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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[–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Thanks for sharing. Amazing what one can find on Bandcamp - old and new.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 9 months 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.

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    [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Fuck yeah Praxis. So good

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Somehow I didn't have this even though I like Laswell and most guests.on this....

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah there's a lot on his bandcamp. Some gets quite samey, I much prefer his non ambient dub stuff, although that is still very solid and enjoyable.

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