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3	''Panthalassa: The Music of Music/MilesDavis 1969-1974'' is a 1998 album by Bill Laswell, released through Creator/ColumbiaRecords. Working from the premise that Davis' fusion albums were themselves heavily studio-edited, Laswell secured access to the original master tapes and [[RemixAlbum recut the music himself]]. Laswell aimed to create a more coherently-structured work, remixing the recordings to bring influential rhythm elements to the fore. Averting TheyChangedItNowItSucks, ''Panthalassa'' met a mostly positive response.
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5	!!Tracklist:
6	# "In a Silent Way / Shhh/Peaceful / It's About That Time" - 15:20
7	# "Black Satin / What If / Agharta Prelude Dub" - 16:06
8	# "Rated X / Billy Preston" - 14:34
9	# "He Loved Him Madly" - 13:38
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12	!! Black Satin tropes:
13	* [[Main/{{Ambient}} Ambient Music]]: Davis' "Get Up With It" was famously described as ''"music to fill a room"'', and Laswell plays up this aspect of the music for all it's worth, turning up tablas and electronic instrumentation where possible.
14	* CompilationRerelease
15	* EpicRocking: Even vastly shortened [[CharacterizationTags Fusion!Miles]] is still very lengthy. The album consists of four fifteen-minute tracks.
16	* HeterosexualLifePartners: "He Loved Him Madly". The original piece was Miles' tribute to then-recently diseased Music/DukeEllington.
17	* IdiosyncraticAlbumTheming: The album title corresponds with Davis' LiveAlbum theming - where "Agharta" and "Pangaea" denoted mythological continents, "Panthalassa" is named after the ocean of the same mythology.
18	* {{Instrumentals}}: All tracks.
19	* OneWordTitle: "Panthalassa".
20	* RemixAlbum: Rearranging the originals is the entire album concept.
21	* ShoutOut: The album title references Panthalassa, the vast global ocean that surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.
22	* TheStoic: "In A Silent Way", "Shhh/Peaceful".
23	* VaguenessIsComing: "It's About That Time".
24	* XMakesAnythingCool: For instance: naming an instrumental track "Rated X".

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