Burl Veneer’s Music Blog Vox 2008-03-18T21:53:37Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d4144aef1d3c7f/tags/bill+laswell/ Songs I Like Iggy is everywhere tag:vox.com,2008-03-15:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398e63a470004 2008-03-15T21:00:54Z 2008-03-18T21:53:37Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

04 - Furies(1) Hawkwind - Urban Guerilla (Promo)

Bill Laswell's Praxis project, originally a turntable-and-sampler affair, changed direction in the 90s to invent the "cyberthrash" genre. With a core lineup of Laswell, Buckethead, Bernie Worrell, and Brain, they constantly switched gears from fu...

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The Mars Volta Memories (cover) 07 - Memories (Voc. Whitney Houston) 06 Memories 03 Memories (Hugh Hopper) 22 Memories (Hugh Hopper)

Cranking up The Mars Volta's Frances the Mute album the first time was revelatory, and it had me jumping around for days. I caught up with their other albums afterwards, but none of them quite did it for me the way Frances did. And now they have...

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Zillatron - Fuzz Face

I've been hankering to listen to Zillatron's Lord of the Harvest again recently, and after about a week of looking I located a copy. "Zillatron" is one of the alter egos adopted by Bootsy Collins for this 1993 album, produced by himself and Bill ...

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04-Proud Flesh Simon Shaheen & Qantara_10_Al-Qantara

The news that Simon Shaheen would be performing at Cornell was exciting; I was familiar with his violin and 'oud playing from Nicky Skopelitis's Ekstasis album (1993), which got me through many a long day at my record store way back when. Shaheen...

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