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"Bill Laswell has almost always been a radical and restless artist, with a mind that wanders like a medieval apothecary picking up and soaking in every element of civilizations long declared dead by the terrible mechanizations of the occidental world. He is a Béla Bartók with wings...an artist who has made it his mission in music to search for more spatial interpretations of harmony and rhythm." - ALL ABOUT JAZZ Beneath the darkly subsonic bass of producer Bill Laswell, the funk-laden beats of Primus drummer Brain and the extreme guitar terror of mutant virtuoso Buckethead, Praxis represents an inspiring, mesmerizing and harrowing foray into the collective mind of a lethally futuristic live unit. Group improvisation, musical breadth and sheer sonic assault are all pushed to their outer limits - true to the ethos of "free jazz" outfits like Last Exit and Painkiller, of which Laswell is also a member, but with a brash element of youthful exuberance that gives the music a fresh sound, even newer than "new school." Whether ambient, dub, funk, hip-hop, metal or avant-garde, each is wired and detonated across a canvas of controlled chaos. Beneath the darkly subsonic bass of producer Bill Laswell, the funk-laden beats of current Primus drummer Brain and the extreme guitar terror of mutant virtuoso Buckethead, Praxis represents an inspiring, mesmerizing and harrowing foray into the collective mind of a lethally futuristic live unit.