Bermuda Triangle (album)

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Bermuda Triangle
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Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 23, 2002
Genre Hip hop, funk, ambient, electronic rock, avant-garde music
Length49:32
Label Catalyst
Producer Extrakd
Buckethead chronology
Funnel Weaver
(2002)
Bermuda Triangle
(2002)
Electric Tears
(2002)
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Bermuda Triangle is the eighth studio album by Buckethead. The album is primarily an electronica-based collaboration with Extrakd, who also produced and mixed the album. [3]

Contents

The album has been described as an "instrumental underground hip-hop/electro-funk fantasia" [4] and "snippets of blazing metal, washes of delayed patterns, relaxed lines matched with stuttering drums, and vice versa", [5] dealing with several Bermuda Triangle incidents and other sea/sailor related themes.

The album was recorded on a portable multi-track recorder. [6]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Intro"0:34
2."Davy Jones Locker"0:56
3."Flight 19"1:48
4."Mausoleum Door"3:29
5."Sea of Expanding Shapes"4:24
6."The Triangle (Part I): Extrakd"1:16
7."Bionic Fog"2:01
8."Forbidden Zone"2:15
9."Telegraph Land of the Crispies"1:53
10."Pullin' the Heavy"2:55
11."Phantom Lights"2:38
12."Jabbar on Alcatrazz Avenue"3:18
13."BEESTRO Fowler"3:01
14."Splintered Triplet [7] "2:36
15."Whatevas"2:15
16."Sucked Under"4:22
17."Isle of Dead"3:14
18."The Triangle (Part II)"3:19
19."911 [8] "3:18
Total length:49:32

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