Lost in the Translation

For other uses, see Lost in Translation.

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]

Lost in the Translation
Studio album by Axiom Ambient
Released	November 8, 1994 (1994-11-08)
Studio	Greenpoint (Brooklyn)
Genre	Ambient
Length	121:33
Label	Axiom
Producer	Bill Laswell
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]

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

• Layng Martine – assistant engineer
• Robert Musso – engineering
• Shinro Ohtake – cover art

Release history

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