- The Day of the Robot
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The Day of the Robot 
Studio album by Buckethead Released April 30, 1996 Genre Drum and bass, heavy metal, avant-garde Length 42:44 Label Subharmonic Producer Bill Laswell Buckethead chronology Giant Robot
(1994)The Day of the Robot
(1996)Colma
(1998)The Day of the Robot is the third studio album by Buckethead. Known as his "Jungle" album due to the presence of UK "Beat Scientist" DJ Ninj, an occasional Bill Laswell collaborateur.[1] It is currently out of print, making it a valuable collector's item, but can be found in the download store of TDRS Music.
The title "The Day of the Robot" is most likely a reference to The Six Million Dollar Man episode of the same name[2] while "Flying Guillotine" refers to Guillotine from Johnny Sokko's Flying Robot.
Contents
Reception
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 
[3]Alternative Press (11/96, p. 69) gave the album 5 stars out of 5 and said, "...has both a decidedly experimental side, as well as a knack for placing sounds in sturdy, though scary, compositional contexts....Buckethead seems to have found a new place for guitar gods..." [4]
The album's songs, especially "Destroyer" and "Flying Guillotine", display some of Buckethead's use of extreme heavy riffs, adding to this an experimental side by quickly shifting to slow calm beats.
Track listing
No. Title Length 1. "Destroyer: Speed Flux Quadrant/Inclusion/Exhaust Release" 13:00 2. "Flying Guillotine" 7:20 3. "Quantum Crash" 5:58 4. "Collision" 8:20 5. "Caution Drop" 8:06 Total length:42:44 Credits
- Performers
- Buckethead: guitars.
- Ninj: bass and drums, keyboards.
- Bill Laswell: low bass, drums.
- Production
- Recorded at Coast Recorders, San Francisco, CA and Greenpoint Studio, Brooklyn, New York.
- Rhythm tracks for 2, 3, 4 and 5 created in the UK by Ninj.
- Produced by Bill Laswell.
- Design, illustration and photography: Dave McKean @ Hourglass.
- Source photographs supplied by Buckethead.
- Front cover illustration of 'Buckethead No. 1': Bryan Frankenseuss Theiss.
- Fonts: Elliot Earls.
References
Buckethead Travis Dickerson · Bill Laswell · Bootsy Collins · Les Claypool · Bryan Mantia · Bernie Worrell · Serj Tankian · John Zorn · Pinchface · Extrakd · DJ Disk · Maximum Bob · Efrem Schulz · Saul Williams · Gigi · Maura Davis · Azam Ali · Jas Obrecht · Bill Moseley · Dan Monti · Melissa Reese · AlbertStudio albums Bucketheadland (1992) · Giant Robot (1994) · The Day of the Robot (1996) · Colma (1998) · Monsters and Robots (1999) · Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse (2001) · Funnel Weaver (2002) · Bermuda Triangle (2002) · Electric Tears (2002) · Bucketheadland 2 (2003) · Island of Lost Minds (2004) · Population Override (2004) · The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (2004) · Enter the Chicken (2005) · Kaleidoscalp (2005) · Inbred Mountain (2005) · The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock (2006) · Crime Slunk Scene (2006) · Pepper's Ghost (2007) · Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot (2007) · Cyborg Slunks (2007) · Albino Slug (2008) · Slaughterhouse on the Prairie (2009) · A Real Diamond in the Rough (2009) · Forensic Follies (2009) · Needle in a Slunk Stack (2009) · Shadows Between the Sky (2010) · Spinal Clock (2010) · Captain EO's Voyage (2010) · 3 Foot Clearance (2010) · It's Alive (2011) · Empty Space (2011) · Underground Chamber (2011) · Look Up There (2011)Extended plays KFC Skin Piles (2001)Special releases In Search of The (2007) · Acoustic Shards (2007) · Bucketheadland Blueprints (re-release) (2007) · From the Coop (2008)Videos Demos Giant Robot (1991) · Bucketheadland Blueprints (1991)Unreleased albums Buckethead Plays Disney · Super Diorama TheaterAs Death Cube K Dreamatorium (1994) · Disembodied (1997) · Tunnel (1999) · DCK (2007) · Monolith (2007) · Torn from Black Space (2009)Notable songs "Welcome to Bucketheadland" (1994) · "Binge and Grab (instrumental version)" (1994) · "Big Sur Moon" (1998) · "The Ballad of Buckethead" (1999) · "Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse" (2001) · "Spokes for the Wheel of Torment" (2004) · "We Are One" (2005) "Botnus" (2005) · "Three Fingers" (2005) · Nottingham Lace" (2005) "Jordan" (2006) · "The Landing Beacon" (2009)with Artists Alix Lambert & Travis Dickerson Bryan "Brain" Mantia Kevin's Noodle House · Brain as HamenoodleBrain and Melissa Reese Best Regards · Kind RegardsJonas Hellborg & Michael Shrieve Travis Dickerson Travis Dickerson and Brain Shin Terai Unison · Heaven & Hell · LightyearsViggo Mortensen One Less Thing to Worry About · Recent Forgeries · The Other Parade · One Man's Meat · Pandemoniumfromamerica · Please Tomorrow · This, That, and The Other · Intelligence Failure · At All · Reunionwith Bands Deli Creeps Deli Creeps Demo Tape 1991 · Deli Creeps Demo Tape 1996 · Dawn of the Deli CreepsPraxis Cornbugs Spot the Psycho · Cemetery Pinch · How Now Brown Cow · Brain Circus · Donkey Town · Rest Home for Robots · Skeleton Farm · Celebrity Psychos · Quackers! · HeadcheeseThanatopsis Guns N' Roses Cobra Strike 13th Scroll · Cobra Strike II: Y, Y+B, X+Y <hold> ←Bands: Pieces | Giant Robot | Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains | Gorgone | Science Faxtion | Frankenstein Brothers
Others: Buckethead Discography
Labels: Serjical Strike Records | TDRS Music | Axiom | Sony Japan | Higher OctaveCategories:- Buckethead albums
- 1996 albums
- Albums with cover art by Dave McKean
- Albums produced by Bill Laswell
- 1990s rock album stubs
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