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Last night at The NYC Anchorage I saw one of the weirdest shows I've ever been to. Praxis, led by Bill Laswell on bass, Buckethead (literally a guy with a bucket on his head) on guitar, somebody from Lenny Kravitz's band on drums, DJ Soulslinger (a NYC jungle producer) on turntables spinning something, one of the X-men or the Skratch Pickls on turntables scratching, and somebody else (maybe DXT, maybe an X-man or Pikl) on keyboard or turntable (I couldn't see). All playing at once. It was like an ambient heavy metal show, and it was actually really good. It must have been improv, because every once in a while they hit an incredible groove, with guitar/bass noise, scratching undernneath, some mediocre loud drumming, plus some weird jungle atmospherics that became evident when the rest of the noise died out. Plus, there were lots of electronic sounds, samples, etc. it was metal with nowhere to go, and I liked it a lot. LESSON_go to shows at the Anchorage, you never know what you'll get (yes I'm an intern there, yes we need people to come to the shows, no my review was not positive because of this, I actually liked the show) 1 Does anyone have any more info on the show? Who was on what instrument, who are Laswell, Buckethead, DXT? 2 How rare is Basscad EP on CD? A music store near me has a few copies. 3 Has anyone heard Altered Beats?(I think that's what it's called) It's either by a member of the X-men or of the Pickls, and it's a double CD of scratching. review? Sam