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Formed in 1982(!), the Bay Area-based Limbomaniacs would have probably faded into obscurity were it not for the fact that during their recording sessions, drummer Brain Mantia introduced producer Bill Laswell (and indirectly, the world) to guitar virtuoso Buckethead (Laswell would later employ Buckethead in his supergroup Praxis). All praise the Gibson God. As for the 'Maniacs though, their only album was 1990's Stinky Grooves, a funky, sometimes overly cheesy slab of tunes that would have probably been more of a hit had the trendy grunge movement not decimated every other musical genre that year. It's a nice throwback to the days of Urban Dance Squad, Fishbone and 24-7 Spyz and perfect for your next party, especially when the toilet's flooded.

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The first album by supergroup Praxis is a bit of a tough swallow at first - I can't remember who actually brought it to my attention. Methinks it was the Buckethead-loving bartender at the restaurant I line cooked at years ago; unsurprisingly the guy was kind of a weirdo - one of those "just into weird shit to say that he's into weird shit" folk. In a (somewhat) unrelated story he once asked me over to play some guitar on some godawful Devo-like midi recordings he had done. I reluctantly obliged (gotta keep the bartender happy) and after playing some brutally awful guitar and drinking a ton of beers he throws on some amputee porn to "just chill out and laugh at". No shit. Interestingly, I don't know what was weirder - the fact that he threw on amputee porn or the fact that Tom Byron was acting in it... and I recognized him. I don't know what that says about either me or him but I guess it was a lean month for ol' Tom and ya gotta pay the rent. Regardless - this album is pretty much the musical equivalent of amputee porn - it's enticing in a weird way but annoying in others. Imagine an epileptic mixing a 64-track album mid-seizure and you have some idea of what to expect. Ethereal, heavy, fascinating, cyber-blasting, boring, jaw-dropping, slamming funky shit. Enjoy.

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