for a host of things that mimic Flikr etc but without all the privacy or security issues inherent in off-line storage. It’ll also run with any operating system because it itself is a mini-linux installation as it is, and includes Windows, Apple and Linux applications.
Check it out, straight from their overview page:
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Back Up Your Precious Data
DSM 2.2 offers comprehensive solutions for you to back up data stored on Disk Station or your desktop computer to the Disk Station.
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The iPhone App DS audio allows Disk Station users to stream music stored on Disk Station with their iPhone/iPod® touch where Internet access is available, while DS photo allows uploading photos from the iPhone/iPod® touch to their Disk Station.
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Synology Disk Station is designed and developed perpetually with the concept of energy saving. Compared with average PC counterparts, Synology Disk Station consumes a relatively low amount of power and has the HDDs hibernate when not in use. This not only helps to save energy but also extends the lifespan of the hard disk.
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How to Convert a Windows 7 Dynamic Disk to Basic Disk When Microsoft says It’s Irreversible! Firstly, Do Not Dance with the Devil! I made the mistake (again!) of trying dynamic disks with my new Windows 7 installation. I must have been asleep – the use of this system is seriously frowned upon for most...
Windows 7 Ultimate Install To say that I’m seriously impressed is an understatement! Having an MSDN subscription confers certain benefits, but for most Microsoft stuff that I have to use, it’s usually an exercise in teeth-gritting somewhere from the banal to the infuriating as I plod on through. My personal experience of Vista comes into...
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