Transmutation features a wide range of genres such as heavy metal, funk, hip hop, ambient, jazz and blues, creating a unique style of avant-garde music, with extended guitar and keyboard solos, and highly improvised passages.
"Giant Robot/Machines in the Modern City/Godzilla"
6:38
9.
"After Shock (Chaos Never Died)"
16:20
Note: Track 8 contains an interpolation of the title theme from the Japanese TV series Giant Robot, a rendition of which also featured on Buckethead's Bucketheadland album. The track also features one of the many themes Akira Ifukube wrote for Toho production's Godzilla films.
A Taste of Mutation is an EP by supergroupPraxis, released in 1992 through Bill Laswell's label Axiom and featuring four songs from their debut album Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis).
The single includes three different versions of the title track written by Collins, Laswell and Buckethead,[4] an edited album version from Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis), a short radio edit and a third version that was used for the music video. The original seven-minute album version was also released on the EPA Taste of Mutation in the same year and later included to the Axiom compilation Funkcronomicon in 1995 while the video edit was re-released in 1993 on Manifestation: Axiom Collection II.[5] The song also was included as the last part of the suite "Cosmic Trigger" on the album Axiom Ambient - Lost in the Translation in 1994.[6][7]
A video by François Bergeron was released for promoting the album and single. It features frequent scenes shot in night vision, footage of guitarist Buckethead moving around and Rammellzee.
When singer Bootsy Collins starts singing the first verse, another monster made out of soda cans appears. The video later shows how Buckethead fights the first robot with his severed hand but the monster manages to decapitate him. After that the band is shown playing the song in night vision. A scarecrow with a square head appears when the mellow part of the song starts. The members of the band are shown against a sunset background. The video ends with still shots of all the band members and the music fading out.[8] The video clip was played on MTV's Amp[9][10] and was included in Buckethead's 2006 DVD Secret Recipe.
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