i again need to point out that our concept of religion seems, from this distant point of overview, to be the confused recollection of a primitive species interacting with a more advanced one. videos such as this make it easier to understand how we may have become confused.

deathtokoalas
lol. you kids are all retarded.

next level? warp wouldn't have even called this guy back in '91. there's stuff sitting in the warehouse that's never been listened to that's more interesting than this.

weak. repetitive. structureless. simplistic.

simply put? boring.

OpiesAndBeer
So, every hip hop beat ever created?

deathtokoalas
it depends on how you define "hip-hop".

Joel Eddins
not even close

ok, so, now that the intro is over, when does the song start?

what? that was the song? i guess it seemed a little longwinded, but i couldn't have missed the whole thing...

...unless there wasn't anything to miss?

deathtokoalas
this honestly sounds like a child learning how to use an 808. how does this make it to a music review site? it should have been immediately rejected as garbage.

go find an 808. figure out how to turn it on. now, randomly push a few buttons. this is what it'll sound like.

that's ignoring the fact that the aesthetic was novel roughly '85 or '86.

but this is so weak that it doesn't even qualify as retro. nobody back then could get out of their basement if they sounded this bad. they would have been told to go practice some more and call back once they learned how to use their gear a little bit.

Sprankton DGrichey
Why don't cha lead me in the direction of some of that good music you listen to instead of bashing gesaffelstein I only listen to them because of Danny Brown.

deathtokoalas
i don't know who danny brown is.

this is closest to frontline assembly. if you want to take that to the next level, try skinny puppy. you could maybe go through cyberaktif on the way from fla to puppy - there's some logic to it. if you like the hip-hop/ebm combo, there's also meat beat manifesto and die warzau to check out. if you want to go further back in time, you want to go through (1) the acid genre (2) the wax trax! catalogue and (3) the mute records catalogue on your way back to cabaret voltaire, which is the ultimate starting point.

the term used back in the day to describe this was "ebm". not d, b. i couldn't sit here and honestly suggest you check out ebm if you're looking for interesting electronic music. the term means "electronic body music". it's meant to specifically refer to electro that is meant to dance to (as opposed to idm, which was meant to listen to). ebm was popular in industrial clubs in the 80s and 90s. it was not very different than this, minus differences in mastering technology.

you can also hear the influence of ketamine in this. maybe try massive attack (as a starting point - it's pretty different).

actually, scratch the massive attack, tricky is the better way in from this angle.

celeste AR
Deathtokoalas has a point, this sounds like something i would make in fruityloops when i was 14

dabdaldaunt
I think this artist took a lot from Clint Mansell's song Party. You will recognize it from the Requiem for a dream movie

deathtokoalas
i'm not sure i've seen that. maybe. would've been a long time ago.

i've always had difficulty getting into pwei, it's sort of too poppy and not poppy enough at the same time. but, you're definitely hinting at one of the more influential acts in the genre of the period.

this is worse than that rebecca black song...

those guitars are fake, btw.

deathtokoalas
a smart phone's always just struck me as useless. it can do a fraction of what a laptop does, with a much higher price tag. awful.

some of the new phones, though, have better specs than my desktop...

...so, it's starting to make a bit more sense.

i don't like proprietary devices, though. are these android phones basically just iphones running linux? i like that they take linux, but what devices allow you to install a non-proprietary operating system and tweak the fuck out of it?

i'll be honest: i'm mostly concerned about the cia.

if i can't wipe the thing down and build from scratch (like i have with the desktops in the house), i don't want it.

EminemLovesGrapes
Everything comes from Linux eventually. Including iOS. And I'm sure you can root an nexus and get full access to all the settings and files from the os itself.

deathtokoalas
well, not everything. the apple operating system is actually a unix derivative rather than a linux derivative.

it's not a root issue. it's a question of if the thing can be formatted to get all the cia-written google rootkit spyware off of it.

see, this is why people reacted so badly to apple in the 90s. if you want an easy to use, proprietary device, have fun with it - i don't care what computer you use. but, there was this fear that it would take over the market and you wouldn't be able to get devices you could wipe and install clean on.

TheJimPire
If you're worried about cia and whatnot, they can still collect data off of FB, G+, and other outlets. Stripping rootware and basic stuff won't help in the long run

deathtokoalas
it's not quite the same thing. i mean, to begin with, i don't provide correct information for fb, google, etc - so they can collect what they want as much as they want, everything they'll compile is going to be wrong. but, it's not data collection that bothers me it's taking control of the phone's hardware.

they can actually remotely trip the recording devices in the phone through a backdoor that begins at your cell provider. formatting the device to the core - and staying off the corporate cell networks - will put an end to that kind of real time recording.

fwiw, the best thing you can do to stop them from collecting data is to spread around the idea of giving out false data. if everybody lies to them, they'll eventually realize it's useless. let's get a big cia database full of absolutely useless nonsense...

even trivial things. fill everything out wrong, just to make the collection process useless.

mrtux
have you considered flashing CyanogenMod on your device without Google apps? Also if your phone is supported, you could try Replicant.

deathtokoalas
i haven't tried anything, i don't even have a phone, these are the questions i'm asking. thanks; i'll look into that.

The Scrizz
You can build your own version of Android straight from code..... You just have to know how to program.....

deathtokoalas
building it is one thing, actually being able to format the device is another.

iLuZiioNz
What are you talking about? You can format an Android device. Also I hope you are wiping drives at home with DOD standards because if you just do the standard wipe on a computer nothing is actually erased.

deathtokoalas
well, this is what i'm trying to figure out: is it possible to actually format the thing (including hidden partitions) and upload your own image, or are you just stuck connecting as a bot to a remote server? i'm not sure i trust replicant, but it does seem like there's some movement in that direction.

dod standards clear the contents of the drive down to 0s. that's great if you're trying to erase data - or erase evidence, basically. i'm not interested in erasing evidence, i'm just trying to keep the snoops off the machine.

my xp machines are reverse engineered to remove backdoors and callbacks. i'll leave it at that.

iLuZiioNz
Oh alright, I just assumed you had stuff to hide lol

Adam
we pay the big companies to make it easier for them to track us... >_> brb google glasses are $1,500 now they can literally see everything you do. and now theyre $1,500 richer

Etienne
Yes, yes you can!! I am running a custom ROM. You format the phone, download the software/operating system you want, tweak it or modify it, and flash it on the system partition. Reboot, voilà!! Plus, with Xposed, if you feel something is missing in your operating system, you can modify the operating system in the RAM!! That means you can apply mods you want and take them away without any risk of breaking the OS and modify your phone to your harts desire on the fly! You can do really cool stuff with this, such as intercepting and hacking applications, remove adds from all applications, from youtube, greenify/hibernate system apps, you can basically do whatever you can dream of thet is possible with the hardware. Plus you asked if android is basically just linux. Yes and no, it is based upon the Linux Kernel, but so is iOS by the way, but it is an entirely different OS ;)

ChoLateEnt
IOS is based on Unix not Linux.

Tal Risin
You can flash a custom recovery on the phone, through it you can format any partition (including the system partition) and flash other images, you can get the source code of android and edit it to your liking, then build it and flash it on your device.

slow acid...acid again...woo!

who is jack dangers?

this is just more rastafarian/illuminati propaganda, designed to control your brain.

don't be fooled by their new front.

same as all the other mind control tricks..

the video represents his ascent to the higher circle. it's ritual magic; symbolic. you'lll be hearing a lot more from this guy, he's clearly on the inside.

you need to stop blaming bad apples and start understanding that they're trained to behave this way. the reality is that the cop in the video will probably end up with a promotion and the reason is that he's doing exactly what he was taught to do.

how do you expect to fight against something when you have such a weak understanding of what it is that you think the violence it produces is due to accident or oversight rather than by design?

and, on the flip side, how do you expect to intimidate a population that is so brainwashed that it legitimately interprets the police as a peace keeping, stabilizing force?

this is true all over the world. these people are so delusional that they can't even process the oppression as it's beating them into a pulp.

i've performed on the street before, and $3.60 in ten minutes is actually doing very well. that's over $20/hr, and without a tax department to report to. she was being very aggressive, which is difficult when you're, say, sitting with a guitar in your hand.

what i find irritating is the suggestion that it's in any way less of a "real job" than, say, working a cash register somewhere. neither sitting in a park somewhere playing a tune, nor standing in a store somewhere giving somebody change is "contributing to society" in any kind of meaningful way. the difference is merely that sitting in a park isn't painfully boring.

the more important question to ask is why we force people to make all of these absurd choices as to how they'd prefer to waste their time in order to continue to eat.

i understand that i'm lucky to live somewhere with a progressive social system. it's not perfect, but it's far better than it could be.

when i walk by people asking me for change, i often wonder why they don't apply for disability - and have suggested it more than once. something like "if you applied for disability, you wouldn't have to do this.".

sometimes, people will be frank - it's not enough to pay for an addiction. that's fine, but then you need to understand what you're paying for when you walk by them. other times, people will tell me they're not aware of what actually exists.

the most common response, though, is this sort of top-down hierarchical socially enforced calvinism that makes people feel ashamed for taking assistance. in their mind, they seem to conceive of begging as labour and consequently a more moral choice.

in my mind, that's a huge problem.

 when you really break things apart, calvinism (or protestantism in general) is really the absolute root cause of almost all of the problems we face as a society.