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Bill Laswell

Musician

American bassist, producer and composer. Leader of Material and known for blending dub, ambient, world and experimental music; credited as musician and producer on numerous collaborations (including work on Herbie Hancock's Future Shock).

Bassist and producer noted for technical skill, genre-crossing productions and collaborations across avant-garde, dub, ambient and world music. Associated with the group Material and with a long career as a solo artist and producer.

Reviews praise Bill Laswell's technical mastery and genre-defying approach. Baselines is described as highly influential and a tour de force of bass playing. Other albums show Laswell's interest in ambient, dub, ethno-ambient and experimental production. Overall reception on DeBaser is strongly positive.

For:Fans of experimental, ambient, dub and avant-garde music; bassists, producers and listeners interested in genre-crossing production.

 An album among the most influential of the last thirty years.

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 Perfect music did not exist. Someone had to make it. Here it is. Incredible. Perfect.

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 No rating, no judgment. Pure Sensation.

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 In the chaos of musical publications in which Bill Laswell has been a collaborator, I have always preferred this artist as a frontman of himself for the realization of his own albums.

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