Lost in the Translation

Studio album by Axiom Ambient

Released

November 8, 1994

Recorded

Greenpoint Studio, Brooklyn, NY

Genre

Ambient

Length

121:33

Bill Laswell chronology

Jihad (Points of Order)
(1994)

Lost in the Translation
(1994)

Outer Dark
(1994)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Down Beat	^[2]

Lost in the Translation is an album by American composer Bill Laswell, issued under the moniker Axiom Ambient. It was released on November 8, 1994 by Axiom.^[3]

Track listing

Disc one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Eternal Drift" (Below the Boundaries of the Inner Station/Eternal Thaemlitz Curse/ Light of Darkness/Construct Over Destiny/Sacred Drift)	Laswell, Skopelitis, Thaemlitz	15:53
2.	"Peace" (My Soul to Keep/Who Does She Hope to Be?/Peace in Essaouria)	Hazel, Sanders, Sharrock	17:11
3.	"Aum" (Soul Searcher/Praying Mantra (Second Attention)/Tarab Scan/Ritual in Transfigured Time)	Caroline, Lakshminarayana, Rao, Shankar, Skopelitis, Wobble	17:37
4.	"Cosmic Trigger" (Through the Flames/Cosmic Slop/Animal Behavior)	Buckethead, Collins, Laswell, Worrell	16:19

Disc two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Dharmapala" (Along a Ghostly Path/Before Dark/Knox Om Pax)	Hellborg, Wahab	14:35
2.	"Flash of Panic" (Pipes of Pan/Up Above the World/Under Black Skies/Out of the Ether)	Attar, Baker, Laswell, Skopelitis	15:17
3.	"Holy Mountain" (Assassin's Dream/Blues in the East/Alamut Transmission)	Laswell, Sola	16:41
4.	"Ruins" (Bubble Wrap mix)	Inoue, Laswell	8:00

Personnel

Adapted from the Lost in the Translation liner notes.^[4]

Musicians

Tetsu Inoue – effects ("Ruins")
Bill Laswell – effects, producer
The Orb – effects ("Aum")
Terre Thaemlitz – effects ("Eternal Drift")

Technical personnel

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United States	1994	Axiom	CD, LP	314-524 053

References

↑ Anderson, Rick. "Axiom Ambient: Lost in the Translation". Allmusic. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
↑ columnist (September 1995). "Axiom Ambient - Lost in the Translation". Down Beat: 48. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
↑ Robbins, Ira (2007). "Bill Laswell". Trouser Press. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
↑ Lost in the Translation (booklet). Axiom Ambient. New York City, New York: Axiom. 1994.

External links

Axiom Ambient - Lost in the Translation at Discogs (list of releases)

Bill Laswell

Related
people

Albums

Killing Time (1981)
" Baselines ( Bill Laswell solo album)" (1982)
Future Shock (1983)
Sound-System (1984)
Album (1986)
Rhythm Killers (1987)
Instinct (1988)
The Burning World (1989)
Make Them Die Slowly (1989)
Brain Drain (1989)
Funk of Ages (1990)
Bucketheadland (1992)
Third Eye Open (1992)
Holy Terror (1993)
Pieces of Woo: The Other Side (1993)
Giant Robot (1994)
Dreamatorium (1994)
Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud
Funkcronomicon (1995)
The Day of the Robot (1996)
The Last Wave (1996)
Aftershock 2005 (1996)
Disembodied (1997)
Arc of the Testimony (1997)
Free Agent: A Spaced Odyssey (1997)
Future 2 Future (2001)
No Place to Be (2006)
Torn from Black Space (2009)

Bands

Method of Defiance	The Only Way To Go Is Down Inamorata Nihon Jahbulon Incunabula Dub Arcanum Arcandrum Nahariama

The Golden Palominos	The Golden Palominos Visions of Excess Blast of Silence A Dead Horse Drunk With Passion This Is How It Feels Pure Dead Inside

Material	About Time Temporary Music Memory Serves One Down Seven Souls Live from Soundscape The Third Power Live in Japan Hallucination Engine The Road to the Western Lands Intonarumori

Painkiller	Guts of a Virgin Buried Secrets Rituals: Live in Japan Execution Ground Painkiller: The Collected Works Talisman: Live in Nagoya 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 12

Praxis	Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) Sacrifist Metatron Live in Poland Transmutation Live Collection Warszawa Zurich Tennessee 2004 Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness)

Shin Terai	Unison Heaven & Hell Lightyears

Other bands: Ashes
Last Exit
Massacre
Soup
Tabla Beat Science
Time Zone

Labels

Bill Laswell album discography

Solo

Studio albums	Baselines Hear No Evil Outer Dark Silent Recoil Oscillations City of Light Oscillations 2 Invisible Design Imaginary Cuba Permutation Dub Chamber 3 Lo. Def Pressure Filmtracks 2000 Points of Order Version 2 Version Invisible Design II Means of Deliverance Túwaqachi

As a pseudonym	Ambient Dub Volume I Ambient Dub Volume II Doom Ride Dub Terror Exhaust Jihad Axiom Ambient Akasha Axiom Funk Off World One Distill Chapter One Axiom Dub Chapter Two Nagual Site Sacrifice The End of Law Serene Timeless Joy The Redesign Book of Exit

Remix albums	Oscillations Remixes Trojan Dub Massive: Chapter One Trojan Dub Massive: Chapter Two

Cover albums	Jazzonia

Soundtrack albums	Broken Vessels

Compilations	Deconstruction: The Celluloid Recordings Light in Extension Ambient Compendium Final Oscillations ROIR Dub Sessions Aspiration

Collaborative

Studio albums	Low Life Outland Psychonavigation Cymatic Scan Visitation Web Somnific Flux Subsonic 2: Bass Terror Psychonavigation 2 Interpieces Organization Outland 2 Psychonavigation 3 Dub Meltdown Outland 3 Psychonavigation 4 Charged Outland IV Life Space Death Radioaxiom: A Dub Transmission Psychonavigation 5 Buck Jam Tonic Aftermathematics Soup A Navel City/No One Is There Brutal Calling Episome Outland 5 Lodge No Matter Konton Near Nadir BLIXT The Dream Membrane The Process

Live albums	Asian Games Soup Live Live at the Bowery Poetry Project Bass & Drums

Other albums

Bill Laswell band discography

The Golden Palominos

Anton Fier Tony Scherr Andy Hess Nicole Blackman Lori Carson Knox Chandler Bootsy Collins Fred Frith Jody Harris Lydia Kavanagh Robert Kidney Amanda Kramer Bill Laswell Arto Lindsay David Moss Nicky Skopelitis Syd Straw Bernie Worrell John Zorn

Studio albums	The Golden Palominos (1983) Visions of Excess (1985) Blast of Silence (Axed My Baby for a Nickel) (1986) A Dead Horse (1989) Drunk with Passion (1991) This Is How It Feels (1993) Pure (1994) Dead Inside (1996)

Compilations	Thundering Herd: The Best of The Golden Palominos (1991) A History (1982–1985) (1992) A History (1986–1989) (1992)

Singles	"Alive and Living Now"

with Kevn Kinney	A Good Country Mile (2012)

Last Exit

Peter Brötzmann Ronald Shannon Jackson Bill Laswell Sonny Sharrock

Studio albums	Iron Path

Live albums	Last Exit The Noise of Trouble Cassette Recordings '87 Köln Headfirst into the Flames

Compilations	Best of Live

Categories	Albums Members

Massacre

Fred Frith Bill Laswell Fred Maher Charles Hayward

Studio albums	Killing Time (1981) Funny Valentine (1998)

Live albums	Meltdown (2001) Lonely Heart (2007)

Material

Bill Laswell Michael Beinhorn Fred Maher Daevid Allen Bill Bacon Cliff Cultreri Michael Lawrence

Studio albums	Temporary Music Memory Serves One Down Seven Souls The Third Power Hallucination Engine Intonarumori

Live albums	Live from Soundscape Live in Japan

EPs	American Songs

Singles	"Bustin' Out"

Related	Discography About Time

Painkiller

Members	John Zorn Bill Laswell Mick Harris Yoshida Tatsuya

Collaborators	Justin Broadrick G. C. Green Keiji Haino Yamatsuka Eye Hamid Drake Mike Patton

Studio albums	Guts of a Virgin Buried Secrets Execution Ground

Live albums	Rituals: Live in Japan Talisman: Live in Nagoya 50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 12 The Prophecy: Live in Europe

Box sets	Painkiller: The Collected Works

Related articles	Naked City Godflesh Scorn

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