''Bermuda Triangle'' is the eighth studio album by

Buckethead Brian Patrick Carroll (born May 13, 1969), known professionally as Buckethead, is an American guitarist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has received critical acclaim for his innovative electric guitar playing. His music spans severa ...

. The album is primarily an

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-based collaboration with

Extrakd Extrakd, also called Xtrakd and Xtraked is an American producer and DJ. He was a member of projects El Stew, No Forcefield, Gonervill and worked with Bill Laswell's Material (''Intonarumori'', 1999), experimental guitarist Buckethead ('' Colma'' ...

, who also produced and mixed the album. The album has been described as an "instrumental underground hip-hop/electro-funk fantasia" and "snippets of blazing metal, washes of delayed patterns, relaxed lines matched with stuttering drums, and vice versa", dealing with several Bermuda Triangle incidents and other

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related themes. The album was recorded on a portable multi-track recorder.

Track listing

*All tracks written by Buckethead and Extrakd.

Notes

* "Mausoleum Door" includes a sample from the 1979 movie '' Phantasm''. * "Isle of Dead" includes a sample from the 1975 movie ''

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Personnel

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electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gui ...

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

(all tracks, except "Sucked Under") *

- MPC 3000 bass, SH101 turntable, Roland SP-808 ;Additional Musicians *Bobafett - bass guitar (on "Sucked Under"), click track (on "Phantom Lights") *

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drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

(on "Flight 19") ;Production *Produced and mixed by Extrakd. *Recorded at Davey Jones' Locker. *Graphics by P-Sticks and Flavor Innovator.com. *Executive producer Pale Ryder/Snow Peas. ;Thank yous *Extrakd thanks: **Buckethead, J Free, Brain, D Styles, House, Dr. Ware,

M.I.R.V. M.I.R.V. was a band based in the San Francisco, California, Bay Area. The band was founded in 1993. Its musical style includes elements of hard rock, Heavy metal music, heavy metal, funk, country music, country, opera, Experimental music, experi ...

, Barney, P-Sticks, Bobafett, EDDIE DEF, Catalyst, Gonervill. *Buckethead thanks: **My family, Big D, Bill Walton, Brain, Extrakd, P-Sticks, Jon Freeman, Ed Shakey, Maximum Bob, Dr. Arlo Gordin.

References

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