 Furthermore, the core members, San Francisco Bay Area musicians Bryan "Brain" Mantia (drums) and Buckethead (guitars) plus mastermind Bill Laswell (samples) were reinforced by turntablist Af Next Man Flip (aka Afrika Baby Bam of the Jungle Brothers).The single includes three different versions of the title track written by Collins, Laswell and Buckethead, 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 (including the 3-minute atmospheric, darkly contemplative, instrumental coda which features a hard rock ballad theme by Buckethead) was also released on the EP "A 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