Bill Laswell

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Beyond The Zero 09:09 Tools
Lost Roads 00:00 Tools
Kingdom Come 00:00 Tools
Nothing 00:00 Tools
Thunupa 00:00 Tools
Cybotron 00:00 Tools
Improvised Music #1 00:00 Tools
Above the Earth 00:00 Tools
Los Ibellis 00:00 Tools
X29 00:00 Tools
Loungin With F.E. 00:00 Tools
Commander Guevara 00:00 Tools
Space-Time Paradox 00:00 Tools
Bullet Hole Memory 00:00 Tools
Pompa At The House 00:00 Tools
Dejala En La Puntica 00:00 Tools
Kashi 00:00 Tools
Babylon Site 00:00 Tools
Guerillero heroico (El che vive!) 00:00 Tools
Chacon And Daniel 00:00 Tools
Kala 00:00 Tools
Assassin 00:00 Tools
Black Aether 00:00 Tools
Chaos In The Heat (Last Transmission) 00:00 Tools
Shango 00:00 Tools
Para Clave y Guaguanco 00:00 Tools
Night Air & Low Frequency 00:00 Tools
No Woman No Cry 00:00 Tools
Illinois Central 00:00 Tools
Aisha 00:00 Tools
Ethiopia 00:00 Tools
Madre No Me Pida In Dub 00:00 Tools
Cyclops 00:00 Tools
Dread Iternal 00:00 Tools
Upright Man 00:00 Tools
Digitaria 00:00 Tools
Iron Cross 00:00 Tools
Oceans Of Borrowed Money 00:00 Tools
Devil Syndrome 00:00 Tools
Twisted 00:00 Tools
faktura 00:00 Tools
White Ark 00:00 Tools
Waiting In Vain 00:00 Tools
A Screaming Comes Across The Sky 00:00 Tools
Exodus 00:00 Tools
The Heathen 00:00 Tools
Staple Nex 00:00 Tools
Stations Of The Cross 00:00 Tools
Blue 00:00 Tools
Lightning Teleportation 00:00 Tools
Broken Toenail Gland 00:00 Tools
So Much Trouble In The World 00:00 Tools
Conquer Worm 00:00 Tools
Activate 00:00 Tools
Is This Love 00:00 Tools
Purana 00:00 Tools
Anubis 00:00 Tools
White Arc Spiral 00:00 Tools
Babylon Ghost 06:00 Tools
Extinguisher 00:00 Tools
Burnin' And Lootin' 00:00 Tools
Dislocation 00:00 Tools
Fade 00:00 Tools
Improvised Music #2 00:00 Tools
Little Boy Don't Get Scared 00:00 Tools
Uprising 00:00 Tools
Moody's Mood For Love 00:00 Tools
Midnight Ravers 00:00 Tools
Aghora 00:00 Tools
The old man of the mountain 00:00 Tools
Swan Blues 00:00 Tools
Rebel Music (3 o'clock Roadblock) 00:00 Tools
Hindsight 00:00 Tools
Cottontail 00:00 Tools
Them Belly Full (But We Hungry) 00:00 Tools
One Love (People Get Ready) 00:00 Tools
Bati 00:00 Tools
Pilgrimage to Cairo 00:00 Tools
The Lower Ground 00:00 Tools
Hombre lobo, no! Hombre nuevo, si 00:00 Tools
Shashamani 00:00 Tools
Hashish poem 00:00 Tools
Simulacra 00:00 Tools
Black Lotus 00:00 Tools
The western lands 00:00 Tools
I'm Gone 00:00 Tools
Moving Target 00:00 Tools
Dystopia 00:00 Tools
Sombre Stream 00:00 Tools
Sinan's Boat 00:00 Tools
Jerusalem 00:00 Tools
Lowlands 00:00 Tools
Wird 00:00 Tools
White Lies 00:00 Tools
Barricade 00:00 Tools
Assassinations 00:00 Tools
Akapana 00:00 Tools
Land of Look Behind 00:00 Tools
The spilled cup 00:00 Tools
Ghost Dub 00:00 Tools
Marco Polo's Tale 00:00 Tools
OHM Shanti 00:00 Tools
Angel Eyes 00:00 Tools
Kala Infinite 00:00 Tools
The assassins 00:00 Tools
Night City 00:00 Tools
Castles 00:00 Tools
Amphora 00:00 Tools
Morning high 00:00 Tools
Cut Virus 00:00 Tools
4D 00:00 Tools
Conservation 00:00 Tools
Virus 00:00 Tools
Descent 05:48 Tools
Kála 00:00 Tools
The divine self 00:00 Tools
Shyvamythscience 00:00 Tools
Improvised Music #3 00:00 Tools
Book of the highest initiation 00:00 Tools
X-Zibit-i 00:00 Tools
Slogans 00:00 Tools
System Malfunction 00:00 Tools
Scratch Code 00:00 Tools
Little Village 00:00 Tools
Against the Upper House 00:00 Tools
Mystery of Shape Changing 00:00 Tools
Aeon 00:00 Tools
Black Dust 00:00 Tools
A quick trip to Alamut 00:00 Tools
Last reading 00:00 Tools
One, I Love - Karen Casey 00:00 Tools
Tale of the caliph Hakem 00:00 Tools
Subcut 00:00 Tools
Third Stage Navigator 00:00 Tools
Morning Breeze 00:00 Tools
Phase Draft 00:00 Tools
Cyborg Assault 05:37 Tools
Finite State Machine Dub 00:00 Tools
black ice 00:00 Tools
Eternal Drift 00:00 Tools
Galactic Zone 09:31 Tools
Posthuman 00:00 Tools
A Dangerous Road 00:00 Tools
Autopia 00:00 Tools
Enharmonic 00:00 Tools
Raag Sohni 00:00 Tools
Dark Black 00:00 Tools
Buhala 00:00 Tools
Ouroboros 00:00 Tools
Maps Of Impossible Worlds 05:51 Tools
Ruins 00:00 Tools
Lo-Tek 00:00 Tools
Xtrak 00:00 Tools
AUM 00:00 Tools
Chakra 00:00 Tools
Alger Alger Dub 00:00 Tools
First reading 00:00 Tools
Red Night 00:00 Tools
Dèrive 00:00 Tools
Sub Terrain 00:00 Tools
Quartz 00:00 Tools
The Lord of the ressurection 00:00 Tools
Skulls of Broken Hill 00:00 Tools
In Failing Light 00:00 Tools
Driftwork 00:00 Tools
Chacón and Daniel 00:00 Tools
Ethiopia / The Lower Ground 00:00 Tools
Hear No Evil 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission 2# / Cuban Evolution 00:00 Tools
Cosmic Trigger 00:00 Tools
If 666 was '96 00:00 Tools
Dharmapala 00:00 Tools
Peace 00:00 Tools
Holy Mountain 00:00 Tools
Residue 00:00 Tools
Here Comes The Sun 00:00 Tools
Lost Roads Orchestral Site 00:00 Tools
Kingdom Come Ambient Site 00:00 Tools
Bagana_sub Figura X 00:00 Tools
Aphasia 00:00 Tools
Saiya Nikasegaye 00:00 Tools
Broken Dream 00:00 Tools
Black Hole Universe 00:00 Tools
He Loved Him Madly 00:00 Tools
Flash of Panic 00:00 Tools
Artificial Seaside 00:00 Tools
The Mongols destroy Alamut 00:00 Tools
Epiphaneia 00:00 Tools
Ananta (Passing Dream) 00:00 Tools
Synthetic Forest 00:00 Tools
Sleepless Nights 00:00 Tools
Evil Eye 00:00 Tools
Pattern Release 00:00 Tools
The Stride Set (Reels) - Solas 00:00 Tools
The Abyss 00:00 Tools
Sub Sonnet 00:00 Tools
Shiva Manas Puja 00:00 Tools
Occult Persuasion 00:00 Tools
Lighting In The South 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission 1#/Avisale A La Vecina Dub 00:00 Tools
Low Country 00:00 Tools
Crooklyn Dub Syndicate 00:00 Tools
El Mariachi Loco 00:00 Tools
Shive Stone 00:00 Tools
Arch Angels 00:00 Tools
We Dreamed Our Dreams 00:00 Tools
Open URL 10:20 Tools
Habana Transmission 3# / Shango Sound Scan 00:00 Tools
Drafting Shadows / Leaving La Habana 00:00 Tools
Aab Yaad Kar Tu 00:00 Tools
Solar Clip 00:00 Tools
Metabolic Regulator 00:00 Tools
3rd Stage Navigator 00:00 Tools
Ancient Evenings 00:00 Tools
Gravesend Prelude 00:00 Tools
Hombre Lobo, No! Hombre Nuevo, Si! 00:00 Tools
Iron Monger 00:00 Tools
Gravesend Theme 00:00 Tools
Balama 00:00 Tools
Tangier Space Draft 15:22 Tools
Fractal 00:00 Tools
Wendel'S Wedding 00:00 Tools
Ancient Style 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission 2#/Cuban Evolution 00:00 Tools
Amir Leghram Dub 00:00 Tools
blue movie theme 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission 1# / Avisale A La Vecina Dub 00:00 Tools
Reanimation 00:00 Tools
Oman 00:00 Tools
Pilgrim's Song / Trilok Gurtu / Kala 00:00 Tools
Siren Song 00:00 Tools
If 9 was 6 00:00 Tools
Entretiens 00:00 Tools
Pillar 00:00 Tools
Gulf Of Stars 00:00 Tools
The Mongol's Destroy Alamut 00:00 Tools
Turf War 00:00 Tools
Cocaine 00:00 Tools
The Wayfaring Stranger 00:00 Tools
Aion 06:46 Tools
La Bruxa - Solas 00:00 Tools
Mukti 00:00 Tools
The Labouring Man'S Daughter 00:00 Tools
Amorphous 00:00 Tools
Remains 00:00 Tools
Shin-Ki-Row 00:00 Tools
Landing Cycle 00:00 Tools
Dark Green - Bill Laswell 00:00 Tools
Gravesend Symphony 00:00 Tools
Green Paste 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission 3#/Shango Sound Scan 00:00 Tools
Darkness After 00:00 Tools
Angel Tech 10:18 Tools
Return of the Black Falcon 00:00 Tools
O Haji Baig 00:00 Tools
Bass Terror Tetragrammaton 00:00 Tools
Undercurrent (Endless Light in the Nameless Land) 00:00 Tools
Oum el Bouaghi 00:00 Tools
Embryo 00:00 Tools
Unveiled 00:00 Tools
Into the Void 00:00 Tools
Dark Green 00:00 Tools
Encoded 00:00 Tools
Comoro 1 00:00 Tools
Black Dawn 21:17 Tools
Acid Test 00:00 Tools
Physica Subterranea 00:00 Tools
Spirals 00:00 Tools
Sacred System Dub 00:00 Tools
Divination one 00:00 Tools
Asiyah Dub 00:00 Tools
Soldiers of Misfortune 00:00 Tools
3D-Cut Transmission 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission 1# 00:00 Tools
Jammu 00:00 Tools
Abu Sayyam 00:00 Tools
The Hare In The Heather - Matt Molloy 00:00 Tools
Black Wax 00:00 Tools
Portals 00:00 Tools
Painting in Space 00:00 Tools
Hombre Invisible 00:00 Tools
El-Oued 00:00 Tools
Distal Sonority 11:19 Tools
Leggo beast 00:00 Tools
Para Clave Y Guaguancó 00:00 Tools
Coma 00:00 Tools
Wind Chimes And Nursery Rhymes 00:00 Tools
Odyssey 00:00 Tools
Comoro 2 00:00 Tools
El Hombre Invisible 00:00 Tools
Alsema Dub 00:00 Tools
Perimeter 00:00 Tools
Death Rattle 00:00 Tools
Nonmatter 00:00 Tools
Bill Laswell - Asana - 04 - Hear No Evil 00:00 Tools
Polarity, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
The Taliban 00:00 Tools
One-Legged Centipede 00:00 Tools
Drafting Shadows / Leaving La Habana [Peaceful] 00:00 Tools
We Dreamed Our Dreams - Cathie Ryan 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission 3# 00:00 Tools
The Gary Selchie - Solas 00:00 Tools
Ports of Entry 00:00 Tools
Subcode 00:00 Tools
Escape Clause 00:00 Tools
Mantra 00:00 Tools
Black Dangers 00:00 Tools
Dust to Dust 00:00 Tools
Zurvan Akarana 00:00 Tools
Cuban Beat 00:00 Tools
Speed of Light 00:00 Tools
Fourth Column 00:00 Tools
Bliss: The Eternal Now 00:00 Tools
Invasion of the Octopus People 00:00 Tools
Káshí 00:00 Tools
Déjala En La Puntíca 00:00 Tools
Mezelt Ma Jêtch Dub 00:00 Tools
Scatter 00:00 Tools
Emergency At The Plant 00:00 Tools
Drafting Shadows / Leaving La Habana (Peaceful) 00:00 Tools
Iron Black 00:00 Tools
Rated X - Billy Preston 14:33 Tools
Polarity, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Voice of Thunder 00:00 Tools
Enhanced 00:00 Tools
The Lord Of The Ressurrection 00:00 Tools
A Love Supreme 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission 2# 00:00 Tools
Orion 00:00 Tools
Black Satin - What If - Agharta Prelude Dub 00:00 Tools
Yakhalbi Khali l'Häl Dub 00:00 Tools
Them Belly Full (But We Hungry 00:00 Tools
Guerillero Heróico (El Che Vive!) 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission 1 / Avisale A La Vecina Dub 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission 1# / Avísale A La Vecina Dub 00:00 Tools
Shangó 00:00 Tools
Rebel Music 00:00 Tools
Kahsi 00:00 Tools
Hombre lobo, no! Hombre nuevo, sí 00:00 Tools
Monochrome Existence 01:13 Tools
Virus B 00:00 Tools
Temporary Power Surge (Warning Introduction) 00:00 Tools
Broken Vessel 05:37 Tools
ER 00:00 Tools
The Hare In The Heather 00:00 Tools
Coaineadh Na Dtri Muire (Lament Of The Three Marys) - Cathie Ryan 00:00 Tools
Drafting Shadows/'Leaving La Habana [Peaceful] 00:00 Tools
Dementia 00:00 Tools
The Gray Selchie 00:00 Tools
Radioactive Dub 00:00 Tools
6th Chamber 00:00 Tools
Lightning Transportation 00:00 Tools
Slieve Russell, Jimmy Wards J.G - Matt Molloy 00:00 Tools
Low Life 00:00 Tools
El Hombre Invisible (for William S. Burroughs) 00:00 Tools
La Bruxa 00:00 Tools
India song 00:00 Tools
Fallout 00:00 Tools
Oscillations - Nico No U Turn Mix 00:00 Tools
Assassiations 2 00:00 Tools
Sâadi Rite Elbarrah Dub 00:00 Tools
Secret Channel 00:00 Tools
Light Speed 00:00 Tools
A Greater Source Of Power 00:00 Tools
Graveyard 00:00 Tools
Naima 00:00 Tools
High Ride 00:00 Tools
Alam Dub 00:00 Tools
Needle Drop 00:00 Tools
Digital Cut-Up - Atom Heart Mix 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission #2 / Cuban Evolution 00:00 Tools
Strained 00:00 Tools
Smoking Up 00:00 Tools
Je Chanterai Toujours la Musique Orientale Dub 00:00 Tools
Improvised Music #4 00:00 Tools
The Beauty Spot (Reels) - Solas 00:00 Tools
Seven heavens 00:00 Tools
Wendel's Wedding - Jerry O' Sullivan 00:00 Tools
Explosion 00:00 Tools
Delta 00:00 Tools
First Call 00:00 Tools
Deadly Heaven 00:00 Tools
Káshi 00:00 Tools
Falling Under 00:00 Tools
Coaineadh Na Dtri Muire (Lament Of The Three Marys) 00:00 Tools
The Stride Set (Reels) 00:00 Tools
Youth Man 00:00 Tools
The Life Divine 00:00 Tools
Meditation 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission #3 / Shango Sound Scan 00:00 Tools
Dead Slow 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission #1 / Avisale a La Vecina Dub 00:00 Tools
Melting Pot Dub 00:00 Tools
The Beauty Spot (Reels) 00:00 Tools
Lost Control 00:00 Tools
Locomotive 00:00 Tools
The Wayfaring Stranger - Jerry O' Sullivan 00:00 Tools
Angel Of Sunlight 00:00 Tools
Disengage 00:00 Tools
Enharmonic - Extended Version 00:00 Tools
The Seven Souls 00:00 Tools
Erratta 00:00 Tools
Second Sight 00:00 Tools
Milky - Dj Grazhoppa Mix 00:00 Tools
Undercurrent (Endless Light In 00:00 Tools
So Small, So Weak, This Bloody Sweat of Loving 00:00 Tools
Tian zhen 00:00 Tools
Improvised Music #5 00:00 Tools
Repercussions - Spectre Mix 00:00 Tools
33 00:00 Tools
Very Optimistic - Dog, Ui Mix 00:00 Tools
Agrippa 00:00 Tools
Totoka 03:12 Tools
Habana Transmission #1/Avisale A La Vecina Dub 00:00 Tools
Possession 1 00:00 Tools
Asha 00:00 Tools
El Hombre Invisible - For William S. Burroughs 00:00 Tools
Godspeed 00:00 Tools
Wikima 01:15 Tools
One I Love 00:00 Tools
No woman, no cry 00:00 Tools
Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblo 00:00 Tools
Pattabhi Jois 00:00 Tools
Nafaken 00:00 Tools
Illuminations 00:00 Tools
The Stride Set 00:00 Tools
Improvised Music #6 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission #2/Cuban Evolution 00:00 Tools
Curved Dog 00:00 Tools
Baraka 00:00 Tools
Acapulco Gold 00:00 Tools
One, I Love 00:00 Tools
The Labouring Man's Daughter - Karen Casey 00:00 Tools
Ain soph aour 00:00 Tools
Silent Fields 00:00 Tools
The Upper Air 01:29 Tools
Ta'Wil 00:00 Tools
One Love 00:00 Tools
Wind Chimes And Nursery Rhymes - Jerry O' Sullivan 00:00 Tools
shriva manas puji 00:00 Tools
Doctored Intelligence (Version) 00:00 Tools
Deadly Haven 00:00 Tools
Shiva Stone 00:00 Tools
Bhajan - Aum 00:00 Tools
Abasement 00:00 Tools
Wheeling Vultures 00:00 Tools
Barrier 00:00 Tools
Temporary Power Surge 00:00 Tools
Asiyah Dub - Blinding The Starry Eyes Of God 00:00 Tools
Devotional 00:00 Tools
Oscillations [DJ Grazzhoppa's Milky remix] 00:00 Tools
Very Optimistic Dog Mix 00:00 Tools
Reduction 00:00 Tools
Angel Of Air 00:00 Tools
Craibi 01:40 Tools
Hashish 00:00 Tools
Nessun Dorma 00:00 Tools
Improvised Music #7 00:00 Tools
Astral Altar - The Gateway Of Legba 00:00 Tools
Life Space Death 00:00 Tools
Searching for You 00:00 Tools
The Last Detective 00:00 Tools
Bliss: The Eternal Now - Return 00:00 Tools
In A Silent Way 00:00 Tools
Pamösi 01:24 Tools
Waki 01:50 Tools
Habana Transmission 2# - Cuban Evolution 00:00 Tools
Secret Life 00:00 Tools
Land One 00:00 Tools
Lost Roads of Orchestral Suite 00:00 Tools
Possession 2 00:00 Tools
Vessel 00:00 Tools
Aman 00:00 Tools
Eons geography 00:00 Tools
Time 00:00 Tools
called 00:00 Tools
Shaolin Temple 00:00 Tools
Worksong 00:00 Tools
The Elixer Of Love: Una Furtiv 00:00 Tools
Cien Fuegos Dub 00:00 Tools
The Terran Invasion of Alpha Centaurai Year 2794 00:00 Tools
Haayo 00:00 Tools
The collector 00:00 Tools
5th element 00:00 Tools
The Wayfarin Stranger 00:00 Tools
Seven Souls (The Secret Name) 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission 1# - Avisale A La Vecina Dub 00:00 Tools
Pátuwvotah 04:29 Tools
Ghost Dub / René Magritte 00:00 Tools
Dream Light 00:00 Tools
Panaiyoikyasi 02:23 Tools
Low Membrane - Scanner Mix 00:00 Tools
The Beauty Spot 00:00 Tools
Call for Rescue 00:00 Tools
The lord of ressurection 00:00 Tools
Mengedegna 00:00 Tools
Monochrome 00:00 Tools
Ciquiri 00:00 Tools
Tingle Hairs 00:00 Tools
It's About That Time 00:00 Tools
Drafting Shadows/Leaving la Habana [Peaceful] 00:00 Tools
Cried 00:00 Tools
Pávati 02:17 Tools
Cloud House 02:51 Tools
Wikima (Part 2) 00:59 Tools
Hands 00:00 Tools
Live Pop - Vedic Mix 00:00 Tools
Stream 00:00 Tools
Washroom Skank 00:00 Tools
Slieve Russell, Jimmy Wards J.G 00:00 Tools
Killer Bandit Blues 00:00 Tools
Drafting Shadows/Leaving la Habana (Peaceful) 00:00 Tools
Aether 00:00 Tools
L'Elisir D'Amore (Un Furtiva Lagrima) 00:00 Tools
Loa 00:00 Tools
Biotech 00:00 Tools
Guramayle (slight return) 00:00 Tools
cornered 00:00 Tools
Black Satin 00:00 Tools
The Hidden Garden - Naima 00:00 Tools
In A Silent Way - Shhh Peaceful - It's About That Time 00:00 Tools
Kwátoko (Part 2) 00:00 Tools
connected 00:00 Tools
Peace in Essaouira 00:00 Tools
Repercussions-Spectre 00:00 Tools
Life 00:00 Tools
In A Silent Way - Shhh Peacefu 00:00 Tools
cleared 00:00 Tools
Ex Machina 00:00 Tools
Journeys 00:00 Tools
Totoka (Part 2) 03:12 Tools
Black Satin - What If - Aghart 00:00 Tools
The Gray Selchie - Solas 00:00 Tools
Discourse 00:00 Tools
Shadow sewer 00:00 Tools
Billy Preston 00:00 Tools
The Wayfaring Stranger - Jerry O'Sullivan 00:00 Tools
Insectoidal Regression 00:00 Tools
Solstice 03:54 Tools
Coaineadh Na Dtri Muire 00:00 Tools
Milky Rmx-Dj Grazhoppa 00:00 Tools
Wénima 06:20 Tools
Victory is Certain 00:00 Tools
tokyo 00:00 Tools
White Man 00:00 Tools
In A Silent Way - Shhh - Peaceful - It's About That Time 00:00 Tools
Electric Africa 00:00 Tools
Transfer Complete 00:00 Tools
Waki (Part 2) 02:37 Tools
Restored 00:00 Tools
crooned 00:00 Tools
Gone Beyond 00:00 Tools
Shiva Myth 00:00 Tools
Buckshot Dub 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission 3# - Shango Sound Scan 00:00 Tools
Al Arabi Dub 00:00 Tools
Dark Things 00:00 Tools
Space 00:00 Tools
Amenta 00:00 Tools
Out 00:00 Tools
Babylon Sync 00:00 Tools
Wendel's Wedding - Jerry O'Sullivan 00:00 Tools
Wind Chimes and Nursey Rhymes 00:00 Tools
Aman (Peaceful Heart) 00:00 Tools
Slow Murder 00:00 Tools
One, I Love - Karan Casey 00:00 Tools
Heritage 00:00 Tools
Pata Piya 00:00 Tools
Digital Cut-Up-Atom Heart 00:00 Tools
The Black Meat - Deconstruction Of The Bebel-Tower Of Reason 00:00 Tools
Aion (with Jonah Sharp) 00:00 Tools
The Lord of the Resurrection 00:00 Tools
Baron Samedi 00:00 Tools
Fifty gates 00:00 Tools
Open URL (With Terre Thaemlitz) 00:00 Tools
Magnetic D. Street 00:00 Tools
Endemic Void 00:00 Tools
O.A.O. 00:00 Tools
The Rhythm 00:00 Tools
Hands - Performed By Lori Carson 00:00 Tools
Audiomaze 00:00 Tools
The Labouring Man's Daughter - Karan Casey 00:00 Tools
Wind Chimes And Nursery Rhymes - Jerry O'Sullivan 00:00 Tools
Tetragrammaton 00:00 Tools
changed 00:00 Tools
Cloud House (Part 2) 02:51 Tools
Doors of Perception Edit 00:00 Tools
lost rue madame 00:00 Tools
Migration 12:53 Tools
Slieve Russel, Jimmy Wards J.G 00:00 Tools
Road to Axum 00:00 Tools
Blood Dunaz 00:00 Tools
Lost World 00:00 Tools
Magamat 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission 3 Shango Sound Scan 00:00 Tools
Slow bleed 00:00 Tools
Flow Cycle 00:00 Tools
Death 00:00 Tools
Pátuwvotah (Part 2) 01:36 Tools
Astral Isolation 00:00 Tools
Reprise 00:00 Tools
Risurrezione Dub 00:00 Tools
La Traviata (Love Theme) 00:00 Tools
Hidden Killer 00:00 Tools
Reflection 00:00 Tools
Shining Stone (Watu Jilang) 00:00 Tools
Brötzmann/Laswell/Mokhtar Gania/Drake - Wels 3 00:00 Tools
Praying Mantra Mix (The Orb) 00:00 Tools
Detatched 00:00 Tools
la traviata 00:00 Tools
Atoms To Suns - For Russell Mix 00:00 Tools
Throne Of Blood 00:00 Tools
Gray Selchie 00:00 Tools
In A Silent Way - Shhh-Peaceful - It's About That Time 00:00 Tools
Traviata Dub 00:00 Tools
Barricades 00:00 Tools
Rated X / Billy Preston 00:00 Tools
Rated X/Billy Preston 00:00 Tools
Black Satin / What If / Agharta Prelude Dub 00:00 Tools
Disengage Ambient Bass & Drums 00:00 Tools
The Alien Aborts 00:00 Tools
Freedom Dub 00:00 Tools
Fields Of Air 00:00 Tools
echo 00:00 Tools
Concrete Sunrise 00:00 Tools
One Love/People Get Ready 00:00 Tools
Lover's Skank (Spangler's Clap) 00:00 Tools
Nocturnal Crawl 00:00 Tools
Orh 00:00 Tools
Bagana-Sub Figura X 00:00 Tools
Bante 00:00 Tools
Kurukulla 00:00 Tools
Funiculi, Funicula 00:00 Tools
Humanoid 00:00 Tools
Wénima (Part 2) 06:20 Tools
Samson & Dalila (Mon Coeur s'Ouvre a ta Voix) 00:00 Tools
Shadow Crossing 00:00 Tools
Luk Krok 00:00 Tools
Pagliacci Dub 00:00 Tools
Low Membrane Mix-Scanner 00:00 Tools
Negre Africa Dub 00:00 Tools
Process/Motion 00:00 Tools
The Candle And The Moth 00:00 Tools
Doors of Perception Mix 00:00 Tools
Shinning Stone (Watu Jilang) 00:00 Tools
Turandot (Nessun Dorma) 00:00 Tools
Rated X - Billy Preston 00:00 Tools
On Sadism 00:00 Tools
Herb 00:00 Tools
Set Rising 00:00 Tools
Madre De Agua 00:00 Tools
Low Membrane mix 00:00 Tools
Live Pop Mix 00:00 Tools
Digital Cut-Up 00:00 Tools
Black Dawn (Pete Namlook) 21:17 Tools
zen's theme 00:00 Tools
Echos Beti 00:00 Tools
Ariwa Dub Club 00:00 Tools
Akademikus Du Umbeigu 00:00 Tools
Nico (no-u-turn) 00:00 Tools
Moon (Over The Ruined Castle) 00:00 Tools
Maka 00:00 Tools
Panepha 00:00 Tools
JD3 00:00 Tools
Drafting Shadows - Leaving La Habana [Peaceful] 00:00 Tools
Live Pop Mix-Vedic 00:00 Tools
Oscillations Remix- Nico (No-U-Turn) 00:00 Tools
Painless Steel Version 00:00 Tools
Drum Rock 00:00 Tools
Mezelt Ma Jetch Dub 00:00 Tools
third eye dub 00:00 Tools
King Tubby's Badness Dub 00:00 Tools
Drafting Shadows / Leaving Habana (Peaceful) 00:00 Tools
Vedic 00:00 Tools
Instrument of the Trinity 00:00 Tools
Stone's Eggs 00:00 Tools
Enharmonic (Extended Version) 00:00 Tools
Employees must wash your hands 00:00 Tools
Saadi Rite Elbarrah Dub 00:00 Tools
Meklhassates 00:00 Tools
The Dream Membrane 00:00 Tools
Yama 00:00 Tools
La Traviata (Prelude) 00:00 Tools
Habana Transmission #3/Shango Sound Scan 00:00 Tools
01. 4D 00:00 Tools
Rhythmagick 00:00 Tools
Oscillations Remix 00:00 Tools
Clean escape (The crew is here) 00:00 Tools
Dubbing With The Observer 00:00 Tools
Angel Tech (With P. Namlook) 00:00 Tools
Roots Man Dub 00:00 Tools
Babylon Decoder 00:00 Tools
Ghost Yard 00:00 Tools
Samadhi State 00:00 Tools
Yakhalbi Khali L'Hal Dub 00:00 Tools
Out Of Order 00:00 Tools
Risurrezione 00:00 Tools
Tosca (E Lucevan Le Stelle) 00:00 Tools
1 00:00 Tools
Cuban Evolution 00:00 Tools
Negre Africa Dub/Sly & Robbie 00:00 Tools
Mun Pa 00:00 Tools
Svadhishtthana Chakra 00:00 Tools
Scientist (Stalog 17) 00:00 Tools
La Forza Del Destino (Overture) 00:00 Tools
Miss Know It All/Scientist 00:00 Tools
Evil Eye (Jah Wobble) 00:00 Tools
The Wayfaring Stranger / Jerry O'Sullivan 00:00 Tools
In A Silent Way/Shhh/Peaceful/It's About That Time 00:00 Tools
Jah Jah Children Dub/Sly & Robbie 00:00 Tools
Stepping Out 00:00 Tools
Jah Jah Children Dub 00:00 Tools
Bisk 00:00 Tools
Tosca Second Act (Orchestral Background) 00:00 Tools
Landing Circle 00:00 Tools
Aibi Virus 00:00 Tools
Airbass 00:00 Tools
Maroon Rebellion 00:00 Tools
Bloodline 00:00 Tools
Sospirando 00:00 Tools
Atom Heart 00:00 Tools
Slieve Russell Jimmy Wards M.G 00:00 Tools
Loungin' With F.E. 00:00 Tools
Déjala En La Puntica 00:00 Tools
Angel Of Air/Angel Of Water 00:00 Tools
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With over 25 years of experience as a touring musician and composer and over 700 albums to his credit, producer and bassist Bill Laswell has collaborated with some of the most illustrious names in music across all genres and boundaries, including Buckethead, Herbie Hancock, Mick Jagger, Laurie Anderson, Pharoah Sanders, Yoko Ono, Iggy Pop, The Last Poets, Buddy Miles, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Afrika Bambaataa, Tony Williams, Public Image Ltd., Peter Gabriel and countless others. He has also organized and produced recordings with master musicians from around the world, having logged extensive travel in Morocco and West Africa, India, Japan, Cuba, Australia, Brazil, and numerous other locations throughout Asia, Africa and South America. In the United States and abroad, his name has become synonymous with a commitment to creativity, integrity and daring -- whether in the recording studio or on stage -- that has earned him the respect (and often lifelong friendship) of all the artists with whom he has worked. Bill Laswell was born in Salem, Illinois in 1955 and fell into music originally for social rather than aesthetic reasons; he has often been quoted as saying "a band was like a gang." He started on guitar but soon switched to electric bass, and in his earliest groups played soul and funk music inspired by the likes of James Brown and Johnny "Guitar" Watson. In the early '70s he toured the "chitlin circuit" with cover bands that played Al Green, O'Jays and Meters material, while back home he was constantly making pilgrimages to Detroit for live performances of groups as diverse as The Stooges, The MC5 and Parliament-Funkadelic -- sometimes all on the same stage. Laswell was deeply into Black music but was also absorbing the tenets of protopunk and rock; the rhythmic assurance and aggressiveness that are the cornerstone of virtually all his work have their genesis in this early training. Early exposure to the music of Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane and Miles Davis also sparked in him a devoted interest in improvisation and the possibilities of real interaction with other musicians. Laswell eventually landed in New York in 1979 and almost immediately set out to change the climate of live and recorded music. He became an integral fixture in the growing downtown avant garde scene (dubbed "no wave" music by the press) with John Zorn, James Blood Ulmer, Fred Frith, Olu Dara, Billy Bang and many others, and launched a recording career that began with Brian Eno's On Land and continued with the Material collective he co-founded with keyboardist Michael Beinhorn and drummer Fred Maher, as well as other groups such as Massacre (with Fred Frith) and Daevid Allen's "avant-fusion" band Gong. By 1984, after only five years in New York, Laswell had reached the first of many pinnacles in his career by producing the first two of three revolutionary electronic albums for Herbie Hancock -- the hip-hop fusion classic Future Shock, which yielded the worldwide dancefloor and MTV hit "Rockit," and the Grammy-winning follow-up Sound System. (Perfect Machine, the third of the triumvirate, would follow in 1988.) Future Shock was a monumental foray into hip-hop, which in 1983 was for the most part a self-contained and even consciously guarded movement. The album featured turntable improvisations by Grandmixer D.ST, who was in on the ground floor of the founding of Afrika Bambaataa's Universal Zulu Nation in the Bronx, and who later that year would perform live with Laswell's group Material at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Shortly thereafter, Bambaataa was recruited to cover The MC5's "Kick Out The Jams," and a fruitful collaborative period between Bam and Laswell was set in motion. The partnership sparked numerous Soulsonic Force-related projects, including the club hit "World Destruction" (with, of all people, John Lydon on vocals) and albums like Shango Funk Theology and The Light, the latter featuring guest appearances from George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell of Parliament-Funkadelic fame. Few fans of the music today are aware of the fact that Laswell was one of the main catalysts of a real funk and hip-hop fusion, and that he was executing it on stage before anyone had even conceived of adding a DJ to a live unit. Laswell quickly became the most sought-after producer of the moment, but after a string of high-profile albums that included Mick Jagger's She's The Boss, Public Image Ltd's Album and production or mixing work for Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Iggy Pop, Motorhead and many others, he began to move away from "the business" and the corporate constrictions that come with success in order to explore entirely new musical directions. His work with African musicians for the Celluloid label was one path in evidence here, as was his immersion in reggae rhythms on Sly & Robbie's post-Black Uhuru releases (which include Language Barrier in 1985 and the punk-funk classic Rhythm Killers in 1987) and Yellowman's breakthrough King Yellowman. For projects like these, Laswell was vilified by critics as a "cultural bandit" and a "destroyer" of African musical traditions; it was never even acknowledged that artists like Fela Kuti and Manu Dibango wanted to make the leap into Western technologies, and that Laswell was the only producer equipped to provide this access. Years later, computers and drum machines inevitably made their way into numerous African, Jamaican, Middle Eastern and Asian styles like dancehall, soukous, rai and bhangra -- thus answering the "purist" argument. While all this was happening, Laswell still found time to advance his pursuit of what had drawn him to New York in the first place -- the energy of group improvisation and the potential of creative "collisions" in live musicianship. Alongside the r&b, funk and world music-influenced Material projects Memory Serves and One Down, he displayed a more aggressive edge on bass in groups like Painkiller (with John Zorn) and the explosive freelance outfit Last Exit (with saxophonist Peter Brotzmann, drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, and guitar great Sonny Sharrock). The aftermath of a Last Exit show in Europe was something akin to scorched earth, with jazz critics and avant garde fans alike shaking their heads in disbelief. The group released a series of acclaimed albums before calling it quits for reasons, according to Sharrock, that had to do with "keeping a fresh approach to the music; we felt that after being together for so long we were in danger of repeating ourselves, which is never what the group was about." In 1990, in a partnership with Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, Laswell created the Axiom label and opened his Greenpoint Studio in Brooklyn (now relocated to Orange Music Sound Studios in New Jersey). Both the imprint and the studio itself have been a magnet for some of the most innovative artists on the planet, including composer/arranger Henry Threadgill, jazz giants and Coltrane acolytes Pharoah Sanders and Elvin Jones, beat godfather William S. Burroughs, Miles Davis alumni Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker, and some of the more illustrious emissaries of funk and hip-hop such as George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Buddy Miles, Bernie Worrell, the Jungle Brothers, the Bomb Squad (Hank and Keith Shocklee, the production team behind Public Enemy), and Umar Bin Hassan and Abiodun Oyewole of the original Last Poets. Numerous Axiom projects have been realized with musicians from around the world, including the Master Musicians of Jajouka (Morocco), the Mandinka and Fulani drummers of Gambia, the Gnawa musicians of Essaouira and Marrakesh (Morocco), the Olodum drumming ensemble (Brazil), and solo artists such as tabla master Zakir Hussain (India), vocalist and composer Liu Sola (China), violinists L. Shankar (India) and Simon Shaheen (Palestine), kora player Foday Musa Suso (Gambia), percussionist Aiyb Dieng (Senegal), and many more. While Laswell has always maintained a keen interest in working with musicians in their own environment -- particularly in Morocco and West Africa -- these are more than mere "field recordings". Using state-of-the-art multi-tracking techniques, Laswell is able to capture the live energy of a location and translate it into an even larger sonic experience from behind the mixing board. Starting in late 1994, Axiom began a series of label-defining releases that represented a new approach to certain "genres" in music. The first was the Axiom Ambient project Lost in the Translation, featuring Laswell's studio reconstructions of the Axiom catalog and contributions from UK ambient scholars The Orb, as well as Tokyo-born Tetsu Inoue and New York DJ Terre Thaemlitz. Axiom Funk's Funkcronomicon (from 1995) is a raucous exploration of postmodern funk, with George Clinton, Sly Stone, Bootsy Collins and various Parliament-Funkadelic alumni, including the late Eddie Hazel's last recorded works. Releases for 1996 included Altered Beats, a turntable-based hip-hop fugue featuring DXT, DJ Krush, New Kingdom, Prince Paul, Material, DJs Rob Swift, Q-Bert DJ DISK and more; and the Axiom Dub collection Mysteries of Creation, with revolutionary new tracks from Sly & Robbie, The Orb, Adrian Sherwood and Dub Syndicate, Mad Professor and many others. In 1997 Laswell furthered his reputation for innovation (and alleged controversy) by exploring the tape vaults of two icons of modern music -- Miles Davis and Bob Marley. Emerging with original source material -- some of it previously unreleased -- he essentially uses the recording studio as an instrument of improvisation to construct radically different remixes of selections from Miles Davis' electric work (originally recorded from 1969 to 1974), and Bob Marley's studio work with the Wailers (from 1973 to 1979). The resulting albums, Panthalassa (Sony/Columbia) and Dreams Of Freedom (Axiom/Island), bring not only a fresh and futuristic perspective to the music of two very important artists, but also represent a new way of experiencing recorded sound in an ambient and almost sanctified environment. Similar remix projects are already planned for the music of Carlos Santana and Tony Williams Lifetime. An equally huge undertaking -- and the last record to be released under Axiom's agreement with Island -- took place under the group name of Arcana. Arc of the Testimony, also released in 1997, is a futuristic ambient-jazz-rock fission with ex-Miles Davis drummer Tony Williams, Laswell on bass, and a stable of legendary musicians including Pharoah Sanders, Byard Lancaster and cornet prodigy Graham Haynes, with Nicky Skopelitis and mutant virtuoso Buckethead on guitars. It would turn out to be one of the last sessions Tony Williams completed before his passing in early 1997. After a brief hiatus due to a much-publicized record company merger that left the label's future temporarily uncertain, Axiom is now part of the Palm Pictures family and has released two new projects in 1999 and 2000. Material's Intonarumori -- a "mutant hip-hop manifesto" covering a wide spectrum of influences from the breakbeat underground -- continues the thread that started with the founding of Axiom a decade ago. Featuring performances from Kool Keith, Public Enemy's Flavor Flav, Wu Tang Clan's Killah Priest, Company Flow's Mr. Len and old school rap icon Rammellzee (again, to name only a few), the record has conceptual ties to several Laswell-directed projects of recent years, including Altered Beats (on Axiom), the Valis 1 and 2 compilations (on the Subharmonic and ION labels), and the now-legendary Crazy Wisdom Masters with the Jungle Brothers -- an endlessly compelling (and bootlegged) collision of urban beat poetics and live orchestration that was ultimately rejected by the JBs' former record label in favor of the "safer," more sanitized J Beez Wit the Remedy. ("That record will come back," Laswell says today. "They called it Crazy Wisdom Masters for a reason.") In 2000, Laswell collaborated with tabla legend Zakir Hussain and UK-based producer and Anokha founder Talvin Singh to create Tabla Beat Science - a fusion of Indian classical rhythms and harmonies with electronic beats that focuses on newly recorded tracks by Zakir Hussain, with Sultan Khan on sarangi and vocals and up-and-comer Karsh Kale on tabla and drum kit. The range of Bill Laswell's music has demanded a new openness from musician and listener alike, and through his work points of congruence between genres have become clearer and we now have new hybrid forms to reckon with. Once described as a "radical" influence in music by the UK journal International Musician and Recording World, the often circumspect producer felt obliged to define the term for them: "Radical means hitting people on a real level and trying to lift their awareness up a notch or two, to get them to think beyond the conventionally held beliefs that certain musics only work in certain ways. That's the driving force behind most of what I do, and if it means sacrificing notoriety and acceptance for freedom, creativity and integrity, I'll do it every time." From that ethos Bill Laswell founded a second label imprint in 2001 as a critical proving ground for radically new, and in fact revolutionary, sound. Innerhythmic is a label conceived as an alternative outlet for musicians from a variety of different backgrounds who are dedicated to exploring the recombinant possibilities of music. With a scope of influence that welcomes the traditional and "trance" rhythms of far-flung cultures as openly as the hip-hop, dub, jungle, jazz, funk and electronic cyber-styles emanating from the DJ underground and beyond, the label stands out as an active realization of the "collage system" - a system where entirely new forms can emerge almost at will from fusions of the familiar, an ecstatic journey into known and unknown worlds of sound.. Put simply, this is a past that arrives from the future to scramble the present; drum-and-bass, dub, mutant hip-hop, harmolodic fusion, new jazz, world and otherworld musics all connect to expand the potential of the experience. Bill Laswell continues to be a powerful and prolific force in the world of underground music. His recent work includes such important releases as the latest Herbie Hancock album Future 2 Future, featuring guests \ Wayne Shorter, Grandmaster DXT, Chaka Khan, and many others; the self-titled release by Ethiopian vocalist Gigi, and Grammy nominated Angelique Kidjo Black Ivory Soul (RCA Records). He is also credited with the mixing and mastering of the two latest John Zorn releases, "Astronome" and "Moon Child". On the Tzadik webpage, he is described as a "musical terrorist". Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.