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

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. The album is primarily an

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-based collaboration with Extrakd, 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 electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups ...

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

(all tracks, except "Sucked Under") * Extrakd - 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 The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

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(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,

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, 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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