John Zorn's Masada. John Zorn is a musician and "genius" who's long been part of New York's "downtown music" scene, which is associated with venues like the Knitting Factory. Among his focuses in recent years is Masada, a jazz project whose CDs are released by Zorn's label Tzadik as part of its Radical Jewish Culture series. YouTube links: Gevurah. Karaim. Paran.

A slice of something from 1998. It first showed up here, but it didn't get truly considered. Here is the new fUSION Anomaly. It's all about code and butterflies, Tech Nique, Synaptic Ether, and Entities, and shit. Here's where the web is 1975.