Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Praxis - Sacrifist (1994)

The second disc of Bill Laswell and Buckethead's project Praxis is much less of a band effort and much heavier in tone. Laswell calls in some of his associates for various tracks, which makes this more a revolving-door project. Many tracks are speed/thrash metal at their noisiest. There's also a short dub interlude and a hip-hop freakout with lots of scratching and high-pitched shrieks.

P-Funkers Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell each contribute one lengthy track with Bootsy's free-form bass explorations, and Bernie's psychedelic improvisation on a distorted Hammond organ. Also thrown into the mixture are Mick Harris (Napalm Death, Scorn) and Yamatsuka Eye (The Boredoms) screaming at the top of their lungs, plus John Zorn on some shrill alto parts and game calls, the band Blind Idiot God, and lots of frightening ambient sounds, noises and samples out of Shinya Tsukamoto's cult movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man (a crazy, sick film: must see!). All this adds to the overall assault on your senses. Though this is a great disc, it will put most beginners off by its mind-numbing intensity; many advanced listeners may also get lost. Only those who feel comfortable with aggressive noise may really enjoy this. (Chris Genzel, All Music Guide)

    Tracks
  1. Stronghold (1:34)
  2. Cold Rolled Iron Dub (6:22)
  3. Suspension (2:19)
  4. Rivet (5:23)
  5. Death Star (9:47)
  6. Hook (6:17)
  7. Nine Secrets (3:16)
  8. Crossing (9:43)

Praxis_Sacrifist_256.rar

posted by Paxjorge @ Wednesday, March 29, 2006

7 Comments:

At 4/01/2006 12:23 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have on CD Praxis 'Transmutation' their first release (1992). If interested I can up this for you? Much funkier than 'Sacrifist.' Also have Bill Laswell 'Divination' (ambient dub vol 1 & 2) on his now defunct Subharmonic label. Let me know & I'll help with share.

Have helped other blogsters before.

Cheers,

MoogPower.

 
At 4/01/2006 1:18 PM, Blogger Paxjorge said...

Wow, that would be awesome! Please do, and if you don't mind I'll post them along with my other albums (so the whole world can pluck the fruit of original sinful piracy...)

 
At 4/01/2006 10:56 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

jajajaj die wil ik!
thanx

 
At 4/02/2006 12:37 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

K,

Will get this done sometime today (hopefully). I'll let you know the links once complete.

Enjoy,

MoogPower.

 
At 4/02/2006 4:01 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Am upping now...have included front cover (for your blog or printing up) & some liner notes. Will write a review if you don't mind my indulgence. :)

Oh, forgot to mention I own Scorn 'Colossus' that might interest you too? Mick Harris toured Australia a few months ago now for the first time - very interesting to say the least!

Cheers,

MoogPower.

 
At 4/02/2006 6:01 PM, Blogger Paxjorge said...

Hmm nice, I haven't really heard Scorn's other albums, but I'm sure they're all really guud... I'll add some Meat Beat Manifesto for you, I think you'd like that.

 
At 5/20/2006 11:39 PM, Blogger Chardman said...

I have Praxis' Metatron, which is a brain-jackhammer.
Let me know if you want it.

 

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