M.O.D. Technologies is an independent record label based in New York City, intended to be the modern evolution of producer and bassist Bill Laswell's Axiom label. It was founded in 2010 by Laswell RareNoise label founder Giacomo Bruzzo and long-time Laswell associate John Brown in part to provide a creative outlet for the group Method of Defiance, which began as a loose collective of musicians and has since coalesced to include Dr.